Original link: https://blog.devtang.com/2023/06/25/my-19-jobs/
1. Preface
I recently finished reading an interesting book called “I Deliver Express in Beijing”. The author described a total of 19 jobs he experienced.
These jobs are very rich, including gas station/hotel/fast printing shop/supermarket/bicycle shop/bakery waiter, offline/online clothing store/lo-mei shop manager, and of course courier delivery experience in Beijing.
The special thing about this book is that the full text is all real events, and the author’s writing style is not bad, so you can experience 19 kinds of living conditions of grassroots working people at once.
While lamenting that life is not easy, the various unspoken rules and gray parts in each profession also make people feel more real.
Here are some insights.
2. Comprehension
2.1 Gas stations overcharge
The author told a short story about working at a gas station: the attendant at the gas station would deliberately charge more money for customers who took gas coupons, because these people who took gas coupons did not spend their own money, and they were really caught It won’t be too fussy.
This trivial incident exposed everyone’s waste of corporate public resources.
2.2 Diligence or Integration
Another story told by the author is in a hotel: In this hotel where he was an intern, he was laughed at by everyone because he worked harder, because it would make other people not diligent enough. On the other hand, the foreman will not let everyone idle, so if you work fast, you will only do more. In order to integrate into the team, he can only work slowly.
It is not easy to do well in an environment where what you do well affects other people.
2.3 Clothing store
Because they found that others were selling niche clothing, they also went to the source to make the same style. In the end, other competitors were attracted. Everyone slandered each other in order to sell goods, and even fought. In order to ensure the turnover rate, only a little bit is purchased each time, and the business is very hard.
The barriers to competition in offline business are extremely low, and everyone is imitating, and some small innovations and opportunities to make money are quickly fully digested by the competition. In the end, everyone can only earn hard money.
3. Summary
The world is complicated. School textbooks always describe everything perfectly, but the real world is full of imperfections. This book tells us a real world.
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