In the eyes of many locals, a monthly salary of over 1,000 is a very powerful thing, and this is also the dream of most people, but sometimes the reality is often cruel, and many people's dreams are crushed without hesitation.
Lili, the narrator of this article, is no exception. At the beginning, she was crushed by reality without a complete body, but for her, even if she was stepped on to blood and blood, she must live calmly in the wind.
Note: The narrator Gong Lili, a native of Banteay Meanchey Province, is 22 years old and currently works in a Chinese-funded company. At the narrator’s request, she did not post any personal photos. The pictures are all from the Internet.
Fiance suicide cited rumors
16-year-old left home to go to Phnom Penh
In 2014, Lili just turned 16 years old, if there is no accident, she should get married and have children this year, but the fiance came to a scene of true love to the death, and she was unwilling to marry Li. Li, even in order to persuade her family to hang herself, she really left without thinking about it, so Lili's marriage was delayed.
The rural premature married girl
was so troubled, Lili also began to wonder, if her mother decides her next marriage partner, what should she do like this?
Whose girl does not cherish spring, although for Lili, her parents decided early on her marriage, but it does not prevent her from looking forward to the life after marriage, but her inner longing is obviously crushed by reality. .
Although Lili's parents want her to marry early, they are not the kind of people who push her daughter into the fire pit, and her fiance died before she got married. Although it has nothing to do with Lili, there are still rumors in the country.
This time, Lili's mother let Lili choose whether to stay at home and wait for the marriage, or go out to work to earn money.
thought for a while, Lili chose the latter.
So under the arrangement of her mother, Lili came to Phnom Penh with three sisters in the same village. When
just left home and came to Phnom Penh, Lili had only $10 in her pocket, and she regretted it the first day after arriving in Phnom Penh.
I knew it was better to stay at home and wait for the marriage. Now that I run so far, I still don’t have money in my pocket. How to survive is a problem.
But speaking of her first experience in Phnom Penh, Lili did not complain in her words.
“Sister, you can’t guess. When I first arrived in Phnom Penh, I worked as a waiter in a restaurant, specializing in serving dishes for others.”
Lili spent the first two weeks in Phnom Penh looking for a job, but did not Which shop was willing to ask for her, and later my sister from the same village introduced her to a restaurant. The salary of
in the restaurant is not high, and the salary is only 60 US dollars a month. Fortunately, this restaurant has good business and many customers. With tips, I can earn about 75 US dollars a month.
But the worst thing is that the rent is 40 US dollars a month, so in the first two months of coming to Phnom Penh, she shared the rent with a sister in the same village, plus the utility bills cost about 30 US dollars a month, which also led to Lili The salary has only arrived, and it will shrink by half in the next second.
After the third month, Lili rented a room next door to her sister in the same village. With her own small house, she began to formally plan her future. Although the income of about $75 a month for her is already before She didn't dare to think about things, but she had seen the prosperity of Phnom Penh and the spending money of others, so she didn't want to live just like that.
Thinking about changing under the predicament
Learn English and Chinese with her foreign boyfriend
Lili thought about changing the status quo, but she could not find a way to change the status quo, but she had no culture and literacy.
In 2015, Lili made a foreign boyfriend, an Englishman, and the arrival of this Englishman indirectly changed Lili's future. One of
is a pure local who has never gone to school; the other is a serious foreigner. The two chatting together is simply a disaster, the one that Google can't save.
It is obviously impossible for her boyfriend to learn Khmer, so the only way to learn English is to learn English by herself, and the existing boyfriend becomes Lili's English teacher.
For Lili, there is nothing more difficult than learning in this world. Every day after returning home from get off work, she has to talk to her boyfriend in English, and at the same time, she has to recite words like crazy. After two hours, her mind seems to be stuffed. A bucket of paste.
But I have to say that this method is the most effective, at the end of the yearAt the time, the foreign boyfriend was going back to China. Before leaving, he introduced Lili to a new job as a clerk in a foreign company. The advantage of
is that the salary has become higher, 500 US dollars a month, but the disadvantage is also obvious to Lili, that is, this "evil" company turns out to communicate in English at work.
's job in the new company is not that difficult. It didn't take long for Lili to find herself in such an environment. Because of this job, she also knew enough people, and therefore her second boyfriend.
Lili’s second boyfriend is a Chinese, but this man is a scumbag. He has other girlfriends with Lili. When Lili was approached by another girl, she was learning Chinese on the Internet following a video , She could not speak clearly and could not understand most of the vocabulary, so she only remembered the two characters "xiaosan".
was inexplicably lost by the third, Lili felt very wronged. At first she did not believe in these things, but later, facing the iron-clad facts, she had to admit that she, like the other girls, had inadvertently destroyed the feelings of others的小三. The relationship between
ended without a problem. In the next few years, Lili never thought about finding a boyfriend. In her free time, she followed online videos to learn Chinese. From kindergarten courses to junior high school, these courses also helped Lili felt her scalp numb when she mentioned learning Chinese.
"It's terrible, your Chinese is terrible, and the pupils are terrible", this is Lili's only opinion after she finishes learning Chinese.
At the end of 2017, Lili resigned from this foreign company for some reasons and started a salted fish life for two months, but only halfway through the salted fish life, Lili was dragged back to the workplace by a few messages.
was dug into a Chinese-funded company
by a headhunter. The person who contacted Lili was a headhunter who contacted Lili. He said that there was a Chinese-funded company that lacked talents proficient in Chinese, English and Cambodian. Lili at
did not want to work in the past. After all, she knew that even if locals worked in a Chinese company, the salary was not high, mostly around five to six hundred dollars. What's more, because of her second boyfriend, she is still a little bit resistant to the Chinese in her heart, but she can't help but pay high salaries from the headhunters.
If Lili at the beginning was a bun, then after working in a foreign company for nearly two years, she has already transformed into a real "bones spirit". The position given by the headhunter of
is the deputy general manager, and the salary is between 2k-4k US dollars. Specifically, I have to interview in the past. Faced with this salary, Lili is very excited.
After talking with the headhunter, Lili decisively chose to go for an interview. After several rounds of interviews, the Chinese company finally decided on a salary of US$2,500 for Lili. To be honest, this salary far exceeded Lili’s expectations. .
"I never thought that one day I could get such a high salary. The whole person was stupid. I didn't slow down from the company until I got home. When I received the company's offer, I was even more happy. I went crazy in circles at home.” After
's excitement, Lili felt scared. She began to worry about whether she could be qualified for the job and whether she could successfully survive the probation period. With the anxiety and fear in her heart, Lili just rushed. Enter a Chinese company.
For Lili, working in this company is not easy at all. Most of the employees are Chinese, and there are many small groups in the company, not to mention there are people who want to climb up. She is the vice president of airborne. , Obviously blocked some people's way, so at the beginning, the work was extremely difficult, but fortunately she survived.
For her, it doesn’t matter if there is a small group. As long as the work can be carried out smoothly and expected to be completed, she can treat them as if she did not see the small actions below. Moreover, with the perfect ending of various projects, the general manager will treat her more Trust more and more. The competition within the
enterprise is fierce, and the elimination is cruel. Lili sat in the position of vice president and watched the replacement of the staff below. After only two years, the people below were almost half replaced.
has been in the company for a long time, and Lili also slowly realized that the salary of her Chinese supervisors was higher than her own. At first, she felt unfair in her heart, but then she figured it out.
, as a local who has never gone to school, is already a lucky thing to be able to join a Chinese company and get a salary of US$2500 a month. She knows that Chinese people value academic qualifications.Even if the employees in the division are local, the minimum is high school graduation.
Therefore, except for the necessary entertainment, Lili studies at night school at night. For her, studying is the only way for her to control her life.
Lili mentioned that as she learns a lot, the world she sees is different. At present, she is earnestly saving money and plans to go to the UK to receive systematic study after the epidemic has passed.
