Why do young people born in the 1990s choose to be dredgers?

Degree worker born in the 1990s: It’s really a sense of accomplishment to be able to help so many people.

At this time, the septic tank cleaning was completed, and Xiao Xu and Lao Du began to wash away the stains left on the ground with clean water. A resident happened to be passing by and accidentally splashed water on his feet. Looking at the frowning resident, Lao Du and Xiao Xu quickly apologized and smiled.

“Sometimes I go to residents’ homes to help clear sewers and toilets. Most people are very polite, but only a few people are a little disdainful.” Lao Du and Xiao Xu are used to this: “ Someone has to do these jobs." Lao Du was very proud of this job and took out his mobile phone to show reporters photos of him at work. Bodies soaked in sewage, suspended in mid-air, working underground... are the most common contents in the photos. "For example, Kunming had accumulated water before. Some river water along the river poured into the communities and streets along the river, resulting in a lot of dirt on the streets. We also cleaned up. It is indeed a sense of accomplishment to be able to help so many people. "Xiao Xu said.

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Lao Du’s company now has more than 10 people , most of whom are relatively young.

Lao Du’s cousin is Xiao Le, who was born in 1992 and graduated from Qingdao University of Science and Technology majoring in environmental science. When he just graduated, Xiaole went to Shanghai to do environmental monitoring work. "After working for a while, I found that the content I learned in school was actually very limited, and I was somewhat unable to apply it in practice. So I wanted to start from the most basic ones, hoping to gain something." In this way, on March 1 this year, Xiao Le quit his job in Shanghai and returned to Kunming.

“Because my cousin happened to be in the pipeline dredging industry, I wanted to do it together with him.” In this way, Xiao Le became a member of the company.

After graduating from college and working in a big city, his identity suddenly changed to that of a dredger. This made it difficult for Xiao Le to adapt at first: "It's really hard, and I have to do all the work myself."

The time that impressed Xiao Le the most was when he and his cousin went to Fujian to do dredging of municipal drinking water pipes. "Only when I went down did I find that the pipe was full of sand, and our cleaning truck couldn't do its job at all." Xiaole had no choice but to clean the sand with his hands. "The pipeline is 3 kilometers long, and we cleaned it for 20 days." This made Xiaole, who was in his early 20s, exhausted. "It was too hard, and I thought about giving up halfway through, but everyone was working hard and no one wanted to give up. I thought, if others can do it, why can't I, so I persisted."

"Some things It has nothing to do with academic qualifications. Without these solid accumulations, reading the book will be in vain, and I don’t want to read in vain.” Xiao Le said that there are many ways to succeed, and if you want to succeed, don’t worry about the process. There is no difference in whether work is decent or not, but whether it is meaningful or not.