Chapter 1380: Chapter 994: Full-time Mother’s Counterattack 2 (four thousand)_2
Do you need a part-time worker? She was penniless and wanted to find a job.
After being rejected so many times, she had become somewhat numb. Not just hotels, she even tried slightly larger restaurants.
"I can cook, I can make Sichuan cuisine, Henan cuisine, cold dishes, and dumplings. Could you give me a chance to try?"
However, she miscalculated. This society is far more realistic than she imagined. Just as she walked out of the restaurant holding her son’s hand with a forlorn expression and looked up at the glaring sunlight, her phone suddenly rang. She opened the video app and discovered that someone had left her a comment or a private message in response to the video she had posted earlier.
All the messages were about part-time or hourly jobs, such as cleaning, delivering food, working on an assembly line in food or electronics factories, distributing courier packages, or handing out flyers. But the only job that met the condition of having a child was being a delivery person, but she didn’t have an electric scooter.
If she wanted to run deliveries, she needed an electric scooter. An ordinary second-hand one wouldn’t suffice; it needed to be powerful enough to meet her work needs.
Just when she was at a loss, she unexpectedly received a ten-thousand-yuan transfer from her biological father on WeChat.
"Delete the video you posted. I can’t afford the embarrassment. Take this ten thousand yuan first, and pay me back when you’re financially better off."
She initially thought it was a blessing in disguise, but it turned out to be just cold, emotionless text. She had almost no friends, and even her biological parents were like this. Her relatives at home wouldn’t care about her either. She didn’t know how they had seen her video, maybe through big data analysis since she hadn’t added anyone as a friend. But nonetheless, this ten thousand yuan was what she needed most at the moment.
She accepted the money and deleted the video. She first spent two thousand five hundred yuan to buy a scooter, then found a cheap kindergarten for her son, costing seven hundred yuan a month plus meals. She paid two thousand five for a quarter. She then found a studio apartment through an agency, renting a standard room for one thousand yuan, with a deposit plus three months’ rent and a five hundred yuan agency fee. In the end, she was left with just five hundred yuan from the ten thousand.
She dared to spend like this because, once her son was settled, she was confident she could find a suitable job for herself.
Her education wasn’t high, but the cooking skills she had accumulated over the years allowed her to negotiate on her terms. Previously, she couldn’t negotiate because having a child was a burden, but now things were different. Even though she only had a balance of a little over seven hundred yuan on WeChat, she was willing to take the risk.
The only one who might be wronged was probably Wen Han, the child. At a young age, he followed her around through all the hardships and could sense that his mother was facing difficulties. Quietly and without making a fuss, even when she chose a new kindergarten for him, he only waved goodbye to her with teary eyes. Such an understanding child often brought Qi Qi to tears.
She wanted to change his name, but she was told that it required the father’s consent. She couldn’t decide on her own.
She had no way out at the moment, so she had to bide her time. When she had the money later, she was determined to change the surname because that man didn’t deserve it!
By the end of June 2021, she had found a kindergarten for her child, a place for the two of them to stay, and two jobs for herself.
During the day, she worked as a nanny, taking care of the elderly, and in the evening, she delivered food with her child.
She didn’t expect to become a nanny. She had just come out of an interview at a delivery company when she saw a housekeeping company nearby with a poster advertising nanny positions for eight thousand to ten thousand, which drew her in. Coincidentally, when she went in to inquire, an older woman noticed her, thought she looked kind, and struck up a conversation. She learned that she had just arrived in this city, was divorced, and had a three-year-old son. The woman subconsciously asked her a few more questions.
"I have two elderly people and two children in different kindergarten classes at home. The elderly are getting on in years, and we, as their children, are busy with work. Inevitably, there are times during the day when they can’t be cared for, so we want to find a nanny. I get home from work at six, and that’s when you’d be finished. The usual tasks are to tidy up the house, cook meals, and occasionally take the kids to their extracurricular classes. It’s summer vacation now, so the children aren’t in school, and the elderly might struggle to manage them. Since you can cook and have experience with children, and have worked as a nurse, why not try working at our home? The probation period is two months, and the salary is five thousand, but if it works out, we could consider making it long-term."
As they talked, they found themselves outside the store, which elicited extreme dissatisfaction from the shop manager.
