People who don't have holidays

(Baonghean.vn) - While people are flocking to entertainment and tourist spots to relax and worry about what to do and what to eat? Among those people, there are many people busy making a living.

The fishermen's day off depends on the waves.

The sultry, scorching heat of the first days of summer, accompanied by hot winds, is shining down, penetrating every corner and every street. The holiday atmosphere is still bustling with big and small parties...

And at this time, there are still people who are still working hard at their daily routines, struggling to carry sacks of cement, meticulously polishing each shoe, or bending down to pick up each plastic can, etc. They seem to have never thought about having a real holiday. Their holiday,It doesn't have much special meaning, if anything it's just an opportunity to earn a little more money and work harder than usual. Theybusy making a living with the cycle of food - clothing - rice - money.

For many children, holidays are a chance to earn a little extra money to help their families.

Holding a small gray wooden box in his right hand and a pair of foam slippers in his left, Nguyen Duy Tan weaved his way through every street, every corner, or every crowded table in the coffee shop to greet customers and offer to shine their shoes. During the holidays, people have more free time to leisurely sip coffee, gather with friends and chat; his work was also more favorable thanks to that.

Mr. Tan shared, “Everyone knows about such a big holiday. But what’s the difference? I just keep doing my job. If I stop working, how will I live?” After a while of meticulously polishing his shiny black leather shoes, which looked like new, he received 10,000 VND from a customer.

Struggling with the rickety bicycle, the pile of scrap metal was higher than her head. Ms. Hoa tried to look back and suddenly stopped, the old bicycle was tilting and about to fall, but it seemed that for those who work in the scrap metal business like her, the skill of keeping the bicycle from falling has become an “art”. She hurried back and stopped next to a plastic can lying on the side of the road. Picking up the can, she sighed and monologued: “I tied it very tightly but it still fell”. And then she slowly pedaled her bicycle under the early summer sun.

For freelancers, holidays are like a luxury.

Sitting next to her familiar broom and garbage truck, Mrs. Luong Thi Tam confided that in more than ten years of working as a janitor, she has never known a day off. People in this profession often take turns working, but she works hard to earn money for her daughter to go to college far from home.

It was almost 12 noon, but we could still hear people calling each other from a high-rise building under construction: “Okay, winch, winch!” That was the signal from the construction workers to pull the winch to move things up. Could it be that these people did not take a holiday, and now they do not take a lunch break?

The construction workers still worked on their day off.

Working hard shoveling sand into the mortar mixer, sweat dripping down his shirt, Mr. Dao Cong Tuan confided: “As freelancers like us, we don’t have days off, all day long we only know about sand and cement. I hope that every day we can have work like this, to earn a few bucks so that our wives and children at home don’t have to work so hard.”

Standing on the third floor of the building, pulling the winch, Mr. Nguyen Van Phuc shouted down, "I'm used to this hardship, miss. Maybe now that I'm allowed to take time off to have fun, I'm not used to it, I'll be sad again." Everyone burst out laughing. Although the work is tiring, one can always see optimism and love of life on their faces.

Thy Hue