Be broad-minded in middle age

Suffering never greets people in advance, and it doesn't matter whether you are fully prepared or not.

Yongping County is an ancient city with a history of more than 1,100 years. Yongping County has been a prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River since ancient times. With convenient water and land transportation, unique natural resources, and a thriving industrial base, Yongping County is a paradise for investment, entrepreneurship, and peaceful living in the Yangtze River Delta region.

 Summer nights always come late.

Before getting off work, in a certain office on the third floor of a new but not old office building in the development zone, Shen Yu was sitting in front of the computer and listing the products that the marketing department had decided on at a meeting a few days ago.

 This is a cross-border e-commerce company specializing in Amazon, and it is the only one in Yongping County. The company's performance is pretty good. Before the mask era, monthly sales were more than $800,000. However, after deducting the costs, freight, warehousing fees, promotion fees, unplanned service fees, etc., plus the platform's alarming speed of repayment. Shen Yu estimated that the boss only received about 200,000 US dollars per month.

However, in recent years, due to irresistible problems, the increase in transportation costs and various costs has led to poor performance of the company and a number of employees have been laid off.

Shen Yu, as an old employee who has been with the company for more than 4 years, has often won the best monthly awards for his personal products, so he has naturally kept his position. There are two groups in the marketing department, each operating different products. After three years of hard work, Shen Yu, as a veteran employee with outstanding performance, naturally became the boss of the second team, with three team members: two men and one woman.

In this era where public accounts are full of soft articles, they all say that the entry barrier to the Amazon platform is low, and that the platform makes money, and so and so makes dozens of dollars a year. He also said that Father Ma predicted that the most profitable industry in the future would create a large number of multi-millionaires. Various terms such as making money, side hustle, zero foundation, and transnationalism are used one after another to brainwash ordinary people.

This kind of soft article, promotion and other things, just listen to it. In this era of mobile Internet, anxiety is created and sold everywhere, and then they are tempted to pay IQ tax.

To be honest, Shen Yu could not find a good job because of his poor academic qualifications. I read the ridiculous stuff written by these training institutions, plus the deception of that college roommate from Xishi City. The two excitedly went to Haishi and spent 2,500 oceans on a three-day introductory course on the platform. After the class, Shen Yu finally realized that the things he said were similar to what some bloggers on a certain website said. So, is this being treated as a leek?

 Skip embarrassing topics. Having been in this industry for 5 years, Shen Yu is quite aware of the depth of this industry.

At that time, Shen Yu studied English vocabulary for a period of time, then took 30,000 yuan to enter the industry and selected some household items. I spent a lot of money on positioning and promotion fees, but my business never improved. Later, at the suggestion of my roommate in college, I selected some storage boxes. They sold well at first, but then they were reported for appearance patent infringement. A batch of goods was all held abroad, and the principal was almost lost. Shen Yu once wanted to give up, but he still gritted his teeth and persisted for more than a year.

By chance, Shen Yu's college roommate didn't make much money and was about to leave. When he was looking for a job online, he happened to see this company in Yongping County that was professionally matched, so he recommended it to Shen Yu. Shen Yu came to this new company for an interview with the attitude of giving it a try. Fortunately, Yongping County is a small place and there are few professional people. Moreover, Shen Yu also has work experience, so he successfully joined the company.

Shen Yu only came across that after joining the company, fights between peers are going on every day on Amazon. For example, the story of a store being shut down by a peer who used follow-up software to buy out inventory. Both those who follow the seller and those who are followed want to kill the other party's store. They always report and complain. Either you die or I die. In the end, both sides end up losing. Many people on public accounts only praise how profitable Amazon is and never tell you where the risks are.

So due to various reasons and family reasons, Shen Yu also gave up the idea of ​​​​working on his own and stayed in this company for 4 years.

 7 o'clock in the evening, the time to get off work. General Manager Hao Ren came to the marketing department, "Come on, come on, everyone, be quiet and let me say something." Hao Ren stood in front of the marketing department with a serious face and clapped his hands.

Hao Ren looked around at each work station and saw everyone looking over. He said calmly: "After discussions between my boss and I, the position of the marketing department director has been determined this time."

"Boss!" Zhu Ke, the younger brother at the workstation next to Shen Yu, secretly winked at Shen Yu with excitement on his face.

Shen Yu glanced at him sideways, stretched out his left hand and pressed it in the air, signaling Zhu Ke to calm down, then raised his head and looked at Hao Ren expectantly.

"The candidate for minister this time is Wu Hanlin from a group. I hope that under the leadership of Wu Hanlin, everyone will achieve greater success in the future." Hao Ren cast a vague glance at Shen Yu, then turned around and left expressionlessly.

"Congratulations." "Minister Wu, congratulations." "Minister Wu is indeed as expected." A burst of compliments suddenly sounded from the small marketing department.

"Why, our second team's performance is obviously better." Zhu Ke muttered unconvincedly from the side.

Shen Yu turned to look at Wu Hanlin, and Wu Hanlin happened to look over. Their eyes met, and Wu Hanlin snorted contemptuously and rolled his eyes. Shen Yu bit his back teeth, turned his head, and turned off the computer with an expressionless expression.

Except for Zhu Ke, the other two people in the second group hesitated for a while, then got up and went to Wu Hanlin's side to say complimentary words.

Shen Yu looked at the angry Zhu Ke next to him, gave a wry smile and said, "What are you doing, making it seem like the position of minister is yours."

Zhu Ke whispered angrily: "I'm just avenging your injustice, boss. No matter how he is a person or a person or his performance is not comparable to yours, he treats us with a condescending air and only flatters the manager."

Shen Yu patted Zhu Ke on the shoulder and said: "Take a broad view, the leader also has leadership considerations. Okay, don't be angry, you can also go and have a chat with the Wu Department."

 After saying that, Shen Yu picked up his briefcase and left work.

 After leaving the company silently, Shen Yu felt a little irritable and wanted to go to the general manager to ask why. I usually work so hard, my overall performance is the best in the company, and I usually get along well with my colleagues. Is it because his flattery is not as good as Wu Hanlin's?

 After thinking for a while, Shen Yu sighed, turned around and entered the toilet. Find the innermost stall by the window, close the door, and put down the toilet seat. Shen Yu sat down on the toilet, fumbled around in his bag and took out a bag of hard balls.

 Thinking for a while, he put the stick back into the bag, took out another pack of Red Jinling, took out one, and lit it.

 "Huh?" Shen Yu took a deep breath and calmed down. This job comes to Shen Yu every month. After including commissions for product selection and paying insurance, the average salary is less than 7,000. In Yongping County, this salary can only be said to be neither high nor low. If you are promoted to minister, your salary will almost exceed 10,000 yuan. ˆ

Had it not been for the poor health of my parents and my many years of working experience, I would have gone to sea market long ago. After thinking about how he had to pay close to 6,000 in car loan and house loan every month, Shen Yu could only swallow this frustration in his stomach. He couldn't do without this job for the time being.

"Wu Bu, have you seen today that Shen Yu's face is turning blue with anger." A voice came from the door of the toilet, and Shen Yu knew that it was Wu Hanlin's thug.

Shen Yu gently placed the cigarette butt on the ground and stepped on it with his foot.

"Hahaha, do you know why this minister is me?" Wu Hanlin said in a coquettish voice.

When Shen Yu heard this, he immediately slowed down his breathing and tilted his ears to listen.

"It's not because Wu Bu is very capable."

"No, no, you know, this guy Shen Yu only gives gifts to the manager once every year during the Chinese New Year. It's not like me. I give them to the manager during the holidays. I usually treat the manager to a meal, drink, and wash his feet. Shen Yu takes his head off from me. Fight."

 "Hahaha, Wu Bu is the atmosphere."

"One more thing, let me tell you secretly, our big boss is a friend of my dad's friend."

"Wu Bu, you have to take care of your younger brother from now on."

"Then you have to, follow me and live well, don't imitate Shen Yu's bad student. You can't study like me, your family conditions are not as good as mine, and the gifts are not as expensive as mine. You still want to compete with me, you are thinking too much, haha Ha ha."

Shen Yu couldn't help but clenched his fists in the toilet cubicle. He didn't even feel his nails digging into his flesh, and his back molars were almost broken.

"Wu Bu, I'm so happy tonight, I have to go out and have a meal. How about a favor, and I'll treat you to a light meal?"

"Hey, how can I ask you to invite me? I'll come, let's go, and have a meal."

As the sounds outside became farther and farther away, the temples of Shen Yu's forehead jumped. He took a few deep breaths, but he still couldn't suppress his anger. "A bunch of bitches." Shen Yu spat viciously.

After sitting for a while, Shen Yu sighed helplessly, stood up, and walked out of the building.

Arriving at the parking lot, Shen Yu got into the Lynk & Co 03 he bought with a loan.

Fastened his seat belt, Shen Yu sat quietly in the car, lit another cigarette, and squinted at the office building outside the window.

There are still many lights on in those buildings, and are there a lot of injustices hidden in those lights? But you choose your own path, there is no winning or losing, there is no value or not. Shen Yu knew that he could collapse at night, but at dawn you must withstand the pressure, continue to work hard, and make money.

Shen Yu thought that it was normal to suffer a little and be a little angry when going out to seek money. Compared with those days when there was no job and no money in the pocket, it was worse than anything else.

"Horse rider." Shen Yu gasped and suddenly punched the steering wheel.

No matter how much he comforted himself, Shen Yu still felt that society was impetuous and unfair. He regretted that he had relied on his little cleverness to not take studying seriously at all. During the sprint for the college entrance examination, he read novels and went to Internet cafes every day. So of course, I ended up going to a third-rate university.

　　I think of my father's friend's son, who had a doctorate degree and was snapped up by several state-owned enterprises after graduation.

 Looking at myself again, I was lazy when I was young and eventually became the wall that trapped me in my thirties. Others choose jobs, but I am picked and picked by jobs.

If, if I could have my life over again, Shen Yu would definitely tell everyone, thirty years to the east of the river and thirty years to the west of the river, don't bully young people into poverty.

If a deadline must be added to this expectation, Shen Yu hopes that it will not be that the middle-aged are poor, and the old are poor, and the dead are the most important.

After a moment of relief, Shen Yu took a breath and threw away the cigarette butt. He took out another mobile phone from the glove box, opened the Didi taxi platform, and prepared to see if anyone wanted to take a ride nearby.

 Yes, that's right, I work during the day and run Didi at night. There is no other way. If you don't do some side business, the salary from working during the day will be enough to repay the loan, and there won't be much left. There is no such thing as easy in the adult world.

 Lucky me, there is someone nearby who wants to go to the city. Shen Yu quickly grabbed the order with quick eyesight and quick hands. Start the car, turn on the air conditioner, and follow the navigation.