(This is the story of an acquaintance of mine, which I narrate in the first person).
I was born in 1962, in May last year, 60-year-old I went through the retirement procedures, 39 years of service, the pension approved at that time was more than 4,400 yuan, and then adjusted once, at the end of July this year, it was added again, added last year, and now there are 4,731 yuan per month.
When I was a child, my parents often moved jobs, and I had to go from school to school with them. Often, when a school has just settled in, after a year or two, my parents have changed jobs again, and I have to transfer with them.
To be honest, I didn't learn much from the frequent transfers, and the pace of each school was different, so I had to adapt not only to the teacher's teaching style, to the teaching progress of the class, but also to the relationship between my classmates.
Every time I changed schools, I felt very distressed, but there was nothing I could do, and my parents' jobs were constantly transferred from place to place, and I had to follow them around.
Finally, in 1980, I graduated from high school and took the college entrance examination, but I did not take the entrance examination, and my name fell to Sun Shan, which seems to be expected.
In 1981, I repeated, this time I was not so ambitious, I wanted to take a secondary school exam, and the secondary school is also a cadre, and the work is still assigned. In fact, it was not easy to take a secondary school exam at that time.
This time, I finally got in, majored in business management, and after graduation, I was assigned to work in a subordinate company in the commercial department.
When I first joined the company, the company's business was booming, and I gradually grew up from an ordinary salesman, and slowly became the head of the business section, the director of the sales department, and the manager of the wholesale department.
Just when I was working hard and preparing to make a big effort, in the early 80s, the national economic policy was transformed, gradually changing from a planned economy to a market economy.
The State encourages collective economy, individual economy, and diversified operations. Our commercial sector has gone from being booming to suddenly becoming cold.
Self-employed shops have sprung up all over the streets and alleys, slowly stealing all our business.
How can state-owned enterprises compete with individual and private enterprises that are relaxed and unburdened when they have to bear the salaries of their employees and retirees?
As a result of liberalization, the entire commercial sector has completely lost its competitiveness, and efficiency has slipped through like a waterloo.
Seeing that the commercial sector was about to go bankrupt and restructured, by chance, I learned from an acquaintance that the Radio and Television Bureau needed a person to repair the broadcasting equipment.
I have loved radio since I was a child, and I have a strong interest in radio, and I am able to repair some basic radio products through self-study and reading radio magazines.
I went to the director of the Radio and Television Bureau, and Mao recommended himself. Through the relationship between relatives, he went to the relevant leaders in the county.
In 1995, I was transferred to the county radio and television bureau.
The strange thing is that the bureau did not arrange for me to repair the broadcasting equipment, but arranged for me to carry out the installation and maintenance of cable television. It is estimated that there is a shortage of people in the cable TV area.
It is indeed a shortage of people, and there are only two people in the installation and maintenance of cable TV in the entire county.
Every day, the two of us shuttle through the streets and alleys of the city, giving people installation and maintenance, no Sundays, no rest days, the two of us, like two spinning tops keep turning.
It was a really hard time, we had to go to work almost every day, and we had to climb telephone poles and set up wires.
Regardless of the weather or rain, regardless of the cold and heat, we are fighting on the front line, as long as there is a repair, we will rush to.
The busiest time is the holidays, especially the Chinese New Year. We have never had a reunion dinner at home, we have watched a Spring Festival Gala, we are all on duty, and when we hear that there is a problem, we rush to the scene to deal with it.
Every New Year's 30 night, we have to wait for the end of the Spring Festival Gala before we can go home, our task is to ensure that people in the county's urban areas can be unimpeded ** Spring Festival Gala.
After a few years of high-load work, some college students slowly came to the bureau, and Tang and I were a little more relaxed.
After 2000, the provincial radio and television network began to be absorbed, and the employees of cable TV in various counties and cities in the province were brought under his command.
Our county was the latest to be co-opted, and the conditions between the county and the provincial radio and television network company had not been negotiated before, and it was confiscated.
Seeing that the whole province has been collected one after another, the Provincial Radio and Television Network Company did not hesitate to spend money and agreed to several conditions put forward by our county.
After the conditions were negotiated, the incorporation began to be implemented, and all the self-supporting personnel of cable television were transferred to the subordinate companies of the Provincial Radio and Television Network Company.
It was only at this time that I realized that the business establishment I had transferred in was self-supporting.
There are many kinds of establishments in the unit, including administrative sections, fully funded business sections, shortfall appropriation business sections, and self-supporting business sections.
And I, who came in at the beginning, was the worst career editor, self-supporting. In the past, the units were all mixed, the salary structure was the same, and the bonuses were also the same, so I couldn't see it.
And this time the co-optation is obviously differentiated, all the self-supporting ones are one-size-fits-all, all of them go to the network company, and if they don't want to go, they have to go.
The financially allocated business editor can choose to go or not. If they do, the Office will also give them a three-year financial allocation. After three years, they can come back if they want to.
To be honest, I don't want to go to the network company, because the network company is a pure enterprise editor, and I was originally transferred from the company, and I know that the company is too unstable, and it really collapses.
But I'm self-supporting, and I can't stay anywhere, and I have to go if I don't want to.
In 2010, the network company was officially separated from the Radio and Television Bureau and was under the management of the Provincial Radio and Television Network Company.
In this way, I was finally transferred from the enterprise to the public institution, and now, fate has beaten me back to my original shape, I have returned to the enterprise, and I have become a pure enterprise employee again.
After the separation, the first two years of the benefits were good, but later, China Mobile and China Communications came to seize the market, and more and more people did not watch TV, and our market gradually shrank, the efficiency became worse and worse, and the operation was difficult.
You may not believe it, but in the 12 years between the separation and my retirement, we only increased our salary once.
Before I retired, my total salary was only more than 3,900 yuan, and after deducting social security and provident fund, I only received more than 2,700 yuan.
I am still a person with a long working experience, who enjoys the treatment of vice president, and I get such a small salary. And those who are younger only have more than 1,000 yuan a month, and they really don't know how they can support their families.
Our provident fund is also very low, my provident fund is only 303 yuan per month. There is also no occupational pension.
The only advantage is that we pay a relatively high social security base, which is several times the total salary.
Therefore, there is a phenomenon of salary inversion among the employees in our unit, that is, the salary they get when they are on the job is less, and the salary they get when they retire is higher.
When I was on the job, I was a person with almost 40 years of service and enjoyed the treatment of a deputy general manager, and I only got 27,800 yuan a month, and I was still very depressed.
Fortunately, the base of social security payment is high, and when I retire, I can get more than 4,000 yuan at once.
Although it is still more than 1,000 less than those colleagues who went to the Radio and Television Bureau, we seem to be much better than other companies who can only get more than 3,000 yuan.
There are many people around me who have a higher pension than me, and there are many people who have a lower pension than me. I don't compare, I want to compare with people with low pensions, so that I will feel happier and more satisfied.
I think that after retirement, you should be less concerned about money, so that you can maintain a happy mood, and with a happy mood, you will have a healthy body.
I have summarized a three-no-principle: don't love money, don't get angry, and don't be afraid of death.
I think that as long as I do these three things, I will be able to be afraid of nothing, be happy, be healthy, and spend my old age happily.