Chapter 27 Part-time Job
Lin Xi found two part-time jobs.
She and Yu Shiyun finalized the renovation plan, making some minor changes to the 2.0 version, with an overall cost of 250,000 yuan.
This is already the limit of cost control. If Yu Shiyun hadn't been interested in the Doomsday Safe Fortress Project, her company would never have accepted such a low-profit order.
Even so, it was still very difficult for Lin Xi.
This means she'll have to invest all her existing money in renovations. Even if she keeps her current job and continues to accumulate wealth, she won't have enough money to prepare supplies later.
So she contacted an after-school tutoring center.
Having lost both parents at a young age, Lin Xi worked part-time while in college and obtained a teacher's qualification certificate and a CET-6 English certificate early on. With her relevant work experience, she was able to apply for a job smoothly.
Lin Xi chose part-time over full-time.
If Lin Xi quits her current job, she can earn around 15,000 yuan a month by teaching full hours every day, but her housing provident fund will not be as high as that of employees in large companies, and she will lose the year-end bonus that employees in large companies receive.
If you choose to work part-time, you can have a total of 16 class hours every weekend from morning to night. At 80 yuan per class hour, you can earn 1,280 yuan per weekend. By this time next year, you can earn about 65,000 yuan.
If she works late every night, she can do a flexible part-time job to earn extra money. The channels Lin Xi knows are simple: food delivery and Didi driving.
In the past, although her income was not much, it was enough to support herself, and she never thought about doing hard part-time work.
Between the two options, Lin Xi chose Didi Chuxing (a ride-hailing service).
She has an old car left by her parents, a driver's license, and enough driving experience, so applying for an operating license shouldn't be a problem.
According to the experience shared by netizens, she gets off work late, and the cost of driving her old gasoline car for Didi is higher than that of driving an electric car. She is lucky if she can earn fifty or sixty yuan a day.
At 50 yuan a day, that's about 10,000 yuan a year. Not much, but enough to buy a lot of supplies!
After making these decisions, Lin Xi felt like crying. Already a workaholic who frequently worked overtime, she was now pushing herself even further.
She could only console herself:
First, work hard for a year, and once the copper wall fortress is built, you can rest all you want inside.
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In the days that followed, Lin Xi gave up her bad habits of staying up late and snacking, went to bed at 11:30 every day, and got up at 7:00 in the morning to work, and her schedule became regular all of a sudden.
I no longer go out for entertainment and indulgence, which saves both time and money.
While suffering terribly, Lin Xi thought that the real celebration would come when the apocalypse arrived.
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The house renovations were underway when Lin Xi bumped into Yu Shiyun, who happened to be there to inspect the progress.
Yu Shiyun carried a lightweight briefcase, looking quite capable and efficient.
Lin Xi followed her on a tour and stopped at the attic.
The original glass roof of the sunroom has been replaced with a solid roof, and the photovoltaic panels on the roof have been installed.
Because of the large roof area, the power supply has increased significantly after the installation of photovoltaic panels. It is now operational, and Linxi is also saving on his monthly electricity bill.
The bulletproof glass modification is also complete. Now, the most robust security windows are being embedded into the walls around the house. Once installed, the entire house will be impregnable. From the outside, it will look much the same, but inside it will be an impenetrable fortress.
Her renovation work was neither done in secret from her neighbors nor could it be done in secret from them. The sharp-eyed Gu Lanjuan noticed the rows of security frames and once cornered her in the stairwell, asking her why she had suddenly converted the sunroom and prepared so many security measures.
Unlike her conversation with Yu Shiyun, Lin Xi didn't talk about the apocalypse and zombie outbreak. Instead, she said suspiciously, "Someone came to my house to steal things and knocked on my bedroom door. Aunt Gu, I'm very scared living alone."
That's true. Her home was indeed invaded in her previous life.
Seeing her serious expression, Gu Lanjuan clicked her tongue twice and said, "But you don't need to install security doors all over the walls of the house."
Lin Xi feigned fear and said, "Ever since my house was broken into, I've been worried about my safety every day. I was diagnosed with paranoia a couple of days ago. If I don't give myself a safe environment, my condition will get worse."
She sounded pitiful, so Gu Lanjuan didn't say much more. Anyway, her renovation work was all done during the daytime on weekdays, so it didn't bother anyone.
Right now, Yu Shiyun is measuring the remaining glass wall of the sunroom with a ruler.
"What's wrong?" Lin Xi asked curiously. The bulletproof glass here has been installed and covered with one-way privacy film.
Yu Shiyun gestured with a ruler for a moment and said, "I suddenly remembered that in your home quarantine plan, although you have stocked up on enough supplies, you won't be able to get fresh food later on. I suggest you set aside a small plot of land here to grow some short-cycle vegetables to improve your quality of life."
Lin Xi paced around the glass wall. Since adopting the Security Fortress 2.0 renovation plan, the photovoltaic panels were installed on the roof and therefore did not need to occupy the indoor lighting area. This large area of natural light was truly wasted.
If an indoor garden is set up, it is indeed possible to grow some short-cycle fruits and vegetables to improve the diet.
In her past life, she had prepared a sufficient amount of vitamin pills to address the issue of not having fresh produce to supplement vitamins later on. But if fresh fruits and vegetables were available, who would want to take those dry vitamin pills?
After deciding to adopt the suggestion, Lin Xi visually estimated the width of the glass wall and stood 1.5 meters away from it. "The area that can receive direct sunlight every day is about this much, about 8 square meters."
“The area isn’t large, but if used properly, its efficiency can be doubled.” Yu Shiyun pointed to the glass roof. “A shelf can be installed on top to plant some shorter plants. As long as the shelf is raised a bit, it won’t affect the plants below from receiving sunlight.”
Lin Xi couldn't help but recall an old zombie-fighting game, where she meticulously calculated lighting and area to plant her plants. However, in that game, the plants were for fighting zombies; her plants were for eating.
Another function is to provide something to do while isolating at home.
The proposal for an indoor mini-garden was immediately put on the agenda.
The floor 1.5 meters below the glass wall was pried off, and a durable, soft rubber base frame was custom-made to prevent water seepage when watering.
The apartment downstairs is Gu Lanjuan's. On the one hand, I didn't want to affect other people's living environment because of my own considerations. On the other hand, I was afraid that Gu Lanjuan would discover my activities and come to ask for supplies again.
Having learned from her previous life, Lin Xi realized that people's behavior in the post-apocalyptic world had transcended the constraints of law and morality, and that anything would happen in order to survive.
After the ground floor is filled with soil, taller fruit and vegetable plants can be planted. At a distance of 0.7 meters from the roof, a one-meter-high shelf is installed to plant shorter plants. This plan is based on the calculation of the maximum distance that both floors can receive sunlight, taking into account the impact of the sun's diurnal shift on sunlight.
Lin Xi, who was standing next to her, bought a simple shelf and storage box from Pinduoduo at her own expense to store tools, fertilizers, and various seeds and other materials.
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