How can I make money while traveling by bicycle? I heard that it is difficult to find hourly and daily workers now. How can we solve these problems?

It was originally posted in the comments of the daily newspaper. It was said to be more than a thousand words, and it was already finished. I didn’t want to vomit it quickly, so I found it here to post it.

In fact, once you have experience in traveling, it really doesn’t cost much. For me, who carries a tent, transportation is the biggest expense. I won’t tell you how to save money on tourist attractions, etc. As long as you are not lazy, walk more and get up early. Of course, some people will say that it is tiring to always calculate how to save money when going out. In fact, when experience becomes a habit, there is no need to calculate anything. For example, if you are tired of setting up a tent and want to stay in a youth hostel or inn in the city, where can you go with Ctrip, Baidu or the like? The lowest prices include daily rental housing and youth job-seeking housing. Anyway, you can just take a shower and recharge your batteries. What’s even better is that you can also cook. Spring Airlines has a lot of low-cost air tickets, starting at 99, and also 99-199-299 and so on. For example, last time from Shijiazhuang to Chongqing, 99 plus air tickets were around 300, which I think is still a good deal. Regarding cycling, this is really not suitable for travelers, it is suitable for extreme sports people, and it is suitable for people with a lot of time. It is also very wasteful, tiring, and eats a lot. It is only more than 100 kilometers a day. There are many scenic spots and you can’t see them all. Read to the end. Feeling like vomiting. The cyclists I met around the island in Hainan were riding on the highway all the way around the island (no spraying, the Hainan Expressway is free, and bicycles can be stolen). I thought it was pointless to walk around like that, so I decided to escape halfway. Going all the way north to Nanjing, I felt that the eastern coast was really beautiful, but the scenery was the same. After arriving in Zhejiang, I saw more than N ancient towns in one day, including Luzhi Qiandeng, Tongli, Zhouzhuang, Wuzhen, and many other local ancient towns. The road from Taihu Basin to Shanghai is really beautiful. Su Xichang was very good, but unfortunately his muscles were weak. In the end, he was frozen into a dog in Nanjing. I sold the car and started taking the train. I felt so good! My interest gradually returned, and I finally settled in Xinjiang. Thinking about this journey, the most regrettable thing is the Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai River section. Although it is slow, it is very tiring. The most comfortable one is Sichuan, Ningxia, Gansu and Xinjiang, and the food is also smooth. , trains are also cheap. There is also the relationship between work and travel. When you have travel-oriented values, you will find ways... For example, I volunteered in a Lijiang inn, went to Xinjiang to volunteer for the Western Plan, and went to Lanzhou to learn ramen. A friend who worked as a master chef at East China Normal University in Guangzhou for three months and a mechanical assistant said that the company likes travelers with professional skills who can work short-term. Generally, the contract is for several months or half a year. Because travelers It’s a temporary job. I work very hard and energetic. I’m not afraid of offending people. I have a lot of good new ideas. I’ve also seen people selling scenic postcards I took. In fact, what everyone is worried about is how to do sustainable travel. You’re halfway through work. , what will you do if your qualifications are not as good as others in a few years? In fact, I am also worried, but since you have chosen the value of traveling as a living, and you still insist on extravagantly expecting to be better than others in terms of working height, how can you let others live? In fact, after typing so many messy words, what I want to say is that if we don’t have the mind to tolerate various values, then there is no point in talking about traveling to change yourself. Traveling can only change your wallet. If I have money in the future, of course I will try to drive myself, set up a boat to travel around, and fly around. If I continue to have no money, I just want to say that even if I am a loser, even if I use my steps to measure it, I can still know that the world is very big, and I will not regret for doing nothing, or feel ashamed for wasting my years...

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Those are the first answers, and the debate is quite big, so let’s talk about budget travel, travel and responsibility. .

I won’t explain it in detail, but I will tell my own story.

After I started taking time to travel in school, I discovered the so-called responsibility issue. They provide for their parents in old age, are afraid of getting sick, worry about anything happening to their family, and also have to give birth to and raise grandchildren for them.

But I have been resisting myself. Why are these the key points? Where is my own life? These are vicious circles that I can’t get around.

It wasn’t until later that I gradually figured out that it doesn’t depend on the system or fate. It’s your responsibility and you have to shoulder it.

Our home is not in a remote mountainous area, but in the suburbs of a prefecture-level city, within the third ring road. However, my parents’ income was extremely mediocre, and they all used it to pay off debts. The house built by my family 20 years ago had a debt of 80,000 yuan. and for my sister and I to go to school. I graduated in 2009 and my sister graduated in 2012.

This took them 20 years. There will definitely be people who can't imagine and calculate how much my parents earn and how much we spend, how could I only do these two things for 20 years.

My mother worked as a substitute teacher for 15 years. By the time she resigned in 2003, her monthly salary had risen to 200 yuan.

My dad is a lathe worker. Because he makes work for relatives, he usually pays for it on sight, no more than 20,000. It's still...

Actually, there are things you can't imagine. When I was studying in Luoyang in 2009, a 40-year-old teacher said that we only had 200 living expenses for a month of schooling at that time. You are so good now, why don't you still? Know how to cherish a good life. But he didn’t know that my living expenses at that time were 1,000 yuan a semester, which was less than 200 yuan a month on average. I am very poor, but I have to travel every holiday. In 05, I worked in Yonghe Doujiang during the winter vacation of 06. I went to Beijing to do group performances during the summer vacation of 07. I went to the Zhengzhou construction site during the winter vacation of 07. I went to Lijiang to work as an inn volunteer in the summer vacation of 08. I went to Foshan during the winter vacation of 09. Sold insurance, graduated in 2009 and went to Xinjiang. During college, I tried to make money by selling books, quilts, train tickets, and phone cards. But I didn’t have the business gene, and I was lazy and playful, so I couldn’t make any money. I didn’t work a lot during my school days. My main source of living was a long-term promotion for a certain beverage. I earned 50 RMB per day on weekends, 80 RMB for checking out the goods overnight, and 180 RMB for two days. To me, it's a huge sum of money. After returning from Lijiang, I helped the inn continue to promote the Internet. In fact, I just wrote soft articles, made up stories, and talked about romantic encounters. I earned 300 a month, 10 articles a day.

Before graduation, I rented a house in an urban village in Luoyang for 60 yuan a month. I studied e-commerce, but worked in a nearby travel agency for 500 yuan a month, just because I like traveling. At the same time as I graduated, I signed up as a volunteer for the Western Region Project and went to Xinjiang. It took one year after graduation for our family to pay off all our old debts, and two years after graduation for me to pay off my student loans and get my diploma.

Where is the balance point? On the one hand, I don’t have enough living expenses and I still travel everywhere; on the other hand, I have old family debts and don’t have a diploma, so I don’t work first and still volunteer?

I have to admit that to this day I am still not a very good money maker. I am indecisive and have too many romantic feelings. Our family cannot withstand any changes. Fortunately, there are no changes.

It’s too wordy... Hurry up...

The volunteer income is 680 per month from the state, 300 from the autonomous region, and 200 from the unit. I have been working for a year and a half, like in Xinjiang Under Shenzhen-like consumption conditions and a monthly income of 1,180 yuan, I saved more than 8,800 yuan. Then I joined a state-owned enterprise and went to Hubei for training for a year. After another year, I returned to Xinjiang and worked in the Gobi Desert for three months. I hired a catering stall of the company to make ramen (no one was optimistic about it and no one was doing it, so I It only cost more than 20,000 yuan (including equipment) to open it. The business is okay. I can't recruit people in the Gobi Desert. My cousins, sisters, junior sisters, and classmates and friends who love traveling came to help. At most, I took in 12 people. Individuals, not freebies, 3,000 per month for relatives, 2,500 per month for friends and classmates. I made a little money and started to realize my current and childhood dreams. I bought inline skates, a guitar, and even a basketball and a Bully learning machine. The biggest items were an iPhone and a laptop. There are so many things at your fingertips. Even if I don’t play with them, I will smile happily when I look at them.

I bought another house near my home and became the "successful person" in my family

A year later, the store was hacked by others...I was homeless again...

I took advantage of the situation and went to Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, and Shaanxi for rest. Because there were three ramen chefs there, and after visiting, I went to Lanzhou to learn ramen.

Then I went to Guangxi with the Lanzhou boss to open a branch, and only gave him 3,000 for three months. I went to Anhui to help a friend for half a year, and gave him 1,000 for six months. I was constantly being cheated and felt helpless. The good thing was that I learned how to ramen and visited Guangxi, Hunan, and Anhui. Then I went to Guangzhou University to work as a master chef for three months, earning 4,000 per month. Then I learned that I had opened another store in Xinjiang.

Start riding before returning to Xinjiang. After seven days and six nights in Hong Kong, we set up tents at Pui O Camp. I don’t buy luxury goods, I only buy things that interest me. The museums are great and the universities are great. This trip cost 1,000 Hong Kong dollars, or 800 RMB.

Then it’s like my last answer, constantly changing travel methods, cycling, planes, trains, walking and hitchhiking, returning to Xinjiang from Guangzhou in three months.

In the middle, I tried to make money by working part-time, setting up stalls, and singing and singing, but nothing came of it. I felt it was more practical to earn money and then play.

Because I lost my phone call midway, and because I wanted to honor my family during the Chinese New Year, this trip just spent all my income in the year since I left Xinjiang.

We are currently preparing for a new store, using the savings from previous store openings (there is a buying fund and a small profit). My father, mother, sister and husband all came to help me. I am not married.

To summarize, after 8 years of traveling, there are still 5 provinces left before we can travel across China. This time I open a store, I don’t know when I can complete the remaining five provinces.

When it comes to travel, there are several purposes.

The first is not to waste travel expenses and visit wherever you go to work.

Secondly, don’t waste the outbound and return journeys. You can have fun on the way to a certain place and back to a certain place.

Third, don’t travel for the sake of traveling, work for the sake of work. These are complementary to each other.

I stayed in Guangzhou for three months, with six days off and one day off. I traveled all over Guangzhou, the city of the Republic of China, on that day every week. I loved it so much. Even when you are very tired, it is very refreshing to take the subway all the way to Nansha or Foshan, watching the subway go out of the underground and turn into a light rail, and the scenery whizzing by on both sides.

In Guangxi, there are no days off, so I go to see the night view after get off work in the evening, go to the overpass to watch the stall guys bargaining with the beauties coming and going, and when I get tired, I sit on the steps of Hangyang Plaza and listen to a wandering singer. Sing and ask for guitar tips.

In Anhui, because it is in the countryside, there is no rich urban life. Every day after noon, I go swimming in the fish pond, go to the woods to listen to cicadas locate and catch them, get bitten by mosquitoes, and mix leaf stems with children. After 9 pm, there was no one in the town. I climbed up to the roof of a bungalow to enjoy the cool air, watching the stars move, watching how the Milky Way gradually became horizontal and vertical, and I also watched the most famous meteor shower in 2013. Occasionally there are heavy rains, lightning dances all over the sky, and thunder explodes more than a thousand times, which makes you marvel at the magic of nature.

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Fourthly, don’t be bound by responsibilities. As long as you keep it in mind and follow your goals, you will have opportunities. Really not... When you were in your youth, your parents were at least not very old and could still take care of themselves. You cannot use them as responsibilities as an excuse for you not to dare to go or venture, whether it is travel, life or work.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, such as natural disasters and man-made disasters. Don’t accept death for specific situations. If you need to take care of them, you must shoulder them.

As for the future, I feel that the concept of raising children to protect them in old age is up to me. I will take care of my parents, but my children should be independent from an early age and have their own lives. I will try my best to take care of my own future. It won't be a burden to him to finish it in half a lifetime, but don't think about it, and don't think about using me as the reason why he can't let go.

He has to be himself.