I'd like to write about my first job in the provincial capital.
Of course. Do you remember when you started that job?
It was autumn 1992. I'd just turned twenty, and I looked after the warehouse at a cable factory in the provincial capital.
Was there an object or a sound from your first day that you still remember?
A big bunch of keys on my waistband. They rattled with every step.
Chapter draftThe Iron Grasshopper
Sample excerpt · Shaped from conversation
My first job was at a small cable factory in the provincial capital. The workshop always smelled of heated rubber, sweet and sharp at the same time.
I looked after the warehouse for 420 yuan a month. On my first day, a woman from personnel handed me a heavy bunch of keys. They hung from my waistband and rattled as I walked.
For the first few days, I felt as though I had an iron grasshopper tied to my waist.
Only later did I understand that the weight of those keys was more than something at my waist. For a young person who had just left home, they were the first tie to a responsibility of my own.
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