Chapter 412 – Chapter 412. Guy’s Cart
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“Jinhyuk! Here!”
“Oh, Hochang-ah.”
I came out to meet the relief window.
It’s a bit frustrating to come out wearing a mask, but these days, a lot of people wear masks.
The relief window pulled out something like a simple cart.
The simple cart looks quite sophisticated, but it looks like it was bought from a mart.
As I got closer to Hochang, I pointed at the cart with my finger and asked.
“What is that?”
“This is…”
Hochang replied with a proud smile even though he was wearing a mask.
“Should I call it an investment?”
“Hmm?”
Hochang talked about carts.
According to the slogan, the cart was nothing other than a cart capable of pulling books.
Fort Gosichon is undergoing a major tectonic shift.
People used to have quite a flow, but these days a greater flow is taking place.
That, as I know, is the fluidity caused by the aftermath of the end of the 9th grade exam for national positions.
And the flow leaves debris behind.
Those were the books.
The competition rate is basically over 160 to 1 based on the national staff, and even if there was an aftermath of Corona this year, in the test of over 120 to 1, people usually end up drinking.
Among them, there are people who fail the civil service exam and still want to go home and study more.
However, there are also people who do not want to quit the test.
Many books are thrown away in the process.
It is one subject that needs to combine several basic books that are comparable to encyclopedias in each volume, but since those books are made up of several subjects, the amount of books per person is quite large.
It’s not just basic books, but there are also problem solving books, vocabulary books, OX problem books, case law books, and so on. When one person leaves, more than one box of books is thrown away.
In the case of the exam papers, the following year will not be so greatly revised.
However, this year’s book is easy to be thrown away, as it should be the latest edition that can deal with the latest past problems and practice problems tailored to it, so that you can study with a little more peace of mind.
Even books alone cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The relief window was to collect it.
“Ah, Hochang-ah. Didn’t you invite me to play? I can play with you for about an hour lol.”
“Yeah? You don’t have that much time?”
“Um… Apparently, the broadcasting time is set, but the rest of the time is spent writing content, and there are many things to do.”
“Sorry.”
Hochang seemed to be lonely when collecting books, so he seemed to need a companion, and he directly expressed his regret.
But my thoughts were different.
‘I regret seeing you more.’
In a way, it can be seen that Guho Chang used his brain well.
If you carry a book in a box or something, even a box of books is heavy.
Therefore, when using tools such as a simple cart brought by Hochang, it can be said that it is more efficient to do the same work.
However, making such a choice itself was a bit disappointing for me to see.
Our time is expensive.
I think so.
Many young people sell their time for pennies.
I wonder if maybe something is going wrong in this world from the beginning.
In normal cases, why should you earn little money when you are young and more money when you are old?
In the ordinary case, why should the worker earn some money and the capitalist spend most of it?
If you’re older and have so much knowledge about the field that you’re doing a great job in that field, I think it’s right even if you get a lot of money.
Even if you are a capitalist, if you consistently do big things that really have a significant impact on sales, I think it’s right to spend money.
However, in many cases this is not the case.
There are many cases where the upper head plays, pampers the cubs below, and takes most of the money himself.
Hmm…
I think it’s only natural for high-ranking people who are reasonably competent and work hard to bring in a lot of money, but seeing that they’re just fucking making money while playing, I wonder if this is right.
So what is youth?
Does it mean that you can afford to suffer while you are young?
I think a little differently.
I think the meaning of the saying that even a librarian suffers hardships while young means that there is no time to be complacent in one’s field when one has to overcome failures and difficulties and develop vigorously.
However, in reality, it is not uncommon for youth to face an era in which they are subjected to infinite exploitation.
Is this correct?
When I look back at my future self selling the most golden time of my 20s at a bargain price, can I really be proud of myself?
If the country values human time, I think the time of youth is more valuable than the time of old age.
When I’m 90 years old, I don’t think it’ll be easy to play around with beautiful girls, travel, or do extreme sports or other enjoyable activities.
I think you want to rest at home.
But now it is different.
It’s time to do anything.
That’s why I think the young time is the most valuable of my time.
However, this society allows us to manage time in the opposite way.
As they say, the younger you are, the more you can be exploited.
After working part-time jobs that barely earn the minimum wage, he ends up serving in the military, where he does not receive the minimum wage, and starts working as an employee slightly higher than the minimum wage.
Is this correct?
If you do better, shouldn’t you get more?
Looking at it like that, what I’m doing right now is right for me.
Because the harder I work, the more money I can make.
When I think about my life in a big way, I think that the young time, which I think is the most valuable time, is still a good business, considering that I sell it for about 100 million won in 3 months.
And it will only get bigger and bigger.
To the extent that my property will later become billions of won.
In the past, I wasn’t very good at thinking like this.
In the days when it was my dream to live a simple life and make small memories with beautiful women, it was a little different from the thoughts I had when I was earning hundreds of millions of dollars.
It seems that I have more thoughts about money because I am not working for someone else, but I am running my own personal business.
So I’m in favor of selling my time at a high price, and I’m not so positive about selling my time at a cheap price.
There are exceptions.
Even if you sell your time at a low price, if you have an excellent future vision, even if you don’t make money now, you will be rewarded later with greater income or more merit.
However, in a place where the future vision is not so outstanding, I do not want to sell my time for the purpose of just living by selling the present time.
Rather, I want to buy time with money.
From that point of view, Hochang’s appearance was disappointing.
‘It’s such a great idea to go from picking up and selling used books to being more efficient with tools. However, if you want to become an expert in picking up papers that you can later make a fortune by working as a junk dealer, even if the effort and experience you have now may be well worth it… If you’re going to go another way, Hochang’s time seems like a waste of time to me.’
But I didn’t want to say anything to Hochang.
Even if I don’t say anything, many people will already say something.
Because I’m a handsome man, even in the days when I didn’t have money, no one said much to me.
However, if you look around, the case of ordinary other people is different.
A person without money is constantly persecuted as if he is being eaten while listening to various instructions from most people around him.
The world is like that.
There are quite a few types of people who want to show off their dignity to those who seem to be lower than them, whether they are high or low.
Perhaps Hochang is the same.
I didn’t want to arrange a life arrangement for Hochang, which I’ve already heard countless times from others, such as “Pass the civil service exam” Or “If you’re going to do this, prepare for the TOEIC and enter the company.”
Used books are cheaper than you think.
Now that the book has become obsolete and second-hand, it is only natural that even if you pick it up and resell it, you won’t be able to get even half of the original price.
However, to Ho-chang, who can be seen as being overly frugal, this seemed like a big meal.
I remembered that there was a civil service student who had just moved from the studio where I live.
“Ah. Even if it’s not, there were quite a few books that came out today in the one-room building where I live. Would you like to read those first?”
“Really? Keu! Let’s go that way first!”
I had a conversation with Hochang, who was pulling a simple cart.
“I’ve been on this floor for several years, but it’s the first time I’ve seen Hochang collect books like you.”
At my words, Gu Ho-chang replied with a smile.
“Gigkikki, what do people not know? There’s a used bookstore on the way to the community center here, and if you go there, um… It depends on the book, but you can get a few thousand won per book. Even considering the minimum wage these days, it’s a fucking surplus business, right?”
I spoke while walking next to Hochang, who was pulling a simple cart.
“Still, I’m a little disappointed.”
“What is it? It’s dog profit?”
Hochang asked what he meant, and I answered his question.
“Because I think that the price of this book, the value of the time you have, and the value of your potential are much more expensive in my opinion.”
Ho Chang laughed.
“Hmm. Thank you for looking at me like that. Well.”
Hochang, who was walking next to me, talked while walking.
“Actually, I really don’t want to prepare for the civil service exam.”
The surroundings were quiet.
After the exam, the gosichon becomes less crowded.
After some time it will go back to normal.
And even if there were as many people as usual, Hochang continued with a slightly louder voice, as if thinking that no one would listen to the words of others as he passed them by.
“But, I don’t want to work any more. I’ve tried part-time jobs, but I can’t.”
I seemed to know what you meant.
Part-time job may have a positive effect for the purpose of learning if he is going to start a business in the future and do the field he wants to do, but if not, it is not really a vision that is so great.
So it seems difficult.
When you work, it is hard to do anything as you do, but doing that job does not guarantee the future, and there is a sense of deprivation in receiving a small amount of money in the present as compensation.
But even so, getting a full-time job is a pretty high barrier to entry in the world these days, and even the civil service exam, which you can try without qualifications, is not only competitive, but it is enough to shed thousands of tears when you come in and see the amount of studying.
However, even after becoming a public servant, an office worker, or anything else, it may not be easy to create a life that is satisfying.
You don’t know if it’s going to be okay when you actually try it, until you try it.
The barrier to entry for things is high, but you can do things that are worth trying.
That seems difficult.
Because I don’t know.
And there is more.
First of all, it is difficult to overcome that entry barrier.
Then, until you cross that wall, you can’t do anything.
It doesn’t matter if you have a firm determination to become a public servant.
You can prepare for the civil service exam.
By the way, if you don’t really want to do it, but working hard for it not only reduces the efficiency of the effort itself, but it’s hard to compete with people who really work hard.
So again it’s difficult.
That there is nothing you can do.
There must be scattered things that I can do, so I can try this, try that, and know what I am good at and what can interest me.
But if there’s nothing you can do at all, it’s hard to try to push something.
Just like the current relief window.
I decided to talk to Hochang about the story of the rite.
“Did you do well on the test?”
“No, just, what…”
