After Fang Qiao said that, Wang Yun also felt that this opportunity was rare and should not be missed.

Besides, she's in a good pregnancy; she's already over five months along, and her body hasn't shown any signs of bloating. She can also do housework and cook at home on a regular basis.

In the countryside, women give birth in the afternoon while still working in the fields in the morning, while young wives in the city can go to work until they give birth.

She can definitely do it too.

Wang Yun made up his mind and said, "Okay, I'll have Gao Ping ask if there are any vacancies later."

Upon arriving at Fang Qiao's house, Wang Yun handed the cloth to Xiao Jing, discussed with her how it should be cut, and then hurriedly went home.

Fang Qiao was very understanding, as it concerned work.

Unfortunately, there was no way to get Xiaojing a job, since the company only arranges jobs for employees' spouses; other relatives don't receive this benefit.

It's not realistic to go out and find other jobs.

Firstly, Xiaojing has an agricultural household registration from another region, and secondly, she only has a primary school education.

The employment situation in Beijing is severe. Many local junior high and high school graduates cannot find jobs and are forced to go to the countryside as educated youth, let alone Xiaojing.

Xiaojing was also reluctant to go out to work; she felt that staying at home to help her brother and sister-in-law was enough.

Such a big house, if it's not cleaned for a day, the tables will get dusty, and someone has to clean it. There's also laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, and so on, all of which take a lot of time.

If she goes out to work too, who will do all the housework? Her brother and sister-in-law treat her so well; they can't let her come home after a long day at work without even a hot meal.

Besides, she has sewing skills, and when she has free time she can make a few clothes for others, earning a few dollars a month, which is already quite good.

Over the next few days, Xiaojing stayed home sewing clothes on her sewing machine, while Fang Qiao read through the professional books for childcare workers.

Thanks to the benefits of cultivation, her memory has improved a lot. Although she has not yet reached the level of photographic memory, it is much better than that of ordinary people. She can remember most of what she sees.

After reading it once, review the difficult and key points a couple more times to solidify your understanding and deepen your impression.

After a few days, Fang Qiao felt that she had mastered most of the professional knowledge.

After demonstrating the childcare techniques on several children, he went to the city's Human Resources and Social Security Bureau to register for the exam.

After paying the registration fee, the exam was arranged very quickly.

The exam was held in an empty room. Besides Fang Qiao, there was a woman in her thirties and two young girls with still very youthful faces, who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old.

The exam is simple, consisting of a written theory test and a practical operation test.

The theory test consisted entirely of questions from the textbook, with no extensions or questions beyond the syllabus. Fang Qiao answered them smoothly. After checking and confirming that everything was correct, she was the first to hand in her paper.

Two young women then handed in their papers one after another. The 30-year-old woman was the slowest to finish and the last to hand in her paper, suggesting that the questions were somewhat difficult for her.

However, when it came to actual operation, the older sister visibly gained confidence.

After all, the practical test is about how to care for a child. These childcare skills might be difficult for unmarried young women who haven't had children, but they're a piece of cake for women who have given birth.

Fang Qiao had raised Tian Tian and also had three of her own children. She knew exactly how to care for and look after children, so she passed the test smoothly.

After the exam, the results came out immediately. Three out of the four test takers passed. The remaining girl did well on the written test, but unfortunately, she was too nervous during the practical test and accidentally dropped the mannequin used for the test, causing it to fall headfirst to the ground. She got a zero score and failed to get the certificate. She will have to take the test again in six months.

After passing through customs, you can't get the certificate yet, because the document processing takes time, and you have to wait another month to get it.

However, Director Gu had mentioned in advance that issuing the certificates would take time, so she was prepared and not in a hurry.

After Fang Qiao finished her certification exam, Wang Yun also found a job as a childcare worker at a nursery, though it was a temporary position with a monthly salary of eighteen yuan.

The higher-ups also promised that after she gives birth, she will work for another six months, and once a permanent position becomes available, she will be promoted to a permanent position.

Wang Yun was quite satisfied with the arrangement. After all, she was pregnant and couldn't do many jobs. The fact that her superiors agreed to give her a job was already a special consideration for her because she was a military dependent.

Just as Fang Qiao said, it's precisely because there's a large gap in the supply that she has this opportunity.

If she waits another six months, more people will move into the family compound, and everyone will want to work. At that time, she won't even have a chance to be a temporary worker.

Wang Yun happily completed her onboarding process and went to Fang Qiao to ask about taking the childcare worker certification exam.

Fang Qiao didn't hold back at all, telling Wang Yun everything in detail about what books she was reading, what the key points were, and what the exams covered.

In short, it's not too difficult. If you don't make any mistakes, you should be able to pass the test.

After hearing this, Wang Yun felt more at ease and wasn't as panicked as before.

Another week passed, and the nursery was finally renovated. Director Gu knew that Jiang Ling was her neighbor, so he asked Jiang Ling to pass on a message to her, asking her to come to work the next day.

Fang Qiao took her first day at work very seriously.

She got up very early, first washing her hair and then styling it up. She applied face cream until it smelled wonderful, and even dug out the pink, fitted cotton-padded jacket she had made when she first got married.

Fang Qiao already knew that the nursery had a total of six caregivers, four permanent employees and two temporary employees, all of whom were family members of employees in the residential compound. Except for Wang Yun, they were all new faces who had moved in after the company's restructuring and expansion following the Lunar New Year.

Fang Qiao dressed herself up smartly, hoping to leave a good impression on her future colleagues.

When I arrived at the daycare, I found out that my first day of work was to do a thorough cleaning.

The nursery was newly built and had nothing inside; the caregivers had to clean everything from scratch.

By the end of the morning, Fang Qiao was covered in dust and dirt.

Her hair, which had been tied up loosely, hung down in a limp mess, with a few strands falling from her forehead. These strands were stuck to her skin with sticky sweat, and there was dust on her nose and chin that she didn't know where she had gotten it from. She wore a thin cotton-padded jacket over a blouse, which didn't get dirty, but after a day's work, her clothes were wrinkled and crumpled. Any semblance of dignity was long gone.

The other caregivers weren't much better looking than Fang Qiao. They were all sweating profusely from their work, some even had spider webs on their bodies and heads, and everyone looked disheveled.

The group exchanged smiles; no one needed to laugh at anyone else.

Wang Yun fared a little better. She was pregnant, and the head of the nursery assigned her to sand down the rough edges of new tables and chairs in the storage room. It was a job she could do sitting down, so it was relatively easy.

When she got home, Fang Qiao immediately took off her fitted cotton-padded jacket and changed into a piece of clothing she usually wore for work.

When she went to work in the afternoon, she made sure to wear a headscarf and a mask.

As for his image?

When cleaning, who cares about appearances!