When I was an apprentice carpenter.

I wonder if most people will be confused. Every time they fill out any form, there will be a question: what skills or specialties do they have? And I don't know what to fill in every time, because it's a pity that I haven't learned any skills of taking and taking.

I recall my life inexplicably at night, and I can't help but think of the days when I dropped out of school. Because of family and my own reasons, I chose to drop out of high school. That winter, my family tried every means to let me learn a skill and thought about several careers. Later, a relative was a carpenter and asked me if I would like to be a carpenter. I thought about it for a long time. In my impression, carpentry is an artist, all kinds of carved jade. After learning it, it was quite promising, so I worshipped a master and became an apprentice carpenter. Later, I learned that carpentry is carpentry and artists are artists!

I vaguely remember that it was the eighth day of the seventh lunar month. I was taken to my master's house and had lunch at his house. My relatives went back, but I stayed and started my apprenticeship. In my memory, the master is a man who is not very tall. There are three children at home, one son and two twin daughters, all older than me. At that time, I only met his son. His son is at home during the winter vacation in college, and his two twin daughters are one year older than me. The school has started to make up lessons these two days. It can be said that the master is a happy person.

Because after the Lantern Festival, the master will take me to work in Wenzhou, so during the week at the master's house, the master will teach me to practice basic skills. What are you practicing? My summary is: planer, saw, hammer, chisel! The smoothness of wood is inseparable from the shaping of plane. Two days before practice, the master asked me to practice flying. The plane should be smooth and level, and the plane must be on the same horizontal plane. This requires the strength and dexterity of my hands. After practicing for two days, not only my arms are sore, but my hands are blistered because of the delicate skin, so I can't afford to eat chopsticks. On the third day, the master asked me to practice sawing wood. It sounds easy, but it is also a technical job, and we should also pay attention to ways and means. You can't deviate from the position and direction when sawing the marked part vertically, so you need to practice well. On the fourth day, I began to practice nailing, which should be the skill that carpenters need to master most. The strength of both hands should be well controlled, and the hand holding the hammer should be steady, otherwise the nail will be crooked; On the fifth day, I started drilling. Although this is relatively easy, it is also a meticulous work. In the remaining two days, I will practice some basic carpentry and review the skills I have learned these days.

I remember when I was an apprentice carpenter, I was deeply impressed by my week at the master's house, because it was really the beginning of my serious study of a skill. After the Lantern Festival, my master took me to Wenzhou and started a part-time job. This is a hard life. Every day, I crouch under the overpass with my master or like the talent market, waiting for the boss to pick someone to do things, or the master's regular customers have requirements to do things. Sometimes with luck, the master can take on a big project and work continuously for a month or two.

Actually, I don't care about being busy at all. I prefer such a full life, but I really can't stand it after half a year, because the master won't give me a penny. To tell the truth, I don't know if other disciples will be as poor as me, but as a young man, I only try to have some money and let myself live a chic life. As for me, I go out with my master every morning, buy two steamed buns for breakfast, go to work on the construction site by bike, and go home to help him cook at night. The only entertainment after dinner is to adjust the only two channels on the master's 7-inch small black-and-white TV. Silently speaking, not only do I have no money, but the money I brought out is almost spent. After all, I was still an internet addiction teenager at that time.

After half a year, after repeated consideration, as a teenager yearning for freedom, I made a decision to give up being a carpenter's apprentice, pack my bags and take a train from Wenzhou to Yiwu alone, and started another hard career!