The fifth child in the village no longer wants to go out to work. He has had enough of wandering outside and living apart from his family. Now in his early 40s, he has more than 20 years of working experience.
According to him, after graduating from junior high school, he went out to explore with his father and even got married. He took a short leave and hurriedly embarked on the journey of going out. Due to the working environment, he couldn’t take his wife and children with him. However, for what he believed to be a high salary, he continued to work outside year after year. After marriage, he persisted in working outside for more than 10 years.
He, who was already in his forties, suddenly realized that after working hard for so many years, what was his goal? In order to earn money desperately, all the good years of his life were wasted in a foreign land, and what he could give to his wife and children, besides money, seemed to be just a thought.
Once a person has an idea and loses motivation at work, they lose the courage to persevere. Even if they are less than halfway through this year, they simply pick up their bags and choose to return home.
However, it’s easy to come back. What should we do in the future? But it was quite difficult for him. As he was tired of working, he was determined not to work in factories anymore. Coupled with the savings he had accumulated over the years, he had the idea of starting his own business and becoming a boss.
However, he examined the project for almost a month and although there were no particularly satisfactory results, he still chose four good paths that he thought were good. It’s just that he hesitated about which path to take, and he kindly asked his friends for advice and reference.
1、 Contracting land for agricultural planting
This is also the most popular entrepreneurial project for migrant workers returning home, with the advantages of low investment costs, simple operation, and low risk. For rural people, they can engage in it without adaptation period.
However, what puzzled him was that contracting land for planting was quite profitable, but after inspecting many growers, they shook their heads and advised him not to easily try agricultural planting. As experienced people, they used their own personal experiences to advise Xiao Wu not to be emotional.
This left Xiao Wu feeling very puzzled, but with too many people talking, he dared not try easily. He didn’t know if others’ reminders were out of goodwill or to reduce competition?
2、 Open a restaurant in the city
Xiao Wu believes that wherever there are people, there are restaurants. When he was working outside, the small restaurants outside the factory were very popular. It is said that many owners earn hundreds of thousands of yuan a year. After returning to his hometown, whether in the market or in the city, opening a small restaurant is a small investment, but the benefits are quite high. As a big or small owner, he also has face in the village.
However, Xiao Wu also learned that the survival strategy of small restaurants is unique, and it requires the owner and chef to shoulder the responsibility, because if they hire someone, they have to take out nearly half of the money they earn each year. In case the business is not good, they still have to pay the workers on time. This is also the reason why many small restaurants cannot persist. On the contrary, some mom and pop restaurants persist for a relatively long time.
But the reality is that Xiao Wu doesn’t know how to cook, he doesn’t have the ability to open large and medium-sized restaurants, and he has to learn cooking skills again to open a small restaurant. With his current age, where does he have time to tinker?
3、 Agricultural Service Company
This business was recommended to him by his old father. Since his father grew older and couldn’t cope with the heavy physical labor on the construction site, he returned to his hometown in the countryside to plant crops. In his spare time, he helped the villagers with agricultural work such as spraying pesticides, spreading fertilizers, and weeding, in order to earn some extra income.
The elderly believe that in today’s rural areas, there are no longer pure growers, and people often take agricultural planting as a sideline. When they are busy, how can they have too much energy to manage crops? People would rather spend money hiring people to help than delay creating and gaining more value.
So, this provides room for the development of professional agricultural services. If a company like this can be established, providing a one-stop management service from crop cultivation, planting, harvesting, to management and sales, there will definitely be significant gains.
The old father spoke with great enthusiasm, and Xiao Wu’s heart surged with excitement. He seemed to see the direction he would strive for in the future. However, in the end, even if the father and son were to establish an agricultural service company according to the minimum standards, it would require at least 1 million yuan in start-up capital. For him, this threshold was a bit high.
4、 Banquet Service Team
Rural people nowadays pay attention to one-stop service for red and white celebrations, from banquet planning to tables, chairs, bowls, and chopsticks. The host only needs to set a price, and different service teams will help you solve the rest. If these teams are combined into a rope or a professional banquet service team is established, there will surely be great development space.
The difficulty is that Xiao Wu is not familiar with this and does not know how deep the water is inside, especially in rural areas where the procedures for hosting banquets are particularly complex and cumbersome, and attention to details is even more important. Once they cannot handle it, smashing the sign is also an instant thing.
The above four businesses selected by Xiao Wu Zhen, although each has its own advantages and disadvantages, he still believes that they need to be tried. The biggest difficulty is which one is the most suitable for him.
Although working people have some savings in their hands, they are hard-earned money accumulated over many years. It is because it is hard won that they choose to invest in businesses with caution, fearing that even a slight mistake may lead them back to the starting point. This will be a significant blow to the hard won rise of life.
