When I was very young, I envied successful people. They have enough time and money in their own hands. They can spend freely when they want or need money. They have too much mystery, which makes people admire and respect them. After I started working, I felt that everything was too far away from me. The gap between dreams and reality was so big that those of us with beautiful dreams lost our previous yearnings and had to return to the reality of life.
I clearly remember that I have not been studying since 1995. Our hometown is a famous poor county in the country, with mountains everywhere. The staple food at home is potatoes and corn. I was supposed to graduate from junior high school in 1997 and had to face the problem of tuition fees. Drop out of school. After dropping out of school, the financial pressure on my family was relieved, allowing my 10-year-old brother to go to school, and I started working.
My father asked a friend to find me a job. It was said to be a job, but there was no salary. He was to be an apprentice learning how to repair automobile tires. When I first started working, I didn’t know anything. I just did whatever my master told me. I had always lived in a rural area and there was no TV, so I had a TV at my master’s house. The most popular TV series at that time was "Flying Fox in the Snow Mountain". I couldn't stand it. Resisting the temptation, I watched TV at home when the master was not at home. The master didn’t say anything to me at that time, but after a while he talked to me and said: "Your father asked you to come to learn skills. You keep doing this every day." How can I do this? I’m sorry to my parents.” I stopped watching TV after that and started studying tire repair techniques seriously.
Not long after, a neighbor in the village came to me and told me that my brother had drowned in water on his way home from school a few days ago. When I heard the news, I cried. I like my brother very much. I was born in 1986. When I was 4 years old, I was playing in someone else's house. My father was a carpenter and was building a house for someone else. As a result, the ax accidentally fell from the sky and fell on my younger brother's face, scratching his face 4 inches deep. There was no The head and bones were injured. We felt so lucky at the time. If it had fallen on our heads, my brother would have died. We often hear people say, "If you survive a disaster, you will be blessed later in life." We also had this hope, so we gave our younger brother all the opportunities to study. However, he still drowned in 1996.
It’s a blessing, not a curse. It’s a curse that can’t be avoided. I didn’t have the heart to work anymore. I went home and hugged my mother and cried for half a month. But ultimately we have to accept this unfortunate fact. My aunt's husband died in July of the same year, and my mother-in-law died in December. Three relatives died in my family in one year. I don't know why the world is doing this to me? What can we do, other than endure it or endure it, generally People may not understand the inner feelings of our family at this time, except pain and suffering. The Chinese New Year is about to come, but the greater misfortune is slowly approaching me. My mother and my father are getting divorced. My father has gone to work in Shantou, Guangdong. My mother has gone to who knows where. I am the only one left at home to celebrate the New Year. , I was only 16 years old that year.
It is said that the children of poor people have already taken charge of the family. At this time, the burden of the family was left to me. At that time, I wanted to farm the land and raise pigs at home. I wanted to find the warmth of the family through my own efforts. In 1997, I was farming and raising pigs by myself. At the end of the year, my father came back. Through my efforts, my mother was also brought back, and the family was reunited. As we grow older, our way of looking at problems also changes. I saw that all the people in the village went out to work. Many people made money, and some people also became rich. I also embarked on the journey of working with a beautiful dream of working.
The first time I went on a long trip, I took a boat to the big city Chongqing with a school bag, Jiefang shoes, and 60 yuan in my pocket. It was the winter of 1998, and the weather was very cold. At 6 o'clock in the morning, the boat arrived at Chaotianmen, Chongqing, before dawn. Many people started to disembark. It was my first time in Chongqing. When I saw others disembarking, I followed suit and went to Chaotianmen Pier 9. Others We all got dispersed somehow, and I was the only one who didn’t know where to go or where to take the bus.
It was still dark, so I was walking alone on the road from Pier 9 to the square (I later found out about the square). Three tall men came and said to me, "Brother, give me the money for a pack of cigarettes." I knew I was being robbed, but 3 people surrounded me. I had no choice but to give them 10 yuan. Within 3 minutes, another 3 people came. This time they pointed knives at my waist. , They said they would throw me into the Yangtze River if they didn’t give it. I had no choice but to give them another 15 yuan; it was still dark and there were no pedestrians on the road. I quickened my pace while thinking about what had just happened. Within five minutes, three more people came and surrounded me. I really had no choice but to not yell, so I gave them another 10 yuan. One of them followed me. He said, "Go away quickly. If you don't leave quickly, all the money you have will be wiped out with you."
It was getting brighter and I saw bus No. 401. The first time I went away to work, I encountered a cold winter that I had never encountered before.
Later, I think it was around 2000. I can’t remember the specific time. I was working for a boss who made anti-theft windows. I received a salary of 450 yuan that month. I immediately mailed 300 yuan to my family. I need to buy fertilizer to grow crops, so I have 150 yuan left for myself. I heard others say that compulsory work in Zhejiang is easy and the wages are high. I was also excited. I spent 108 yuan to buy a compulsory train ticket at Caiyuanba Railway Station. Then I bought a few bottles of water, two pairs of socks, and One pound of melon seeds allowed me to spend 48 hours on the train. I didn’t buy anything else to eat on the train. I didn’t have enough money, and I had no acquaintances or friends in my work life. I had no phone or bank card. After getting off the bus, I ate a bowl of noodles and then started looking for work. I needed to find my bread.
After a 2-hour journey from the volunteer train station, I can’t even remember where I passed. I returned to the volunteer train station. At that time, I felt that the responsibility was too small. How could I find a job? (I didn’t find a job at the time. (Experience) A train from Wenzhou to Hangzhou happened to stop there. I asked about the 19 yuan fare to Hangzhou. I saw that there were still more than 20 yuan in my pocket, so I decided to go to Hangzhou to find a job. After all, the city is bigger and there are more opportunities. When I arrived in Hangzhou, I had another bowl of noodles and ran out of money. It was May and Hangzhou was in the rainy season. It rained every day and was very cold.
I had no money to stay in a hotel at night, so I stayed at the train station. I went out to look for a job during the day and stayed at the train station at night. I searched for a job for several days without finding one. After all, I was only a primary school student and had no skills. It was easy to find a job in the economically developed city of Hangzhou. It's been several days since I've eaten, let alone taken a shower. I often hear people say that if they have trouble contacting the police, I naively thought this was true. So I also stepped into the police booth at Hangzhou Railway Station. As soon as I stepped in, the police asked me to get out. I said you don’t know what happened to me when I came in. Why did you ask me to get out? They said if you don’t get out, I will I have no choice but to beat you up. Can I fight with the police? Haha, I can't. I haven’t eaten for several days, what should I do? I spent a lot of effort to find out about a place called Fuyang, which is a paper-making industrial park. I went there. I thought I could work as a porter in such a factory, but it turned out Disappointed again, no one is hiring. It was getting dark slowly, and I felt waves of chill.
What should I do at this time? If I continue like this, my willpower will be almost unbearable, and it is impossible to call home, which will make my parents worried. I decided to go back to Hangzhou, which is a better city. After all, the chances were better. Since I didn’t have a car, I decided to walk. I can’t remember the name of the road back to Hangzhou at that time. That road went along a river. I don’t know the name of that river either. I walked and walked along the road by the river. The road became worse and worse and turned into a muddy road.
God doesn't like me, and I don't know where I offended him. It started to rain at this time, leaving me to walk alone in the rain and the river breeze on a muddy road in a dark night where I couldn't see my fingers. Tired, hungry, tired, hungry and cold are the original flavors in my body. I walked and walked like this. I don’t know how much time passed, but suddenly a car came. I waved to stop, and the car stopped. I went to tell the driver that I wanted to go back to Hangzhou. I had no money and wanted to take a ride. After hearing me say that I had no money, the car drove away, leaving me in a daze. At this time, I really feel that life is really meaningless. I am really a little negative, and I don’t want to live anymore. Why is the world so unfair? I don’t expect too much, I just hope to have a rough meal.
Then I thought about it, I still have my parents at home, and they no longer have a younger brother. They can no longer live without me. I must persevere for them. I gritted my teeth and kept walking, and I kept walking. I don’t know how long it took, but I saw a dot or star not far away. It was a coal stove used for making stew in the restaurant. I was so happy that I ran over and opened the lid. I put my hand on it and it felt so warm. I accidentally fell asleep when I was cold, hungry and tired. I hadn't slept for long when I heard someone getting up in the house. I was scared and couldn't care less about my fatigue and sleepiness. I had to leave quickly, otherwise others would get up and see me squatting at the door and beat me like a robber. I couldn't do anything. I continued my long march of work.
After walking all night, the sky gradually dawned. I was really hungry, so I saw a restaurant nearby. When I went in, I was met by a female boss. I told the boss to cook me a bowl of noodles first, and then a basket of dumplings. When I was full, I told the boss that I had no money, so I told you When the big worker paid for the meal, the female boss said to me angrily: "If you don't have money, tell me earlier and you can just eat my noodles and my dumplings." I really couldn't afford the money, so she let me go. It was really I am very grateful to her. Now and in the future I will remember the help given to me by a female boss whose name I don’t know.
After eating, I quickened my pace and soon arrived in Hangzhou. I walked around the streets to see where workers were being recruited. When it was almost dark, I finally saw a shop recruiting welders. I went and tried it, but I was not qualified. , If the technology is not up to standard, they will not hire you. I told them that I had not eaten for a few days and hoped to be their apprentice. As long as the food and accommodation problems could be solved, they seemed unwilling. After my repeated entreaties, they introduced me to one of their disciples. Brother, I make plastic doors and windows. When I got there, I first told the boss to cook me a bowl of noodles. I hadn’t eaten in a few days. After eating noodles, I told my boss that he would give me a monthly salary of 100 yuan and ensure that I would have food and accommodation. So we settled down, near Xidebao, Xiasha District, Hangzhou. I like to read "Journey to the West". Whenever I encounter difficulties in learning from the West, I always make up for it. Maybe I am like that too.
I worked overtime every night. I remember that on the longest day of overtime work, I only slept for 1 hour. I worked for 23 hours. The next day, I had to stand on the 8th floor to install it. I was infected through my diligence. My boss gave me a total of 5 salary increases, up to 550 yuan including food and accommodation. My master had two daughters and a niece, and he asked me to pick one and take him back to our hometown when we get married. I thought it was too far away, so I didn’t agree, so I left the place where I worked.
Recalling these now is the motivation for my hard work, because I know that if I don’t work hard, I will still end up on that path, which is something neither I nor my family want to see. Now I have my own company, there are no Sundays, I work 365 days a year, I have to work hard, I have some free time this year, and I have created 2 more websites, one of which is currently making a little profit, 528 Online Earning Forum http: //www.528vip.com; There is also a website that is just in its infancy, leading the 3G network http://www.lx3g.com, so there are too many things for me to do. The company now has more than a hundred people to manage. For people like me who don’t have a very good knowledge structure, the only thing we have is diligence + perseverance + passion.
My daughter, I hug her every day when I get home from get off work. She will be 1 year old on July 26 this year.
There are too many things in our lives that are unpredictable. When problems come, we can only accept them bravely. This process is very painful. Some people survive and succeed, while some people can't bear it or give up. So we are still walking on the ordinary road. In my opinion, people must prove their worth in life. Even if we fail, we have worked hard. I have been thinking about it for a few hours without realizing it. It is almost 2 o'clock in the morning. I have rested. Now that I think about it, this is the motivation for me to start a business. My career will start from here. A more difficult road is waiting for me ahead. Struggle, struggle--will be our path to success.
To be continued: The ups and downs of entrepreneurship.