American Entertainment 1982

  Chapter 78 Part-time jobs

"That girl last night, you couldn't take her away? Didn't I tell you where the nearest hotel is? Or I'll sleep outside and leave the dormitory to you." Jason rubbed his aching head from drunk, from He got up from his own bed, looked at Tommy who also hadn't approached a successful girl, and said.

Tommy closed the 120-page user manual of the ElectricPencil document processing software, and looked at Jason: "I thought what I said was cool, and that girl would be attracted to me, but unexpectedly, she heard that I just wanted to After talking with her on the bed when I was free, I decided to leave me."

"Do you think that girl is a call girl?" Jason's eyes widened, and he turned his fingers a few times at his temples: "Dude, are you sure you are a primate? Have you ever asked your father that you might be something else?" What thing evolved and was picked up by him and brought up, but it looks like a human being? You don’t want to talk to a girl, you just want to mate with her? How could any woman agree! "

   "Then when you approached those girls last night, did your real reaction in your heart be to talk about love or to go to bed?"

  “…to bed, but at least be a gentleman on the surface, don’t act like a **** like you.”

"That's called hypocrisy, I call it honesty." Tommy smiled and said to Jason: "Last night was not fruitless, the guy named Eric from SSD last night said that we can go to them later on Friday night Visit there, he will arrange more time to chat with us when he arrives, I think, the two of us should be regarded as getting interview invitations in advance.”

"This is indeed good news, buddy! If we can join SSD, we will have no shortage of girls. SSD maintains friendly relations with the three sororities, and none of my cousins ​​can join SSD." Jason heard Tommy's words, Finally regained his vitality, with an excited expression on his face.

   Poured a glass of water and drank it. After fully waking up, Jason noticed a pile of unpacked software packages on Tommy's desk. Twenty or thirty user manuals of varying thicknesses were comparable to dictionaries: "What are these?"

"All kinds of commercial software, before you wake up, I was yelling at them crazily. After I paid for all the software, I still need to pay for their manuals separately." Tommy scolded in pain: " And there's no discount on **** student purchases."

The price of these software is very expensive, such as several office software owned by MicroPort, the most expensive is 495 US dollars, and the cheapest is 145 US dollars, and the price does not include the manual. The price of each instruction manual may also vary from fifteen to forty dollars.

"The real professional courses of computer science should start in the sophomore year. I remember the first year of courses are regular courses, linear algebra, calculus, political science and so on. Are you ready to learn professional knowledge by yourself now? Don't do this, Boss, we yesterday What a fun night..." Jason thought that Tommy was going to study computer courses in advance, and said with a frown, "If you insist on learning by yourself like a boring nerd, you will easily lose my simple and honest roommate."

"Of course I remember, singing every night, but singing every night requires money, Jason, we have to find a way to make some money, you drive a lotus sports car to invite girls, and you invite girls on your own bicycle, get I didn’t study by myself in advance, I just... yes, I just started to study by myself, but I promise, I won’t miss the party.” Tommy picked up the cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath, and said to his roommate.

He really has no plans to turn himself into a code farmer right now. It is too early to talk about creativity or type codes for program development. At Stanford University or the entire Silicon Valley, the most indispensable thing is a variety of ideas. Almost every Sophomores, juniors, and seniors majoring in computer science can gather two or three friends and write a cool software in a few days, but there are not many students who really make money.

Here, it’s not that you can earn millions by staying up all night writing a set of software. There are indeed many Stanford alumni in Silicon Valley who are willing to support their younger generations, but they are also calm and rational capitalists. The software that makes money will really use the money to invest to support you to seize the market. More often than not, you think your software has some potential, so you can simply pay a small sum of money to buy it out. nothing to do.

Just like Microsoft bought all the copyrights of MS-DOS and only paid 75,000 yuan to the developers, but they made unknowingly many times through licensing to more than 70 computer manufacturers. This is what happened to most software developers in Silicon Valley. In reality, countless people around the world use the systems they make, but they only remember the name of Microsoft.

What's more, the standard of the personal computer market is not completely unified now, which is why Tommy wants to buy five personal computers. He is just a time traveler, but he is not an omniscient and omnipotent God. In many cases, he needs to complete the preliminary market analysis and complete relevant research alone. , When you are sure that your idea has enough commercial value, and you can talk to people about investment instead of just buying out at a low price for betting on the market, then consider the least challenging follow-up development work.

  He is not a programmer who loves code, he is just a poor guy who hopes to make money through software.

   "So what's your plan today? It's best to have something to do with women." Jason looked at Tommy.

Tommy nodded and smiled at Jason: "It's indeed related to the lady. I plan to go to the library's technical support and help center to work part-time after class. The management teacher there is a lady, but she is a bit older, about 30 years old. , and I noticed she was wearing a wedding ring."

"You know that if you make up some stories that can make people look hard, you can easily earn freshman's money, right? Then you have to go to that kind of place to work part-time? The pay is pitiful, you can't make loud noises, and you can't even scold him when you meet a fool How big a pair of waves does that teacher have to make you make this decision?" Jason looked at Tommy like a monster, wondering why he went to a part-time job in a library to ask for trouble, some Idiots always have endless questions, which can annoy people so much that they want to swear loudly.

  Tommy smiled and asked Jason: "So you are not going to work part-time? Continue to practice five-finger activities in the dormitory?"

  Jason shrugged: "No, I'm going to work part-time at the Spanish restaurant in Love's apartment. There is a very beautiful girl working part-time there, and she can enjoy unsold food for free. The food in that restaurant is delicious."

Generally speaking, as long as college students are not really wealthy, they are willing to find a part-time job, so that they can exercise their various social skills while supporting themselves, and chatting with girls will not be limited to showing off their bed skills. .

The reason why Tommy went to the library to work part-time is that the work in the library requires the use of computers, which allows him to exercise his computer operation ability at work. Today, operating a computer is not as simple as it was in 2022. Simply use a touch screen or mouse to click It can be solved in a few clicks. Nowadays, most people who master a method of using a commercial software can basically get a white-collar job in a large company, but don't think that mastering a method of using a software is an easy task. After all, the use of software The manual is as thick as a dictionary and needs to be sold separately as a professional book.

   "If there were no beautiful girls there, only delicious food, would you go to work part-time?" Tommy got up from the bed, smiled at Jason and stretched out his fist: "See you at night, brother stallion who likes beautiful girls."

  Jason and Tommy shook their fists: "I refuse to answer this philosophical question, because I am not a student of philosophy. See you tonight, the cowherd brother who likes middle-aged and elderly women."

  (end of this chapter)