"Pick it up, scoop it up, and prosperity will rise."
Cantonese, with a bald head, black-rimmed glasses, and a signature smile, 42-year-old Tan Jiazhi stood in front of the daily rental stall in the vegetable market and shouted loudly.
"Shunde Fish Skin" is his livelihood. This is his second year working in the vegetable market. Everyone calls him "Azhi" and no longer "Mr. Tan."
CCTV news reporter Zhuang Shengchun stayed at the "fish skin shop" to record his middle-aged transformation.
"My job has been replaced by technology"
The former "Mr. Tan" worked for a leading elevator media advertising company in China for seventeen years and became the customer service director of South China.
"Listed company, middle management, monthly income of 20,000", all of this disappeared at the age of 39. In December 2021, Tan Jiazhi's department was "optimized" and everyone's work was replaced by technology; he himself also participated in the optimization process of technology research and development. The
crisis doesn't stop there. Three months before
lost his job, his wife Nie Wenxi was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. She underwent chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and resigned to recuperate.
Couple photo
"Before I got sick, I was full of thoughts of 'I want to be successful and become a female elite in the workplace.'" Today, Nie Wenxi has short, capable hair; before she resigned naked, she worked in a commercial real estate company A senior executive with a monthly income of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.
"Every time after chemotherapy, life is worse than death." The hair loss and baldness lasted for nearly a year. The cancer cells metastasized to the armpit lymph nodes. She described this disease with a high rate of recurrence and metastasis as "like a time bomb."
When talking about Tan Jiazhi's "work" at the vegetable market, she said, "If you ask me to do it, I will definitely not be able to do it." Even if she lost her job or fell ill, she always felt that it wouldn't be that bad.
"My husband has a bit of Hong Kong flavor and a gentleman's feel. He used to work in Zhujiang New Town CBD, a high-end place."
Tianhe CBD, where Zhujiang New Town is located, is one of the three national central business districts along with Beijing CBD and Shanghai Lujiazui CBD. . After three years, Azhi took us back here for the first time. The lights were bright and people were coming and going. "Nothing has changed. Nothing here has changed. Only I am changing."
In the year when real estate was booming, elevator media advertising Go with the flow. Tan Jiazhi worked his way from the grassroots level to supervisor, department manager, and regional director... How
selected 100 locations that met customer needs among thousands of advertising spaces and made a set of plans was his past expertise. Unexpectedly, from 2019 to 2020, the company proposed to develop a customer service system so that it could independently complete the advertising space placement plan; in just one year, he and his colleagues were no longer needed.
"I thought about it later. At that time, you were just doing some programmed things, just a screw." When Tan Jiazhi embarked on the road to job hunting again and submitted hundreds of resumes, his salary expectations dropped again and again, but there was still no response. He realized that "the work experience of the past 17 years has no meaning in the current market." He had no sales skills and no customer resources.
Tan Jiazhi applied for unemployment benefits
The specific life difficulties followed.
We live in a family, both husband and wife are unemployed, the monthly mortgage payment is 5,000 yuan, and they have to pay 3,400 yuan for social security. There are four elderly people on top and two elementary school-age children below. The numbers on the bank card are dropping day by day...
Running takeouts, delivering express delivery, and driving online ride-hailing... It is called the "three-piece package for re-employment of middle-aged people". Tan Jiazhi has considered and received every item. Some offers to sell insurance. But he was thinking about finding a new job that, even if it didn't look like much now, would have the opportunity to "get bigger and stronger."
During the epidemic, the vegetable market, one of the few places Ah Zhi went to every day, inspired him.
"Old friends" in the wet market
The new job starts from being a "ghost" and selling fish skins. This crispy and delicious snack is a delicious cold dish in Guangzhou in summer.
The day before setting up the stall, Azhi bought all the equipment, and his son and daughter helped him move home. He uninstalled all recruitment software and did enough psychological preparation: "It's time to set up a stall, be brave and strong."
Tan Jiazhi set up a stall for the first time.
As a result, he was persuaded to leave by law enforcement officers after selling only a few boxes. It started with full of expectations, but ended in embarrassment.
Fortunately, in the Shayuan Vegetable Market, there are daily rentals The owner of the shoe store, Xiong Ge, rented a small piece of land at the door to Tan Sheng. Xiong Ge came out of Chaoshan countryside at the age of 15 and worked hard in Guangzhou, moving rocks, building dams, selling fruits... and making a living. Starting a small business, starting a family, and raising two children. “If you want to make a living, you have to be diligent and endure hardships, especially in the market. "
He understands family history, "We go from bitterness to sweetness, he goes from existence to non-existence... He used to sit in an office and become a "ghost" all of a sudden, which many people couldn't stand. ”
When buying vegetables, Guangzhou people pay attention to “flat, beautiful and upright” - affordable, easy to use and on time. Shayuan Vegetable Market is a market with a history of more than 30 years. On the main street shops, there are a row of red advertisements with traces of time. The slogan is, “Invigorate the market economy and promote market prosperity! "
It was here that Tan Jiazhi spent a month from a small stall to a small shop; it took another nine months to rent a shop in a place with greater market flow.
Tan Jiazhi's shop
He also There is an additional partner - 56-year-old Sister Du, Du Shaoyan
". I started out as a state banquet host on the eighth floor of the Oriental Hotel." Sister Du has been in the catering industry for 30 years. The two of them tried for two months to finalize the recipe for a box of small sauces that come with fish skin: dried shrimps, earth fish, and beef. Sauce, mushrooms, celery...fire grill knife Scratching is far more complicated than imagined. The reason why
decided to “start a business after retirement” was because her husband suffered a stroke in 2018 and the family needed money. “Cantonese people have been educated since childhood, and they can do both high and low things. The stall is free and easy to start with a small cost. "
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Tan Keqiang's 70th birthday photo
Every morning and evening at six or seven o'clock, 70-year-old Tan Keqiang comes to pick up his grandchildren. School is over. After his son and his wife lost their jobs, in addition to helping take care of the children, he also used his pension to help his son pay off the monthly mortgage.
"It's not easy to ask for help on that day of the month." When you reach middle age, you still have to ask your parents. When Tan Jiazhi reached out for money, he lowered his head, but his father would remind him, "It's time this month, come here." "
At first, Tan Keqiang did not support his son's "entrepreneurship" in the wet market because "the market situation is relatively complicated and difficult..." Once he started doing it, he often went there again to play chess with neighboring shopkeepers. Tan Jiazhi said, “While I was looking at the chessboard, I was also looking at my shop. "
Tan Jiazhi's family is re-weaving the web of life.
Nie Wenxi no longer buys cosmetics and clothes. He canceled his annual travel and replaced it with weekly mountain climbing as a family. The children's interest classes are no longer available and they go to public accounts instead." "Gathering Wool" - a free public welfare project, "I gather it every time I gather it." "
My daughter, who is in sixth grade, will choose 5 yuan toothpaste in the discount section of the supermarket. Nie Wenxi asked, can I brush my teeth for 5 yuan? My daughter replied, "Yes, it also has the fragrance of jasmine." "
The painting my daughter gave to Tan Jiazhi's shop
My daughter can also settle accounts and ask her father how many boxes he sold every day, "How are you today? It doesn’t matter if you sell for less. "
Sometimes this thoughtfulness makes Tan Jiazhi sad and self-blame. On the contrary, Nie Wenxi is glad that no one can guarantee that he will not get sick or lose his job in the future. If children see that their parents have had such an experience, they will still be confident in life. No matter how many cram schools you attend, it is more important to “grow in the midst of setbacks and impermanence. "
It is not easy to find wooden boards
to grow on the sea.
Salted fish skin is not easy to sell in winter. Every day Early in the morning, Tan Jiazhi would ride an electric bike to Sister Fen’s shop 4 kilometers away to “exchange goods” for rice dumplings. Guangzhou people love to eat them all year round. Fish skins and rice dumplings are sold to each other, and they have multiple outlets. Yes, they also need to pay for a house and raise children. When doing these things, they stop talking and stop talking. "
Sister Fen's insulated box
Sister Fen took out the small box from that year and placed it with Tan Jiazhi's box, "So I say that life is really not scary. God seems to see us working so hard and still give us a chance. "
"I am in the sea now, and I hope to go ashore." Tan Jiazhi described the state when he first lost his job. "If you don't do anything, you will sink to the bottom. Even a small wooden board or small chopsticks can float." Everything must be grasped. "
And now, "I want to put together small wooden boards and turn them into a ship. "
Tan Sheng set up his stall
Half a month after we left, we received news - the person in charge of Shayuan Market told Tan Jiazhi that there was a small shop of about 4 square meters for sale, located in the busiest part of Shayuan Vegetable Market.
After thinking about it, Tan Jiazhi paid the deposit and the new store will be opened in December.
"Pick it up, scoop it up, and prosperity will rise."
Cantonese, with a bald head, black-rimmed glasses, and a signature smile, 42-year-old Tan Jiazhi stood in front of the daily rental stall in the vegetable market and shouted loudly.
"Shunde Fish Skin" is his livelihood. This is his second year working in the vegetable market. Everyone calls him "Azhi" and no longer "Mr. Tan."
CCTV news reporter Zhuang Shengchun stayed at the "fish skin shop" to record his middle-aged transformation.
"My job has been replaced by technology"
The former "Mr. Tan" worked for a leading elevator media advertising company in China for seventeen years and became the customer service director of South China.
"Listed company, middle management, monthly income of 20,000", all of this disappeared at the age of 39. In December 2021, Tan Jiazhi's department was "optimized" and everyone's work was replaced by technology; he himself also participated in the optimization process of technology research and development. The
crisis doesn't stop there. Three months before
lost his job, his wife Nie Wenxi was diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer. She underwent chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy, and resigned to recuperate.
Couple photo
"Before I got sick, I was full of thoughts of 'I want to be successful and become a female elite in the workplace.'" Today, Nie Wenxi has short, capable hair; before she resigned naked, she worked in a commercial real estate company A senior executive with a monthly income of 30,000 to 40,000 yuan.
"Every time after chemotherapy, life is worse than death." The hair loss and baldness lasted for nearly a year. The cancer cells metastasized to the armpit lymph nodes. She described this disease with a high rate of recurrence and metastasis as "like a time bomb."
When talking about Tan Jiazhi's "work" at the vegetable market, she said, "If you ask me to do it, I will definitely not be able to do it." Even if she lost her job or fell ill, she always felt that it wouldn't be that bad.
"My husband has a bit of Hong Kong flavor and a gentleman's feel. He used to work in Zhujiang New Town CBD, a high-end place."
Tianhe CBD, where Zhujiang New Town is located, is one of the three national central business districts along with Beijing CBD and Shanghai Lujiazui CBD. . After three years, Azhi took us back here for the first time. The lights were bright and people were coming and going. "Nothing has changed. Nothing here has changed. Only I am changing."
In the year when real estate was booming, elevator media advertising Go with the flow. Tan Jiazhi worked his way from the grassroots level to supervisor, department manager, and regional director... How
selected 100 locations that met customer needs among thousands of advertising spaces and made a set of plans was his past expertise. Unexpectedly, from 2019 to 2020, the company proposed to develop a customer service system so that it could independently complete the advertising space placement plan; in just one year, he and his colleagues were no longer needed.
"I thought about it later. At that time, you were just doing some programmed things, just a screw." When Tan Jiazhi embarked on the road to job hunting again and submitted hundreds of resumes, his salary expectations dropped again and again, but there was still no response. He realized that "the work experience of the past 17 years has no meaning in the current market." He had no sales skills and no customer resources.
Tan Jiazhi applied for unemployment benefits
The specific life difficulties followed.
We live in a family, both husband and wife are unemployed, the monthly mortgage payment is 5,000 yuan, and they have to pay 3,400 yuan for social security. There are four elderly people on top and two elementary school-age children below. The numbers on the bank card are dropping day by day...
Running takeouts, delivering express delivery, and driving online ride-hailing... It is called the "three-piece package for re-employment of middle-aged people". Tan Jiazhi has considered and received every item. Some offers to sell insurance. But he was thinking about finding a new job that, even if it didn't look like much now, would have the opportunity to "get bigger and stronger."
During the epidemic, the vegetable market, one of the few places Ah Zhi went to every day, inspired him.
"Old friends" in the wet market
The new job starts from being a "ghost" and selling fish skins. This crispy and delicious snack is a delicious cold dish in Guangzhou in summer.
The day before setting up the stall, Azhi bought all the equipment, and his son and daughter helped him move home. He uninstalled all recruitment software and did enough psychological preparation: "It's time to set up a stall, be brave and strong."
Tan Jiazhi set up a stall for the first time.
As a result, he was persuaded to leave by law enforcement officers after selling only a few boxes. It started with full of expectations, but ended in embarrassment.
Fortunately, in the Shayuan Vegetable Market, there are daily rentals The owner of the shoe store, Xiong Ge, rented a small piece of land at the door to Tan Sheng. Xiong Ge came out of Chaoshan countryside at the age of 15 and worked hard in Guangzhou, moving rocks, building dams, selling fruits... and making a living. Starting a small business, starting a family, and raising two children. “If you want to make a living, you have to be diligent and endure hardships, especially in the market. "
He understands family history, "We go from bitterness to sweetness, he goes from existence to non-existence... He used to sit in an office and become a "ghost" all of a sudden, which many people couldn't stand. ”
When buying vegetables, Guangzhou people pay attention to “flat, beautiful and upright” - affordable, easy to use and on time. Shayuan Vegetable Market is a market with a history of more than 30 years. On the main street shops, there are a row of red advertisements with traces of time. The slogan is, “Invigorate the market economy and promote market prosperity! "
It was here that Tan Jiazhi spent a month from a small stall to a small shop; it took another nine months to rent a shop in a place with greater market flow.
Tan Jiazhi's shop
He also There is an additional partner - 56-year-old Sister Du, Du Shaoyan
". I started out as a state banquet host on the eighth floor of the Oriental Hotel." Sister Du has been in the catering industry for 30 years. The two of them tried for two months to finalize the recipe for a box of small sauces that come with fish skin: dried shrimps, earth fish, and beef. Sauce, mushrooms, celery...fire grill knife Scratching is far more complicated than imagined. The reason why
decided to “start a business after retirement” was because her husband suffered a stroke in 2018 and the family needed money. “Cantonese people have been educated since childhood, and they can do both high and low things. The stall is free and easy to start with a small cost. "
home
Tan Keqiang's 70th birthday photo
Every morning and evening at six or seven o'clock, 70-year-old Tan Keqiang comes to pick up his grandchildren. School is over. After his son and his wife lost their jobs, in addition to helping take care of the children, he also used his pension to help his son pay off the monthly mortgage.
"It's not easy to ask for help on that day of the month." When you reach middle age, you still have to ask your parents. When Tan Jiazhi reached out for money, he lowered his head, but his father would remind him, "It's time this month, come here." "
At first, Tan Keqiang did not support his son's "entrepreneurship" in the wet market because "the market situation is relatively complicated and difficult..." Once he started doing it, he often went there again to play chess with neighboring shopkeepers. Tan Jiazhi said, “While I was looking at the chessboard, I was also looking at my shop. "
Tan Jiazhi's family is re-weaving the web of life.
Nie Wenxi no longer buys cosmetics and clothes. He canceled his annual travel and replaced it with weekly mountain climbing as a family. The children's interest classes are no longer available and they go to public accounts instead." "Gathering Wool" - a free public welfare project, "I gather it every time I gather it." "
My daughter, who is in sixth grade, will choose 5 yuan toothpaste in the discount section of the supermarket. Nie Wenxi asked, can I brush my teeth for 5 yuan? My daughter replied, "Yes, it also has the fragrance of jasmine." "
The painting my daughter gave to Tan Jiazhi's shop
My daughter can also settle accounts and ask her father how many boxes he sold every day, "How are you today? It doesn’t matter if you sell for less. "
Sometimes this thoughtfulness makes Tan Jiazhi sad and self-blame. On the contrary, Nie Wenxi is glad that no one can guarantee that he will not get sick or lose his job in the future. If children see that their parents have had such an experience, they will still be confident in life. No matter how many cram schools you attend, it is more important to “grow in the midst of setbacks and impermanence. "
It is not easy to find wooden boards
to grow on the sea.
Salted fish skin is not easy to sell in winter. Every day Early in the morning, Tan Jiazhi would ride an electric bike to Sister Fen’s shop 4 kilometers away to “exchange goods” for rice dumplings. Guangzhou people love to eat them all year round. Fish skins and rice dumplings are sold to each other, and they have multiple outlets. Yes, they also need to pay for a house and raise children. When doing these things, they stop talking and stop talking. "
Sister Fen's insulated box
Sister Fen took out the small box from that year and placed it with Tan Jiazhi's box, "So I say that life is really not scary. God seems to see us working so hard and still give us a chance. "
"I am in the sea now, and I hope to go ashore." Tan Jiazhi described the state when he first lost his job. "If you don't do anything, you will sink to the bottom. Even a small wooden board or small chopsticks can float." Everything must be grasped. "
And now, "I want to put together small wooden boards and turn them into a ship. "
Tan Sheng set up his stall
Half a month after we left, we received news - the person in charge of Shayuan Market told Tan Jiazhi that there was a small shop of about 4 square meters for sale, located in the busiest part of Shayuan Vegetable Market.
After thinking about it, Tan Jiazhi paid the deposit and the new store will be opened in December.
producer｜Li Zhe Wang Yuan
producer｜Zhuang Shengchun Wang Jie
reporter｜Zhuang Shengchun
editor-in-chief｜Wang Jie Zhang Zongyao
editor-director｜Tang Wenxin Wang Hongchun
shooting｜Xue Penglong Li Da
video｜Hua Junhao Feng Yitiao Yang Zhenjiang
Vision | Yu Jiang
Coordinator | Ji Fang
Source: CCTV.com
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