Every day when I was being whipped by KPIs, I dreamed of finding an easy side job and becoming rich overnight.

However, after I returned from the Douban tour on "the day my side business failed", I began to feel hopeless. They sum up doing side business as "staying up late, newly bald and not seeing customers".

Is the fate of young people destined to be the screws of 996?

When I started to hypnotize myself to be "poor and happy", the "2021 Xianyu New Job Trend Report" recently released by Xianyu made my eyes shine, showing a group of young people using their spare time to develop side jobs. Harvesting the nth pot of gold.

They do not sell things on second-hand platforms, but “sell themselves”, among which the post-90s and post-00s generation account for more than 70%.

Some unheard of professional titles also refreshed my understanding: such as voice appraisers who give "speech scores", waiters who specialize in running hospitals, learning supervisors who mutated from "Supervise Tang Monk", and animals. Rescue pet confinement nanny.

Some niche side jobs are even born out of season, such as bridesmaids and groomsmen. During the National Day, the wedding phenomenon has led to a surge in demand for bridesmaids and groomsmen. Many socially arrogant people came forward and not only accepted the bare-faced appearance, but also agreed to shield the groom from drinking, literally saving society from danger.

We may have spent 10,000 brain cells to make a dime, but everyone has a path to the code of wealth.

So the Lifestyle Institute spoke to these amazing young people. Maybe they can prove one thing to young people: being poor and confused is not your fault, it is the fault of your work.

Dumb

Audio appraiser

The young man’s anxiety about his appearance has ignited a group of “appearance raters”. But what many people don’t know is that the “rating voice” business is also booming.

A-Dai was the first person to step into the wave of "voice appraiser" side business. Four years ago, she entered the dubbing industry by chance. While studying voice, she unexpectedly discovered that contemporary young people have mild voice anxiety.

The person who impressed Ah-Dai the most was a girl in her twenties. She was called "boy" by her friends, which caused her to have a low self-esteem. She felt that her voice was ugly and hoarse, and her words revealed extreme confidence.

A-Dai had a patient conversation with her, repeatedly analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of her voice, constantly encouraged her, and provided some suggestions and help.

So far, A-Dai has sold more than 300 sound identification reports on Xianyu. They do not come from authoritative certification, but are full of unknowns, just like opening a novel and interesting "blind box", just like strangers evaluating appearance based on first impressions.

She will put some personalized labels on each person's voice, such as the sound of the duck, the refreshing sound after the rain, the healing sound of Paris in the afternoon, and the sound of the radio late at night. She will also score based on market value, friendship value, maturity value, and healing value.

For those who want a better-sounding voice, Ah-Dai will also give some professional advice to help them adjust their pronunciation habits based on timbre, intonation, rhythm, and breath.

Through voice recognition, Dumb got to know all kinds of people. She found that more and more people are realizing that voice is another business card for people, especially with the widespread use of voice and the emergence of various voice apps, young people hope to use beautiful voices to "make friends by voice."

And young people are very curious about the classification of their own voices. When they realize that there is a gap between their own feelings and other people's feelings, they will also pay special attention to other people's opinions.

Therefore, Ah-Dai feels that the greatest value of this job is not the "appraisal report", but that during the communication process, he uses his professional knowledge to deepen everyone's understanding of his own voice and gives A positive encouragement and affirmation from everyone.

Beep sound

Attendant

Many young people who are single or aspiring to be DINK have been worried about a question: Will they go to the hospital when they come to No Country for Old Men? Are you having difficulty?

The solution to this problem is currently being implemented by a freelance 3354 "waiter" on Xianyu.

Dudu is a post-90s generation in Nanjing who provides escort services. She works as a dance teacher and in her spare time, she becomes a professional doctor. When the epidemic in Nanjing was particularly serious a while ago, she also helped some people who needed nucleic acid tests line up.

Most of the people who need companionship are the elderly.

Most of their children are in other places or abroad, so they ask Dudu for help. Especially in large hospitals that are like a maze, the elderly are really struggling, and Dudu often has to do his homework in advance.

Many empty nesters only have pets to keep them company. /TuChong

But what impressed Dudu most was a "threesome". A girl came to her and said she hoped Dudu would accompany her and take her father to see a doctor. Her father is very old and suffers from Alzheimer's disease. She can't handle it alone.

Dudu readily agreed and helped the girl push the wheelchair, pick up things, and run up and down. There was a little accident in the middle. The girl's father became incontinent on the road, but the girl was very patient. She asked Dudu to stay and look at things, and took her father to the toilet to deal with it before coming back.

This deeply touched Dudu. She feels that we are all of the same age but have completely different levels of burden, which makes her more aware of the necessity of the consulting service profession.

However, this industry is still at a stage unknown to the public. Dudu, for example, is often misunderstood as a human trafficker. Many people couldn't get the expert number, so they asked her if she was a scalper and could register on their behalf.

The hospital never lacks people queuing up to get a call. /TuChong

It is not just the elderly who need companionship, young people sometimes come to visit us. They may have a lot of worries, don't want to cause trouble to their family and friends, and don't want to go to the hospital alone, so they want someone to accompany them.

For example, a girl in her twenties wants Dudu to accompany her for an abortion. She was scared to be alone, but she didn't want anyone else to know. Dudu thought she was a little pitiful, "Maybe she met a scumbag," and agreed.

It is said that "going to the hospital for surgery alone" is the ultimate loneliness on the International Loneliness Scale. If escort services can be more standardized and popularized in the future, I believe it will be a valuable industry.

Boots

Study Supervisor

For 22-year-old Boots, becoming a study supervisor was purely accidental.

Later, during the school season, "Persuading Tang Monk" became popular, and Boots decided to follow this part-time master and start learning supervision together.

I have tasted the suffering that the Supreme Treasure suffered back then.

However, unlike "Advising Tang Monk" who costs three yuan a time, Boots is a study supervisor.

The supervision is not a "thought-out" type, but a companion supervision that extends the time line to half a month.

The longest time, Boots and Boots stayed with each other for a whole quarter. He hopes that as a gentle academic brother, he can serve those who are really willing to pay for their learning goals, but have procrastination or are not very self-disciplined.

He also analyzed the user portraits that came to him. Most of them were college students preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination or the public examination, or white-collar workers who needed to take the examination, and generally had a certain knowledge background.

Generally speaking, Supervisor Boots’ day starts with “manual alarm clock service”. If there is no answer on WeChat, he will call.

After the client wakes up, he will collect homework in the morning, afternoon and evening according to the study plan. If the task is not achieved, there will be corresponding punishments, usually forcing them to run, do sit-ups, and keep records.

Bootshoe’s own major is sociology. After supervising fifty or sixty people, he gradually discovered that learning to supervise is actually a false demand, because the only people who truly succeed in supervising are those who already have a certain degree of self-discipline.

On the contrary, Bootstrap feels that learning supervision is more like a disguised emotional need. Although there are already apps such as Forest and Tomato ToDo, people are still willing to pay to a stranger because, relatively speaking, apps are still cold tools and do not produce truly warm interactions.

“In fact, under the huge pressure of competition, this group has some emotions that need to be expressed, but they are unwilling to share them with the people around them, so they will want to find a stranger to accompany them through the period of preparing for the exam. A long time." Boots said.

Satisfying emotional needs is something that all intelligent tools or AI cannot truly achieve. This is why we all have alarm clocks, but still look forward to our mother or loved ones waking us up.

Dabai

Pet Doctor

Dabai and the 10 people in his team were once called "pet confinement nannies", because from birth to death of small animals, They all intervened.

Most of them are working doctors at local pet hospitals.

But outside of work, they are animal rescuers traveling throughout Shanghai.

Their working hours are never fixed. Sometimes, Dabai returns home at eight or nine in the evening, sleeps for four hours, and gets up again to check the animal help information on Xianyu.

At the busiest time, Dabai had to perform 30 surgeries a day. "Barefoot doctors can't do what we do. In addition to being compassionate, they also need to be highly skilled, because we are purely fighting in the wild."

Rescuing animals at cost price outside of working hours is not an easy thing to persevere. sideline. But every time he saw a poor stray cat or dog coming to his door, Dabai couldn't bear to abandon it.

The one who impressed me the most was a young girl who just graduated in August this year. She found Dabai anxiously and said that she had picked up an orange cat on the road. It must have been run over by a car, and its lower limbs had suffered a comminuted fracture, and the entire bone was broken.

After a quick diagnosis, Dabai realized that it was a difficult operation. The kitten is only three months old. If it is not amputated, it will continue to be inflamed and may not be saved. But if the surgery is performed in the hospital, the cost for both legs is as high as 16,000 yuan, and the cost of nursing care is almost more than 20,000 yuan.

The little girl didn’t have that much money, but she insisted on keeping the kitten alive. In the end, Dabai's team decided to charge only the lowest cost of more than 4,000 yuan, and also provided the little girl with installment and water-drop financing.

Xianyu’s report shows that the number of pet services has increased by 369% in half a year, including but not limited to feeding, blind dates, cleaning, and medical care. It can be seen that more and more people are raising pets like children. .

Their level of investment is also far higher than before. For example, many cat owners will seek out real "confinement nannies" to perform prenatal check-ups and deliver babies for female cats, and then provide nutritious meals, postpartum care, and vaccinations. Give it full maintenance.

The types of pets are becoming more and more niche, and pigs, rabbits, hedgehogs, and hamsters are no longer uncommon. Dabai also rescued a chicken, which was a pet kept by a kind-hearted old aunt in Shanghai. She did not kill animals and planned to raise the chicken until she died.

The minds and passion of young people doing side jobs are beyond imagination. They have spare time and spare talent, and they no longer care about working as screws for big manufacturers.

In these niche and interesting side jobs, we can also see young people's thinking about career planning - starting a "help economy" in an increasingly atomized society.

It can be seen that although contemporary young people always say they want to lie down, they may be secretly working interesting jobs and be ready to fire the boss at any time.

My talents are bound to be useful. If not, then go to Xianyu to have a look.

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Produced by | Lifestyle Research Institute

Interview, text | Hua Lao Bai

Pictures | Provided by interviewees (except (Except for signature)

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