Chapter 435 – Chapter 435. A Glass of Wine With the Former Study Member
“What are you doing here?”
I spoke to Kim Hye-na.
Hyena Kim replied with a smile while wearing her mask.
“Uh, I’m going to have a drink with my friends and go home now.”
“Ah, yes.”
It was impressive that the clothes seemed to have changed quite a bit.
Suddenly, I saw her as if she was wearing the clothes she wore in the original world, not the clothes of this gosichon.
That’s why, for some reason, it seems that the feeling is a little different between the clothes you wear while living here and the clothes you wear when you go to another world.
Hye-na noona looked up at me while sitting on the structure that prohibited parking and started talking to me more.
“Ah, Jinhyeok! Did you change your number?
“Have you contacted me?”
“Yeah. I’ve been talking to you and calling you…”
“Really? Oh, I started working lately. So I guess I didn’t pay much attention.”
That’s why I can’t give you a single answer.
Hundreds of beauties contact me, and if I receive them all, even 240 hours a day might not be enough.
Of course, that’s because I’m a respectable man.
My older sister Hye-na smiled and told me that she hadn’t been able to reach me because she was busy.
“I know what you’re doing! Ho-ho! That’s why I called.”
“Really?”
“Yeah. You’re broadcasting. The number of subscribers isn’t a joke? When did you start doing it? I was surprised?”
Even if it wasn’t so, sometimes there were people who recognized me even when I was doing content at a cafe, and it would be easier to recognize me if it was an acquaintance like this.
I answered her
“A little over four months.”
“Huh~! Yeah? A test?”
“I didn’t see it.”
Civil service exam…
To be honest, I was left with regret because I had studied.
However, it is a regret for not being able to express what I have studied in the exam, and the regret for my career choice would have been great before I started a new job, but now I have no regrets.
“Awesome… Wasn’t it a perfect pass? It’s a waste… No, is there anything to be regretted? They seem to be doing really well on TV.”
“Haha, when I was in college, my professor said that.”
I continued.
“After the age of 40, most people end up living doing what they want to do.”
Maybe this isn’t all like that.
Even if you have something you want to do, you may not be able to fulfill your dream because of livelihood and continue to do what you used to do.
However, since the concept of a lifetime job has been considerably reduced these days, and there is a culture of companies trying to make people retire somehow, there will be cases where they start a new job half of their own will rather than to fulfill a certain dream.
The professor who told me that was a part-time lecturer.
Maybe that professor also had family objections, but he ended up doing it.
As I was thinking about the professor for a while, Hyena noona spoke to me.
“Jinhyuk, but is it time now?”
She said her
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you like this. It’s so nice. My sister will buy me a drink.”
I was a little worried.
However, there seemed to be no particular reason for refusal.
Even if it wasn’t so, the after-party at the place where Pine-hyung and other creators gathered was the first round, so I thought it would be okay to have a second round with Hye-na as I like to drink.
“Um~, is that so?”
“Oh yeah! Let’s go, let’s go!”
That’s how I ended up going to a bar nearby with Hyena noona.
The pub was a world beer house.
It was a place with a good atmosphere, located on the basement floor after crossing the street from where Hyena and I met and walking further inside.
First of all, it is a world beer house, but Hye-na noona ordered Western liquor.
I was glad that I would be able to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in a few months and make hundreds of millions of dollars in annual salary.
Indeed, there seem to be many cases like this.
The place we settled down was about the middle of the world beer house.
It was a place where three people could sit, facing each other, and the clerk guided us there, so we sat there.
A slightly upbeat pop song was playing in the bar.
There were quite a few people, and they were talking excitedly at each table.
My sister Hye-na and I started to talk together while drinking wine.
And after me and Hyena noona started talking, Hyena noona told me a little surprising story.
“Actually, I also gave up on the civil service exam. Then I got a job.”
When drinking, of course, I and Hyena noona take off her mask, so maybe it’s because she doesn’t feel stuffy because of her mask, but Hyena noona said in a slightly brighter voice.
“Really?”
I knew Hye-na would prepare for her civil service exam until the end.
If you look at the regular study members, it’s not like that, but usually men are more interested in the beauty in the study group than the study group, but it seems that there are more cases where women work hard in their own way.
That’s why I thought Yun-gyeong worked hard, but Hye-na noona also seemed to be working hard in her own way, so I knew how to do more.
It is unclear whether it will be hard to fuck every day as a couple here in the first place, but even if my study efficiency drops a lot when I was a couple, other people may be different.
Hye-na noona continued talking to me.
“I failed the first time.
“Ah, that’s right.”
“Yes. That’s why I came here to buy a drink for my friends who are still studying. So I decided to open my wallet and come out, so you can drink as much as you like~!”
“Ah, yes. I will eat well.”
Although I am used to it because there are usually many cases like this, every time I want to pay, but I can’t.
Hye-na noona raised a glass of wine and toasted me once, then wet her lips and spoke to me.
“I think we all fell out of our study except for the first written circumstance.”
In fact, even that alone is a good thing.
It is a test with a competition rate of over 100:1.
This year, despite the aftermath of the corona, the score was over 120:1.
It is actually a miraculous thing that one of the few study members stuck to the notes.
“Yes, really, I don’t think the exam is easy. It’s not even crazy these days. With a zero birth rate and short-term employment for the elderly, there’s really no good place to get a job, so the ratio of over 100 to 1 is going to be high as a public servant.”
Like her older sister Hyena, I took a sip of her liquor, then a sip of her ice water, and then told her about it.
“People lie, but numbers don’t.”
“Yes.”
Hye-na noona held her wine glass, waved it slightly, put one hand on her chin and spoke as if reminiscing a bit.
“I knew getting a job was this difficult. When my parents told me to study hard, I should have done it. Then, even if I couldn’t become a doctor, I might have been able to work really hard to become a pharmacist or a nurse.”
Maybe everyone is like that?
If you are a person who originally wanted to go on a path other than studying, it may not matter if you do not study hard, but those who want to go on a path that requires study may regret that they did not start at the best signboard.
“I think so too.”
I said more to her.
“But most of them just ask them to study, but they don’t provide a reason why they have to study, so they are forced and cannot be persuaded. If you lose sight of it a little, you’ll soon be playing with something else.”
“That’s right.”
We also sipped a sip of Western liquor and ate cheese and nachos as snacks.
“Jinhyeok, you know, accounting work isn’t really easy either.”
She shook her head and said.
“There’s a male employee right above me who manages me, but he doesn’t treat me as a woman at all, and they work hard all day long… Are you really going crazy every day?”
It would have been possible for such a thing to happen anywhere.
“There is no stress like human stress.”
“Really. Ha ha. Since it’s a contract job anyway, I don’t have any regrets, but I want to get rid of it quickly.”
She seemed to be having a hard time with the real thing.
However, most of them work because they have to earn money.
“Jinhyuk.”
“Yes?”
“But you, where are you going now?”
“After doing a broadcast, I’m on my way to have a drink with the members as an after party.”
“Wow, so you’re actually watching Pine-sama and people like this?”
“Do you know Pine?”
“Hohoho! Then you know~, how many subscribers do you have on Fine Zone Tube?”
When the story of the Internet broadcast came out, she seemed to like it quite a bit.
“These days, I live with the pleasure of doing John Tube and shopping on the Internet while working? If it wasn’t even that, really~, how would I live?”
She said to me with her brightened face.
“How boring would it have been for people in the past to be at work? In the old days, there were no computers and no smartphones. Um… Then what did everyone do? Did they open a book and read it during work hours?”
I think it’s right to work a little harder for my development when I work and do my work during work hours, but I was curious about what she was curious about.
“Now that I’ve heard it, I’m curious too, right? When I go home for the holidays sometime soon, I want to ask my father.”
“Does your father work?”
“It was a very long time ago. Now you run a chicken restaurant.”
“Oh~.”
She said to me as she ate another nacho with cheese.
“Your father must be very happy! Isn’t that how you earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year with the same number of John Tube subscribers?”
“Yes. That’s right. But I haven’t told my father yet.”
“Why?”
“Hmm~.”
I thought for a moment.
Then he gave her her word.
“My generation, it’s very diverse. Work. Digital nomads and things like that have developed a lot, and there are many things that can’t be understood by old standards.”
I said with a smile.
“That’s why. I’ll tell you about it when it settles down a bit. I may worry you for no reason, or if I can’t turn on the broadcast because of friction in the family, it might be difficult to meet the viewers.”
“I see. But why, you say that.”
She told me something I thought I had heard somewhere.
“Even if it’s a job that’s not stable, no one will say anything if you show that you earn more than three times the salary of others. But Jinhyeok, you, much more than three times… Don’t you earn ten times as much?”
She seemed to be cheering me on.
And I was working hard, even if I wasn’t.
“But it’s still kind of like that. One day, well, if you keep doing this, maybe I can tell you.”
I do, but I thought it was a bit early now.
After it went really well, I wanted to speak at that time.
“But before my parents find out, I think it would be okay to buy a building and start a rental business. They might say something if I broadcast it, but I don’t think they’ll say anything if I say I’m living on rent as a landlord.”
Haha! Is that a good idea?”
Hyena noona seemed to agree with me.
And, she said to me:
“Jinhyuk. But you know, I… I don’t know if I did well.”
“Yes. Sister.”
“After I got a job at Swan, I decided not to meet Sang-won’s older brother.”
“Really?”
Usually, when a man passes the exam and a woman passes, it breaks down.
And when the male test taker fails and the female passes, it breaks down.
The least likely to break is when a man passes and a woman fails.
Of course, even in this case, there is only a small probability of breaking, but since the couples of the high school students meet in a special space, they often break before long when they return to their original reality.
In a way, it may be close to a routine, but I was a little curious about the progress because they were acquaintances.
