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Most people want a second job
By Jane Chen |
July 14, 2010, Wednesday
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MOST people in a survey said they wanted to take a second job to make more money because their salaries made it hard to meet the cost of living.
Altogether 92 percent of 3,106 people surveyed by China Youth Daily said they want to take a night job while 83 percent said moonlighting is common among their friends and colleagues.
Seventy-eight percent of the respondents have full-time jobs while others are college students, jobless people and retirees.
Yang Yang, a planner with a supermarket in Jiaozuo City, central China's Henan Province, rushes to work at her own shoe store every day when she finishes her full-time job.
"I have no spare time in the week as I take care of the store on the weekdays and do sourcing on weekends," she told China Youth Daily.
She runs the shoe store because her monthly pay of 1,000 yuan (US$147.67) is not enough to cover expenses, she explained. The income from the shoe store normally doubles her pay from the full-time job, she added.
Like her, 86 percent of the respondents in China Youth Daily's survey said they moonlight to make more money, while 45 percent want to learn more skills and get to know more people. Another 40 percent said they hope to learn working skills.
Nearly half, or 47 percent, of the respondents said they moonlight in a different field from their full-time jobs, while 42 percent take a night job related to their day work.
Li Na, a reporter with a west China newspaper, said she has a night job as a restaurant manager. She is interested in the dining industry and hopes to eventually work there full time.
But she admitted her second job sometime occupies too much time and hinders her reporter's job.
Moonlighting seems to be most popular with college students, with 54.6 percent of students saying they had a night job. College teachers follow with 30.5 percent and government workers come third with 13.5 percent.
Nearly 80 percent of the respondents said they support moonlighting with only 7 percent disapproving.
Altogether 92 percent of 3,106 people surveyed by China Youth Daily said they want to take a night job while 83 percent said moonlighting is common among their friends and colleagues.
Seventy-eight percent of the respondents have full-time jobs while others are college students, jobless people and retirees.
Yang Yang, a planner with a supermarket in Jiaozuo City, central China's Henan Province, rushes to work at her own shoe store every day when she finishes her full-time job.
"I have no spare time in the week as I take care of the store on the weekdays and do sourcing on weekends," she told China Youth Daily.
She runs the shoe store because her monthly pay of 1,000 yuan (US$147.67) is not enough to cover expenses, she explained. The income from the shoe store normally doubles her pay from the full-time job, she added.
Like her, 86 percent of the respondents in China Youth Daily's survey said they moonlight to make more money, while 45 percent want to learn more skills and get to know more people. Another 40 percent said they hope to learn working skills.
Nearly half, or 47 percent, of the respondents said they moonlight in a different field from their full-time jobs, while 42 percent take a night job related to their day work.
Li Na, a reporter with a west China newspaper, said she has a night job as a restaurant manager. She is interested in the dining industry and hopes to eventually work there full time.
But she admitted her second job sometime occupies too much time and hinders her reporter's job.
Moonlighting seems to be most popular with college students, with 54.6 percent of students saying they had a night job. College teachers follow with 30.5 percent and government workers come third with 13.5 percent.
Nearly 80 percent of the respondents said they support moonlighting with only 7 percent disapproving.
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