After Fifteen Years on the Construction Site, I Relied on My Craftsmanship to Become a God

Name: After Fifteen Years on the Construction Site, I Relied on My Craftsmanship to Become a God
Author: Elupian

工地十五年，我靠手艺封神

by Elupian (伊露品安)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 163k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Audience: Male
Updated: 3mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

In 2005, 22-year-old Li Guodong carried a torn snakeskin bag and went south to the construction site in South China with his fellow villagers. There was no system, no rebirth, and no noble people to lead the way. He only had a few hundred dollars, a copy of his diploma, and a clumsiness that refused to admit defeat. Starting from receiving old safety helmets and oversized safety shoes, he learned the rules in the board room, canteen, mud floor, tower rulers and blueprints; he learned to lay out the line amidst the scolding of the master; he understood the world of the construction site from the tobacco, alcohol, sugar and tea, meal ticket account books, and black accounts of workers' wages and materials. Fifteen years later, the industry's winter came, the company laid off employees, and 37-year-old Li Guodong was kicked out. His mortgage, children, family, and dignity were all burdened with him. This time, he did not rely on luck to turn over, but only relied on the skills he had honed in the mud for fifteen years, the chain of evidence, the rules of human relations, and the bottom line that he refused to lose, and he stood back at the center of the construction site step by step.

Reader comments

In 2005, 22-year-old Li Guodong went south to work on the construction site with his meager savings. He started from the bottom, grew up in boring labor and complicated human relationships, and saw through the world of the construction site. Fifteen years later, the industry winter hit, and at the age of 37, he was laid off. Bearing the heavy pressure of his family, he relied on the skills, connections and bottom line accumulated over the years to buck the trend and regain his footing.
4 likes3mo ago
This is a very "hard" urban novel, with no cheating and all the real background of the construction site. Li Guodong's fifteen years were the result of rules rolled out of the mud, skills learned through scolding, and the stubbornness to stand up again with his own hands after being laid off in middle age. It's not suspended, it's not bloody, it makes people feel sour and angry.
4 likes3mo ago
The construction site theme is not systematic yet and is very good.
3mo ago
Workers, workers have soul, workers are all superior to others
3mo ago
"Don't rely on luck, just rely on craftsmanship." With this sentence in mind, I am determined to follow this book! Li Guodong, stand up hard!
3mo ago
I have been recalling the sight of it, the billowing smoke, the hats of various colors, the wooden houses, etc. [Crying] [Crying] [Crying] It looks really good.
3mo ago
A good novel that tells the life and daily life of migrant workers, who make a fortune with their own hands [Like]
3mo ago
A very realistic novel, the portrayal of the migrant worker brothers is very good and very interesting [like]
3mo ago