I've always wanted to write an article about my sideline life during my college and postgraduate years. After all, I have been working hard on sideline business for so many years.

After a long struggle, I changed my name three times, introduced myself, learned typesetting three times, and finally there was no simple stacking of words. ?

The following is my personal true story ~

When I was in college, I relied on various part-time jobs and internships to achieve economic independence. My monthly income ranges from 2000 to 5000, and I don't want a penny from my family anymore. Graduate students realize wealth freedom. The average monthly income is around 12000. At the peak, the monthly income once reached 24,000, and after deducting the cost of 3,000, the net profit was about 2 1 1,000. These figures, when said now, will still be proud. What I want to say is that it is as easy as blowing off dust when talking about these figures. But the hardships at that time, even if you choose your words carefully, can't be written. After I went to college, I began to consciously want to be self-sufficient. In order to meet my extravagant expenses, I desperately look for a part-time job. Sadly, the first time I was cheated 1600, it was because I was not careful about the tricks of swiping bills online. I cried like a building collapsed. After 1 10 called the police, the police uncle put the case on the shelf. At that time, I was standing at the gate of the police station, and it suddenly dawned on me that I must be young and frivolous, and God must have suffered my mind first. After learning from a painful experience, I vowed never to be cheated again. That year, I was a freshman, 19 years old, and my society was small.

Later, I was more cautious and entered the part-time group through formal channels. Without a doorway, I did what everyone will experience-the person who handed out leaflets on a hot summer day could not feel the heat and showed a charming and pleasant smile to everyone passing by. I can't learn that smile now anyway. Because I can earn 100 in half a day, I am secretly laughing, thinking that sweat is a precious wealth of life. Later, after being recommended by others, I took my junior high school children to do my homework and "take the baby". Get up at 5: 00 every day, cross more than half of Beijing to each other's home, and then cross more than half of Beijing back to the dormitory 18. Although my life is hard, I still feel very satisfied because I can earn 150 every day. I was a sophomore that year and I was 20 years old. Being 20 years old is a hard job. The repetitive work every day makes me very tired and I can't learn anything new. The demand for part-time jobs is getting higher and higher. I am no longer satisfied with making money through coolies. I switched to an educational institution as a receptionist and English teaching assistant. Although my daily salary is only 65,438+000, I am happy to learn English while listening to foreign teachers' classes for free. I was a junior that year, 2 1 year old. While bearing the pressure of college students' graduation design, we should also make plans for our unknown future. I didn't think about going to graduate school, but I got the qualification certificate of insurance research by mistake. So life suddenly had a choice. My family is more determined than me, so I decided to continue my graduate studies, but I still didn't give up my desire to go to the enterprise. So I found an internship in a regular company and mistakenly hit a medical device company as a store salesman. Although the salary is meager, it's my first time to contact formal enterprises and social people, and it's the first time to show myself completely in front of the society. Now I can't bear to think about it, but the leader affirmed me when he gave me the internship certificate, which made me believe that I must have made some small changes. I was a senior that year. 22 years old.

After graduating from my senior year and entering the graduate school, I have three months to rest my life completely. Many people choose to stay at home or travel. And I want to earn more money so that I can buy what I like. I rented a room in a group rental house in Beijing, and chose to live an ordinary life in Beijing, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. Several part-time jobs are being done together to experience the fireworks in Beijing.

Talking about so many running accounts may bring me a meager income, but it may only be enough for my moonlight expenses. But at that time, I was in my early twenties, and I could honestly tell others that I had achieved economic independence. I don't rely on home, I rely on myself.

Later, when I came to Shanghai for graduate school, I didn't change my mind immediately. I still seek counseling on various websites. If you are interested, you can leave a message, and I can share the skills of how to find a tutor and improve the salary of a tutor.

When I was in college, I only dared to speak about 60 per hour because I felt that I was inexperienced in tutoring. At this time, I can confidently mention the hourly 100. But because of the pressure of graduation project, I only have time in the evening and weekend. At the peak of the class schedule, there are two hours of tutoring every night from Monday to Friday, two days on Saturday and Sunday, from 8 am to 8 pm every day 10, and there are 10 hours of tutoring besides the rest time. This month, I also earned 3000 yuan.

But the rest of the time was given to the paper, and I was exhausted every night. Although the extra income of 3,000 yuan, plus the basic salary of graduate students and additional project subsidies, is more than enough to support my daily expenses and save a lot, I am still not satisfied with this and have been waiting for opportunities to seek other breakthroughs.

After a long tutorial, the courses in junior high school and senior high school have been memorized. In fact, it is repetitive work, constantly outputting knowledge points in my mind. Apart from getting a cash return, I don't think this job will help me improve myself. And I don't want to be a people's teacher in the future, so I lose interest in teaching more and more.

Second, I met the WeChat business and had an open life.

This day has finally arrived. It was a dark and refreshing autumn night. I ended my day's hard work and quietly lay in bed meditating on my tired but valuable life, but after so many years, my sideline income is still stuck at the upper limit of 5,000 yuan per month.

Maybe it's the right time, the right place and the right person. I turned on my mobile phone and opened a Wechat business that I had been paying attention to for a long time. I looked through my circle of friends carefully and found that all his products were from personal tailor. I am very interested, and my brain is hot. I asked if the other party was looking for an agent. The other party replies "Join the agent today and enjoy a 20% discount, only for today". So I paid the agency fee. I am not a gullible person. I must have been possessed that night.

After paying the agency fee, I almost stayed up all night, thinking about how to start my WeChat career, how to promote it, how to send the first tweet, and how to suck powder. This scene has always been in my mind, with a detailed and long-term plan. It never occurred to me that the decision that night changed my life in the future.

The next day, I began to practice. In Zhihu, I carefully studied the experience of the master WeChat business and began to practice it step by step. I am a newly-opened Wechat business. In less than 10 days, my WeChat friends rose from 0 to 1000. I don't know if it's because of talent or luck. At that time, the WeChat business started in the middle of the month. At the end of that month, I calculated that the total income was 8500, the cost was 3500, and the net profit for half a month was 5000.

This suddenly inspired my morale, and I began to expand the scope of promotion and reach all parts of the country. In a month, my WeChat friends reached 3000. After a long time, many customers bought products and trusted me, and began to become my agents. Agents can also develop their own agents. This way of collecting profits layer by layer has made my income explode. At the peak, the monthly income once reached 24,000, after deducting the cost of 3,000, the net profit was 2 1 1,000. That year, I was a graduate student, aged 23.

The following is my monthly running record, which impressed me when I made the chart.

Third, try to reflect on the road you have traveled and decide to cross the rubicon.

Seeing the story here, maybe everyone's heart shines with a little excitement, as if all the rewards are so easy, and there must be some shortcuts to make me so successful.

But ...

It is easy without success. Behind the glamour you see is the persistence and efforts of countless nights.

Of course, people's energy is limited, and what they get is bound to be lost.

Most of my early sideline jobs were spent in repetitive work by physical strength, and I didn't change my mind earlier.

This is what I want to say most in this article. If I were given another chance, I would definitely not choose to do WeChat business.

The reason can be found from the above.

I was still in graduate school during that time. In the past four years, apart from my sideline time, I have struggled day and night, and I can enjoy graduate school without joining the huge postgraduate entrance examination army.

But at that time, after I contacted the WeChat business, I had to admit that money was far more attractive to me than a graduate student's job-scientific research.

Because the number of friends in WeChat business has been rising, the number of agents is also increasing. Customers and agents who consult products and after-sales service every day occupy almost all my time and energy. It took at least three months in the early stage, because I was immersed in this so-called "peak of life" and got carried away. What graduation thesis, scientific research and project have long been forgotten by me.

At that time, almost every week, my tutor would grab me and report the progress of my thesis. I had to cram for the last minute and start working hard two nights before the report. But obviously, the effect is not good. Once, there was really no progress. When the tutor is about to split from the blue sky, he can only excuse that he has just fallen in love and is not in the mood to engage in scientific research. I didn't expect my tutor to get soft at once and always comforted me. Until now, I am ashamed of it.

At that time, the WeChat business was still on the rise, with one number full of fans and another number under development. Because I desperately reply to customers' private letters every day, I wish I could spend two days a day. Once, I traveled with EX. As soon as I arrived at the tourist destination, a customer wanted to place an order for 10, so I stopped traveling to take the order. So, EX bears a grudge against me. He always thinks that WeChat business has changed my temperament.

Of course, because I am the only customer service, it is also common to drop orders because I can't reply to agents or customers in time.

In this way, after a year. Until the second year of graduate school, the progress of the thesis was getting tighter and tighter, and I began to be nervous. But the precious postgraduate career in the past year can't be exchanged. I give myself three rules, and I can only watch my mobile phone at a fixed time every day. Other times, I have to go in and do scientific research. It is a big deal to sacrifice some orders. However, at this time, I was surprised to find that I could no longer sit there and read the whole SCI paper with concentration as before. Even if I force myself not to turn on my cell phone, I will look around anxiously. As a result, the number of orders decreased due to the failure to reply to the message in time, and the progress of the paper was extremely slow.

I was surprised to find that I didn't know when I started, and I lost the concentration I was proud of before. When I was in college, when I was studying in the classroom, even if there were young couples around me, I could concentrate on doing partial differential equations. Mount Tai stood still and sat steady. But now, I can't concentrate seriously for more than half an hour.

While I am getting flustered, I still don't want to give up my freelancing. So, although my mind was not 100% focused on WeChat business, it took me 1 years to finish my thesis. Later papers were also completed under very difficult circumstances. But it must not be the result of my full firepower. I must have just finished writing my thesis like handing in my homework, or I went against the original intention of graduate school at that time, that is, I really liked doing scientific research and chose graduate school.

At that time, I joined the ranks of WeChat business. Within half a year, after earning some high income that I thought was good, I began to get lucky, that is, I was in the right place at the right time and made a hero. Later, I learned that if it had come earlier, for example, in the golden age of the rise of WeChat business, a university with rich spare time would not have persecuted my most precious focus in the golden age of my graduate study, which was not worth the candle. At first, I didn't think it would affect me much. In fact, it has penetrated into my life. I can't concentrate as I used to.

So, after introspection again and again, I chose to give up the WeChat business. I was 25 years old that year and just stepped into social work.

After work, I can't take care of WeChat business during the day and have time at night. Sometimes when you open a micro shop at night, you will receive complaints from customers and agents. In the long run, I lost many old agents and fans. Therefore, my mood is very affected. Happiness is greatly reduced. I gradually feel that I don't think I can last long in the face of this sideline that needs protection.

In addition, in the first two years of my career, I still have a lot of new knowledge to learn in my spare time. If I haven't found my center of gravity, it will seriously affect my work and life.

So in order to be responsible for myself and my customers, I have carefully decided to burn my bridges and give up the WeChat business.

Later, I began to understand that a good sideline can not bring you high income, but can make you happy physically and mentally and enhance your value. This value is iterative. If you persist for a long time and you find yourself getting better and better, it must be a good sideline for you.

At this point, my sideline life experience has temporarily come to an end. Thank you for your willingness to read carefully until now. Then here are my most sincere suggestions.

If you are a college student, congratulations, you are really young and don't know what you can do in your spare time, so try to make money (you can leave a message in the background to talk about your confusion) and at least try to live your own life. Believe me, the more money you earn, the more you earn. The more you explore, the more opportunities you have.

If you are still concentrating on scientific research, or in the rising period of your career, you are not a full-time nanny and are unwilling to give up your career. You need to concentrate and keep learning to make progress. I really advise you not to do WeChat business. Because WeChat business will not only bring you income, but also really persecute your concentration.

Moreover, once you become a WeChat merchant, you will become a businessman and be responsible for your products and customers.

Of course, if you have a successful career, have the spare capacity to learn, or have no serious career, or want to be a salesman in the future, you can try WeChat business, which must be a good sideline.