Son arranges flowers and earns billions every year

Since childhood, he loved music and flowers. When he grew up, the young man decided to make a living with these two hobbies, but in the end, he had a better fate with flower arrangement and makeup, earning nearly 1 billion VND per year from this profession.

Many young people in the mountainous town of Kon Tum dream of having a busy life but earning a lot of money like Le Thoai Vuong (31 years old), owner of Tiamo flower shop and makeup and wedding dress rental shop.

However, few people know about the sweaty years of experience of this young man in Saigon more than 10 years ago. Vuong said that at that time, he was confident with his musical knowledge which he had learned since he was 5 years old, so when he graduated from high school, he registered for the entrance exam to the Ho Chi Minh City Conservatory of Music. Unexpectedly, he failed and had to study at the intermediate level. Vuong studied for a while and then quit.

"When I went to Saigon, I loved flowers since I was a child, so I decided to learn flower arranging," Vuong recalls. Since then, the "flower career" has followed Vuong until now. The shop that Vuong studied at was full of "males". He would wake up at 4am to go to the shop and leave only when the sun set. "Staying in the room for so long, sometimes I was startled that I hadn't seen the sun for so long," Vuong said. However, it was those days that helped Vuong have "golden hands" for flower arranging.

King at his flower shop.

When he was good at flower arranging, Vuong worked hard to earn money for expenses, then saved up capital to switch to learning makeup. At first, Vuong was a bit hesitant: who would want a boy to learn makeup? But later, Vuong thought that this profession was new to boys so it would be "hot", easy to attract and the main thing was to learn how to "master one art..." to establish himself and his career. With that determination, the mountain boy succeeded and by the end of 2007, he returned to Kon Tum City to open a flower shop and a bridal makeup salon.

In the days before the 2016 Lunar New Year, customers from inside and outside the province flocked to Vuong to "build" orchid pots. The more customers, the more Vuong had to refuse them to breathe and also because "if you accept, you have to do it, and if you do it, it has to be beautiful to maintain your reputation".

According to Vuong's method of creating orchids, each pot has an average of 21 branches, of which the least is 17 branches, the most is 39 branches, calculated according to the "birth, aging, sickness, death" method. "All of my Phalaenopsis orchids are genuine products from Da Lat, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Thailand, Taiwan, etc., so they are expensive: from 2 to 7 million VND/pot," Vuong said.

Actually, Vuong also likes to make a lot for customers, but last year the orchids did not bloom much so he had to give up. In addition, there were 10,000 branches of tulips, lilies, roses, chrysanthemums, carnations, orchids... that Vuong imported for Tet to sell both as flower arrangements and in pots. Vuong only sold them for two days, December 27 and 28, and they were all gone without a single branch left.

That was during Tet, but on normal days, Vuong sells flower arrangements, selling all kinds of flowers but "high-quality" flowers. Every day, he builds flower shops to sell pots, flower baskets, and flower arrangements. After deducting expenses, Vuong earns a profit of more than 10 million VND/month.

In addition, there is a bridal makeup shop and wedding dress rental, so every day, Vuong starts working at 4am and doesn't finish until 7-8pm to go home, not to mention waking up at 1am to take care of flowers for customers and do the bride's makeup to be on time to catch up with her husband.

At Vuong's makeup and wedding dress rental shop, there are 8 employees, including 6 workers, earning 3-6 million VND/person per month, not including allowances, travel and food support. Talking about income, Vuong said he earns nearly 1 billion VND per year.

According to Thanhnien.vn