SFS Chapter 146 I have a very good character
Chapter 146 I have a very good character
Wang Jiandang was in the construction cost estimating business. Unlike Chen Huiping who started from scratch without anyone’s consultation, his family was relatively well-off. It was a large family with many members working in the construction industry.
When Wang Jiandang was young, he was a lazy person. After a few years of wandering around, his family couldn't stand it anymore and repeatedly asked him to work. However, the few jobs arranged for him by his family were all incomplete.
His family had no choice but to force him to take the cost engineer exam. In those two years, cost engineer certificates were very popular. He thought that since his family had such connections, at worst he could get the certificate and work on a construction site owned by an acquaintance, which would earn him hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and also provide him with some social security protection.
Although Wang Jiandang was reluctant, his family members were very tough. They took away his remote control and car keys and locked him at home every day.
He grew up under high pressure and dominance at home, and knew his family's temper and bottom line very well. Seeing that his family was serious, he accepted his fate and started studying, preparing for the exam honestly.
Unexpectedly, he actually learned it well. Originally, his family arranged for him to go to university to study a related major. After being exposed to the knowledge for a long time, he was no stranger to it. After getting serious, his self-awareness became surprisingly strong. He passed all the courses in only two years instead of the original four-year examination period and successfully obtained the certificate.
After that, he found a job in any unit based on his certificate. Although he had no actual experience in cost estimation, certificates were scarce, so the unit hired him as a cost estimator in his name. In fact, he had no job at all, as all the work was done by another old cost estimator who did not have a certificate.
He had a lot of free time, sometimes he didn't even have to go to work, but during his free time he began to develop an interest in this industry he had just started to work on.
My uncle was a general contractor at a construction site. Upon seeing this, he found an acquaintance and asked him to follow the acquaintance who was in charge of cost estimation to the construction site to learn how to measure, calculate, check for omissions and correct the deficiencies and revise the contract.
Later, he gradually learned the tricks, and his father tried to find him a small construction site of a comrade-in-arms and asked him to work on the budget, and after the budget, he had to do the settlement and final accounting.
After that, there was a series of help until he became proficient in it. His family also officially started to introduce him to resources in various channels and introduce business to him.
After that, he expanded from small construction sites to large ones, opened a studio, found two trustworthy partners, and relied on his family's resources to travel back and forth between several provinces and cities, and has continued to do so until now.
"Let me tell you, Xiao Zhao, let alone other things, I have dealings with many projects in Hubei Province, Hunan Province below, and Henan Province and Shaanxi Province next door, and I am quite familiar with their leading managers.
Although these resources were introduced by my family, I still have to maintain them on my own. Now my several nephews and nieces, including my son, these young people all have their own ideas. They don’t want to do it if they don’t want to. They are not interested in our business, and there is not even anyone to take over!
What should I do? I can’t just give up on this, after all the hard work I put into it all my life, right? What will happen if I don’t continue working on it?”
By the end of his speech, Wang Jiandang's initial high spirits had turned into helplessness. While complaining to Zhao Xiaojing, he secretly glanced at Chen Huiping.
"Okay, stop pretending to be pitiful. You're just telling me what to do. If you want to do it, do it until you die. I'll burn your tools in the coffin! Why should I care what you do?"
Chen Huiping glared and picked up Zhao Xiaojing. "Let's go, Xiao Zhao. Are you tired of listening to all his nonsense? Let's go eat!"
"Eat, eat, eat. I'm not talking nonsense. Isn't Xiao Zhao happy to hear it?" Wang Jiandang was stabbed on the head by Chen Huiping. He quickly stood up and followed the two of them.
"Don't be annoying, Auntie. I found what uncle said quite interesting. I listened till half past eleven without realizing it." Zhao Xiaojing tried to smooth things over with a smile.
"Look, look, Xiao Zhao and I have common topics!" Wang Jiandang said happily.
"Uncle Wang, normally this work should be done during the day, why do you have to work until the early morning?" After arriving at the restaurant's private room, the three of them ordered their food and continued talking about the construction site.
"What kind of work is that? He eats and drinks until the early morning. Why does this work need to be done in the middle of the night?" Chen Huiping took a sip of tea and said quietly.
"Oh, you women!" Wang Jiandang shook his head in amusement and turned to complain to Zhao Xiaojing. "Xiao Zhao, ask your Aunt Chen why I came back so early in the morning.
Eating and drinking is eating and drinking, that is socializing. Our business relies on relationships, so we have to look good, right? The reason why I come back in the early morning is that no matter where I am, I will go home after finishing my work that day. No matter how late it is, after eating and drinking, as long as I look good, I will leave immediately and not participate in anything else!
Even if it's in neighboring provinces, as long as I finish my business for the day, I will take a few hours' drive back and never stay a minute longer.
I tell you, your Aunt Chen is tough on the outside, but she knows me inside out! She knows that I have a very good character. I will never do anything that goes against my conscience or that I shouldn't do. Otherwise, after all these years of marriage, she would have kicked me out long ago!
She said I ate and drank until the early hours because she loved me and she was afraid that I would hurt my body!"
Chen Huiping burst out laughing, and with Wang Jiandang's hilarious jokes, the gloom cast by the tenth anniversary of Mei Zi's death gradually dissipated.
Zhao Xiaojing couldn't help laughing, "Uncle Wang, now I know that you are a very good person, and I believe in you!"
The three of them laughed again.
"Xiao Zhao, you just said that your relative is also at the construction site. What is he doing?" Wang Jiandang asked.
"He is said to be a project manager. He started early, but he seems to have no certificate. He has failed to pass the exam after taking it for several years." Zhao Xiaojing replied.
"I guess people only start taking the exam when they are older. The requirements for this thing were not very strict before. It was just building something, so everyone just did it randomly. It all depended on experience. With the old masters guiding the young masters, they would learn it after a few years.
Later, the state standardized the management and required a lot of certificates. Without these certificates, construction would not be approved.
Now the old master is old and only knows how to do practical work but doesn’t understand theory, so he can’t pass the exam. So the young master is asked to take the exam. After he passes the exam and gets the certificate, he doesn’t know how to do the work when it’s his turn to work on site.
So we were the first group of people who took advantage of loopholes. At that time, as long as you had a certificate, it didn’t matter whether you came to work or not. Because the company only needed a piece of paper, and only with that piece of paper did it have the qualifications. As for the work, it was still done by the old group of people anyway.”
Wang Jiandang was chatting animatedly. Chen Huiping glanced at him sideways, lowered her head to drink tea and let him do his thing. Zhao Xiaojing supported herself on her elbows and listened with great interest.
“But it’s not possible now. Young people are coming up now. They all take exams and get certificates. After learning for a period of time, they can do the job properly. In addition, the national policies are becoming more and more stringent, so there are no loopholes to exploit.
But how should I put it? More and more standardized management is also a good thing. "