mtl008 Chapter 2537: Xiao Xiao Down (21)
Chapter 2537: Xiao Xiao Down (21)
Chapter 2537: Xiao Xiao Down (Twenty-one)
"Can you tell me how you made $100 in one afternoon?" Shiller was still quite concerned about this matter.
It's not even the millennium yet. Earning $100 in an afternoon means $200 in a day, and $6000 in a month. Even in the United States in the 21st century, this can be considered a high salary. The average salary is only around $3000 to $4000, and a family with a monthly income of $ is considered middle class.
"We moved several houses." Raven said as he cleaned the refrigerator, "At first, there were only two orders, but because we moved so quickly, we moved the orders for the next day to today."
"Because the move was quick and the items were not damaged, each employer gave me a tip, which added up to nearly $10."
"Did you move using telekinesis?"
"Of course, my telekinesis can almost lift a building, so moving some furniture is pretty easy."
Raven was taking out vegetables from the kitchen and re-sorting them, and Schiller walked over and said, "Did you have dinner?"
"Not yet. I just got home. Do you know how to cook? I bought frozen noodles from the supermarket. How do I cook them?"
Schiller took the pot from the cupboard below, took the noodles from Raven's hand and unpacked them, then said, "It looks like your moving company has great prospects."
"Yes, but Waylon thinks we can make more money. Unfortunately, our current car is too small. We can only move ordinary families, and we can't move slightly larger villas and companies."
"Don't you have enough money to buy a car?"
"Wei Lun's money is only enough to rent a storefront. Only with a storefront can he start taking orders and set up a formal company. But if he rents a house, he won't have enough money to buy a car."
Schiller calculated in his mind that Waylon’s storefront must be rented in the East District, because the rent there is cheap and the flow of people is extremely large, making it a good place to do small business.
But no matter how cheap the rent is, the storefront will definitely only accept annual rent. Even if the rent is only a few hundred dollars a month, you still have to pay at least a few thousand dollars in one lump sum, and you may even have to pay a deposit. This should be the limit of Killer Croc's savings.
If he wants to move to a big villa and company, the car he needs cannot be a small van, but must be a large van. Unlike the semi-trailer trucks driven by the Joker and others, large vans are more expensive.
Moreover, the local production of this type of car is not high, so it is difficult to find a good second-hand one. If you piece together one from various sources, it is likely to have problems, and maintenance will be a big problem at that time. It is better to buy a new car.
It is not impossible to move a semi-trailer, but you still need to buy a fully enclosed carriage, which is not cheap.
Schiller thought about it and decided to call Killer Croc. He felt that he could use the spare money in his hands to invest, and Killer Croc's moving company had great prospects.
Adding the more than 1000 US dollars paid by Cobblepot before, Schiller still has more than US dollars in savings. He took out a few thousand to buy a car for Killer Croc, so that he can get dividends from the moving company's profits, at least not living off the savings.
Not long after Schiller finished the call, Killer Croc rushed in with a pile of barbecue, forcing Schiller to turn on the central exhaust system of the house to ensure that the smell would not stay in the house for too long.
Killer Croc was very excited. He didn't expect his wish to come true so soon. He put the rental contract and company application materials on the table and said to Schiller, "Don't worry, professor. I bet this is your most successful investment."
"I heard from the raven that the Forgotten Bookstore near the turntable was actually opened by two magicians. What's the point of opening a bookstore? It's tiring and unprofitable. Why not come and move with me and easily earn a few thousand dollars a month?"
Schiller hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Most magicians can't use magic like this. Their magic has a price, and using it to make money is totally useless... Wait, irony magic doesn't seem to have a price."
Schiller thought that Zatanna's creditors were still locked outside the wall, she was one of the few magicians who didn't have to pay a price, and she was very short of money now, so Killer Croc's plan might really work.
After all, the magician lady used to make money by performing magic on the streets. Being a street performer doesn’t mean she is self-righteous and looks down on moving companies.
Schiller told Killer Croc this, and Killer Croc ran out in a hurry to find Zatanna before he even finished his barbecue.
Sure enough, the next morning Zatanna and Constantine appeared at the door of Schiller's house. Zatanna walked in with a wave of her hand, and Constantine chased after her and shouted.
"Xiao Zha! Xiao Zha! Listen to me, working in a moving company is very hard. Even if you don't have to do any work, you still have to work in the wind and sun..."
"You damn hypocritical Englishman!" Zatanna turned around and cursed, "Doesn't it mean running a breakfast shop doesn't require exposure to the wind and sun? Doesn't it mean performing magic on the street doesn't require it? I don't have such low living standards as you. I want to make more money and move out to live on my own!"
Constantine sighed helplessly. Now he had become a pretentious young master who was out of touch with the world.
Zatanna has a stubborn streak and is almost never sad about the passing of time. Instead, she does whatever she thinks of immediately, not caring about whether it is embarrassing, hard work, or even whether she can succeed.
On the contrary, Constantine is a person of great sadness and sorrow. He is now completely immersed in the atmosphere of historian's misfortune and poet's fortune. He laments the various changes in the era during the Great Depression. He has written a lot of essays and novels, and is also preparing to write a memoir of the Great Depression in Gotham.
If these two people were not attracted to each other's looks, they would definitely not be able to live together. But now they have to live together. The worse the situation is, the more obvious the support a stable emotional relationship can provide. At least when two people live together, one can take care of the inside and the other the outside, which saves each other a lot of energy.
Zatanna is now in charge of all external affairs of the bookstore and the breakfast shop, but the bookstore doesn't have many customers and the breakfast shop is only busy for a while in the morning, and the income is just barely enough to make ends meet. Zatanna feels that she can use this afternoon time to get another job.
Originally, she thought she could perform magic on the street, but the expected income was very low. After all, everyone was having a hard time, so who would have the time to watch magic?
Now Killer Croc has provided a new idea. Zatanna can use the afternoon to help them move. She doesn't even need telekinesis. She only needs to say a word to move all the furniture into the car. The whole moving process only takes five seconds - raise your hand, recite the spell, get in the car and leave.
Even if Waylon comes to take the orders, they can just get a car and do it on their own, only opening the coffee shop in the morning. In the afternoon, Constantine will drive and Zatanna will be responsible for the moving. How can they not visit more than a dozen houses in an afternoon? Wouldn't it be easy to make $200?
Killer Croc also thought so. Now with Schiller's funds, he could buy a big car, but this small car was not bought long ago and was still in good condition. It would be a waste to just sell it or rent it to others. It would be better to hire two employees to drive it so that he could get commissions.
It can be said that the two parties hit it off immediately, with only Constantine having some complaints. However, his surprise that Schiller also invested in this business soon outweighed his sadness.
"What? You have no money?!" Constantine looked at Schiller in disbelief and said, "Are you serious? You want to invest in a moving company."
"What's the problem? At least I'm richer than you."
"But I thought you were the type who didn't need money... Well, I don't have much money, but it's always been like this, I'm used to it." Constantine sat on the sofa and said, "There are also ways of living for wanderers, right?"
It is obvious that Constantine is the kind of person who can make a living from art and ideas. As for the quality of life, he doesn't care at all. If he can live, he will live, and if he can't live, he will die.
After he quit all those bad habits, his cost of living was shockingly low. All he needed was a house to live in and food to eat. He was even quite satisfied with his current status of running a shop.
But unfortunately, Zatanna is a normal person, full of crisis. She feels that this is definitely not going to work. There are fewer and fewer customers in the bookstore, and everyone is reading e-books on their mobile phones. Sooner or later, the bookstore will not be able to sell a single book. She has to prepare early.
Zatanna also has a lot of troubles. Her family used to be a magical family. Not only did they have no worries about food and drink, but they also had a noble status. As the most capable heir to the family, if her father had not disappeared, her mission would have been to lead the family to greater glory.
But unfortunately, the magic world was exhausted by the previous wave of vampire incidents, and she was betrayed by her family and almost died in this incident. Since then, she has no family.
Fortunately, she has been traveling around the world looking for her father for many years, and has also worked a lot of odd jobs. She is not the kind of young lady who cannot endure hardship.
After finalizing the basic plan, everyone took up their respective responsibilities. Schiller took the rental contract and company contract left by Killer Croc to find Harvey and asked him to help review the contract. Killer Croc took Raven to see the car, and Zatanna took Constantine to decorate the facade of the newly opened company.
Schiller took the whole morning off. Fortunately, he only had one class that morning and did not fall behind much.
After finishing all the general matters and signing the contract, the parties had a meal in the new storefront. When Schiller arrived at the school in the afternoon, he heard that the new principal had arrived and was holding a meeting.
It was definitely too late to attend the meeting now, so Schiller could only wait for the results in the office. Soon, a new trend in school management emerged, mainly including the following points.
We must ensure a virtuous cycle for the Institute of Physical Education, that is, training to win invitational tournaments and earn tickets. No matter how much money is spent on invitations, invitational tournaments must be played.
Next is the issue of salary cuts. The new principal rejected the previous decision to cut salaries by 30%, and the new plan is to cut salaries by 10%. If his project team still fails to achieve self-profitability after three months, the plan will be changed to a 30% cut.
When Schiller heard this, he knew that the new president was planning to let each professor be self-reliant. But it was also normal. The new campus has been moved, and it is surrounded by major factories and industrial bases. Various brand-new laboratories are waiting to cooperate with Gotham University's top talents. If they don't find a way to earn funds now, when will they?
Due to the special nature of literature and social science subjects, the new president stipulated that the personal income of professors and students in such project teams should also be counted within the profit range. For example, publishing articles, novels, and even psychological counseling are all considered profits.
As soon as these regulations came out, most professors breathed a sigh of relief. The school had originally moved here because many professors had signed contracts with the laboratories here and were producing continuously, so they moved closer. It would be no problem to make a profit within three months, and they finally didn't have to cut their salaries.
It can be seen that the new principal has a good level of management. He knows that the most important job at this stage is to appease the faculty and staff. Otherwise, everyone will focus their attention outside the school to make up for the deducted salaries, and the teaching level will only continue to decline, which will become a complete vicious cycle.
Out of curiosity, Schiller planned to meet the new principal, but before he could make a phone call, the new principal came to him first.
After the knock, a tall, thin, bald man in a suit opened the office door. He had a pale complexion and wore round-framed gold-rimmed glasses. He looked like a common management talent.
He walked up to Shiller, shook his hand enthusiastically, and said, "Thaddeus Sivana has a PhD in economics and business management, finance, and statistics. He also studied for a master's degree at Columbia University, and we are alumni."
Schiller paused, shook his hand and said, "It's an honor to meet you, Principal Shivana. Please take a seat."
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(End of this chapter)