My father is a carpenter, and he is very satisfied with his craft. To use my father's words,
"If you have a skill, you won't have to worry about food and drink."
My former boss was a tycoon with a net worth of over one billion. I had a very good relationship with him. Every time I went to his house for dinner, it was he who Cook yourself. The food he cooks is very delicious because he was an excellent cook when he was young.
Every time he said proudly, "Even if I go bankrupt, I can still open a small restaurant and support my family."
This may correspond to the saying,
"It is better to have a skill at home than to have a lot of money."
In recent years, China's economy has developed too fast and the business atmosphere is so strong that people can win without any effort at all without any physical or mental effort. For example, demolition households in big cities can become millionaires by demolishing their houses without having to study or work; for example, real estate speculators can buy a few houses and earn hundreds or tens of millions; for example, entrepreneurs can get a PPT can raise a lot of money by telling stories.
Just dare to speak and do it. As for whether you can do it or not, it is no longer important whether you can do it well.
I grew up and graduated from a technical school. A few years ago I went to Beijing to work as a real estate agency salesperson. More than ten years later, I earned tens of millions by flipping houses.
Since it is so easy to make money, who would delve into a field? Don't talk about others, the same goes for my brother-in-law. Although I have been working in the financial industry these years, I don't just do one business. Basically, I do whichever project makes money.
However, it suddenly stopped working in recent years. It started with the Sino-US trade war, followed by the outbreak of the epidemic, and the era of lying down and winning suddenly passed. First, the money of the demolished households was looted by P2P, and then the houses of real estate speculators were stolen. In the end, the entrepreneurs collectively cooled off. In the past two years, millions of domestic small and medium-sized enterprises have gone bankrupt or are on the verge of bankruptcy, and more than 3 million individual industrial and commercial households have been cancelled.
In the past, every time houses fell, people without houses applauded and cheered. No one cares about the fall in house prices this time. Because whether housing prices fall has nothing to do with most people who don’t own a house. Homeless people don’t care whether they can afford to buy a house. They only care about how to repay Huabei next month and where their work and living expenses will be next month.
It doesn’t matter if houses go up or down, it doesn’t matter if stocks go up or down, it doesn’t matter what movies are playing in cinemas, and it doesn’t matter which new Internet celebrity restaurants open in shopping malls. We only care about whether we can find a job, because we need to eat, even if it is a simple meal.
In this life, it doesn’t matter how you fail, as long as the job is still there.
My brother-in-law is an entrepreneur. Last year, my brother-in-law's company also came to an end like millions of bankrupt companies.
Forced by life, my sworn brother went to work at a securities firm, and his annual income increased from one million to one hundred thousand. Later, because of the meager salary, Yi Ge chose to resign. I originally planned to change jobs to a small private equity firm, but the boss offered me double my salary. As a result, within a month of resigning and going through the process, the small private equity firm collapsed.
So my brother was forced to lose his job again. He interviewed with more than a dozen companies in more than a week, but found nothing. Later, Yi Ge had no choice but to give up. I remembered my father's words, "If you have a skill, you will have no worries about food and drink."
I have skills. I can do two things, speculate in futures and do business. I have been in my career for eighteen years, the first eight of which were as the fund manager of futures private equity fund. I have been doing business for the past ten years.
I chose to do business.
So I recruited two friends to register a new company. This time we adopted light business . We did not hire people or invest money, and relied entirely on our skills and expertise to make a living. The three of them huddled together for warmth.
Some time ago, some netizens ridiculed Yi Ge, saying that it is a sign of incompetence for a man in his forties to go out and submit resumes to find jobs. Those who are capable can definitely find a job by posting on WeChat Moments. In fact, I don't agree. Although I am confident that I have excellent abilities, I know that no boss is willing to hire entrepreneurs.
Because it is difficult for people who are used to being a boss to work part-time, even if they are their own boss, it will be more comfortable.
Brother Yi is happy every day after he has a new company.Although the income is not comparable to before, I am full of hope every day. Some people are born to start a business and will only feel happy if they start a business. Obviously, I am such a person.
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