"Wow, I'm glad to mention a 4WD, I can convert it into an RV and travel the world!I thought happily.
Previously,I have been a soldier, I have flown an airplane, I have been a charter company, I have assets of tens of millions, and now I run two light businesses, and while expanding my business, I want to travel the world.
The purpose of earning money is to live better, and the purpose of life is not to earn money. At the age of 33, I just want to live a better life in the future and be a useful person to society!
I used to be a pilot).
My name is Jiang Yuze, I was born in Beijing in April 1990, and I am an only child. His parents are ordinary workers in the power industry. They weren't too busy, but they didn't care about me, and I grew up doing whatever I wanted, just don't get out of the big basket.
Ever since I was a child, I wanted to make a career in the future, and although I didn't have a specific goal, I kept accumulating strength.
In 2008, during the college entrance examination, he was admitted to the Air Force Radar Academy (now called the Air Force Early Warning College) in Wuhan, Hubei.
My major is early warning and detection command, and my job destination is to work as a platoon leader at a radar station. We learn Xi about troop management, radar basics, electromagnetic wave signals, diesel generator sets, psychology, terrain, etc.
In 2012, I graduated from the military academy)
Military academies are under completely closed management, and training and life are very arduous. We get up at 6 o'clock in the morning to run, run three to five kilometers in the afternoon, Xi until 21:50 in the evening, and usually practice single parallel bars, 400 meters of obstacles, and do outward bound training on the tightrope.
I remember one time when I took a 5km running test, my new shoes were on my toenails, and it was uncomfortable to wear, but I had to run. After the exam, as soon as I took off my shoes, my toenails fell off and were covered in blood. I washed my shoes and put them on, and it was nothing.
The school food is not very good, and I practice a lot, and most of my classmates and I have bad knees. At that time, my blood cells were not normal, and everyone around me thought I had leukemia. Later, I got better on my own, it was amazing.
We have a dormitory of 16 people, there is no air conditioning and heating, it snows in winter, there are few suspects, and no matter how hot the weather is in summer, you can only turn on an electric fan, and there are many suspects. I took a cold shower for a year and developed a physique that is not afraid of cold or heat.
In 2012, I was a platoon leader in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan).
After graduating from university, I worked as a platoon commander in the border army of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province for more than a year, and I felt that it was not the life I wanted, so I was demobilized.
In May 2014, I applied for a job at TCL in Huizhou, Guangdong, to do mobile phone antenna research and development. Leaving the strict management of the troops, I suddenly relaxed.
The turnover of personnel in private companies is very fast, and those returnees and domestic doctors and masters have jumped to companies with better treatment after working for a period of time.
At that time, a good buddy who was a few years older than me, a returnee from Singapore, told me a lot of wonderful stories about the outside world, which aroused my yearning.
As a result, I didn't go to Singapore, but in November 2014, I caught the Zhuhai Airshow. At the exhibition, some intermediaries recruited students from foreign aviation schools, and I became interested all of a sudden.
In 2014, my lieutenant platoon commander was demobilized)
At that time, I wanted to save money, so I applied for an American aviation school online. The aviation school issued me a document, I got a visa, and I came directly to the United States.
Aviation school is like a driving school, I can go home after training for an hour or two at a time, so I have a lot of time to plan my life and work.
At that time, those ten-year-old classmates talked about love, shopping, and were very leisurely, and I was already 25 years old, and I was not in this mood, I just wanted to study well as soon as possible and return to China to fly a plane. Later, I learned about it and decided to stay in the United States to fly a plane, accumulate some experience, and then return to China as a captain.
I spent $40,000 to learn Xi at a regular aviation school, but I didn't understand it. Later, I simply rented a plane and hired an instructor to teach me, which cost half of the cost compared to the aviation school, and I only spent more than $20,000 to complete all the courses and get my license in early 2016.
In 2015, I flew solo for the first time).
After that, I got a job on a local ** in Alaska, flying a 135 mixed passenger and cargo commercial operation aircraft. At that time, there were five people interviewing, and as long as there were two people, I was the only Chinese, and three Americans were eliminated.
Because the chief pilot saw it, he felt that I could endure hardships better than others, chatted with me, and thought that my English was okay, so he went directly to the plane, randomly selected a destination near the airport, and let me fly there unprepared.
During the flight, they assessed my ground-to-air communication and crosswind landing skills, and asked me some questions to test my mental fitness.
There was one question that I still remember vividly. There are some places in the area where there are no roads, and airplanes are the only means of public transport. The chief pilot asked me how the police would arrange their seats in the four-seater plane when they took a prisoner back in handcuffs after they chartered a flight to a small village to arrest a prisoner
In 2016, the first job was to drive a small plane in Alaska to run transport).
I immediately became aware of the risks beyond the flight. So, I replied: the policeman sits behind me, the prisoner sits to the right of the policeman, and if there is a problem with the center of gravity of the plane, put some stones on the seat next to me to balance it.
In the end, I successfully passed the test and got the offer.
After I joined the company, there were three accidents in three months, five people died, and I had to change to another company in the same airport.
The second company is also all high-risk operations. We only flew more than 100 meters high, the weather was very bad, the planes were very old, the runways in the airport were all dirt and rock, and some were not even straight, and we had to turn a corner in the middle, and it was very dark at night. In winter, the runway is covered with snow and ice. The people who fly are fat, and the center of gravity of the plane is very rear.
In 2017, I flew a jet for the first time and was nervous)
At work, I almost hit a mountain, almost rushed out of the runway, a lot of practical skills are learned by doing, when the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, now think about it is a little afraid.
In 2017, I was hired by a contractor of United Airlines to fly a 50-seat EMB-145 airliner.
This company is not like a domestic company, there are passenger cars, staff dormitories, we have nothing. I took off at 6 a.m., I had to get up at 4 a.m., drag my suitcase to the airport, get on the plane in the departure hall, fly three or four times a day, and leave work at three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and the weekday repeatedly.
Although I fly a short distance, and the flight time of a flight is less than an hour and a half, I also have to go through all the procedures, so my time on the plane is quite long.
In 2018, after training, I started flying 747).
During the flight, the pilot can go to the toilet, but the crew is only three people, so it is very troublesome to call the flight attendant over, carefully open the door, and then occupy the pilot's seat, and then change it back after finishing the work, so generally I don't go to the toilet after getting on the plane.
At that time, although I could rest for 12 or 3 days a month, I still felt very tired.
Industry insiders know that being a route pilot means that the bigger the plane and the farther it flies, the better, and I am always looking for better opportunities.
Because we have to pay for our driver's license, we will not be compensated by the company if we leave the company.
In 2018, I joined another small company and drove a 747 freighter. The 747 freighter weighs 400 tons, which is equivalent to several hundred Cessna172 aircraft, and its flight operations are also very different.
In 2019, I flew a freighter for the last time).
So far, I have flown three kinds of planes, and I have also seen the ceiling of pilots from their position to income, that is, until they are 65 years old, and finally, I drove the plane to land safely, and the airport arranged two fire trucks for me to cross the water gate, I got off the plane, and my colleague gave me a bouquet of flowers, and I retired with honor.
I didn't want that kind of ending, so I just looked for a new way out as I went.
In 2019, I bought a beautiful house in the black neighborhood of Miami with an area of 550 square meters.
Because no one lived in the house for two years after the death of the original owner, there were several serious leaks in the roof. I spent tens of thousands of dollars to repair it, divided it into 16 rooms, and rented it out at the lowest ** in the local area, and I could collect more than $10,000 a month in rent.
At the end of 2019, when the new crown broke out, the entire aviation industry was sluggish, and I was unemployed, but fortunately, the epidemic did not affect my rental business.
2019 renovation Miami boarding house).
In 2021, I bought a 1,000-square-meter, 26-room nursing home in Florida. It was built in 1910 and fell into disrepair, and the original owner was ready to emigrate, and he didn't plan to repair it, so he sold it to me at a low price.
After that, I spent $40,000 or 50,000 to repair it and rented it out as a boarding house.
I didn't pay the full amount for both properties, but took out a mortgage. In the United States, you can borrow 70% of the appraised value of your home, with an interest rate of about 5%. Later, the value of the house appreciated, and the amount I borrowed exceeded the purchase price.
These two boarding houses are fully rented, and they can collect $20,000 or 30,000 a month
At this time, by chance, I found a new business opportunity.
American cars are expensive, Japanese cars are very cheap, in 2021, I bought a used van from Japan and shipped it over, which cost a total of $7,000. This car is very old, but the mileage is very low, and the price of a new car is tens of thousands of dollars, so it is very cost-effective to buy a used car.
2021, Florida nursing home renovation).
Some of the small bag foremen around me saw me driving this car, and they all said okay and hoped that I would help them buy it, and then I started this business.
There are a lot of immigrants from Central and South America in Miami, who have these Japanese cars in their home country, but not in the United States, and when they saw the used car I bought, they liked it very much and asked me to buy it. In this way, there are more and more customers, and it has become my main business.
Licensing procedures for imported used cars from the United States, including customs declaration, transportation, vehicle inspection, etc. The first time I do it, if I don't understand it, I will be burnt out, and if I do it a few more times, I will be at ease.
After the business grows, ZF requires a dealer license and needs to have a venue, so,In 2022, I bought a 15,000-square-meter site just a few minutes' drive from a port in Texas.
After that, I spent tens of thousands of dollars on repairs and renovations. The budget is limited, and most of them take the workers with them themselves.
Texas warehouse decoration, installation of cranes).
At first, it was used to do second-hand car business, and later, I did Amazon overseas warehouses of some domestic manufacturing companies, helping them clear customs, transport, pack, and ship, and I could do dozens of containers of goods a month.
Because boarding houses were troublesome to manage, I sold two properties for a net profit of $1 million.
On the other hand, I feel that earning money is to live a better life, and the purpose of life is not to make money, and my hobby in life is traveling. In the past, I have traveled to many countries, Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, South America, Africa, etc.
I have already picked out the means of transportation for the tour. I usually buy used cars at Japanese auctions, where there are all kinds of cars, and many auction houses provide ** that can only see the exterior of the car, not the inside.
The Texas warehouse receives imported cars)
In 2023, I picked up a blind box at a Japanese auction, and only after I got my hands on it did I know that it was still a four-wheel drive. I'm going to convert it into a motorhome next year and travel the world.
Someone asked me how to balance business and tourism, and my business is not heavy on operations and has no direct competitors. I have a few offline employees, a few online employees, and when I travel, I leave the business to them, and I come back once or twice a year to deal with the big problems that they can't solve.
My parents also have an RV and have their own lives, and they come to see me every year, but they don't live with me, so I have to arrange my own life.
In terms of feelings, although I was purely male from college to enlistment in the army, to flying planes, doing business, and the environment, I still believe in fate and love.
In 2023, the Texas warehouse unloaded).
Two years ago, I got my U.S. green card. Although the United States is still developed, everyone can see that it is gradually weakening.
Now that I've decided to live on business and capital, I have to manage my risks. In the next step, in addition to the two hedge countries of China and the United States, I am ready to add one or two more countries to develop, which may be Southeast Asian countries or **, because I know a little Russian.
I'll be here. Three or four countries are looking for opportunities to allocate some assets. This is in line with the rules of investing: don't put all your eggs in one basket.
My life creed is what Wang Jianlin said:Tsinghua University and Peking University are not as bold as they are. Harvard Yale, it's better to dare to break through yourself. Of course, this boldness is within the scope of reasonable and legal, and it must be matched with the corresponding ability and wisdom, so as to break a path to success.