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Through the low point of life

Through the low point of life

By Canaday DeleonPublished 3 years ago 4 min read

Luckily, when I was in college, I caught up with the rise of Taobao. I was one of the first Taobao sellers and earned more than 100,000 yuan through Ma's platform during my college years. I didn't spend any of it. I saved it.

After THE UNIVERSITY GRADUATES, EVERYBODY IS NOT SOUTH GO DOWN TO BECOME A SMALL WHITE-COLLAR, RELY ON THE RELATIONSHIP IN THE HOME TO ENTER THE INSTITUTION, STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISE OR TAKE AN EXAMINATION OF CIVIL SERVANT, AND I, HAD ALREADY MADE THE PLAN THAT FOLLOWS.

In the first year after graduating from university, I rented a shop in a small county in the province and started my career as a small restaurant owner. I really got up earlier than the chickens and worked harder than the cows. Because of the barbecue, I could not sleep until after 2 am every night.

In order to save labor, I put myself as a waiter busy, catering staff turnover rate is very large, I became a generalist in the store, procurement, curing, ingredients, skewers... But I also got what was rightfully mine.

The next year, I opened a bigger store. And so it went. Three years after graduation, I had four stores. The four restaurants are barbecue, hot pot, Korean food, and Northeast farm food.

Catering industry, each project is a low season, but you open a few more projects, the low season will be staggered, you will be a year 12 months every month is the season.

Compared with peers, I have been brilliant, the annual net profit of more than 1 million, I rely on their own to buy a 160 square meters of Jiangjing house, live a quality of life. I don't have to go to the store every day, because I have a manager in every store, and I live very uncomfortable.

When my classmates were still worrying about which company to jump to because of their unsatisfactory work in the company, I was thinking about which stock to buy and whether to invest in the logistics industry. I seemed to get everything my peers wanted and became a so-called achiever.

But everything seems to be not so smooth, I really believe that now, it is easy to start a business, hard to keep it. Since 2010, my store began to suffer from depression. At first, I did not pay attention to it, because there was only a small decline in the turnover. However, it was because of my neglect that a large number of customers were lost. At the end of 2011, I went bankrupt, sold the store and the house, and still owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

When I graduated from college, I didn't work a single day, but in order to survive, I had to find a job and survive, which was my biggest belief at that time. But when I found out that all the jobs I could find paid less than the waitresses in my shop at the time, I began to doubt my ability.

In fact, if it is just to find a job to live, it is not so difficult, the difficulty is that I earn 1,500 yuan every month, how many months to pay off the hundreds of thousands of debt? Creditors call every day to ask for debt, more some people found a debt collection company, will I beat up, within the time limit must return money, otherwise I want a hand.

It didn't matter to me, but my parents were going through the same mental struggles that I was, and I really thought for the first time, "Why do you want to start a business? Why can't you just go to work and live a normal life? Because you start a business, because you fail to start a business, so the family involved!"

Later, because of a friend's advice, I wanted to go abroad to look for gold. Then I started working quickly, and before long, I was on the other side of the world, working and making money in some developed country. You work 12-plus hours a day, hard labor, but this country pays you enough to forget all about it.

I worked hard, and then, through work and the Internet, I met some local Chinese people, and we started to form a group, and we started to work independently together, and I made many times as much money as I did when I started. When I had enough money to pay off my debts and put some money aside for future development, I began to think about the future.

I can't stay young forever, and I envy white-collar workers in suits very much. However, the immigration policy in this country is extremely tight, and some big brothers have been here for 10 years, but still haven't got the status. I am not willing to go on like this for the rest of my life, so I decide to return to China and start again.

First, I paid off all my debts, and then there was still some left. I decided to study in Japan, began to learn Japanese, and began to plan my future...

The bottom of life, everyone will experience, in fact, really nothing terrible. When I was broke, the day before I sold the house, my dad pulled me out of a window on the 20th floor of my house with one foot.

We cried, my father said I will never forget a sentence: "A man, a man, to be strong! There is no hard way! If you die, your mother and I will die too!"

Dad's words, make me strong, because I know, my life is not only my own. So, even for the sake of parents, also want to live well.

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