Chapter 8 Art Troupe Recruitment

Wang Yuanchao said a little shyly:

"I have a junior high school education and am good at literature and art."

Wang Heping also joined the staff in smoking and interrupted:

"When my brother was in school, he was a member of the school marching band!"

Secretary Zhao was not angry at his interruption and said kindly:
"Then the most suitable position for you might be the Railway Art Troupe. They require a junior high school degree or above and artistic talent. But you have to take an exam.

There are other jobs, but most of them are temporary jobs. If you have a high school diploma, there are several suitable jobs here!"

There is something wrong with what he said. If it is a technical secondary school, you will be guaranteed a job and a cadre position, so you don't need to come to the street to look for opportunities.

Of course, all of these job opportunities are fixed, especially temporary jobs. Better and more flexible opportunities are in the hands of the street director.

Wang Yuanchao carefully looked through the recruitment requirements of the Railway Art Troupe, and at least he met all the requirements.

There really is no better job than this.

Not to mention anything else, it is quite possible to copy a few red songs and a few modern poems.

If he really goes on stage, let alone crosstalk, he can also do a few talk shows.

Others can be famous for a lifetime with a song or a poem. For him, as long as he can survive the next ten years, it will not be a problem at all.

Moreover, hey, Iron Boss!
It's almost an independent kingdom, basically free from any outside influence or interference, right?

Then I looked at the registration deadline, which was August 8th.

Today is the 16th!

Then Wang Yuanchao said:

"Thank you so much."

Wang Yuanchao took out a pen and paper and began to record the relevant information. Officer Zhao smiled and pulled out a registration form and said:

"You have to fill this out! It has to be submitted by the street office. Without the stamp of the street office, you can't take the exam."

Forgot, these days.

Wang Yuanchao filled out the application form stroke by stroke. His handwriting was at least quite neat.

It is already very good if you can remember the words you write without forgetting them.

If it had been 10 years earlier, he would have been illiterate, but at least he could read traditional Chinese characters but not write them!
After filling out the registration form, Officer Zhao reminded:
"Remember to pick up the duplicate copy of the registration form on the 18th, and take the exam on Friday. Don't be late any more!"

……

The brothers left the street.

Wang Heping sighed:

"Yuan Chao, your registration is over. Go back and look through the music sheet. This Iron Boss is going to be in, and you won't have to worry about your life anymore."

After looking around and seeing no one around, Wang Heping muttered softly again:

"There are too many fruits in the art troupe. You are like a mouse falling into a honey pot!"

Wang Yuanchao didn't know what to say. Second brother's head was full of these things. But these days, the problem of promiscuous relationships between men and women is still very serious.

So he said:
"Second brother, you should work hard and get a permanent job as soon as possible. Just like mom said, I will take you to a blind date and find a second sister-in-law for me, isn't that good?"

Wang Heping's eyebrows slanted:
"You are still young, you don't understand. Why did I keep pursuing different girls all those years? Domestic flowers are not as fragrant as wild flowers, understand?"

"Then why don't you bring a sister-in-law back first!"

Wang Heping's face turned bleak, and he stopped pretending. He said:
"I don't have the ability to give them happiness now."

"Then if you work hard, you can get a permanent job, right? The salary is 32 yuan!"

Wang Heping was a little annoyed and said, "Do you think I don't want to? But the damn farm office director wanted to introduce his niece to me. Otherwise, I would have become a regular employee long ago!"

Wang Yuanchao suddenly understood his second brother's obsession with beauties. Beauties were always on his mind. He guessed that the director's niece didn't look good enough for the audience.

The two brothers found a shady place and lit up their cigarettes.

Wang Yuanchao said:

"It's impossible for the director of your farm to have absolute control over everything, right?"

Wang Heping smiled and said:
"He's young, but he speaks so arrogantly. Is the director still young? Apart from the committee members, the director, and the two deputy directors, the director has the final say."

Wang Yuanchao didn't say anything else. He guessed that his second brother's performance was between being able to be transferred and not being able to be transferred, which was why the director was in a dilemma.

"How about talking to your parents tonight and asking them to give you some more? Not getting a permanent job is not a big deal."

Wang Heping's eyes widened, and he pointed at his fingers and said:

"Brother is already old, and he's getting married soon. With 36 legs, it's going to cost a lot of money, right?
You are looking for a job, it's impossible. There are no good jobs out there for you to choose from. They are all in the director's pocket, so you have to go around.

But I see that your handwriting is pretty good, and you may be able to take over our mother's job in two years.

I'm not like that. I worked so hard to learn so many characters, but the government deleted a lot of them and changed their appearance, so I can't recognize them anymore.

A regular employment quota can be obtained for at least 500 yuan.

Forget it.

"

Wang Heping knew the family conditions very well. He was the second child and the least promising one. He just said “forget it” and felt extremely melancholy.

Wang Yuanchao felt that he would not need his family to pay for his travels, and he had some confidence in this.

How much can the eldest brother spend on his wedding? What is five hundred dollars for the second brother?

Others may not know about his family background, but he does!

But I can't tell this to my second brother. Our family conditions are not good, and he should be more motivated. Otherwise, he would probably be in trouble.

So he changed the topic and said:
"You have been working on the farm for so long. Have you found any girl that you are attracted to?"

Sure enough, the second brother's expression suddenly became lively:

"Hey, you've asked the right question. Even though our farm is remote, we still have a few pretty young ladies and wives. They're no worse than the ones in our compound! It's just that their skin is a little dark and rough from working so much.

……

What a pity, we all have rural household registration and cannot eat the rationed food.”

At the end, the second brother's expression was full of regret: he just watched the meat and bones in front of him, but didn't even dare to smell it twice.

Everyone in the compound knows what's going on with the Jia family in the Central Courtyard.

With a living example, even a person as lustful as my second brother knows that he can't get involved with people who don't have a fixed amount. How did he get through those three years? Who wouldn't be worried?
Wang Yuanchao has too little space, otherwise he would have to start some grain reselling business. Isn't the farm where his second brother works a natural granary?
The tenth year is coming soon, and we have to go to the countryside. It would be better for my second brother to get a permanent job as soon as possible. After all, a farm near the capital is better than some remote places in the mountains, right?

You have to know that people in the countryside earn work points. They work very hard all year round and just to make ends meet, they may not be able to save more than ten or eight yuan. They are not even paid as much as temporary workers in the city.

"Brother, let me ask you, if your parents can give you the money to become your legal wife, but stop giving you money when you get married and separate from the family, do you think you can accept that?"

Before liberation, my father worked at the Heji Kiln in the north, which was renovated into Qingnian Lake Park after liberation. He was considered an old resident of the Siheyuan. Later, the capital opened up housing transactions for a period of time, and my parents bought this wing room. It is not as spacious and eye-catching as He Dazhu's house, but it is not bad.

Later in 59, the Capital Ceramics Factory opened and my father applied for a job. Then there were three years of hard times. It was probably in the past two years that he started to save some money.

Therefore, Wang Yuanchao felt that, based on his parents' real income, the family assets were definitely above 1000, and maybe even or .

He didn't dare to brag because he hadn't seen the passbook.

After all, my mother started working in a printing factory after the founding of the People's Republic of China. She was a proofreader, and it was impossible for someone without some education to do that job.

If his parents can't be persuaded, with his golden finger, couldn't he use the rare goods inside to make a few hundred dollars and help his second brother?
(End of this chapter)