I'm a big man, and I still have dozens of dollars in cash, but only 100 yuan is left in my card.
Four years ago in the winter, after my first venture failed, I almost lost all my property. After all the equipment in that lunch shop was sold, I managed to pay off the employees' wages, and finally I got together with my partner. So, I alienated a few friends and even turned against one of them.
On the night of parting ways with them, I made a bowl of instant noodles in a small rented room and gulped down a large cup of boiling water. I am so poor that I can't even afford to buy wine.
The rent for next month is not settled, and even not enough to eat has become a problem.
I had no choice but to start working as a temporary worker in a fried chicken shop. My main task is to pass vegetables and cut vegetables, and do various chores such as frying pan washing vegetables.
I remember very well that the stairs of that fried chicken restaurant were narrow and high, the kitchen was on the first floor and the dining table was on the third floor. I run up and down about a hundred times every day. I have hurt my knee, and the pain makes me tremble.
In winter, the kitchen is stuffy and hot, and the temperature is basically above 40 degrees. Once, the weld of my glasses actually melted. . .
As for the salary, it's ten yuan an hour, not counting lunch break. Actually, the boss is very kind to me. We are allowed to eat leftover fried chicken or leftovers from guests, and I am allowed to eat first when I am hungry in the kitchen. Eating a big bowl of seaweed soup and kelp rice is the happiest thing in my day.
By the way, an employee who used to run a box restaurant followed me into the fried chicken shop. He fried chicken and I washed the stove.
During lunch break, I sat in front of the store with them, smoking and chatting, bragging and farting, cooking dinner together after closing at night, washing pots, humming songs and taking out the garbage. It is also an unforgettable memory.
At this time, I have already returned the rented house, and I have to ride a battery car to live in the university dormitory five kilometers away every day. Winter in Hangzhou is cold and humid. It hasn't stopped raining for months. Every time I go back to the dormitory, I almost get soaked. The rain is as heavy as throwing water directly in my face. The hat of the raincoat was blown over again and again, and it was impossible to see the road clearly. I can only cover my face with one hand and continue to open through the gap between my fingers.
At College Street 10: 30, there is no temperature on the cheeks.
Actually, I'm glad I didn't have an accident on the road, and I didn't get sick because of the rain. Otherwise, medical expenses will become a problem.
In those days, my whole body smelled of disgusting fumes. When I was sitting in the classroom, I couldn't remember how many supercilious glances I received, how many people avoided my position at a distance, and some even directly scolded me and told me to get out.
Before, I really didn't dare to think about it.
Later, in addition to frying chicken, I also worked part-time to help my friends sell headphones. Selling a pair of headphones without postage can earn about 20 yuan, and when business is good, you can earn 50 to 60 yuan a day. I was so happy that I quickly went to the store with the guys in the store and sold a bag of betel nuts. "Betel nut with cigarettes is amazing."
About the end of 13. After three months of preparation, I posted the money for temporary work and headphones, and rented an old rental house.
I set up a so-called "business consulting company" myself. To put it bluntly, it is shop intermediary, job recommendation, decoration introduction and so on. It is also a real "leather bag company". The manager, salesman and clerk are all me, and I have run away from all the shops in the commercial street being transferred. The pattern is probably:
"Hello, I'm the shop agent here. I see a store transfer here. We can transfer you. " At this time, I will give my business card to the advertising company.
"No need, we will turn ourselves."
"We don't charge here. After you sign a contract with the contractor to get the transfer fee, we will charge 3% transfer fee. In addition, we will help you write contracts and agreements here. "
"Don't accept money first? It doesn't matter, you will be fine. "
"Ok, as long as I am interested in the customers here, I will show it to you."
Frankly speaking, at that time, I described myself as a partner of the store rather than an intermediary before accepting it, so their resistance would be much smaller.
From then on, as long as I get a call from a customer, I will take the contract and agreement to the place where I need to transfer money to find a store. Basically, I will arrive before customers and businesses. Winter in Hangzhou is really wet and cold. I rode the battery car to the sand again and again.
Who would have thought that I, who was originally a road idiot, miraculously remembered all the roads in Xiasha.
But business is not so easy to do. I didn't make a single business in the first two months, and I returned to the days of making a living by instant noodles. Merchants always skip me and contact customers directly at the last minute of the transfer link, which leads them to reach an agreement directly without giving me an intermediary fee, and I can't help it.
I have tried all kinds of methods: signing intermediary contracts in advance, not giving business customers contact information or directly forcing them to sign contracts in front of me. But it didn't work. Because I don't have a formally registered company, fundamentally speaking, the agreement I signed with them has no practical effect.
Those days were really hard. I thought about giving up and going back to work as a temporary worker in a fried chicken shop. At least I can eat.
Finally, at the end of the year, I met a very conscientious decoration company, and with my efforts, I promoted their decoration project and a new store. The whole project is about 1.2 million, and he promised me three points, that is, 3% agency fee.
We signed the contract and stamped it, but I still don't feel at ease because there are too many precedents before. Seeing that the renovation project was completed little by little, he also signed a contract with the merchants, but he was unwilling to give me the agency fee on the grounds that their project funds were not in place. Therefore, I call him from time to time and ask him about it, because I really have no choice.
14 years 1 at the end of the month, on the last day of leaving Hangzhou for my hometown, I was forced to sit in front of that decoration company for a whole day. When he saw that I was determined not to pay the agency fee, he had to hand me a stack of money and said to me:
"It's not easy for everyone. This is 3000 yuan. You can take it. Forget about 600 yuan, ok? "
"no! You said that three points should be 3,600. "
"I have so much cash here that I can't take it out if you want another hundred."
"I think it is not easy for you. Hurry and take the money home for a good year. "
"All right, then."
The moment I got the money, my whole mind went blank. In the elevator downstairs, I couldn't help crying, gritting my teeth and shaking all over, so that the white-collar worker next to me clutched the bag tightly and asked me to shout for help whenever I had any abnormal behavior.
And since then, I have also walked out of that most bitter and miserable day. Although I didn't have a good life later, I no longer have to eat instant noodles all day, and the trajectory of my life is slowly improving. (See here, someone may want to ask me:
I was so bitter, why didn't I ask my family for help? But do you have to put up with it yourself?
That's because, ah, my suffering was caused by myself, and I lost the money for my family to start a business. I can't blame others for my failure. I have to bear all the consequences myself, otherwise what kind of person am I?
I can't just give up in my heart, you know!
It's not worthwhile to hesitate to do it naturally.