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At present, there are more than 200 million flexible employment population in our country. It is estimated that this number will double by 2036.
The Ali Research Institute report pointed out that China is entering a new era of gig economy. Particularly under the influence of the epidemic, odd jobs concepts such as online part-time and shared employees have once been on the hot search list of topics.
A survey report on “Part-time Jobs in the Workplace” released by a recruitment platform shows that nearly 40% of people have two jobs or more, of which more than half are post-95 and 00; the middle and lower income groups account for up to More than 80%.
These young people who are crazy about doing odd jobs in addition to their main business are called “slash youth” by the outside world. Money and freedom are two important factors that contributed to its birth.
The Internet is the main force that creates the incarnation of contemporary young people as “slash youth”: on the one hand, the Internet, which does not involve production, creates conditions for individuals to become independent service providers through the exchange of personal skills, knowledge and time; on the other hand, On the one hand, the Internet has changed the way of working organization that could only be concentrated on a fixed time and place in the past, replacing it with a new form of free collaboration.
With the help of the Internet, young people who have a special skill have started to have more choices outside the workplace, such as part-time official accounts, beauty experts, Zhihu answerers, paid consultants, shop illustrators…< /p>
The face-to-face interviewed several young people who have persisted in sideline jobs for many years and have achieved certain results. The following is their oral transcript.
Xie Meng, female, 27 years old, unmarried
A 4-year deposit of one million buys the old and the small
I am from Shanghai, living in a reorganized family. I used to live with my mother and stepfather. There are four children in the family. I also have two younger brothers. My parents are very patriarchal and prefer my younger brothers more since I was young.
Because I am a girl, my mother has always been cold to me, and my stepfather hopesI will leave this home quickly. In this family atmosphere, I once thought of suicide. In the end, I did not commit suicide. I dragged my suitcase and left home with a determined attitude of severing the relationship. I might attend their funeral.
So when I left home, I was mentally prepared: From today on, I am an orphan without a father and no mother. From then on, there is no way out, and everything depends on me.
With such an idea, I naturally dare not neglect to make money. After get off work, when my peers are still shopping and gathering, I will try to do part-time jobs: beauty media, makeup artist, financial management…Although for me, there is no complete rest day, but as long as I have work, I will I feel very lucky.
My main business is working as a clerical job in a private company, and my monthly income is only a few thousand, but my advertising income from the media is several thousand a month. As a makeup artist, it’s basically 400~500 yuan per day. Thousands, as well as being a media, receiving projects, contacting brands and KOLs, and making the difference in the middle, the most one month can also make a small ten thousand.
While open source in many ways, I am also more frugal, so I can save about 20,000 to 30,000 per month. Four years have passed, and one day I suddenly found out that my savings had exceeded one million. That day can be said to be the happiest day in my life.
The house was originally not in my life plan, but after saving to a certain extent, I started to have the idea of buying a house. I am from Shanghai and I am qualified to buy a house. It is relatively easy to buy a house. I spent a long time choosing a house, and the agent showed me several sets. In the end I bought a 54,000 one-square-meter old broken small house:
The house is 30 years old and 40 square meters. I have to repay 8,000 yuan a month. The house is not big, but the transportation is fairly convenient. You can get to the city center Xujiahui within two stops, and there is a new subway 500 meters next to it.
Although I can’t compare with the “big flat per capita” Internet rich people, I finally found a small space of my own, a place where no one came to PUA me and control me.
Buying a house is another important sign of my independence in life. Although there is little entertainment in all kinds of side businesses these years, I don’t regret it at all.
Cheng Jin, male, 29 years old, multiple jobs
“Time can be squeezed out”
After graduating from a 985 engineering department, I followedLi was admitted by a state-owned enterprise in a first-tier city. However, after working for a period of time, I learned that those seniors who have worked for decades have an annual salary of only 200,000.
At this wage rate, you can’t afford to buy a house for a lifetime. I have a strong sense of crisis. If I want to gain a foothold in this city, it is impossible to rely solely on the wages of state-owned enterprises.
There is another direct stimulus that prompted me to do a side job: My girlfriend and I plan to get married at the end of the year, but we both work in state-owned enterprises, and the salary is about 6,000. The other’s family is stubborn about my salary. I always feel that the woman is wronged for following me. My family is poor, and my family can’t support buying a house.
Marriage also means a lot of money. At that time, all kinds of skyrocketing expenses had overwhelmed me. There was only one thought in my mind-I want to make more money.
Later, inspired by a senior, I decided to do self-media, so I wrote about my textual research experience, writing hard every day after get off work. Luck, one answer suddenly burst one day, and I got tens of thousands of praises. Organizations began to come to the door. Some are looking for a certificate for part-time job, some are doing channel diversion cooperation, and some are renting an account.
After receiving an order, I finally made the first net-earned money in my life: it was still a few hundred in June last year. With continuous diligent output, it has been more than a few thousand every month since September, at the peak of the sideline business. , Earned more than 18,000 a month, which is equivalent to more than twice the salary.
Zhihu became my second company. I made almost 8,000 yuan in Zhihu last month. At present, I have successfully surpassed my main business income as a self-media company.
Xianyu is also a side business I am currently trying. There is no need to pay a deposit, no need to burn money for promotion, and no need to advance funds, but the current income is not stable. I have also tried self-media on multiple platforms, but the current income from other side businesses is still very limited.
In addition, I also found a job that can be realized-the paper revision, a single order of several hundred yuan, two or three times a month, it is also a long-term income.
My life is very fulfilling now. After get off work, I continue to write questions and answers on the Internet, do paid consultations, sell things at Xianyu, do promotion and cooperation with many Taobao stores, revise papers, and cooperate with many organizations. Cooperative recommended courses……
These side businesses don’t need to be time-consuming. The common point is poor traffic and information. Seizing these two points, I can do a lot of things. Since September last year, I have almost every day by side income, and the most one day I earn 7More than a hundred. Over the past year as a sideline, he has realized a total of 60,000 in cash.
In the adult world, making money is the happiest.
Army, male, 23 years old, sideline speculation shoes
Half a year earned 500,000
I have always been a fan of trendy shoes. In 2017, I sold the first pair of YEEZY by the price difference. After I tasted the sweetness, I have been selling shoes on the goods.
But frying shoes depends on luck. In the past few years, the shoe market has soared, especially in 2019, with a monthly flow of tens of millions and a profit of 500,000 a year. This industry is always going up and down, and there are losses and gains. I have turned from a shoe arbitrator to a normal sneaker buyer after the shoe-shopping trend receded.
Selling shoes over the years has made me fully aware of the advantages of poor information. I want to convert the influence of sneaker e-commerce platforms into my own influence. In the past two years, I have also made a self-media. There are not many fans, only a few thousand, and it is currently not profitable. I will regularly share trend and wear information, first in order to gather popularity.
My main business is to operate in a luxury e-commerce company. I clock in from 9 to 5 every day, and my department has recently undergone business changes. Going to depression.
I am a person who yearns for freelance work. I really hate working. I even dreamed of realizing wealth freedom through my side business, so that I can fire my boss smartly without having to look at the face of my superiors.
The currency speculation is hot recently. I also used the savings from selling shoes for the past two years to buy a lot of Dogecoin. I made a few thousand dollars before, but then I lost a few thousand dollars after the currency circle plummeted. Once back and forth, it basically means no profit.
It feels that the currency circle is more magical than the shoe circle, and you don’t understand the reasons for the rise and fall of prices. At present, currency speculation can be regarded as a sideline of mine. Although the income of this sideline is extremely unstable, it still takes up a lot of my time.
Besides my main and side business, I am still preparing for IELTS exams. In the next two years, I want to study Marketing in the United States. At present, I feel that my knowledge of the market is still relatively lacking.
My biggest dream is to be able to own my own internet celebrity brand. In the future, I plan to open a Taobao store to realize my dream of dressing and make more money.
My idol is Takashi Murakami, and my ultimate dream is to be like him, to have a real foundation in the fashion field.Trees, people who inspire countless inspiring younger generations.
Xiao Qi, female, 25 years old, two years after graduation
Cumulative deposits of 200,000 yuan in main and side businesses
I majored in chemistry at university. When I was still in school, my teacher said that there was no future in this profession, and I had no interest in this major. There is a lot of free time in college. As a sophomore, I was browsing station B and suddenly saw an advertisement with the title I remember very clearly, “University students can earn more than 10,000 part-time jobs a month”.
At the time, I was in a state of confusion, so I clicked to enter. It is a vocational college that teaches illustration. Fortunately, it’s not a scam company. The teachers at the college are very responsible. I’m online After a few months of study, I can draw relatively simple cartoon avatars.
We were in a training camp. I was more diligent at the time, and I finally got the honor of being an outstanding student. In accordance with the prior agreement, the teacher also helped me find some institutions to take orders one after another. At the beginning, it was only a single-digit quotation, but it was better than not. By painting, I gradually had a living allowance at university.
With these achievements, I once wanted to become a full-time illustrator after graduation, but my mother didn’t like this job, so she hoped that I could find a stable job. In the end, my arm couldn’t twist my thigh. I still listened to her. I got a job in a bank in my hometown, but I still kept the job of illustration.
I will take orders on weekends. In addition to the agency giving me a job, I also cooperated with a merchant on Taobao to become a contract painter and design a portrait of a character. I have been cooperating with this company since work. After a long time, I have become friends with this merchant, and we trust each other very much. As long as there is an order, it will be sent to me.
Although the price of each order is not high, the win is that the quantity is relatively large. Sometimes the busiest month can earn tens of thousands, and this job is not as bad as I thought Stable, the current monthly fixed income is also five or six thousand.
In order not to delay the main business, I allocated my time “7-2-1”, 70% of the time is the “simplest and least difficult” list, and 20% is for “medium salary, taking orders” “Medium difficulty” task; 10% is the hardest but most expensive list.
Weekends are the busiest days for me. I don’t have time to do the workload during workdays. I will also push to the weekends. In addition, I usually spend more frugally. I spend all day drawing on weekends and I don’t have much time to go. consumption. Two years after graduationNow, adding up my main business and my side business, I already have a deposit of 200,000 yuan.
I am still registering to learn a higher-level illustration type. The tuition fee is about 20,000 yuan. If I learn it, the price of billing will be higher in the future, and the income of side business will be more. Compared with many of my peers who are still gnawing on the old, I still have a small sense of accomplishment.
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