u/Fancy-Spring-7968

I got up early this morning and tied all my belongings onto my e bike.

Today I had two job interviews booked, so before anything else I went to one of those fast food places with a lot of different dishes and had a proper meal first.

The first job was at a training center. They wanted a teacher with a broadcasting background. I talked with the boss for a while, showed him what I could do, and the conversation actually went pretty well.

But the pay was too low.

The base salary was only 2800 yuan a month. Even with the extra subsidy, it would only barely reach 3000. So I gave that one up.

The second job was much more unusual.

It was for an immersive theater. The staff there have to play different NPC roles depending on the script. If it’s a horror script, you even have to act as a ghost.

The boss showed me around the whole place, and honestly it was much bigger and more elaborate than I expected. There were all kinds of sets and different rooms, and the atmosphere was pretty intense.

After we talked, the offer was 4000 yuan a month, and with subsidy it could go up to 5000.

I told him I would give him an answer tomorrow.

After I left, one of my classmates told me that salaries in first tier cities might be better.

So I thought about it seriously.

I had already found a cheap e bike. I had already started figuring things out here. But in the end, I packed up my things again and decided to head for the next stop.

Guangzhou.

Brother Monkey Guangxi

This morning I packed up my tent, and not long after that it started raining lightly.

I still hadn’t eaten breakfast, so I stood by the roadside for a while to avoid the rain. People on scooters kept passing by in raincoats, and I was just standing there hungry, waiting for the rain to ease up.

Then the smell from a nearby fast food place kept drifting over.

At first I tried to ignore it, but in the end I went in and had a proper meal.

I got tomato scrambled eggs and chili pork with rice. Maybe it was because I was hungry and wet from the rain, but it tasted especially good. Hot rice and simple stir fried dishes really hit different when you’ve been outside all morning.

After eating, I started thinking about transport again.

Using shared bikes every day is just too expensive if I want to keep moving. I’ve been thinking about heading toward Guangzhou later, so I felt like I needed something cheaper and more stable.

So I went looking for a second hand electric bike.

With some help from the internet, I found one for only 400 yuan. I honestly didn’t expect much at that price, but it was good enough. The owner was also kind enough to let me fully charge it at the shop before I left.

That actually made me feel a lot more settled.

For the first time in a while, it felt like I had my own way to move around instead of paying every time.

At night I rode to a nearby night market and looked around for a while. There were all kinds of strange snacks, and I tried a few of them.

Later that night I found a rooftop, set up my tent again, and spent the night there.

It started as a rainy morning, but by the end of the day I had a full stomach, a cheap e bike, and a place to sleep.

Not a bad day.

 Brother Monkey Guangxi

I woke up really early today, so I went to the market first.

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to spend less money, especially on food. Buying breakfast outside every day adds up fast, so this morning I tried to make the cheapest meal possible.

I bought a little pork scrap, some wet rice noodles, and a bit of salt. It was all very cheap, much cheaper than a normal breakfast.

But in the end I still gave in and bought a minced pork cheung fun.

So my plan to save money kind of failed right away.

Later I kept thinking about rent and food and how every part of the day costs money. The more I thought about it, the more I felt like I should stop spending in the usual way and try something else.

So I bought a small net and went to the river.

There were already people in the water looking for snails, so I joined them. At first I didn’t really know what I was doing, but after a while I started finding some too.

It wasn’t much, but at least it felt better than spending more money on another meal.

At night I stayed by the riverside, made a fire, cooked outside, and set up a tent nearby.

Not comfortable, but very cheap.

That was basically the whole point of today.

BrotherMonkeyGuangxi

Yesterday I worked as a ticket checker and made 80 yuan.

This morning I went out and had a traditional Nanning breakfast. It was simple but honestly pretty good. After eating, I started asking around nearby to see if there were any cheap rooms for rent.

I walked around for a while and talked to a few people. Eventually someone showed me a small room. It was not great, very basic, but the price was only 200 yuan per month, which is the cheapest I’ve seen so far.

For a moment I thought I finally got lucky.

But then they told me I needed to pay two months deposit.

I do have some money on me, but not enough to pay everything upfront.

So I had to give it up.

Around noon I went to a park and just lay down on the grass for a while. I didn’t spend anything, just resting and thinking.

After that I bought a cheap Chinese meal to fill my stomach. Nothing special, just something to keep me going.

Because tonight I had another job.

Someone hired me to help clean and move things. We didn’t move everything today, just cleaned the place first. The actual moving will happen tomorrow morning.

The guy who hired me is a medical student. He is about to start his internship soon.

While we were working, we talked a bit about life and what we are both doing.

He asked me why I was living like this.

I told him I just wanted to try starting from zero and see what happens.

He said he actually respects that.

I didn’t expect that.

Tomorrow morning we will move everything.

Brother Monkey Guangxi