Sail across the sea

Chapter 113 I Have an Ideal

Gao Fan carefully counted the food stamps, put them in his schoolbag, and then asked with a smile, "How about it, old man, is this kind of business going to work?"

"It's great!" Wu Zixian said happily, "I made 10 yuan in just one morning. I really never dreamed of it. On the bus back, I was still thinking, it's too easy to make money in business .If you do sales every day, you can earn five to six hundred yuan a month. It’s not a problem.”

"Are there so many?" Gao Fan was taken aback, unable to believe it.

He helped Wu Zixian arrange such a sock selling job before, because he thought that selling socks could make some money, so that Wu Zixian could subsidize his living expenses so that he would not be so poor.

He didn't have a very clear idea of ​​how much money he could make selling socks.He was startled when Wu Zixian said it now.

In this day and age, when a college graduate goes to work, his salary is only 50 yuan a month. How can he sell some socks and earn [-] or [-] yuan a month?
However, Wu Zixian's calculation is indeed correct, even a little conservative.Wu Zixian just carried some socks to sell. If there were some other small commodities, he might not only earn 10 yuan in one morning. Calculated in this way, it is not impossible to make a profit of thousands of dollars a month.

Gao Fan thought about it for a while, and then he was relieved.

There are still very few people doing such things as selling socks in colleges and universities. Wu Zixian is equivalent to running a unique business, so the price can be quoted relatively high, and sales are not a problem.

If more people do the same, the price will definitely not be able to maintain the current level under competition.It is not easy to sell 40 pairs of socks in one morning.

There are two reasons why few people do this business.One is that the atmosphere of the commodity economy in Beijing is not yet strong, and there are few people doing business.The second is that others can't find cheap sources of goods if they want to make them. Gao Fan got these socks through Chen Xingquan's cousin.

In fact, Chen Xingquan's cousin is doing business in Beijing, and his profits are very large. He can earn at least several thousand yuan a month.If Wu Zixian went out to sell every day, with his status as a Peking University student, he could indeed make a prosperous business in the university dormitory, and it would not be surprising to earn five or six hundred yuan a month.

"Why, are you planning to skip class to start a business?" Gao Fan asked half-jokingly, half-seriously, but at the same time he was still a little worried.I have good intentions, don't do bad things, if Wu Zixian becomes addicted to making money and doesn't want to go to school, I will be committing a heinous crime.

In this day and age, university teachers don't care much about classroom attendance.In the eyes of the teachers, those who can come to university are the elites from all over the world, and they are the ones who can be responsible for themselves.These students are willing to come to class, or choose to skip class, and they must have their own reasons.

If they can learn well on their own without listening to lectures, why should the teacher intervene?
If they choose to lie down and give up, that is also a matter of individual aspirations. University teachers don't need to go to class by grabbing students' ears like middle school teachers.

In fact, even at Peking University, there are students who lie flat.

Gao Fan has only been enrolled for more than a month, and he has already heard about some seniors skipping class to play mahjong in the dormitory.These masters don't usually attend classes, but they read books before the exam, and they can still get a passing grade. What can you do to them?
There are also people like Yang Kai who didn't take many classes when they were undergraduates, but in terms of professional skills, they are the best at his level.Several old professors were amazed by Yang Kai's undergraduate thesis. They wanted to accept him as a graduate student on the spot, but he declined.Does the teacher need to worry about whether such a student can attend class?

Just because he knew this, Gao Fan had a little doubt whether Wu Zixian would really want to skip class to do sales.After all, earning 10 yuan a day is very tempting for a child from a poor mountainous area like Wu Zixian.

Wu Zixian shook his head and said: "I really thought about it, but it's just a thought. It's not easy for me to go out to study, so I can't delay my study.

"I thought about it. From now on, I will go out every Sunday to do sales for a day, and I can earn 40 yuan a month. I plan to send 20 yuan home a month, so that my family can send my younger siblings to school. The rest I want to save the money and use it for graduate school in the future.”

"You want to go to graduate school? Didn't you say that you want to find a job with a good welfare unit after graduation?" Gao Fan asked in surprise.

During the sleeping meeting in the dormitory, everyone talked about ideals.No one expressed their desire to go to graduate school, and everyone's ideal is to find a good unit to work.

At present, there is a severe shortage of college students in all units. Every year, hundreds of large units come to Peking University to ask for people. The number of places is several times higher than the number of graduates. Graduates can basically choose their own units.

In this case, who is interested in going to graduate school for a few years.When you graduate from graduate school, someone else has been in the unit for several years, and may have been promoted to be a section chief or deputy director.You have a graduate degree for nothing, and you still have to work under your former classmates. How can life be more depressing than this?
Wu Zixian said: "I said this before. The main reason is that my family is too poor. I have to go to work quickly to make money to help the family. But now, I find that I can make money while studying, so I don't have to rush to work. Actually , I still want to read."

"So that's how it is." Gao Fan understood. Thinking of his own confusion, he asked, "Old Ba, have you ever thought about what you plan to do after finishing your graduate studies?"

Wu Zixian replied without hesitation: "If possible, I would like to stay and teach in school."

"Teaching is a cold shoulder, can you bear it?" Gao Fan asked.

In Gao Fan's memory, it was not until the new century that teachers in colleges and universities were paid relatively better, and becoming a teacher in colleges and universities gradually became a good choice.Counting from now, in the next 20 years, teaching will be regarded as drudgery. Why does Wu Zixian want to stay in school to teach?

Wu Zixian smiled shyly, and said, "Gao Fan, you can't laugh at me when I say it. I know you know a lot, so please help me evaluate it to see if my idea is too whimsical. .”

"Speak." Gao Fan said.

Wu Zixian said: "In fact, when I was in middle school, I had an ideal, and it was precisely because of this ideal that I chose the Department of Chemistry."

"What ideal?"

"I want to study how to synthesize starch from carbon dioxide."

"..."

Gao Fan's mouth was wide open, looking at Wu Zixian, he didn't know what to say for a moment.

(End of this chapter)