As the end of the year approaches, many migrant workers are starting to think about whether they want to continue working in their current positions, or whether they should choose to change jobs to find new opportunities.
Recently, a hot search on the Internet called "undignified but lucrative job" has become popular.
In this hot search, many different industries are mentioned, including tiling, sewing, waste collection, and so on. It is often said that the income from these jobs can reach 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a month, which sounds very tempting.
However, what exactly do they pay behind such high wages?
What do young "post-00s" workers think of this kind of work?Let's take a look at these industries and see what they are doing and what young workers think. tiling
Xiao Ruan is a young man born in 1990 from Jiangxi Province who has been working as a tiler in Xiangshan, Zhejiang Province since 2012. Recently, the weather has been good, and in order to be able to do more work in low temperatures, Xiao Ruan has been doing his best every day.
When working tiling, Xiao Ruan's hair and body are often covered with a layer of hoarfrost due to the large amount of dust generated in the working environment.
Whenever the work is done, he carefully wipes the dust off his body and puts on clean clothes. For Xiao Ruan, doing this business requires hard work to be able to continue to survive.
When asked about the income of tiling in Xiangshan, Xiao Ruan said that the income of 30,000 or 40,000 yuan a month on the Internet is only a very small number of cases, and for most people, their income is basically working hard for a month. Xiao Ruan also revealed that in Ningbo, the income of people who put tiles is about 1About 80,000 yuan. Xiao Ruan's brother and brother-in-law are also engaged in this industry, so he also entered the industry under the leadership of his sister. In 2008, he followed his brother-in-law to Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province to learn to apply tiles. Since then, Xiao Nguyen has started her own path of tiling.
In 2012, Xiao Ruan came to Xiangshan alone and began his 11-year career as tiling. During this time, he got married and had children of his own. Today, he is a father of two.
When asked how much money he can make in a year, Xiao Ruan said that he can earn more than 200,000 yuan a year, which also makes him proud. He also said that although the work was hard, he had no regrets about the path he chose.
In 2015, Xiao Ruan built a three-story villa in his hometown in Jiangxi and spent nearly one million yuan on renovation. In order to allow the children to go to school better, he also bought a house in the county seat, about 700,000 yuan. Two years ago, he bought another car.
Although everyone praised Xiao Ruan's work for being very good, he himself was well aware that this job had caused some damage to his body. Due to the long period of bending over and carrying heavy objects, he suffered from a lumbar muscle strain.
For the future, Xiao Ruan said that he still wants to continue to work in this industry and hopes to be able to earn more money at a young age and create better living conditions for himself and his family. He also hopes that through his own efforts, more people can understand the hard work and difficulty of the tile industry.
Do beautiful sewingXiao Wang, a young man born in 1995, has been busy since 2014 and has hardly rested since he began to get involved in the tile sewing industry in 2014. His hometown is in Anhui and he now lives in Ningbo.
Xiao Wang said in an interview with reporters that there is no advanced technical content in tile seams, and he believes that the most important thing is to be careful and patient.
He used to be a chef himself, but later found that the sewing industry was more promising, so he decided to change careers and start this industry.
Xiao Wang said in an interview with reporters that his start in the beauty sewing industry was not smooth. In the beginning, he only studied with his friends for a few days and then started doing his own work.
He took over the work of two families in the first month, and earned more than 3,000 yuan in three days, which made him feel very excited and surprised.
He used to earn only three or four thousand a month as a chef, but now, he found that he seemed to hold the key to the treasure.
Xiao Wang told reporters that tile seams have been very popular in recent years, and they are also calculated by meters.
The smaller the brick, the higher the ** per meter, and the larger the brick, the lower the ** per meter. Now in Ningbo, the ** of the United States is basically between 4 yuan and 13 yuan per meter.
Xiao Wang said that if he works all the time and works hard, he can earn about 20,000 yuan a month. If you find someone else to work, your income can reach 400 yuan a day.
He told reporters that there are indeed peers around him who can earn 100,000 yuan a month, but they need to be responsible for taking over the work, which is equivalent to a contract foreman, and then hand over the work to others to do.
Xiao Wang told reporters that he worked very hard and had little time to rest.
Not only does he have to finish his own work, but he also has to find work in the decoration group. In addition, he began to get involved in the business of wall covering and edging.
Xiao Wang told reporters that in order to live, he bought a house in Fenghua and has a lovely daughter. He is still leading his own team, and his two teammates are also "post-90s".
Due to bending over for a long time, Xiao Wang's lumbar spine had problems.
He said, "None of them have a good waist."
Post-"00": Forty percent will choose "undignified but lucrative jobs".The "post-00s" are now the main force of employment, what do they think about "undignified but lucrative jobs"?The reporter randomly interviewed 50 "post-00s", and 40% of them expressed their willingness to choose this kind of work.
A college student named Xiao Zheng said that the first pot of gold in life is very important: "It doesn't matter if you work hard when you're young, the current conditions are already very good, and it's not hard." The most important thing is to make more money, with money you can start a business, you can also go to study and train. ”
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A further 60 per cent said they would not like to choose this type of work.
A college student named Xiao Ye said that work mainly depends on whether he likes it or not, whether he likes it or not, and his income is secondary, "I like to draw and design in the office, and it doesn't matter if my income is less." But after getting married, there are more places to spend money, and maybe my mind will change. ”
The girl born in 2003 said that the high salary attracted her, but she also had to consider the feelings of her parents. "I have classmates who do jobs such as pension and confinement care, but my parents were silent when they found out. So, I would choose a job that they think is decent. ”
Experts say that craftsmen are now more and more recognized and respected by society!
Zhu Meiyan, a teacher from the School of Humanities and Arts of Ningbo Institute of Technology, believes that "undignified but profitable jobs" are often searched, which on the one hand breaks the traditional concept, and on the other hand, it also shows the diversity of values in modern society.
Now many "post-95s" and "post-00s" are doing this kind of work, which is also a manifestation of their pursuit of self-worth and self-satisfaction.
If you do a good job, you can learn a lot of things, and you can't do it well. ”
In addition, now that our higher education is becoming more and more popular, the concept of employment of students and parents must also change with the times.
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In the future, craftsmen, especially those with the spirit of craftsmanship, will be more respected, and the label of 'unseemly' will slowly disappear. ”