Poverty in the early 20s can be the best period of appreciation

On that day, I went shopping with my friends. I proposed to go to the barbecue together after the end. Xixi was very happy to say "good", and Xiao Xiao’s reaction with the aunt was very dull. I thought they had other thoughts and said, "If you don't want to eat barbecue, can we go to eat something else, or do you have other arrangements at night?"

Xiao Yan hesitated for a while and said: "The barbecue we like, it is only at the end of the month. I have nothing to do with the aunt."

Auntie said: "I still have more than 100 yuan on my body. Today, I will pay wages next Friday. I have to pay the salary day. When I receive the salary, let's have dinner again, otherwise I will have no money to eat next week. ""

I said, "Let's go eat something simple."

Generally speaking, the office workers are very poor at the end of the month. For those who have just graduated from work in the early 20s, it is easier to be destitute at the end of the month. Xiao Yan and Auntie, a born in 1993, born in 1994, are all graduates of 2019. The monthly salary of Xiaoyan is 3,000 yuan, and the aunt is slightly more, 3,500 yuan per month. People who have lived in the city of Shanghai know that more than 3,000 yuan a month, really only enough to eat, but also to save more.

Later, we went to eat an affordable dark dish - Chongqing Mala Tang. Xiaoyan and Auntie were sitting in the store and feeling very low. Every month, the money was not enough. I was too embarrassed to ask for help at home. Fortunately, the company was wrapped up. Otherwise, I really don’t know how to spend it. Every time I go shopping and pick clothes, then the beautiful, re-hearted clothes, as soon as I see the price tag, I immediately dismissed the idea, I can only find the same paragraph on Taobao.

Relatively speaking, my economic situation with Xixi is better. After all, I work longer hours, have deeper qualifications, and my salary is naturally higher. But we can fully understand their feelings, because when we graduated, we were as poor and destitute, and we lived the same life every month without looking forward to the stars, not expecting the moon, and only looking forward to the dear financial manager.

I don’t want the low pressure on the table to continue. Sisi encourages them. It’s normal to just graduate from a poor place. We were very poor at that time and may be poorer than them. But as long as we work hard, the salary increase is very natural. Things.

In 2019, it was the poorest year in West.

At that time, she was in the graphic design of an advertising company specializing in auto shows. The contract was signed at 3,000 yuan, but in fact, she only had 2,000 yuan per month, and she had to pay 400 yuan per month to live in the grid. In the same group of rented houses, all the assets have only a 24-inch suitcase.

Every day, people in the same department happily discuss what to eat at noon today, and when to go to the restaurant to pull the grass tomorrow, it is her most silent time. She always glared at everyone, didn't pay attention, sneaked off, went around the back of the company's community, walked through a slender, narrow, dirty little street and walked to a row of dark dining streets.

That year, she ate the most in Lanzhou Ramen, Shaxian snacks and Mala Tang. Every meal at noon was controlled within 10 yuan. In the morning, it is slightly nutritious. In the "family", I buy 2 steamed buns and 1 cup of soy milk. In the evening, if you are not hungry, try not to eat anything, or use cucumbers and tomatoes instead.

At that time, what she was most afraid of was the gathering of one or two hundred colleagues per capita, because I was afraid that everyone would say that they were not gregarious. At first, they also appeared symbolically once or twice. Every time after that, she made an excuse to push it off.

But also in that year, she learned a lot of money-saving cheats.

For example, at 9:00 in the supermarket, the vegetables and cooked foods are the cheapest. Which supermarket has a high discount on daily necessities, which brand of cosmetics will be promoted at what time, buying clothes is always bought off-season, Taobao I have collected a number of high-quality and inexpensive boutique shops. There are many treasures in the family that are redeemed.

Also in that year, her cooking skills broke into the air. The one that used to cook instant noodles and fried rice at home, learned to cook and simmer soup, because it is usually saved, it is all junk food such as waste oil and instant noodles, so she will do it every weekend. Two elements, occasionally licking a soup and supplementing the body.

She knows very well that once she gets sick, she will spend more money, so she will work very hard to kill the opportunity to get sick, take medicine and spend money. She also began to exercise, taking three days a week to go to the playground of a school near the community to run a few laps. If she does not work overtime on weekends, she will play badminton.

This year is the fifth year of Xixi's work. Now, she can easily go to any gathering of friends, because she has the confidence to pay the bill no matter what the occasion. When shopping for clothes, you can pay more attention to the material, style and upper body effect of the clothes themselves, instead of looking at the price tag every time before deciding whether to try on it, you can live in a convenient transportation and quiet environment. Very comfortable single room. The fixed assets of the family have also become the N bags, N+1 clothes, and a bunch of foreign language design books since the first year of Shanghai.

She said that she has always been very grateful for the poor days.

Poverty is like a rigorous and conscientious teacher who pushes herself to learn a variety of life skills and teaches her to live better and take care of herself. Poverty is like a shadow of a city, constantly sneering with hard conditions, making her work harder and make more money.

In 2019, it was the third year of my official work. In Shanghai, I am still only a poor person who lives on a monthly salary and has no deposits. Fortunately, compared to the one that was just graduated, the life is more fulfilling and the place to live is more and more comfortable.

In the summer of 2019, when I first came to Shanghai to find a job, I lived in a boarding life. I stayed in my cousin's house for a few days this week, and I spent a few days in a friend's house next week.

After signing the labor contract, I lived in the staff quarters, a small compartment of less than 5 square meters, which has only one bunk bed and a very small bedside table. The only wardrobe is my own online material. .

In the second year, the salary went up a bit. I was able to go out and rent a house. I shared a room with my friend and two people slept in a bed.

In the second half of last year, after changing jobs, I changed to a new residence. The current house is a three-bedroom apartment of about 120 square meters, and three people share it. My room is a master bedroom of about 20 square meters, desks, bookshelves, wardrobes, beds, etc., there are some, and there is a bay window that I like very much. I often sit there on weekends, reading, thinking or daze.

Recently, with a new plan, I plan to re-plan the bay window and open up a space to plant flowers and plants.

And all these changes are stimulated by poverty.

I remember once, two weeks before I was paid, my wallet was only 17 yuan and two cents. That month, I was poor and stumbled and had no money to eat. I asked my friend to borrow 500 yuan.

Another time was at the end of the month. All the cash I had with Xiao Wei added less than 300 yuan. The family was so poor that even the paper towels were gone. We had to go to the supermarket to purchase daily necessities.

I took a "Vida" without thinking through the brain. Xiao Wei quickly handed me a "breeze". Use this, it is cheaper than two yuan.

I said, "You are so smart, and saved a huge sum of money for me."

Just then, a white Fumei floated around me, looked at us, rolled her eyes, twisted her head, licked her ass, and left.

Xiao Wei said: "Well, the two of us were despised by Bai Fumei."

At that time, we told ourselves that we must work hard and make money hard. Otherwise, we only have to pay for the money on a few dollars. We must work hard and find a way to get a raise. Otherwise, we can only finish the tour. Baohe can't finish the goods.

Because of poverty, because I don't want to rely on my family, I work very hard and work overtime.

Because poor, more profoundly understand that money can not bring you everything, but when necessary, it can give you the dignity you deserve, so trying to make money is a particularly justifiable thing.

Later, we spent a lot of time rethinking why we are so poor?

low wage? HR littering money? The boss is stingy? No! These are not the root causes. The reason why we are so poor is because we can't do our best. We don't have the bargaining chip with HR and the boss, and we don't have the ability to jump to another job.

Some people have the foresight. After entering the workplace, they will continue to recharge their studies and improve their professional skills. They will quickly seize the opportunity to get promoted and raise their salary. They will not be poor. Some people have endurance, can master new skills through a period of accumulation, precipitation, develop sideline business, earn extra money, they will not be poor. There are still some people who dislike their low wages and poor treatment. They simply resign and do business. They have started their own businesses and gone to business. After a few years of hard work, they have their own world, and they are even less poor.

Therefore, if you are in your early 20s today, you will be in a tight schedule. Congratulations, this is life reminding you, stop and calmly think about it, measure yourself a few pounds, then recharge your studies, improve yourself and learn new skills. If you are afraid of poverty because of poverty, and you are only a little idle on weekdays, you just want to save it, and you are reluctant to spend it. Then you are very wrong. Money, like water, is more active when it comes in and out. In the early 20s, you must learn to save money in case you need it. In the early 20s, you must learn to spend money, learn to invest in yourself, and constantly improve your ability, quality and workplace competitiveness. This is the king.

Because the best investment is to invest in yourself, the smartest way to make money is to earn money while improving your ability.

After thinking about this, Xixi began to look at the foreign language design book and the design website of Gao Da, and there was nothing to ponder the master's work there. Without any suspense, her taste is getting higher and higher, and the design she has done is getting better and better.

If you have been in the circle of advertising for a long time, you will know that if a person's ability is really strong, then he must have a lot of opportunities to take private activities, because even if he does not look for it, others will take the initiative to find him. Not just advertising, it’s the same in many industries.

After the design level was improved, Xixi took advantage of the private work outside, from a poster and a logo design, to cover all the design of a campaign and a full VI design of a brand. The balance of her bank card has been showing an intermittent and leap-forward growth trend, and she has lived a happy "proletary class" life in my mouth, and accidentally entered the ranks of Bai Fumei.

And I, naturally, took a lot of effort, set off the English that was abandoned for a long time after graduation, and did some part-time translation.

In addition, I also found a lot of 4A advertising company training materials and proposals PPT from the Internet, and bought a lot of advertising and planning books, spent a period of time to improve their skills in making PPT, making proposals and writing solutions. The ability to imitate the classic case of the master, and gradually have their own style.

Later, I knew that I had more friends in the planning of the copywriting. With many jobs to find the door, I started to write plans for others, such as the opening ceremony of the store, the annual meeting plan of the company, the plan for the promotion of new products, etc. Wait.

Another time, my friend asked me to help him with the proposal, so I took the fake identity of a senior staff member of a well-known public relations company, participated in a proposal in English, and won a convention with a very high budget. After that time, I developed a new money-making skill, that is - when the proposed gunner.

In 2019, my latest development of earning extra-fast skills is of course writing. Now I am dreaming that I will one day be able to live a happy life based on the cost of articles and readers.

"Zhou Yi·Derivation of the Biography" said: "The poor is changing, the change is the same, the general is long" The original interpretation is that the development of things to the extreme, it is necessary to change, after the change will make the development of things unimpeded Things can continue to develop. I think this passage can be interpreted in the context of this article:

The more you fall into poverty, the more you need to know how to adapt, and you must try to increase your skills. When you improve your ability and become successful, you will naturally make money, and the more you can make money, the more you will be. The higher.

Poverty is the situation setting that allows college students who have just left school and entered the society to have a deep sense of crisis and panic. It can stimulate you to reflect on yourself: Why am I so poor, my ability is too poor, my accumulation is not enough, or it is fundamental. Wrong into the line? It also best promotes you to constantly improve your professional skills and develop new professional skills.

As long as you work hard and be smart enough, all the embarrassment caused by poverty will become a short episode on the road of struggle.

Don't be afraid, poverty in the early 20s is only a transition period, and poverty in the early 20s can be the best period of appreciation. Every ordinary family child comes this way.