Just when I was in a hurry to eat, suddenly, I found a middle-aged uncle in his fifties and sixties sitting opposite me, staring at me, and I was embarrassed to see him.
It was my uncle who broke the awkward atmosphere first. My uncle asked me, "How old is the young man? He looks full of energy. Can he pay 5000 yuan a month? " .
I said smoothly, "I'm thirty-six, almost, five or six thousand." I didn't want to say anything more, so as not to stimulate my uncle and embarrass him.
So the two of us started chatting.
Uncle is a foreigner. He just came to our factory to repair the air conditioner. There are three people, one of whom is the boss, who is in charge of contact work. Of course, he earns the most.
During the communication, I found that my uncle had been fumbling in his clothes pocket. He only asked for a bowl of soybean milk. Soon, my uncle took out a steamed bread from his pocket, which was hard and yellow. My uncle slowly broke the steamed bread into small pieces of uniform size and soaked it in soybean milk. In this way, my uncle only needs one yuan for breakfast.
My uncle was embarrassed to see me watching him eat, so he said, "You can't earn much money by going out to work, but you can save one." My uncle also told me that he has two children who are both in college, and the children are more competitive, which is also the most gratifying thing for him. My son was admitted to Xi Jiaotong University, which was the first in their school that year, while my daughter got an average exam, which was also one of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology.
Uncle said: He didn't read many books when he was young, so he has been working. In the past few years, the real estate industry has flourished. He works as a coolie in a construction site in Xi 'an, earning 100 yuan every day. In the past two years, the real estate market has been depressed, and there are fewer and fewer opportunities to work. In addition, when he is old, no one wants him on the construction site, and he has not found a job with many contacts.
Last year, there was a capable pedestrian in their village who could repair the air conditioner with flexible hands and feet. I don't know how to find a job in our company. No, my uncle just arrived yesterday.
Uncle said that you can earn 150 yuan at the end of the day, but you have no job every day. You usually finish it in 15 days, then go home and wait for the notice. When I got home, I had nothing to do, so I did three acres of land, but I couldn't help worrying at home.
As he spoke, uncle's eyes seemed to be wet, and I could see that he was very tired, and uncle's soybean milk steamed bread was almost finished.
Uncle went on to say, I really envy you when you go to work. You have a serious job, and you don't worry about not having a job. You get paid on time every month, and the unit pays you old-age insurance. Young man, I think you are very energetic. You should work hard while you are young, or you will regret it when I am old.
Uncle is very emotional and sincere.
After listening to my uncle's words, I instantly felt that my uncle sitting opposite me was not an ordinary migrant worker, and we were not strangers. He's so much like my father, isn't he? My father doesn't work outside all the year round, but shuttles between various construction sites. Now, at the age of 65, he has not put down his "tile knife" in order to marry his brother and pay an expensive bride price. A tall man of 1.9 meters, his waist has been bent into a bow.
Looking at my uncle's rags, I care about him, too. I asked, uncle, where do you live at night?
Uncle said that I felt a slight shock in my heart just now in the dormitory where no one lived. Ah, no one lives in the dormitory. Isn't this the dormitory where our unit just stopped? Because the facilities are not complete, the unit let us live in other places. Now, there is no water in the dormitory.
I asked uncle, are you used to living? Uncle said that although there is no water, it is already the best place to live. I just found a warehouse and made a floor. This dormitory is still relatively good.
After listening to my uncle's story, I felt very uncomfortable and thought it was not easy to go out to work.
It's almost time. I should go to work. And I haven't eaten the eggs I bought. I got up and gave the eggs to my uncle, but he didn't want them anyway. I put down my eggs and left soon, vaguely hearing the word "thank you".
Back to this question, I want to say something.
Perhaps, this uncle is not the saddest person, and there are people who are sadder than this uncle. However, I was really moved at the moment when this uncle ate his own soybean milk to soak steamed bread. I saw the heart of a middle-aged man.
At this moment, I want to say that maybe this uncle's sadness can be avoided. Perhaps he did the following three things when he was young.
First, seize the opportunity to go to school.
As rural people, generations turn their backs on loess and cultivated land. If you want to change your destiny, the best and fairest way out is to study. Through study, you can get into a good university, or finish your postgraduate or doctoral studies, or enter a civil servant, a public institution, or an ordinary enterprise, which also changes your own and your family's destiny. Just like me, if I hadn't been admitted to the university, studied in the university and learned professional knowledge, I wouldn't have entered the current unit, let alone become the workshop director.
Secondly, I learned a skill.
The difficulty of the senior high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination is well known. It is impossible for everyone to go to college and be the first. If you fail in the exam, don't be discouraged. At this time, the best choice is to learn a technology, such as driving, driving a big car, hairdressing and beauty, car maintenance and home appliance repair. In short, you need to find a skill, do a line, love a line, love a line.
Third, I found a job.
In today's society, the employment situation is grim, and it is not easy to find a good job. However, it is not too difficult to find an ordinary job. Just like our unit, we have to recruit more than 3,000 workers, most of whom have low academic qualifications. After they came, they all did manual labor with low technical content. As long as they can persist, the unit will gradually raise their wages and pay endowment insurance for them to live a good life.
Finally, I want to say: in fact, it is not easy for everyone to reach middle age, and everyone has their own sadness. If you want to be less sad in middle age, then you should strive at the age of struggle instead of choosing comfort.