Can you earn 2w a month by delivering takeaways?I don't know English, I do hard work abroad, and I get a good salary but I am tired
I'm Brother Xin, 35 years old, and I'm currently working in Sydney, Australia. I only had a junior high school education, and at the age of 21, my family business suffered a huge setback and I began to experience the hardships of life.
With the arrival of my marriage and children, my responsibilities have become heavier and the pressure of my life has gradually increased. In order to cope with these pressures, I had to choose to work in Australia, although the monthly salary is only 20,000 yuan, as long as I am willing to put in the effort, I can earn 30,000 yuan a month. Although I earn a lot of money, I know how hard it can be when I work abroad.
I grew up in the country's largest Datun, located in Sujiatun District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. My parents are hardworking and capable, run their own small businesses, and the family is living in decent conditions. Their expectations for me were simple and straightforward: study hard, get into university, and get a good job in the future. However, I don't seem to be the type to read.
Although I didn't cause trouble, I was introverted and stubborn. My parents told me a lot of truths about this, but they couldn't convince me. Eventually, with a big wave of their hand, they gave up too much of their intervention in me. In this way, when I graduated from the second year of junior high school, I chose to drop out of school.
The willfulness of our youth is like a knife, and we only dare to treat those who truly love us. Because we know that even if they are cut and scarred, they will not fight back.
If you don't study, you have to participate in labor, and when you are still young, you can only help with your parents. They were worried that I would enter the society too early, that my mind would not be stable enough, that I might be carried away by the bustle of the city and lose the opportunity to study.
So, I stayed at home and worked to help them move goods and tidy up the warehouse. Although my life was busy, under their care, I didn't suffer too much.
It wasn't until I was 21 years old that my family's business went down and I started to take my own path in life. That's when I really felt that life was not easy, especially when I was trying to make a living on my own. At this stage, I began to understand how difficult it was to work as a coolie.
There is a saying that is very reasonable, it is difficult for anyone's advice to make you truly enlightened, and only by experiencing losses, regrets and hurts can you truly awaken people's hearts.
My first job in life cost me a lot. At that time, I was delivering commercial cars for an automobile factory in Shenyang. Faced with the dilemma of not having enough to eat every day, I had to rely on myself to solve everything, and I had to pay the initial shipping fee first.
I was stuck in traffic on the road, so I had to get out of the car quickly and look around, for fear that the new car would be scratched. Because if there is a problem with the commercial car and the car cannot be delivered, the freight will be wasted, and I have to pay for the repair myself.
In order to save time, sometimes you have to leave before dawn. When I feel tired and weak in the middle of the night, I can only pat myself on the cheek and refresh myself with chili peppers. After handing over the train, you must take the train back immediately, no matter how late it is.
Driving a vehicle is a highly dangerous job, not to mention how dangerous it is. Sometimes when handing over the car and inspecting the car, you have to look at the face of others.
The most infuriating thing is that in the end, the boss disappeared, and my deposit and shipping fee, totaling more than 7,000 yuan, were all cheated. Of course, there are other people who have also been affected, with a total loss of more than 300,000 yuan.
During the period of being deceived and going through hardship, I deeply realized that if I am not good enough, I will only be forced to work hard for my livelihood.
Growth is a process of eating a trench and growing a wisdom. After going through this period of time, I decided to buy a car and switch careers to logistics. Although the work is still hard, after all, there is no one to bind you, and you have the final say, and life has become relatively easy. However, the pleasant days didn't last long, and with the price of oil, my income began to decrease significantly.
In 2016, an inconspicuous event completely changed my life. There are many turning points in life that seem to stem from a simple decision, but are actually more like the arrangement of fate.
At the end of the year, my mom signed up for a senior tour in Korea, the tour fee was only 400 yuan, and asked me if I would like to join. For such a low fee, it always feels like there is something greasy in it, because pie does not fall from the sky, which is often accompanied by hypocrisy. In order to prevent my mother from being deceived, I decided to accompany her.
Departing from Yingkou Port on a ship loaded with containers, I started my first trip abroad in my life. Standing on the deck, blowing the sea breeze, I could never have imagined that this decision would change the direction of my future.
After arriving at the destination, I realized that our worries were unnecessary, because this tour group was subsidized by Korea's **, which is why it is so affordable.
After experiencing different lifestyles, customs, and beautiful landscapes, I fell in love with travel ever since.
Since I came back from Korea, my mom suggested that I go out for a walk and maybe have better opportunities in the future. For ordinary people, the so-called "good development of going abroad" is to be able to earn more money, although I am not a materialistic person, but who would refuse to have more money?
Since then, I have left footprints in Japan, Germany, France, Australia, and other countries.
For ordinary people, poetry and distance are both moving forward under the weight of life. There is a kind of person who always carries the idea of saving and living as a heavy baggage on his shoulders. Even the joy of spending money is heavy.
Every time I travel, I choose to join the Sunset Red Senior Group, simply to save money. The purpose of my trip is not to enjoy, but to see, broaden my horizons and find opportunities for development.
In the team, I am the only young and strong person, responsible for running errands, doing chores, and answering questions, and I am not lightly tired every time, and the position of the group pet is not so easy to get.
Fast forward to 2018, and I have crossed the age of 30, which is the most significant period of life change. The dedication of parents leads to the growth of the next generation, and their aging leads the next generation to become more mature. Whether you want to or not, when you get old, you have to pick up the responsibility.
In August 2019, I set foot on the land of Sydney, Australia, burdened with the tedious work of maintaining cars in China, with the yearning to live, work and make money abroad.
My trip to Australia was in the name of tourism, and I spent 5,000 yuan to find a professional pick-up service on the Internet, which helped me handle the procedures for studying abroad, find housing, apply for bank cards, buy mobile phone cards, and personally taught me how to take local transportation and find a job.
In Sydney, the rental fee is settled on a weekly basis, 120 Australian dollars per week, which is equivalent to about 600 yuan, which is more than 2,400 yuan in a month.
Once everything was settled, I got a job moving containers on a work platform. I remember one day, I worked for 12 hours in a row and earned 300 Australian dollars, which is equivalent to about 1,400 yuan. By the time I got back to my lodgings, I had collapsed to the point where I didn't even have the strength to eat.
After working for a while, I got to know two Chinese bosses who invited me to join their team for $130 a day, 5 days a week, and occasionally overtime on weekends. Since the job was relatively stable, I didn't hesitate to say yes.
In 2020, I returned to China for the Chinese New Year, but the outbreak of the epidemic prevented me from returning to Australia for a while. Despite this, I still accomplished several major life events, including buying a house, getting married, and welcoming a new baby.
In order to make ends meet, I found a temporary job in the country. With a monthly salary of 5,000 and a wife's income of 2,000, after deducting the mortgage of 3,500 and other living expenses, it is practically impossible to save.
Children grow up, and parents can only grow older. In the old and the young, having the economic strength can maintain inner peace. I have to admit that the confidence of life is indeed built on money.
After much consideration, I decided to go abroad again. The wife said: "You go, when the child is older, I will go over to accompany you." "So, in April of this year, I came to Sydney and got a job cleaning apartment. I went to work at 7:30 in the morning, got up at 5 o'clock, had a simple meal, and then sat for a 40-minute drive.
As an adult man, I started picking up rags, mops, and cleaning jobs that I had never set foot in before. Corridors, kitchens, balconies, floor tiles, cabinets, etc., all need to be carefully wiped down, especially those that are particularly dirty, and I need to squat there to shovel and scrub them piece by piece.
Due to his tall stature, he will feel unbearable soreness in his legs after squatting for a while. Sometimes, it takes more than an hour to clean a balcony, and every time I stand up, my back is sore and my legs are numb, and my sweat is soaked through my clothes, and I am so tired that I am panting.
Earning a lot of money, it is inevitable to be tired. However, in order to live, in order to make your family live a better life materially, as long as you are willing to persevere, you can always persevere.
A month later, the boss announced that she was pregnant and said that she would no longer work, so the job ended abruptly. In the process of working abroad, job instability is often commonplace.
Later, I found a job as a food delivery person with no knowledge of English. In order to make more money, I chose to accept orders from Uber Eats. It's okay to meet the villa, I just need to pay attention to the house number, put the food at the door, take pictures, and don't need to have English conversation at all.
However, it can become very troublesome when it comes to an apartment. Sometimes the positioning is not accurate, I can't find the customer, and the customer can't find me. This feeling of urgency and distress made me feel sad and helpless.
At first, in addition to being familiar with the merchants and the food delivery routes, the biggest problem was that I couldn't read English. Because when I place an order on the platform, the merchant's store information is displayed in English, which causes me to spend more time finding the merchant.
Picking up food is cumbersome enough, and finding customers is just as a difficult task. Once I was delivering milk tea to a customer, and the delivery location was at a school. Due to my limited English skills, I can only use the platform's built-in translation software to tell the other party that I have arrived. Luckily, the other party was friendly and chose to come and pick up the food in person.
Every day, I went out early and returned late, and I was almost hit by a car several times, and I was scolded a lot. I can't understand what the other person is saying, but I can feel that the other person is swearing. If I was at home, at least I could understand what was being said and argue a few words, but if I couldn't understand it abroad, I could only endure it in silence.
Even if you can understand it, what can you do?The days of youth and madness are long gone, and the responsibilities and pressures on my body have long since taught me to restrain my edge.
I work here as a food delivery worker, earning 5,000 yuan a week and about 20,000 yuan a month. I work hard, from morning to midnight, and can earn 30,000 yuan a month.
Occasionally, I would go to some part-time jobs. Once, I went to the fruit market to carry watermelons, and as agreed, I started at 7 am and was busy until 2 pm. But after that, I only got 6 hours of pay, and I felt cheated.
Carrying watermelons all day long is even harder than delivering takeaways. Both arms were so tired that they could barely have strength, and they were shaking with chopsticks when eating. After a simple bite, I hurried to deliver the takeaway.
I know that I work hard to earn money and I have to endure everything. The days of food delivery are very hard, sometimes I can only eat one meal a day, and when I come back hungry and tired at night, I simply cook instant noodles and fall asleep in a hurry. Actually, these are all fine, but the hardest thing is missing my family and children.
When I left, my son was just two months old. Some people say that companionship is the most affectionate confession, but for those of us who are running for a living, this sentence seems too unfair. A foreign land cannot contain our souls, and our homeland cannot contain our bodies. We crave material things and need companionship, how do we strike a balance between the two?
I try to be responsible, but I eventually find that I owe it to my parents, wife, and children. Can't afford to buy a house, can't afford medical bills, can't afford to raise children, this is the true portrayal of ordinary people's lives. Through my story, I want to tell you that working abroad is not always as good as people think. I would advise everyone not to choose to go abroad rashly because they hear about high wages.
In addition, it may not be a tearful and touching reunion for fellow countrymen, and sometimes they may be deceived by their compatriots into destituteness. Abroad, there is also fraud among the Chinese. I have a friend who works on the construction site, and the money earned by hard work was found out by the boss that he was working on a tourist visa, so he withheld his salary and did not pay him, and he did not dare to call the police, and finally suffered a dumb loss.
Going abroad isn't for everyone. You must have enough courage to endure suffering, to endure loneliness, to be patient in the face of loneliness, to endure longing, to be able to be independent and persevering. Otherwise, it's better not to leave the country lightly. Working abroad, although the city is full of traffic and sometimes quiet, the lights of thousands of households have nothing to do with you. In this city where you can't fit in, where you can't return to your hometown, where you are adrift in a foreign land, you can only become your own harbor.
Some people say that the true nature of the city is not reflected in the rows of high-rise buildings, nor in the busy streets, but in the daily life of every ordinary person. People like me, standing in the crowd, obscure, ordinary and ordinary, dare not escape, dare not collapse, dare not get sick, and dare not be lazy.
For thousands of migrant workers, the purpose of life is to survive!Some people say that the moon abroad may be roaster, but no matter how round it is, it is not as beautiful as the moon at home. I knew that I didn't plan to stay abroad for long, I just went abroad to make more money, and when I paid off my mortgage and saved some savings, I would return to China. After all, my parents are old, and I am the only child in the family, and it is my duty to return to China to fulfill my filial piety.
There is a quote that I like: "There is no job in the world that is not hard, and there is no place where people are not complicated." No matter what you're going through, adjust your mindset and move forward. I believe that the future belongs to everyone who works hard and goes to the brightest place in their hearts. ”
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