within Temptation

Chapter 10 Finding a Job

After breakfast, my mother tidied up and left home for the South Bus Station, where she took a long-distance bus to City C to handle Aunt Qi's funeral and pick up her daughter.After I estimated that my mother had already gotten into the car and drove away, I called and told my sister about it.

While shocked by the news of Aunt Qi's death, my sister really strongly opposed bringing this burden home.It is said that my family and Aunt Qi's family are just friends, so why should I take the responsibility of taking care of their daughter?Are all the relatives in their family dead?Even if it is dead, then there is still the government!Our family is already in a difficult situation, why do we have to ask for trouble and bring back such a blind man who can only eat but can't work?
My sister is like this, no matter what she does or thinks, she is very realistic.My mother also knew my sister's temper, so she did it without her consent.Moreover, my mother asked me to tell my sister about it, but it was actually with good intentions.She knows that at home, the relationship between me and my sister's siblings is much better than the relationship between her and my sister's mother and daughter.My elder sister has a straight temper and a violent personality. When encountering unpleasant things, no matter who it is, even with my mother, she will quarrel and quarrel, and she is not polite.But the only exception is probably me.My sister and I have had a deep relationship since we were young. My sister will always let me get it first if there is something delicious or fun.Sometimes when I got into a big disaster, my mother would be sad and cry alone in the room, while my father would be so angry that he would pick up a stick and beat me.At this time, my sister will stand up to protect me and protect me under her body.Because of this, when I grew up, I was so willing to do my best to help her.Even if I live frugally, I want my sister to live a better life.

My mother understands that it is more appropriate for me to tell my sister about this matter than for her to say it herself.I also understand what my mother means. She wants me to persuade my sister to accept this fact as much as possible.

So, on the phone, I tried my best to persuade my sister for a long time, and it was useless to talk to her repeatedly.Don't you and I understand our mother's temper?No one in the world can change her mind about what she is determined to do.Instead of arguing with her old man about this matter, we should think about how we can arrange after that blind girl moves in, so as to reduce the pressure of our own life as much as possible.

Under my good talk, my sister finally accepted this reality.But she still said that when her mother came back, she would have a serious talk with her.It's okay for this girl to take her back to live, but she can't just eat and not work.You are blind, but your hands and feet are still flexible, right?In the future, I will find a way to find her a job that a blind person can do, so that at least I can have an extra income to support the family's expenses.

I sighed, knowing that my mother would never agree to this, but now I can't persuade my sister to give up the idea.Now it is not easy for her to accept this blind girl reluctantly.Let's talk about the future.

Put down the phone, this matter is over.I took out a cigarette, lit it, and started to think about my own work again.

By tomorrow, everything will probably come to fruition.People like me will most likely be kicked out by the management of the new company, who will give me a severance package and let me go to work on my own.And the amount of this severance pay will not be very large, at best it is my original basic salary for one or two months.This little money can only guarantee my living expenses within a month.By next month, I may not even be able to guarantee my cigarette money.

well!Life is hard!Without work, everything will be more difficult!Although I have already asked Sun Dong to help me look out for a new job, but I myself can't just wait at home and think of a solution.Taking advantage of the fact that there is no one at home, I plan to go out and visit the talent market.Or if I'm lucky, I see a passable company recruiting people, so I can try to apply for it.

In fact, I am in good health and have strong hands and feet. It is not difficult to find a job that can support me.But helplessness is helpless, my mother is a person who admits death, thinking that only sitting in an office as a white-collar worker is a job that will not humiliate the ancestors.All other jobs that rely on strength and sweat in exchange for living expenses are not what her son should do.I really don't know where she got this idea, and I can't do anything about it.

If I went back to my old job and continued to work as a delivery boy or a construction worker, my mother would absolutely force me to quit again.Maybe, she will take out the little emergency money she left after she worked so hard to save and save, and spend it on my behalf to beg for help and find a decent job.This is definitely something I don't want to see.

Therefore, for the sake of my mother, I must continue to be a white-collar worker and find a job that is at least as good as my current job.In this way, even if my mother finds out about my being kicked out by the new company, it won't worry her too much.

Pushing the only semi-new bicycle in my family, I left home and came to the talent exchange center located in the development zone.Although it is Sunday, there are still people coming and going here.Many people are young people like me, some even younger than me.They are either full of longing, or slightly anxious, and they all have one goal: to find a job here that can satisfy them or solve the problem of eating.

Also because it is Sunday, there are not many units that come here to openly recruit talents.I walked around slowly, and only saw three or four companies or factories setting up positions here to recruit people.There are a lot of people looking for work, and there are already long queues in front of these three or four units.I have looked in the past, and basically all require a college degree or above.That alone counts me out.

So, I slowly walked to several employment agencies.I looked at the companies that were recruiting under the name of the company. Most of them were recruiting laborers. Even if there were a few recruiting clerical personnel, they all required very high academic qualifications.I am a high school graduate, so I don't even have the qualifications to apply for a job.

In this way, until noon, I did not see a white-collar job that I hoped to get.I was hungry, so I found a small noodle restaurant near the talent exchange center, and spent four yuan to eat the cheapest ramen.

However, when I was eating ramen, I suddenly felt that there seemed to be a gaze that kept watching me.I turned my head and saw a woman who looked a year or two older than me sitting across a table.On the table in front of her, like me, was a bowl of noodle soup. It seemed that she was also a customer who came to this noodle restaurant for lunch.

As soon as I looked over, the woman immediately looked away, lowered her head and started eating ramen.I took a closer look at her and found that I didn't know this woman.Then why was she staring at me just now?Am I handsome?

(End of this chapter)