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A Migrant worker in China / “The money you make sacrificing happy times won’t buy back happy times that have lapsed”

Like many hard-working domestic helpers in Hong Kong, a large number of China’s more than 260 million migrant workers live in cities far from their rural home towns. Their lives are hard and sometimes they are forced to leave behind their spouses and children. Capture d’écran 2013-08-17 à 09.42.54

One such worker runs a hair salon “Jian Ba” in Hunan’s Zhuzhou city. His working life means he is separated from his little daughter for so long she no longer remembers how to say: ”Daddy”.

“Dear customers,I got a call from my daughter yesterday. Since I haven’t been around for so long, she couldn’t even say the word ‘daddy’, said the migrant worker, whose real name was not disclosed, in an emotionally-charged note attached to the front gate of his temporarily-closed shop.

“The money you spent your youth to make won’t  buy back your youth, and the money you make sacrificing happy times won’t buy back happy times that have lapsed,” he wrote in a rather philosophical manner. “And why not act on our honest thoughts – even if it means to leave suddenly?”

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at 

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via Migrant worker’s moving leave application letter goes viral | South China Morning Post.

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