My wife and I are both retired workers, my pension is 13,000, and her pension is 7,800
My partner and I are both retirees of the Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, and we receive a total of more than 20,000 yuan per month, which makes our old age very comfortable.
I took the college entrance examination in 1981 and was lucky enough to be admitted to the Teachers College, realizing my dream of becoming a people's teacher.
Why did I choose to become a teacher?Because it was influenced by my high school physics teacher.
My high school physics teacher is the school's dean, our class is the focus of the school, with the best teachers in the school, and my physics teacher is a well-respected physics master in the school.
He is not only a good teacher, but also very conscientious, and is loved by his classmates.
His class was lively, humorous, and easy to understand, which I still remember vividly. At the end of each class, his head was covered in white chalk ash, and sometimes he would make his classmates laugh.
He got along with us like friends, and we male classmates liked to communicate with him, ask him questions, and he always took the trouble to give answers. Whenever he studied on his own, he would come to tutor us in physics lessons.
Under the influence of this physics teacher, many students in our class have made great progress in their physics learning. That's when I made up my mind to become a physics teacher as well.
Despite my desire to become a teacher, my father was against it. He was working in the tobacco sector at the time, and he wanted me to go to an agricultural college and work in a tobacco company after graduation. But I stuck to my mind, I just wanted to be a teacher, and there was no better career for me.
I was successfully admitted to a teacher's college in a prefecture-level city, majoring in physics. After graduating, I was assigned to a local middle school and became a physics teacher.
However, reality seems to be far from my good wishes. The passion I had when I first started as a teacher faded after a year. The image of the great teacher in my eyes gradually became smaller, and it turned out that things were not as rosy as I imagined.
Teachers have low social status, meager salaries, and difficulties in career advancement.
It was at this time that the shocking news came that my esteemed physics teacher, who was my guide as a teacher, had passed away from liver cancer. I suddenly remembered that the teacher's face was always gloomy when he was teaching, and he often pressed on the liver area, could he have already suffered from liver disease at that time?
For some time after that, I was in a very low mood and had a bad night's sleep, often dreaming of my physics teacher.
My father suggested that I change jobs, saying that he could help me find a way to work together in another unit or consider moving to the tobacco department. I was hesitant.
At the same time, some of my college classmates have been transferred from teaching positions to work in companies. They all said that working in a company is better than being a teacher, with a high salary, easy work, and various benefits, such as a house. It was also mentioned that girls were more inclined to marry business executives.
Once, my father told me that he had already negotiated with the unit, and they agreed to accept me, so I should not hesitate any longer. I eventually followed my father's advice.
I transferred to work in the tobacco department because my father also had some connections there and my job was smooth sailing. Later, I also married a wife who worked in the tobacco department, and our lives got better and better.
I had a college diploma and there weren't many college graduates at that time. Although I graduated from a teacher's college, I am also a rare intellectual. In the unit, I was promoted and reused, from the initial section member to the division chief, and my career was successful.
Last June, I was honored to retire, ending my multi-year career. After the pension was approved, I felt very satisfied, more than 10,000 yuan per month. And my wife retired five years earlier than me, and her pension is also quite considerable, reaching 7,800 yuan per month, which is quite good in our circle.
Looking back on my life experience, I dreamed of becoming a teacher since I was a child, and later this dream came true. Then I followed my father's advice and transferred to his tobacco company, where I gradually rose from an ordinary clerk to the position of division chief. Now that I'm retired and an ordinary old man, I can sum up my life experience in a few words.
If I had been a teacher until I retired, maybe I would have had a lot of students singing the praises of my deeds all over the world. The pension may not be much less than it is now, but history cannot be changed, and everyone's life trajectory is their own.
My son now also works in the tobacco industry, and our family is really three generations of tobacco.