He Xiaolong: How many people have been given the opportunity to make money by construction machinery!
Real estate, Internet, e-commerce, self-media, new energy… The wheel of the times is rolling forward, and the big times and the little people are intertwined. Many people have achieved a leap in life and accumulated wealth because they have caught the east wind of the times.
The protagonist of this article, He Xiaolong, entered the construction machinery industry after graduating from junior high school and caught up with the real estate bonus period. He grew from an ordinary person with no education and no background to an excavator owner with two small excavators. He Xiaolong said that I now have a car, a house, a career and a family. I have to thank this era and the construction machinery industry for allowing an ordinary person like me with a junior high school education to make a small money in my hometown with an average monthly salary of 2/3 thousand!
In 2007, He Xiaolong, who graduated from junior high school, faced the dilemma of having nothing to do and chose to learn to drive a loader to bring income to his family. However, the reality is not as simple as He Xiaolong thought. The sluggish local loader market has prevented him from finding a related job smoothly. Two years later, a turning point came. A relative in the family began to work in the excavator industry, and He Xiaolong followed his relatives to learn to drive an excavator. It just happened to catch up with the rapid development of local infrastructure and real estate. This study is 15 years of perseverance and dedication, and has witnessed the ups and downs of the local excavator industry along the way.
2007-2021 is the golden growth period recognized by the industry, with countless opportunities. Not only did many practitioners make a lot of money during that period, but it was also very friendly to newcomers. In 2009, thanks to the high prosperity of the market, He Xiaolong quickly found a job after learning excavator technology. During this period, he was not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and always served as a substitute on the construction site. After two or three years, he could skillfully operate various models of excavators of major brands. It is also for this reason that when the industry went down in 2014, the work decreased, and his peers changed their careers, He Xiaolong always had work to do!
A soldier who doesn’t want to be a general is not a good soldier. After working as an excavator operator for many years, He Xiaolong gradually had higher pursuits and hoped to own an excavator of his own. However, since 2018, although the industry has ushered in a brief recovery, with more and more practitioners, the industry has become more and more inward-looking, and it has become increasingly difficult to make money. In 2022, He Xiaolong came into contact with small excavators and micro excavators while working in local municipal engineering. In the process of opening small excavators and micro excavators, He Xiaolong felt the characteristics of small initial capital, large profits, and fast payback, so he decided that his excavator dream could start with small and micro excavators. In 2023, after comprehensive consideration, He Xiaolong finally ushered in an important moment in his life-he bought his first excavator-Carter 301.7, which has strong power and excellent control performance. Although the industry was in decline again at this time, good equipment and good technology, coupled with his hard work, quickly earned back the capital. Later, He Xiaolong bought another Sany excavator.
After years of unremitting efforts, He Xiaolong has achieved certain success in his career and established his own family, and all this is attributed to the construction machinery industry. He Xiaolong said excitedly that he wanted to thank the construction machinery industry, which allowed so many people without education and background to support their families without leaving their hometowns!
Compared with his peers, He Xiaolong is much luckier, but he still has regrets about the past. Among them, what He Xiaolong regrets most is that he entered this industry too late. When he was a machine operator, he was content with the status quo. It was not until recent years that he wanted to work alone. Although he caught up with the market’s bonus period, he did not get the biggest bonus. Nowadays, the industry is highly competitive, the market is transparent, and it has become increasingly difficult to make money. Moreover, many people who keep machinery now choose to operate it themselves, which limits their development space.
However, He Xiaolong knows that there is no absolute regret medicine in life, and every decision is the best choice under the circumstances at the time.
In the future, he will continue to work hard to continuously improve his skills and management capabilities, hoping to make a world of his own in this industry!