"Tongwei, are there any big factories hiring? Do you have any connections?"
The village chief's eyes were gleaming. In the 1980s, the mainstream was not yet the newly emerging self-employed entrepreneurs; the older generation trusted factories—the bigger, the better. The larger the factory, the more secure the job, and the more prestige it carried when mentioned to others.
Qi Tongwei knew, of course, that a steady factory job was secure, but everyone in Qijia Village was a farmer with no professional skills. Amidst the layoffs of the current climate, even if they managed to get into a factory, they would be the first to be let go. Furthermore, Qi Tongwei didn't know any factory owners at all.
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