Thank you for making me so strong

Chapter 3 Returning to China and becoming unemployed

"It's late, it's late, if I don't catch the bus, I'll be late."

Xia Yu shouted, and suddenly woke up from the dream.She bounced off the bed like a spring, put on her clothes with lightning speed, washed her face a few times indiscriminately, wiped it casually, and added hairpins to her hair.

Her heart was already in her throat, and she wished she could rush to the bus stop immediately, so that she would feel at ease when she got on the bus.This is Xia Yu's first day of work after returning from the United States, but she is about to face the danger of losing her job.

It is already 6:20, and Xia Yu has to send the child to the small dining table before 6:7, because her husband was on a business trip yesterday, and he will only be home this afternoon. Be sure to send the children to the small dining table next to the school in advance, and ask the teachers there to help send the children to school on time.

Then before 6:40, Xia Yu had to take the No. 11 bus. Under the premise that there was no red light and the road was not congested, the bus could reach the end at 6:55, and the school's bus stop was Next to the terminal of the bus, the bus will leave on time before 7 o'clock, time is tight, Xia Yu must carefully calculate every minute.

If Xia Yu can't get to the bus stop before 6:55, she has to pay for work out of her own pocket.Because Xia Yu's new unit is in a university town that is more than an hour's drive away from the city, the round-trip fare is more than ten yuan. It doesn't matter once or twice.

Xia Yu shivered, and her heart shrank. Originally, she had set the time to 5:50.But when the alarm clock rang just now, even though his brain gave the command to get up, every limb in his body strongly resisted to carry out the command, and Xia Yu really couldn't get up.

"I will lie down for the last 3 minutes, and I will definitely get up after 3 minutes." She comforted herself, but he turned over and fell asleep again, and fell asleep all at once.

"Beibei, Beibei, get up, get up, mom is going to be late." Xia Yu shook the sleeping child vigorously, unexpectedly, the sudden stroke met the slow doctor, and the child did not cooperate at all.

"Let's sleep for a while, just 3 minutes." The child's eyes have not been opened yet, and he doesn't plan to open them at this time, because he is wandering in dreamland.Generally, children don’t get up until 7:6, so if you ask him to suddenly change his biological clock to get up at 20:1000, he is [-] million unwilling.

"No, you have to get up right away." Xia Yu was so impatient, she roared, and lifted the child's quilt without any explanation.

"Mom, wait for the last minute, okay. Or half a minute, 1 seconds." The sleepy child looked at the angry Xia Yu inexplicably and pitifully, and kept begging. He didn't understand, usually How could a very gentle mother turn into a devil all of a sudden.

"No, I order you, you must get up immediately, or I will cover your face with a cold water towel." Xia Yu was furious and roared loudly, wishing that the child would get up and put on clothes immediately.So she pulled the child up vigorously, and casually put on the clothes that she had found for the child yesterday and placed beside him.

Now the time has passed another 5 minutes. If you can’t get out of the house within 1 minute, you will definitely be late. If you are late for work on the first day, what will the leader think of you?It was originally a probationary period. The so-called probationary period, to put it bluntly, was an observation period. There was a possibility of being fired at any time. It is so difficult to find a job now. If this job fails, Xia Yu really does not know where the next job will be.

Xia Yu is already 36, a woman in her early 20s. She has fair skin, big eyes, a high nose bridge, a medium build, neither fat nor thin, just right.Although she looks similar to a 20-year-old girl in appearance, it is absolutely believed that she is in her [-]s.

But don't you have to write a resume to find a job? The age column on the resume is the most troublesome item for Xia Yu.In terms of knowledge, ability, and appearance, Xia Yu is not bad, but the column of age is a heart problem for Xia Yu, and it is also Xia Yu's most unconfident weakness.The job market is not interested in women of this age. The so-called 40, 50 is the embarrassment of women in this age group in the job market.

If Xia Yu was a few years younger, she would be able to take various job examinations, such as civil servants, college teachers, or other stable occupations. She believes that she has a good chance of winning this kind of examination. good.

However, at her current advanced age, she doesn't even have the qualifications to sign up. If she wants to pay the registration fee for nothing, she won't be charged.She can only find a job outside the establishment, that is to say, she only has the capital to work as a temporary worker.Besides, there are graduate students all over the street, even among the cleaners there are graduate students.Xia Yu's major is liberal arts, finding a job is really difficult.

Where is the job?This is what bothers her the most.She is no longer young, and she no longer has so many unrealistic fantasies like a little girl.A woman in her 30s who has a child is a realistic woman.

Life likes to play pranks. It grinds girls full of fantasy into real women, and makes them know that life is not so easy.In this way, those women will feel awe of life and no longer have the idea of ​​competing with fate.

Xia Yu was a very thoughtful person back then.

When she was about to return to China, Xia Yu thought to herself, wouldn't it be a piece of cake for overseas returnees to find a job?So she delivered the information to the highest university in her city, but after waiting for a long time, there was no reply.

Xia Yu is not stupid, and feels that she needs to adjust her strategic goals. She thinks that the leaders of large units have seen the big world, and their identity as a sea turtle cannot fool them. If you are not too tired from work, you can revise your resume and apply again, but there is still no news.

At this time, she felt very bad. It seemed that the leaders of the small unit didn't buy it anymore, and they also became arrogant.

Xia Yu then adjusted her goal again, changing it to as long as she has a job that is reasonable and similar to her major. Then she spent a lot of time broadcasting on the Internet and submitted countless resumes.

Xia Yu struggles hard for her job.During that time, her biggest job every day was to concentrate on sitting next to the computer, and began to submit resumes desperately. When she saw a unit that she thought was okay, she submitted a resume.Her greatest pleasure is to submit her resume, as if submitting one more resume, she will have one more bargaining chip and one more guarantee for the rest of her life.

In the end, hundreds of resumes were submitted, but almost all of them fell into the sea without any news.

Xia Yu's mood fell from the sky to the ground, and fell to the lowest point. Her mood couldn't be worse. She had to accept the reality that the sea turtle would be unemployed. Although she was very helpless, she didn't want to accept her fate.Every day after her husband goes to work and her child goes to school, she faces the empty house and sighs sadly, why is my life so empty and lonely?
Xia Yu is no longer a fledgling young man, and has passed the age of daring to despise all difficulties, fighting against the sky and the earth, and having endless fun.Just a few months ago, she was still racking her brains to find a well-paid but leisurely job, only to find that the gap between ideal and reality was so wide.

The reality is far crueler than imagined. Now there are too many monks and too few people. She is not a high-level talent, let alone has a foreign degree. She can't find a good job, and she is unwilling to do a bad job.

If there is no miracle, it will be difficult to have great development in the future, and there will be no bright future. You can only be a small citizen without a job.This is the truth that Xia Yu suddenly realized one night after returning to China. That night, she was lying on the bed sullenly, and suddenly she had a flash of inspiration, and finally realized that she was nothing but a tiny person like sand. Little man, knowing this, she was desperate.

During this period of turmoil and running around, failures and obstacles everywhere have deepened this despair.

Although Xia Yu feels that she is very capable, she feels that she was born at the wrong time and the reality is very severe. She can only design her future life according to the living standards of a small citizen, and be a small person with peace of mind. Her first job in the future is to earn a living.

At first she prayed for a rich and comfortable meal, but now she changed it to, to live in order to have something to eat, don't be hungry, as long as you don't starve to death, and then hope that the family will not be destroyed by external factors.

Maybe this is the goal of life in the future, although it is very humble, but it is also the goal, this goal makes Xia Yu feel unwilling, but helpless.

But at present, if you want to find a job that depends on your face, people will not show you face. If you are ready to be exploited, they will not exploit you. Tragedy, what a tragedy, Xia Yu scolded in her heart, can I even be exploited by others? Is there no value in human exploitation?Don't I have a chance to see people's faces?

Xia Yu spent the whole day gloomyly sending out job resumes to the computer, feeling more and more helpless.

In order to work, Xia Yu really racked her brains and tried everything, but she didn't make much progress. Suddenly, one day, a flash of inspiration came to her mind, and she thought of a brilliant idea.

Why not ask a friend to help you find a job?Although it is very embarrassing to do so, but in reality, people laugh at the poor and not at the prostitutes, how much is the face worth?Now that I have no job, I have to let go of my face before I can start a new life.

When you are down and down, get in touch with your former classmates, maybe you will get unexpected gains. This is also a kind of network resource that you don't need for nothing.

So, Xia Yu took out the overnight record, and carefully looked through the list in the address book. These were all the most familiar strangers, who hadn't been in touch for many years.

Xia Yu looked at these people repeatedly, thinking about the possibility of which noble person would help her.

Her eyes stopped on Wang Zhan. Xia Yu remembered that when she was in school, the two were at the front and back desks. Wang Zhan's grades were far inferior to Xia Yu's. Xia Yu had always disapproved of him in her heart, but the relationship on the surface was not bad. .

After graduation, there were not many contacts, but there was a class reunion, and the two met again.

At that time, Wang Zhan was incredible. Xia Yu chatted with him a few words, and felt that this kid seemed to have really developed.

She suddenly remembered a few lines from an ancient poem: Thinking back to the time when Gong Jin was young, Xiao Qiao was married for the first time, and she was majestic and heroic.Feather fans and scarves, while talking and laughing, masts and sculls are wiped out in ashes.

Now Wang Zhan also has the same kind of virtue. After a few glasses of wine, he starts to spit and talk about it.

Wang Zhan first shouted loudly that he was tired, how could a capable person like him not be tired?

He said that without paying attention, he became the boss of a company with thousands of employees, and his annual income was very high.Most of the time of the year is spent flying around the country negotiating projects, eating and lodging in the most high-end hotels in the local area, and contacting big shots with personal assets of tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or billions of millions, There are not many days at home throughout the year.

When Wang Zhan vomited, the students around him had different reactions, some were envious, some were jealous, and some outright hated.

Although Xia Yu despised his bragging and not paying taxes in his heart, on the surface he acted as if he was listening and admiring him.

A man has a good face, so let's give him a little face. In fact, in this world, who is convinced?

After the party, Wang Zhan made a phone call, and indeed a full-time driver came to pick him up in a luxury car, and under the envious eyes of everyone, he proudly drifted away.

After returning, Xia Yu was very emotional, it can be said that after three days of farewell, people should look at each other with admiration.

Do you want to ask Wang Zhan for a solution?

Xia Yu planned to get close to Wang Zhan first, to close the relationship between the two, and then ask him to find a job with him.Since he is also the leader of a department, this matter is not a big deal to him.

But what if he refuses?Xia Yu began to hesitate again.

"Take a dead horse as a living horse doctor. If you don't try it, how will you know the result? Besides, he refused, and it's not easy for him to lose a piece of flesh. What are you afraid of?" Xia Yu comforted herself.

So, Xia Yu bit the bullet and called Wang Zhan.

The phone kept singing, but no one answered. Xia Yu was very nervous, and she didn't know whether to continue. When she was hesitating, she didn't think about it, and someone said over there: "Who are you looking for?"

"Hello, I'm looking for Wang Zhan." Xia Yu's voice was a little low, and she had to bow her head when she asked for help. She had no psychological advantage.

"I am, who are you?" With a rich and powerful voice, although Xia Yu didn't see him in person, thinking about it with his toes, he knew that he was very aura.

"I'm Xia Yu, can't you hear me?"

"Which Xia Yu?" People really didn't hear it.

"How many Xia Yu are there?"

"I'm sorry, I thought it was a colleague from the unit who called? Why did you think of me? What's the matter?" Wang Zhan's voice suddenly warmed up, which was a good sign for Xia Yu.

"I can't think of you if I have nothing to do?" Xia Yu wanted to get to the topic quickly, but her mouth was disobedient.

"Haha, I'm very happy. When the time comes, some of our classmates will get together and I will be the host."

"Okay." Xia Yu thought to herself, don't you just want to show off that you can get away with it?If I hadn't asked you something, I wouldn't have bothered to eat your meal.

"Old classmate, I heard that you went abroad to make a fortune, which multinational company are you working as the general manager now?"

"I'm ashamed to say that I'm down and out now. I just returned to China and I don't have a company yet. How can I get rich?" The next sentence was, see if you can help me find a suitable job in your company?But Xia Yu struggled for a long time, and she didn't have the nerve to say it. The words spun around her lips several times before she swallowed them back.

"You are just a tiger in peace, everything is temporary, and there will definitely be a day of prosperity in the future. You see, you see, I happen to be on a business trip right now, and I have to go out to meet a customer, otherwise, we Come here first, and wait for me to go back, treat you to dinner?"

"You're too polite, I'll treat you when the time comes." Xia Yu heard that he wanted to hang up the phone, so she hurriedly said politely. She had an intuition that unless she called him again, Wang Zhan would not call.Even if you call him again, he may not be answered.

With Wang Zhan's shrewdness, he must understand why people who have not been in contact with him for so many years suddenly appear, otherwise he would not have gotten to this point.

Xia Yu has also analyzed before that people who have not been in touch all of a sudden appearing suddenly are not as nice as he said. They cherish friendship and miss friends.

A friend who pops up out of nowhere is usually due to two reasons. First, he is doing well. I want to tell you that he is now proud of his career and has returned to his hometown.The second reason is that he is not doing well, remembering what kind of connections you have, and he wants to ask you for help.

Wang Zhan heard that the sudden appearance of Xia Yu belonged to the second point, so he started to play tricks.

As Xia Yu expected, Wang Zhan never contacted her again.

Xia Yu felt that she had committed the old habit of seeking swords in every boat, thinking of others as they were back then, thinking that the two of them were still classmates.

But he forgot one of the most important axioms, friendship is built on the basis of mutual use, now Wang Zhan is already a boss with more than a thousand people, and he has already degenerated into the lowest level of society's unemployed vagrants. The disparity is too great, you are of no use to others, and they will definitely not treat you.

It seemed that the way to seek help from acquaintances was blocked again, and Xia Yu was naturally hit hard again, her heart was ashamed, and her eyes were dark.

It is also a road that never ends. Xia Yu was in despair when she suddenly found an invitation letter in her mailbox, inviting her to the school for an interview.

Xia Yu has already sent out countless job application brochures, and she doesn't know when this unit contacted her. Everything is not important, the important thing is the success of the interview.

Xia Yu was elated, she was unequivocal, pulled herself together, picked up her backpack, and set off immediately.

She adjusted the GPS on the car and ran all the way, driving hard, but she couldn't reach the destination because the unit was too far away.

The more Xia Yu drove, the colder her heart became.Finally, she drove for an hour and a half, and after passing a toll booth, she finally came to this unit.

God, this unit is so far away from home.

Xia Yu calculated that if she really went to work here, it would take 3 hours just to go back and forth by car.8 hours of working time a day, plus three hours on the road, there is a lot of time spent outside in a day.When you get home, you will be very tired. How can you have time to take care of your family and children?

Xia Yu was a little hesitant, but when she thought of the hardships of finding a job, she was very conflicted. It was better to have a job than to have no job. Now that she had just returned to China, she had to do something in advance, riding a donkey and then looking for a horse. If you look for another job, if there is a suitable opportunity in the future, it is not too late to change jobs.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu made up her mind to perform well and try to earn a living.During the interview, Xia Yu tried her best, showing no tension on the outside, talking freely, and trying her best to perform.

She worked hard to convey this message to the teachers in the personnel department, my major is very good, my strength is very strong, if you don't use me, you will definitely regret it.

Xia Yu's performance was considered a success. The examiner was very satisfied with her eloquence, thought she was thoughtful, quick-witted and quick-witted. Looking at Xia Yu's work experience, she made a decision on the spot and admitted Xia Yu.

The leader told Xia Yu that although the unit is far away, there is a shuttle bus, so there is no need to worry about travel expenses.

After hearing these words, Xia Yu felt relieved. The round-trip fuel fee plus the toll booth fee for driving her own car was not a small amount in a month.

Now that the unit has a shuttle bus, it is much easier to handle. She feels that a big pie has fallen on her head, and she has picked up a big deal for nothing. Still happy.

Although this job is far away, it is not easy to come by. In addition, the salary is more than adequate for food and clothing, so Xia Yu cherishes it very much. It is easy to find a place to stay, and she does not want to lose the opportunity.

"Okay, okay, I'll get up now." The child had no choice but to reluctantly get up from the warm bed.

"Why are you dressing so slowly? Mom doesn't care about you. You'll be late soon." Xia Yu said sternly, so she couldn't help but say, like a magician, she put the clothes on the child's clothes indiscriminately. On the body, the child has not yet woken up, and the clothes on his body have been put on.

Xia Yu picked up the packed schoolbag, put it on her back, led the sighing child and flew out of the gate, sent the child to the small dining table, and then went straight to the bus stop. She had to take a bus for 5 stops to get to the bus stop .

I don't know if I can still catch the bus?Xia Yu was so anxious that she wished she could put on her wings and fly to the shuttle bus point.

(End of this chapter)