I am a single mother who endured until retirement after being laid off and unemployed. It has not been an easy journey, thank God, I am still alive.
I am an out-and-out worker, and my job is a welder. My welding skills are pretty good, and I have an intermediate welder qualification certificate. High school education, graduated from high school in 1986. After graduating from high school, I went to work in a factory. I took a year of electric welding training in a training class and officially started working in the second year.
I work as a welder in the welding class of the structure workshop of my unit. The workshop is a small society, and the workshop director has the final say. In a factory, 70% of the people who come and go are relatives around the corner. I am the only one who has no relatives. I am isolated in the welding class and am alone.
I need to be an apprentice for three years before I can become a regular worker. During the apprenticeship, I am not allowed to fall in love or get married. The wages of apprentices are very low. My monthly apprenticeship wage is ￥158 yuan. I give all my monthly salary to my mother. I am a Ba family dog.
I work during the day, and after get off work, I help my mother at home and take care of my father, who is a high-level paraplegic. My father cannot take care of himself and relies entirely on my mother and me for care.
Our unit was still in the mountains at that time, and almost all the large enterprises at that time were in the ravines. The unit moved into the city in 1995. Before moving into the city, every family lived in a house assigned by the work unit. There were six families in a row of houses. Each house had a small yard, water pipes, and a pigsty and chicken pen. Every family raises pigs and chickens. My family raises two pigs a year, one to eat and one to sell. He raised thirty chickens and twenty rabbits. My family also has private land. I go to farm every day after get off work, watering, picking vegetable leaves, cutting pig vegetables, cooking pig food, chopping chicken vegetables, mixing chicken food, feeding chickens, pigs, and rabbits. I pick pig manure once a week. I am a worker who can do farm work and can endure hardships.
I raise chickens and rabbits and sell them at the market every Sunday. I really like this kind of life of working and doing farm work at the same time.
In 1995, our unit moved into Dali City. My mother's family was allocated a welfare room on the first floor. I was already married at the time, and thanks to my ex-parents-in-law, I also had a house. I moved in directly without paying any money. Later, I was able to pay for the welfare house. Each household paid more than 5,000 yuan to buy a welfare house, and had a real estate certificate and a land certificate with full ownership rights. The house I live in is in the name of my parents-in-law, and the real estate certificate can only be issued in my mother-in-law's name. We had a short service life and were not eligible for housing allocation at that time.
In 1997, I was laid off and unemployed, and I got divorced. I am not qualified to divide the property, it belongs to my parents. It was agreed that the man would pay child support, and the twins, a son and a daughter, would be mine. But the man later cheated and refused to pay alimony.
I was laid off, unemployed and divorced in order to survive. I gritted my teeth and suffered hardships, and I suffered all the hardships in the world. Always keep doing things and never take a break.
In 2015, I finally got through and retired honorably, with a monthly retirement salary of RMB 1,367. It increases every year. As of today, the monthly retirement salary is RMB 2,037. I am content and happy. Currently I am living a very comfortable life and receive my pension on time every month. I bought several houses during my layoff. Currently, I have a monthly rental income of 4,500 yuan. The monthly bank deposit interest is more than 7,000 yuan. I have been doing things since I retired and have never been idle. I have always had an income and am able to save money every month. My retirement life is quite happy. Although I am divorced, my single life is quite comfortable. I plan to stay single for the rest of my life and never remarry.
