"The Maid" is an American drama about the days of struggle at the bottom

As a "middle-class" woman living and unemployed in Europe and America, I spent two nights watching the TV series " Maid ".

's bottom-level inspirational stories are always attractive, especially when the protagonist is still a beautiful young woman. The director always likes to shoot with the heroine's face, so that the audience can see various tastes of life from her expressions.

The cost of trial and error for poor people is always high. Let us see in TV dramas that the heroine loses her hard-won home again and again, and is lucky enough to be accepted by kind people, family members or government welfare agencies again and again. . Although it was difficult, she was able to get up and be brave from beginning to end, and finally be able to re-realize her college and writing dreams. After the story ends?

I saw that the original author of the story, Stephanie Land, after her reading career, wrote her personal experience into a novel, which became a bestseller, and later the book was turned into a TV series and presented to you and me, which is why we know the story. The female employer of the rich and emotionally frustrated heroine in the book, a successful barrister, one day, emotionally frustrated, said to the heroine that only work will not abandon you.

reminds me of one of my tenants from the United States. She is a Chinese mother who is on vacation all over the world, and she manages her own business with her husband. When I told her one day that I was saving money and wanted to achieve financial freedom, she asked me a very common and sharp question: Do you think that saving money can achieve financial freedom? Her own example taught me that true financial freedom can only be achieved through entrepreneurship. She told me that her husband and herself were both college students at the time (the very top ones), and later her husband worked in the United States and got a promotion and a raise, but when he reached middle age, he encountered a career ceiling, and in a fit of rage, I came out to do business by myself. Now the Amazon online store has been in business for more than 10 years, and I can play around the world without delaying my business. She told the story of her daughter: programmer , working from home, working at the first job until 6 pm every day, going to the gym to exercise, and then continuing to work until late at night for the second job.

I'm kind of blown away, maybe that's what the American elite looks like. I used to work so hard: I just arrived in Paris as a au pair , but I was fired by my employer within a month, and I lost my residence and job overnight. I learned French by myself in China for half a year to no avail. When people are normal When I spoke to me at a speed, I couldn't understand at all, and my French was stumbling. I remember trying to stop the child I was taking care of from playing on the side of the road, and I couldn't even say "stop". They can only be stopped by hand like a mute. On the day of my displacement, fortunately there was a boy from French Belonging Island I just met who was willing to take me in. I lived in his house for a month free of charge, but I had to pay a management fee of 10 euros per day for his property. Until later I found a small room of my own, next to the tower. There is no elevator on the 8th floor and the roof is sloping.

It was 2010, and that's how I defined time. One day, if you don't eat or drink, it costs 100 yuan. I just graduated and worked as a foreign trade company for a month, and the salary I earned was not enough for me to live in his house. Because I don't know French, I can't find decent jobs for French people. On the second day of my stay, I started to put up my job advertisements on Chinese websites. My first part-time job was a buyer, going to luxury stores to buy bags. While those salesmen happily handed me the bags, I was figuring out which fake ID to give when giving the address for a while. It's not in my nature to deceive. At that time, my wish was to have a stable job like this salesman, without worrying about the next day's rent and where to earn food. When

first came to France, I was really upward and self-disciplined: I did various part-time jobs hired by the French: phone card salesman, supermarket cashier, Chinese tutor, airport duty-free shop salesperson, Galeries Lafayette salesperson, Airport duty-free shop investigator. When I was a graduate student at that time, I had the opportunity to do an apprenticeship, working in a company and studying at the same time. But because there was a test fee of 70 euros for a certain exam, I gave up the application. My friends and I only went to the next restaurant in half a year. During the festival, because I didn’t know how to book in advance, I didn’t seem to have eaten the hot pot restaurant with spicy crab pot bottom that I had been reading for a long time. Not once on the subway I will not open my French tabloid to read the newspaper and learn French.

was very hard when I thought about it now, but I didn't think so at that time, because there was a struggleThe goal of learning knowledge is happy, and every day is also fresh.

I still live in Paris and have a lot of free time, going to the fresh market to buy fruits and seafood. But sometimes I don't know what to do when I wake up in the morning, as if I have lost the passion to fight for a better life.