has been a civil servant for ten years, bought a small apartment, and suddenly returned to before liberation. Some time ago, I saw people using their trunks as a shopping mall. They could make a lot of money selling some gadgets. I also learned to do it once. But colleagues said that this seemed a bit illegal. I’m so scared that I don’t dare anymore. Dear Toutiao friends, can anyone tell me whether this is a violation of regulations?
I went to school in a rural area and was admitted to the civil service examination in 2012. When I first became a civil servant, I rented a single-room private house in a village in the city. Later, I got married. However, because my family was too poor, I had just started working and didn’t have much savings, so I had to rent a house to get married.
In 2018, I finally paid a down payment and bought a three-bedroom house off plan. However, due to various reasons, the house could not be handed over. We finally completed the work at the beginning of last year, renovated it, bought furniture, and went shopping for Jiafuwei, and moved in before the Spring Festival this year. Finally we have become homeowners.
When I want to own a house, I also need a car. I kept choosing, and finally I settled on Changan Automobile 's new LandoZe pickup truck. Why did I choose a pickup truck? In fact, it was mainly because this car was very practical. It can be used as a car to drive around the city, or as a truck to help parents pull things.
My wife and I are both from the countryside. We usually pull pig feed, chicken feed, etc. at home. If we use a car, it would be too painful to pull it. But this Changan Lantuo pickup truck is very practical, it can pull a lot of things, and it is as smooth as walking on flat ground when running on the mountain roads in the countryside.
On the weekends, you can also make an appointment with a few close friends to bring outdoor equipment and drive this pickup truck for an outdoor outing, which will definitely be popular.
Actually, I have another reason why I am interested in this car that others don’t know, that is, I can use it to achieve trunk economy.
Last year, when I visited Dadukou Ancient Town in Chongqing, I saw rows of cars lined up neatly under the night, with their trunks opened and filled with merchandise. A stall was set up in front of the car with a small lamp. Every weekend, a trunk market is held here, attracting a large number of citizens and tourists.
I asked a vendor, and according to her, she had already made five sales in just ten minutes after the market opened, with a profit of about fifty or sixty yuan.
So when I was buying a car, I immediately took a fancy to this Changan Lantuo, thinking that I could drive it to set up a stall on weekends and earn a little money.
But I know that civil servants are very strict now. However, it does not say that civil servants cannot use their off-duty time to set up stalls, but it also does not say that civil servants are allowed to set up stalls and do small businesses after work.
Alas, it’s really difficult. I originally wanted to consult my colleagues at work, but then I thought about it, what if my colleagues said yes, but in the end I lost money in business, that would be so embarrassing.
I might as well give it a try first and see if I can make money. Otherwise, it would be too embarrassing to tell my colleagues and end up losing money.
After I had this idea, I started looking for sources of goods, but I couldn't choose the right thing. Later, I thought, I might just buy some cornmeal, corn grits, and flour without additives that my parents grind at home to sell.
Regarding business, I only have book knowledge, but only when I face the market do I realize that everything is difficult at the beginning.
But with the attitude of giving it a try, I put the things in the cargo box of the pickup truck and drove the car to the small square in the middle of the community. Anyway, this community is not strictly controlled, and parking can be done everywhere. I wrote some slogans on cardboard and started running the business.
The afternoon here is full of ladies, uncles and some young people exercising and hanging out. My advertising slogan is that I am from our community, my parents are millers in the countryside, and I make flour without any additives.
Soon, four or five bags of ten kilograms of flour were sold. Some glutinous rice grits and glutinous rice noodles are also sold. I also left a WeChat message. Although
only made a profit of twenty or thirty yuan that day, for me, it was already very good. A good start is half the success.
Later I drove a pickup truck to other communities to develop markets. But after working for a while, I realized that it was not that easy. After all, some people felt that my flour had no trademark and no testing, and they were still worried.
But it finally opened up some markets.
Just when I was ambitiously preparing to do something big, a few days ago, my boss called me to the office and interrogated me about my business operations. Although he didn't say I couldn't do it, he didn't say I could do it either.
Alas, this has made me lose my ability. I don't know whether I should do it or not.
I just want to make my life better through my legal labor, but why is it so difficult?
All-purpose headline friends, tell me, is it against the rules for me, a small civil servant, to set up a stall to run a small business during my off-duty time?
Narrated by: Junjun
Organized by: Weibei Qingsong
