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20160711ou 一中两外锵锵三人行
今日话题： 有人发明了一项新工作：为人收拾衣柜，收入最高时可做到两天赚一万元
Lincoln: Now an interesting new job has emerged in China. You You, maybe you can tell us a little bit more about it.
Yoyo: In China a girl from Chengdu helping people organize her wardrobes, guess how much money she can earn within two days.
Lincoln: By you asking me that questions I’m going to assume that it could be quite a lot.
Yoyo: She charges according to the size of the wardrobe and typically her fee is 100 yuan per hour per meter and it if it takes longer than 1 hour then it is 120 per hour. She once served a client living in a villa who owned two large wardrobes. It took her two full days to organize them and she earned over ten-thousand yuan.
Qinduo: I think what attracts people’s attention is not only the ten-thousand yuan that she made for two days but also the new job, the new line of trade. I think that is very intriguing for a lot of people here. I think it is an interesting story. She’s one
of the many so-called post 1990s generation and people tend to classify people
based on which generation you are. Because of the rapid development of the
country, people born in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s up until the 1990s are very different.
It’s due to the background you grew up in. The post 1990s – I tend to see
them as more open-minded and creative, and brave too, as we see with this girl
and her entrepreneurial spirit creating a new line of business here.
Lincoln: I would say that this not something that I would ever see myself using regularly. Even at this time in my life now, I’m not particularly organized but there is a loose system in place in my head, where if you ask me where something is I would be able to tell you.
Yoyo: Imagine you had a whole closet full of t-shirts, it would be difficult for you to find one if you didn’t know where to look in a mountain of t-shirts.
Lincoln: In that case, and Qinduo will back me up on this, you’ll just wear the top one.
Yoyo: Sometimes the whole procedure helps me to find the forgotten [QD: the hidden treasure!]. Yeah! It’s like treasure-hunting. Sometimes I have too many dresses for the summer, so sometimes it’s the procedure for me that I have to find that buried one that I have already forgotten, which is really good. I really enjoy the whole experience.
Lincoln: It’s the same sense of well-being for me in organizing all my music. When I have all my music on all my various players, by finding the little tracks and putting the little album art in. It gives me a sense of enormous well-being. However, I’m not going to pay someone to do it am I? I’m not going to pay someone to go and do that for me, it’s not gotten that out of hand.
Qinduo: As the Chinese economy is transforming itself from heavy reliance on import and export economy, young people are being creative and now they are forming their own businesses and their own services to meet people’s demand and people’s needs. I see this as very positive. When people get rich, I don’t say they are lazy, but they do not have a lot of time, they do need some assistance.
Yoyo: There is a need for this. It’s the same logic as for deliveries. Like when people don’t want to go to the restaurant even though its only like 100m away from their house. They still prefer staying at home and having the phone delivered online. Is it necessary? Not really, but there is an industry building up.
Lincoln: You pay for the convenience don’t you?
