Super-rich: Spending money is just a job!

On Tuesday morning, Lin Xiaomeng made noodles with braised pork topping herself. After eating breakfast, she went to work with a full stomach.

On my way to work, I saw a breakfast stall on the roadside, which reminded me of my past self. I used to buy the cheapest soy milk and steamed buns, which cost me 5 yuan for breakfast.

Without realizing it, I compared the cost of the delicious braised pork noodles I made at home this morning to just over a dollar, since I had leftover braised pork from yesterday.

Indeed, having a refrigerator and food supplies makes cooking at home more economical.

However, she is not the same as before. She no longer has to think about how to save money, but how to spend it in a way that is comfortable, healthy, and enjoyable.

While roadside breakfasts are quick, the ingredients are generally not very good, and you can only eat while walking, so it's not exactly a comfortable experience.

Now, riding my newly bought electric bicycle, I can enjoy the charm of this southern city on my way to work. I was surprised to find that the trees along my commute are so tall, lush, and full of life.

When I went out around 7 a.m., the sun was already shining brightly.

I never knew the sky could be so blue, and the clouds could be so beautiful.

The intersection ahead was surrounded by roadside trees, with only a square space in the middle revealing a patch of azure sky. Looking at the sky while waiting for the traffic lights, Lin Xiaomeng felt extremely refreshed and relaxed.

As she hurried into the office building amidst the throngs of people heading to work, she was surprised to find herself feeling surprisingly calm.

This job isn't actually that difficult, except that the supervisor is quite strict and Old Lady Liu has a rather unpleasant expression, constantly using performance targets to pressure the lower-level employees.

However, the office is sheltered from the wind and rain; you can simply sit in front of the computer and work.

Aside from the lower pay, Lin Xiaomeng was quite satisfied; it was much more comfortable than farming in the village.

Farming in the village means there's no one in charge to supervise you, and no one cares about your income either, so you can't make any money at all.

"I don't want to think about it anymore," Lin Xiaomeng tidied up her workstation, quickly turned on her computer, and looked at her work plan for the day.

I need to email a few clients to see if they need any samples, both domestically and internationally.

We also need to find some new clients to send them emails to see if they are interested in our company's products.

Lin Xiaomeng's job is to generate orders at a trading company.

According to former colleagues, this job paid quite well a few years ago, mainly because there were many clients in Europe and America, with large order volumes and generous spending. Therefore, sales clerks earned a decent income, with monthly commissions reaching tens of thousands of yuan.

Unfortunately, business has become difficult in the last year or two, reportedly due to the poor state of the economy abroad. There's an economic crisis everywhere, and many of our client companies have gone bankrupt.

The most troublesome thing is that cargo ships often run into trouble. Lin Xiaomeng has only heard that things are not very peaceful at sea.

The containers sometimes disappear.

Lin Xiaomeng only heard about it from the senior employees, and she didn't know the specifics.

In short, this industry is not as good as it used to be, and many long-time employees have resigned and switched to other careers.

Lin Xiaomeng is new to the industry and has no choice. Her base salary is low, and she hasn't closed a single deal this month, so she probably won't get any commission.

After sending the email, Xiaomeng pushed the keyboard aside and saw Xiaoping waving at her from a distance, inviting her to a meeting.

These little meetings are held every day, and they don't seem to improve work efficiency much. It's so annoying.

At the morning meeting that day, the supervisor severely criticized Lin Xiaomeng and her work group, saying that their group had not made a single order this month and that their work attitude was not proactive enough.

They specifically criticized veteran employees like Lin Xiaomeng, saying they weren't working hard enough and were far worse than the previous sales clerks.

Lin Xiaomeng thought to herself, who knew that these employees who had been with the company for less than a year were already considered veterans.

The supervisor said that if their group continued to drift along like this, they might as well quit and go home to fend for themselves.

Then they started making grand promises, talking about how a salesperson from the neighboring company made a lot of money on a single sale. They encouraged them to work hard to develop clients and send more emails to them.

Although Lin Xiaomeng had only been in the workforce for a short time, she had heard some inside stories from veteran employees. Many of the big deals they were able to close came from clients who had been with the company for generations.

For example, they have been cooperating with the company for many years and have a basic customer base.

Clients with whom we have a prior working relationship are the ones who dare to place large orders.

Or perhaps this client is someone a team has been working with for a long time, some even for a year or two, before finally securing a large order; it's not something you can just get whenever you want.

These junior employees, who have only been with the company for a few months, don't have many clients of their own. They basically have to rely on the company to transfer some low-value clients to them for them to handle.

In reality, the success rate of closing deals with these clients is not high, and you have to be careful not to get scammed out of money and goods. Salespeople who get scammed will also be fined by their boss.

Therefore, there are many risks involved in being a merchandiser in foreign trade, so you should be as careful as possible.

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiaomeng knew that her supervisor was spouting nonsense again and engaging in psychological manipulation.

The employees sitting at the lower end of the conference table looked at each other, their faces displaying subtle expressions.

Finally, at the end of the meeting, the supervisor still forced everyone to make a statement: we must work even harder in the remaining days of this month to strive for orders.

But once everyone returned to their workstations, they went back to doing what they were doing before. Everyone pretended to have forgotten the oath they had just made.

Lin Xiaomeng's colleagues, the more diligent ones, would log on to foreign trade forums to browse posts, chat, and look for any new clients.

For those who already have clients, it's about writing emails to maintain relationships with existing clients and checking if there's any chance of closing a deal this month.

For people like Xiaomeng who don't have many long-term clients, the only option is to send out mass emails one by one.

Finally, check your inbox to see if you have received a reply email.

Yesterday, Xiaomeng sent out twenty or thirty emails, but only replied to one today. When she opened it, she saw that it was a reply from Feibing Sange's family. The reply was still very generous, but they asked them to send out some samples for free.

Lin Xiaomeng immediately pulled the email into the trash can; all the emails her third brother replied to were junk.

The people over there only know how to get something for nothing; they're completely worthless.

Why haven't we received any replies from the Middle Eastern tycoons or from Europe and America?

It's really depressing.