Chapter 146 My character is not good
Wang Jiandang works in the construction cost estimating business. Unlike Chen Huiping who started from scratch without any consultation, his family conditions are relatively good. It is a large family and many members of his family are engaged 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 urged him to work. However, he only worked for three days and rested for two days in the few jobs arranged for him.
His family had no choice but to force him to take the cost engineer exam. In those two years, the cost engineer certificate was 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 yuan a year and also provide him with social security.
Although Wang Jiandang was reluctant, his family members were very firm in their attitude. They took away his remote control and car keys every day and locked him at home.
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 and study a related major. The long-term exposure made him familiar with the knowledge. After he started to study seriously, his self-consciousness 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, and all the work was done by another old cost estimator who did not have a certificate.
He had a lot of free time, sometimes even not having 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 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, the settlement and final accounting.
After that, there was a series of help until he became proficient in it. His family also officially began 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 been doing 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 the neighboring Henan Province and Shaanxi Province, and I am quite familiar with the managers leading them.
Although these resources were introduced by my family, I still have to rely on myself to maintain them. Now my nephews and nieces, including my son, these young people all have their own ideas. They don’t want to do it if they say 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've put so much effort into this, I can't just give it up, right? What if I don't continue working on it?"
At the end of his speech, Wang Jiandang's initial high spirits turned into helplessness. While complaining to Zhao Xiaojing, he secretly glanced at Chen Huiping.
"Okay, stop being so pitiful. You're just telling me what to do. If you want to do it, do it until you die. I'll even burn your tools in your coffin! Why should I care what you do?"
Chen Huiping glared and picked up Zhao Xiaojing. "Come on, Xiao Zhao, you're tired of listening to all his nonsense, right? Let's go eat!"
"Eat, eat, eat. I'm not talking nonsense. Isn't Xiao Zhao happy to hear it?" Wang Jiandang was stabbed in the head by Chen Huiping. He quickly stood up and followed the two of them.
"Don't be annoying, Auntie. I thought what Uncle said was quite interesting. I was listening and before I knew it, it was already half past eleven." 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, this work is supposed to 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 to talk about the construction site.
"What kind of work is that? He eats and drinks until the early morning. Why does this kind of 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, and that's socializing. Our business relies on connections, so we have to look good, right? I come home in the early hours because no matter where I am, I always go home after finishing my work for the day. No matter how late it is, as long as I've eaten and drunk and look good, I'll just leave 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'm telling you, your Aunt Chen may be stubborn outwardly, but she knows all about me! She knows I'm a very good person. I won't 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 I would hurt myself!
Chen Huiping burst out laughing. 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 you!"
The three of them laughed again.
"Xiao Zhao, you just said that your relative is also at the construction site. What does he do?" Wang Jiandang asked.
"He's said to be a project manager. He started early, but he doesn't seem to have a certificate. He took the exam for several years but never passed." Zhao Xiaojing replied.
"I guess people only start taking the exam when they are older. The requirements were not strict before. It was just building something, so everyone did it casually. It all depended on experience. With the old masters guiding the young ones, they would learn it after a few years.
Later, the state standardized the regulations and required a lot of certificates. Without these, 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 passing the exam and getting the certificate, he can't do the work when it's his turn to work on site.
So we were the first group of people to exploit loopholes. At that time, as long as you had a license, it didn't matter whether you came to work or not. Because the company only needed a piece of paper to prove its qualifications, and the work was still done by the same people as before.
Wang Jiandang was chatting animatedly. Chen Huiping glanced at him sideways, lowered her head to drink her tea and let him go on. Zhao Xiaojing supported herself on her elbows and listened with great interest.
"But it's no longer possible now. Young people are coming up now. They can get certificates one after another, and after learning for a period of time, they can also do the job properly. In addition, the national policies are becoming more and more stringent, so there are no loopholes left.
But how should I put it, it’s a good thing that management is becoming more and more standardized.”
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