Chapter 87: The First Interviewee

May 2, 2023, Showers, 12~24°C.

"Ding-a-ling—Ding-a-ling—"

The alarm clock rang in the quiet small bedroom.

Sun Youguang quickly sat up from the bed and picked up his phone; his originally dazed head instantly cleared up.

"Isn't today a day off? Why did you set an alarm?" his girlfriend complained vaguely, turned over, and fell back asleep.

Sun Youguang kissed her on the face, got out of bed lightly, threw on a jacket, and carried his laptop to the living room.

Outside the window, it was "pitter-patter" raining, the living room was pitch black, and gusts of cold wind blew, making him shiver all over.

He turned on the lights and closed the windows.

Sitting at the dining table, he opened his computer and began to read the interview questions for financial accounting.

The rain stopped and started again, and the sky was still pitch black.

"Damn, you scared me, Brother Sun, what’s wrong with you? Why are you in the living room so early?" his roommate who rented together got up to go to the bathroom and asked.

Sun Youguang smiled embarrassedly, "I have some work that isn't finished, and Li Juan is still sleeping, so I came out to work on it."

"Sigh, it’s not easy to find a job these days, Brother Sun, keep it up." The roommate muttered a sentence and dived into the bathroom to relieve himself.

At 7:30 AM, Sun Youguang cooked a pot of red date and millet porridge.

He continued to read the interview questions.

At 7:50 AM, Sun Youguang closed the computer.

He took two hand-grabbed pancakes out of the refrigerator, spread eggs on them, fried them, and served them.

He also picked a few fresh lettuce leaves, brought tomato sauce, and rolled them up.

Walking into the small bedroom, he said softly to his girlfriend who was still sleeping, "Juan’er, get up and eat."

His girlfriend opened her misty eyes, yawned, and said vaguely, "Thank you, dear, I’ll make braised pork for you at noon."

"Haha, good."

On the clean dining table, there was steaming porridge and hand-grabbed pancakes.

His girlfriend took a bite of the pancake and said, "Your company is really bullying people. It’s fine to work overtime usually, but it’s hard to get a small holiday, and they still make you work overtime in the rain."

"No way, there’s a bit of an emergency."

"By the way, when are you going to mention the salary increase to your leader?"

"Uh... wait and see, now is not the time."

"Let’s calculate our accounts tonight, okay? Let’s see how much money we’ve saved, and strive to save 150,000 by the end of the year to go back to our hometown to look at houses."

"Good." Sun Youguang replied with a guilty conscience, his gaze full of worries.

He and his girlfriend were college classmates, and after graduation, they both worked as financial accountants in Yancheng, with salaries of more than 4,000.

In order to buy a house and get married, they had always been very frugal, living in a small secondary bedroom in a rental far from the city center, insisting on cooking for themselves, rarely shopping for clothes, and doing part-time jobs when they had time.

And what his girlfriend didn't know was that he had already been laid off a few days ago and had been submitting resumes recently, but there weren't many interview opportunities.

This company today was quite special; it was scheduled for an interview on a holiday, and it was just a small company that had just been established, and its business hadn't started yet.

The advantage was that the paid-in registered capital was 1 million, the salary and benefits were good, and the workplace was in Yunxi Building.

For him, who was in a state of unemployment and urgently needed to obtain a stable income, it was also a rare opportunity.

After eating breakfast, his girlfriend began to tidy up the kitchen and clean the house.

Sun Youguang washed up seriously, changed into a formal outfit, hugged his girlfriend goodbye, carried his bag, picked up his umbrella, and went downstairs quickly.

Facing the wind and rain, taking the bus and subway, it took 40 minutes to finally reach Yunxi Building.

Surrounded by high-rise buildings, skyscrapers rose from the ground, and the prosperity and vitality of the modern city were displayed vividly.

Sun Youguang shook his wet umbrella, took the bag handed over by the property staff, and packed it up.

Walking into the spacious and gorgeous lobby, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart; it was worthy of being the most top-tier office building in Yancheng, it was really great.

The company he worked for now had a much worse office environment than here.

He tidied up his hairstyle and clothes and asked the beautiful female receptionist at the front desk, "Hello, I’m here for an interview, can you help me open the access control?"

"3001, Songmei Apparel."

"Alright, thank you, thank you!"

Taking the bright and high-speed elevator directly to the 30th floor.

As the elevator door opened slowly, Sun Youguang’s heartbeat became faster and faster, silently preparing his self-introduction.

Walking into the open glass door, the girl sitting at the front desk stood up quickly, her tone soft, "Hello, are you here for an interview?"

He took a resume out of his backpack and handed it over, nervously, "Yes, this is my resume, sorry, I arrived a bit early."

Because he didn't want his girlfriend to know that he was unemployed, he set off at the normal work time, and it was agreed to be at 10 o'clock, but he arrived at 9:20.

The girl took the resume, glanced at the name, and smiled gently, "So it’s Mr. Sun, we communicated on the phone before, I am Gao Mengting. The company doesn't have a receptionist yet, so I’m guest-starring for now. Let’s go, let’s go to the conference room to chat."

After saying that, she walked out from the front desk.

Clean and light makeup, a lot of fluffy brown long hair, light, mature, and fashionable workplace outfit, tall and elegant posture.

A perfect urban beauty outfit.

Sun Youguang took a deep breath, not daring to look at the other party.

So this was the vice president of Songmei Apparel, so beautiful.

Bypassing the simple and atmospheric front desk, stepping on the soft silent carpet, Sun Youguang looked around.

The entire office area was mainly in light colors, bright and fashionable.

The decoration, furnishings, furniture, and appliances were all brand new, and the workstations were dotted with flower pots, sofas, and shelves.

This was the office with the best decoration and environment that Sun Youguang had ever seen in person, comfortable, warm, and high-end.

Working here is absolutely a pleasure, which makes him very tempted.

If he could stay, with the company's stable business and a salary of 5k, how wonderful that would be.

In the conference room.

Sun Youguang looked around.

Soft leather chairs, a long solid wood table.

Directly opposite was a 70-inch large television, and there were various data interfaces on the long conference table.

Although not large, the renovation standard was very high.

"Knock, knock, knock—" The glass door was gently tapped, and Sun Youguang hurriedly sat up straight.

Immediately after, that Deputy General Manager Gao walked in, followed by a tall and handsome man behind her.

He was wearing a well-fitted suit, with a faint smile on his face.

"This is our company's General Manager, Tang Song. The company is a startup, and you are the first person to come for an interview, so we are both interviewing you together." Gao Mengting introduced the identity of the man beside her and placed a cup of warm water in front of him.

"Thank you."

The two sat down opposite him.

They exchanged a few simple pleasantries.

Gao Mengting looked at the document in her hand and asked, "Let's start with a simple self-introduction."

"My name is Sun Youguang, I graduated from Yancheng University of Economics and Trade with a major in accounting, and I have 3 and a half years of experience in financial accounting work..."

Sun Youguang crossed his hands on the conference table, looked at the two, and tried his best to appear sincere and energetic.

"How should period expenses and cost expenses be distinguished?"

"Period expenses refer to those incurred during the enterprise's daily activities..."

"What is the content of accrual for impairment provisions?"

The sound of questions and answers echoed in the conference room.

Entering his professional field, Sun Youguang gradually relaxed, and his answers became increasingly fluent.