Last night, I saw a short documentary about migrant workers making a living in the city. Most of them are over 50 years old and used to work on construction sites, but now they are old and there is no construction site for them.
Every day, I wait for the boss to recruit workers in the city's migrant worker distribution center. Get up at 4 o'clock in the morning to line up, it's not good now, and some people can't get a job a day.
* There is a sentence in it, especially sadThey built so many houses, but none of them belonged to them.
At the age when they should be in retirement, they are still running around in the city and struggling for their old age. They have no land, they can't go back to the countryside, they don't have pensions, and they can't integrate into the cities.
Only by taking advantage of the fact that you are still able to do it now, make a little more money, and leave a little protection for your old self.
* There is also a father and son, the son is 19 years old, working on the construction site, and after coming back in the evening to talk to his father about the construction site, there is no follow-up. The father, who didn't get a job today, was upset and threw his son out of the house.
Can we say they don't work hard?
They worked very hard, working in this city for 30 years, and worked hard for 30 years. Countless buildings were built, but none of them belonged to them.
Working for 30 years can't get the respect of others for them, can't get a good life, let alone enjoy their old age.
There is even an eldest sister in the short film who is still worried about her daughter-in-law arguing for a divorce, she sighed and said that this is the daughter-in-law who spent 200,000 yuan to marry, if she leaves, what will my son do?
It is said that hard work can get rich, but if the direction of your efforts is not right, then maybe you can only maintain food and clothing, and you will never be able to get rich.
What's even more terrifying is that cognitive limitations will take your descendants to continue to follow your old path, and there will never be a day to come.
Therefore, it is said that reading is the best way out for rural people, but how many rural readers can really complete the counterattack.
It often takes two or even three generations for a family to make the transition.
I was born in the countryside, and my parents have taken me everywhere since I was a child, and they never put me in my hometown like other children, but took me to ** when they walked to **.
He always emphasized to me the importance of reading and seeing the world.
He told me that the reason why he didn't leave me in his hometown was because he went out to work to make money so that I could live a better life and see a wider world, and if he left me in his hometown, it would be meaningless.
Therefore, compared with other brothers and sisters, I have a higher starting point, a better educational environment, and a deeper understanding of the world.
Because of his father's cognitive or ability limitations, he tried his best, and he could only do this.
He doesn't know how to use leverage to invest, expand assets, and make money with money.
He didn't know that he could still borrow money from the bank to buy a house, and then borrow money to buy a house after mortgaging, which missed the opportunity to make my family rich. (I don't know how many friends have the same idea as me).
This is my father, a "rural person" who knows how to flee the countryside with his children and work honestly in the city with a "peasant mentality" to make money, and toils half his life just to settle down in the city.
Since we can't get rich by working hard, then don't we work hard? No!
I think we need to learn to think more before we work hard, and we need to work hard in a direction.
Among my uncles and brothers, there are also those who work on the construction site, and there are smart ones who will slowly pull up a team to find the boss to take over the work, from migrant workers to small package foremen, and two brothers have become labor company owners.
Only by learning to think can we get out of the bottom of society that exchanges time and effort for money.
Of course, not everyone is suitable to be a contractor, or other work that deals with people, and has the ability to integrate resources.
Then we can increase our income by improving our ability to get more compensation per unit of time, so that we can have more time to enjoy life.
Isn't the purpose of making money so that you can live a better life?
I think of the ** when I just graduated and worked in Chengdu Electronics Factory.
He has been working in that electronics factory for more than 20 years, and most of his contemporaries are gone, and the rest are either a small team leader or still working on the assembly line.
He is different, he is responsible for the repair of customer returns and focuses on solving the incurable problems of various products. He has a high status in the production department, and the production manager is also polite to him, and even my little apprentice sometimes gets a little light.
He doesn't have to work day and night shifts like an assembly line worker, going to work at 8:30 and leaving work at 6 o'clock on time. His life after work is to listen to small songs, drink some wine, sing songs, play cards, and be leisurely and leisurely every day, which is very comfortable.
He has the current ability, and it doesn't happen overnight, when he is on the assembly line, he likes to ponder. How to make the product better, there is a problem to think first and then go to the engineer to solve, in the continuous thinking and practice, practice a skill.
So please stop just burying your head in hard work, learn to think, and constantly improve yourself in your efforts. Either make yourself irreplaceable and make the job a little easier. Either learn to integrate resources and make it easier to make money.
Hard work is an excellent quality. But before we make an effort, we should have a clear direction, think clearly about our goals, and not let ourselves fall into the quagmire of exchanging time for money forever. In the end, it was all for nothing.
Finally, I would like to share a little bit of thinking about making money that I have recently learned.
If you want to make money, you must learn to make money and "do business" with capital money, only in this way can you achieve financial freedom and enjoy life.
In the next issue, let's learn how to get the first pot of gold in "money makes money".
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Little Tail: The article is from the same name***