Students work hard to earn a few million dong during Tet holiday

TPO - Instead of returning home early, many university students choose to stay in Hanoi to work until the Lunar New Year with the goal of earning several million dong after more than a week of work.

Early Tet holiday, many students work extra in the days before Tet. Photo: Do Hop

Van Dung, a second-year student (FPT College), chose to stay in Hanoi to work part-time until Tet.

Dung's job is to be a beBike driver, working up to 15 hours a day. This has been his part-time job since he came to Hanoi from Thai Binh to study a few years ago. On normal days, depending on his school schedule, Dung drives to earn extra money to cover his accommodation and food expenses, but from December 20, he has been off school and drives all day. The first few days, he worked from 7am to 12am, earning only double the usual salary (about 500,000-800,000 VND a day).

"I drive all day, even though the price increases during rush hours, but Hanoi's roads are very crowded during Tet so the efficiency is only a little better than usual. But I try to work until the 28th of Tet and then drive myself home. After Tet, I have to pay for accommodation and food, so I want to earn more money. After Tet, even if I want to drive all day, it will be difficult," Dung said.

Dung said, trying to work near Tet holiday, he got about 5-6 million, more than the previous month, so he had to try.

This year, Thu Huong (Hoai Duc, Hanoi), a second-year student at Hanoi National University, also chose to work extra hours close to Tet, instead of returning home. While her friends left the city a week ago, Huong took on more hours than usual: "I accepted to sell shoes for a friend from my hometown. I received 700,000 VND per day. The total number of days I worked was 8 days, I would earn a decent amount of money," Huong said.

Having a fairly early day off since the 22nd, Van Thanh (Thanh Thuy, Phu Tho) took on jobs such as industrial cleaning or painting with two uncles from the same hometown. On average, Thanh's daily salary was 550,000-800,000 VND. After the 24th of Tet, his work earned 1.2 million VND/day.

"Because the salary is quite high, even though the work is hard, but only working 8 hours earns a large amount of money, so last year and this year I tried to work until after the 27th of Tet before returning home," Thanh shared.

Coming from Me Linh district, Hanoi, Nguyen Thao, a senior student at the Banking Academy, finished her last shift at a Korean cosmetics company on the 28th of Tet. Thao's job is to close orders for customers buying online. The female student said that on normal days she only works 2-3 hours extra, but on days off, each shift lasts 6 hours, and can choose morning, afternoon or evening. For each shift, Thao is paid 600,000 VND or more, depending on the time, in total, over the week before Tet, she receives about 7-8 million VND.

The reason for working extra during Tet, according to students, is to have extra income to cover tuition fees and support their parents because Tet requires a lot of spending.

"Seeing my friends dragging their luggage back to their hometown early, I feel sad, but I want to help my parents so I have to try," Thao said.

Thanh received his extra money and planned to give some to his mother, exchange it for lucky money, and buy some delicious candies and veal ham for the whole family to enjoy during Tet.

Meanwhile, although her family is not too poor, Thu Huong still wants to support herself in the city. The female student from the suburbs of Hanoi thinks that her parents will take care of the housework and prepare for Tet.

"At first, when my parents heard me say I wanted to work extra, they didn't agree. But I convinced them that the salary would be high this time around and that the savings would be enough to prepare for the IELTS exam after Tet, so my mother agreed," Huong said.

In addition to income, many students share that part-time jobs help them learn management skills, patience and how to handle situations. Van Dung, a second-year student (FPT College), believes that these are all necessary skills for students like him.

"Hearing about the recent public outcry about the shipper being beaten, my parents were scared and called me to come home, but I still tried to work until just before Tet as planned," Dung shared.

Dung said that if students want to work extra during Tet, they should be careful and learn carefully about the location or organization that provides the job position.

"There is a lot of job posting information, but you need to be careful in selecting and checking the reality. You should not work in places without a contract. If possible, choose to work with acquaintances, there is a job available so you don't have to look for it, you can choose the job, avoid risks such as unpaid wages, salary fraud, and have a good income" - this student shared.

Do Hop

Source: https://tienphong.vn/sinh-vien-cat-luc-lam-them-mong-kiem-vai-trieu-dong-dip-tet-post1712511.tpo