A third-year student drops out to start a business doing online game farming, using his tuition to buy six computers.

by xue94fwsh on 2012-03-04 09:35:36

Zhang Hai simultaneously turned on six computers. Intern reporter Wei Shi took the photo. According to reports (intern reporter Wei Shi), "I don't know what to do next." Zhang Hai (a pseudonym) was originally waiting to be expelled from school, but he fell into silence when he heard that the school would clean up the academic records of unregistered students at the end of the month. Zhang Hai, 20 years old, is a student at the Continuing Education College of Hubei Second Normal University. He should now be in the classroom of the third year of the Engineering Management major. However, he has not registered his academic record yet. Instead, he rented a room and bought six computers with his tuition fee of 8,000 yuan, starting a "business" by practicing equipment for the game "Jian Xia Chuan Qi".

At 9:30 PM on the 19th, in a single room of more than ten square meters opposite the Continuing Education College of Hubei Second Normal University, the reporter met Zhang Hai who had just woken up. There was a single bed in the room, surrounded by six computers, with two round stools placed in the middle of the computer desk.

"Sleeping too late in the morning, I just woke up," said Zhang Hai from Shishou. To avoid the peak gaming hours, he chose to work at night. "Starting from nine or ten o'clock in the evening, busy until six or seven in the morning, I may sleep all day, mainly relying on food delivery services. My girlfriend also comes to deliver meals if she has time." Due to staying up all night and symptoms of rhinitis, Zhang Hai's speech was slow and his voice hoarse.

While talking, Zhang Hai successively turned on all the computers, entering the game interface. His body twisted left and right on the stool in the middle, operating different characters on different computers. Zhang Hai said that he had only been doing this for more than a month, and most of the game accounts were at a low level. "Each account needs to reach level 60 to qualify for equipment cultivation and start making profits, which takes three or four days. Now the main task is to spend time gradually increasing the number and level of accounts." He said that he currently mainly earns money through 48 accounts that have reached above level 60. "To increase 'productivity', it can only rely on the accumulation of time. I've hardly gone out for more than a month."

"A piece of equipment can sell for dozens of yuan at most, and only over ten yuan at least," In over a month, Zhang Hai earned 2,000 yuan. After deducting 400 yuan for rent, utilities, eating, drinking water, and smoking, there was only 500 yuan left. "The whole night, I am the only one busy in front of the computer. I need to smoke continuously to eliminate loneliness." The 8,000 yuan tuition fee and 2,000 yuan debt that Zhang Hai used for his "business" "will require at least another two or three months of working overnight to break even."

Zhang Hai's counselor said that Zhang Hai almost never came to class since the second half of his sophomore year and did not take exams either. "Considering retention, the school did not immediately expel him. I kept calling him to come back to class, but it didn't work much. Later, he changed his phone number and couldn't be contacted. We also did not have his parents' phone number." The counselor frankly stated that the quality of entrepreneurs plays a significant role in the success or failure of entrepreneurship. "Skipping classes without reason, changing numbers to avoid people, not learning the knowledge that should be learned, and handling communication and interpersonal relationships in such a way, choosing a project with great risks, this kind of entrepreneurship is very dangerous."

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