屌丝岁月
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儿子今年研究生毕业，在南京找到了工作。这本来是一件好事，但一想到房价，不禁为他担心起来。年轻人没有积蓄，还要结婚生子养家，那点工资，只能让自己做一个屌丝。当年，我也是如此，一穷二白，事事都要花钱，真的是一分钱也积攒不了，更不敢外去应酬，生怕囊中羞涩弄出尴尬。
记得那时，我总是四处寻找挣钱的机会。我在一所高校任教，每年要完成一定的课时额度，超过了这个额度，有超课时奖，于是我就想法多上课，晚上和周末还会去别的学校与社会教学机构兼课。我还在一家翻译公司担任译员，接到的活都是限时完成，忙起来整夜不睡也是有的。
不但要挣钱，有一阵子还需自己带孩子，因为既出不起保姆费，又没有条件腾出保姆住的地方。房子只有一间，总共20平米。两年后，终于换了一套40多平米的房，才请了一个保姆，但是经济变得更加拮据了。当儿子到了上幼儿园的年龄，便果断辞掉保姆，好省下这笔开支。当然，人就变得辛苦，上班、兼职、家务事加上接送孩子，人瘦得跟鬼一样。不过，当年只知道自己瘦，“人瘦得跟鬼一样”，是现在看了那时拍的照片后脱口而出的一句话。从形象到实质，都是一个十足的屌丝。那时，我这样的屌丝真的很多，但是奇怪的是，屌丝这个词是近几年才有的。
屌丝生活，虽然辛苦，但也很甜蜜，既充满希望又十分浪漫。迄今，还有人告诉我，说我那时好快活哟，骑着一辆除掉铃儿不响其他哪儿都响的破自行车，车上载着可爱的儿子，嘴里唱着欢快的歌儿，车到歌声到，如同当年那句脍炙人口的广告歌词“一曲歌来一片情”。
由此可见，屌丝生活，并不可怕，关键是要有爱的人，有喜欢的事儿，还要有梦想。
Over the Years as a Diors Man
After leaving university this year, my son finds a job in Nanjing. It’s a blessing, but at the mention of house prices, I cannot help worrying about him. He doesn’t have enough savings to buy a house, and even nor enough money to marry a wife, raise a child and support a family--- he is merely fit to be a diors man. I was also a diors man many years ago when I used to decline any invitation for entertainment and recreation so as not to cause the embarrassment that I might be found to be short of money.
At that moment, I was always looking for the opportunities to earn money. I was a college teacher with the requirement of completing a certain amount of teaching every year. If I over-fulfilled my teaching, I would get a bonus. So I tried to take more classes by all means. I went to other colleges and social institutions for a part-time job on evenings or at weekends. And working as an interpreter in a translation company, I was asked to complete all my tasks within the given time so that I was often too busy to go to sleep.
My wife and I needed not only to make money but also to look after our child ourselves, because we could neither afford the childcare nor spare a room for the baby-sitter---we had a house with a room only of 20 square meters. Two years later, we finally moved into a 40-square-meter house and employed a nanny, but we were hard up for money more than before. When my son was old enough to go to kindergarten, we quit the nanny decisively. Of course, life became tougher and we lost a lot of weight, as thin as a skeleton, during the long time of going to work, taking part-time jobs, doing housework and picking up my kid after school. I know I was extremely thin, but “as thin as a skeleton” is the phrase I otten blurt out when I see the picture of myself at that time. In appearance or in essence, I was a sheer diors man. There were so many diors men like me in those days, but, curiously, the word “diors” is a recent invention.
It was a hard, but sweet, hopeful, romantic way of life to be a diors man. I’m told that I was very cheerful at that time---riding a broken bicycle with my lovely son on the back, and singing wherever I was, which reminds me of a peppy advertising jingle, as was extremely popular, “Sing a song, to light up the feelings of happiness.”
You see, life for a diors man is not terrible. The key is to have someone you love, something you like to do, and some dream you want to pursue.（吴燕 译）
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