Upon hearing this, Uncle Liu quickly turned down the volume on the TV and stopped watching. He sat down next to Yao Yuan and whispered, "They say that those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs. The monthly salary of an associate professor is more than 400.
Yuan, only two yuan more than me."
"But look, young people don't want bicycles when they get married, they want motorcycles! Do you know how much a motorcycle costs? The cheapest one costs more than 8,000, and the imported one costs tens of thousands. How many years do you think I have to live without food or drink?
Save enough money to buy a motorcycle?”
Taking a heavy puff of cigarette, Uncle Liu sighed.
Yao Yuan understood and said, "My son is getting married?"
"I said a long time ago that you are different from other students. I can have a good conversation with you. But isn't it? Now that you have started working, you have found a partner, and you are about to get married. In the past, when we got married, we had a new bed.
You can buy a quilt, a bicycle if you can, and a few new clothes if you can't, and you can still live happily. But look at it now, motorcycles, color TVs, refrigerators, washing machines, some of these are not enough, you have to buy them.
A sofa set.”
Lao Liu sighed, shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "Finding a daughter-in-law is almost like buying a daughter-in-law."
Yao Yuan felt the same way. Thinking of the difficulty of getting married in later generations, he said, "The order of house, car, wife and son is becoming more and more fixed. You must first have a house and a car. Only after you have this material foundation, can you talk about a partner and find a wife. Uncle Liu,
Times are progressing and society is changing."
"Yeah, it's getting harder and harder to get married now. I want to empty out my family's wealth. Xiao Yao, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I have been working for more than 20 years and have saved a total of 50,000 yuan. I can't give it all.
Take it out for your son to get married, what will my wife and I do in the future?" Uncle Liu said with emotion.
Yao Yuan said, "You still have a pension and medical insurance, so you don't have to worry about it for the rest of your life."
"That's what I said, but I don't dare to think so now. So many factories that were once so good have closed down. Let alone pensions, those laid-off workers can't even take care of food and clothing." Lao Liu said with a sigh.
Yao Yuan fell silent.
He once thought that when he was capable, he could contribute to the sugar factory so that the employees of the sugar factory would no longer have to suffer from hunger due to being laid off, which would make him worthy of his many years of life in the sugar factory.
As money bags get bigger and bigger, and as careers develop beyond expectations, people's ideas and patterns are also changing.
Maybe you shouldn’t limit your vision and layout to small Nangang.
"Xiao Yao, I heard that you wholesale electronic watches and all their goods come from you. Is that true?" Lao Liu suddenly asked.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "Isn't that what you heard?"
Lao Liu smiled awkwardly and said, "Xiao Qi told me, but don't worry, I haven't disclosed it to anyone. In short, I know that you are a hidden big boss."
That is to say, we know that the wholesale of electronic watches has been a thing of the Year of the Monkey, and now it has become a dispensable business. Zhang Yuanchao and Qi Nan have handed it over to their subordinates.
Yao Yuan took the initiative and asked, "If you need help, Uncle Liu, please speak."
"I just want to buy some electronic watches, set up a stall in the city at night, and earn some money to subsidize it." Lao Liu was embarrassed.
As a university employee, it is really not a face-saving thing to have to go out and set up stalls to do side jobs. If making missiles is not as good as selling vegetable leaves and eggs, it refers not only to income, but also to changes in social status.
When you find that you have to lower your head to make money, you have to lower your head, otherwise your income will not be enough to cope with the increasing cost of living.
Yao Yuan said, "It is difficult to sell electronic watches now. The market has basically been taken over by others, and the profits are not as high as before. You should go to Shuiwan Street. I have been there. There are more than a dozen stalls selling electronic watches."
Home, the competition is fierce, I don’t recommend you sell electronic watches.”
"I don't know what I would do if I didn't sell electronic watches." Lao Liu said with a sad face, and stood up to pour a glass of warm water for Yao Yuan.
In fact, the electronic watch market in the Nangang area has long been oversupplied. In the past, you could easily make a profit of more than ten yuan without even thinking about it. If you can make a profit of one yuan or a few cents, everyone will be snatched away and sold.
Yao Yuan took the water glass in his hand, nodded his thanks, and asked, "Uncle Liu, what does your son do?"
Mentioning his son, Lao Liu was not a little proud. He held his head high and said, "I work at BMW Machinery. Do you know BMW Machinery? It is a Sino-foreign joint venture and our largest factory in Nangang. He graduated last year and applied for a job at BMW before the Spring Festival."
I have mechanical work, and I am engaged in technical administration."
"puff……"
Yao Yuan spurted out.
Lao Liu quickly said, "Hot your mouth? You shouldn't. It was mixed with cold water."
"No, no." Yao Yuan wiped his mouth, shook his head and said, "No, no, it's because I couldn't breathe. Uncle Liu, your son works at BMW Machinery? Which school did he graduate from?"
Lao Liu said proudly, "We are at Western Polytechnic University, where we study mechanical design theory."
"What does technical administration mean?" Yao Yuan thought for a while and asked.
BMW Machinery held a large-scale job fair before the Spring Festival, mainly targeting local fresh graduates and past graduates, and the conditions offered were very favorable.
If it is not generous enough, it will be difficult to impress graduates who would have been assigned to work in mechanical systems. Nowadays, college students are still assigned after graduation, but the assigned jobs are getting worse. But this is not a problem for NPU
, it is originally the mechanical department’s own university, and the graduates have internal digestive tracts, and very few of them come out.
So in order to recruit enough manpower, Yao Yuan personally contacted Professor Mo at that time and asked the school to come forward to help. Then he named it a Sino-foreign joint venture and made it very high-end. The salary and benefits were twice that of state-owned enterprises.
In this way, we can barely recruit enough manpower.
Among them, the name Sino-foreign joint venture is very important. If it were a private enterprise, Lao Liu would not agree to it, let alone his son.
It was not until January 9, 1996, when the state promulgated interim measures that the policy of state-funded distribution for college graduates became history.
It was also from this time that colleges and universities across the country began to expand their enrollment, and the booming mass education of college students began. At the same time, it also announced the end of the elite education system. The country implemented "lenient entry and strict exit" in higher education.
The principle is to gradually realize that "as long as you want to receive higher education, you can basically achieve it." However, to become an excellent high-knowledge and high-tech person, you need to work hard on the individual.
People basically think that college students in the past had high gold content but today's college students are generally gold-plated. This is because those who could get into college in the past were basically the best among the best. But now, there are still such people, but the base is larger.
They are not as conspicuous as before.
It makes sense that things are rare and valuable.
I saw Lao Liu open a drawer and take out a notebook, turn to a certain page, and then read it out: "Technical administrators refer to administrative personnel with professional and technical knowledge. They are newly created positions at BMW Machinery. They are mainly responsible for solving problems."
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