Lovely Love

So Ordinary People

The scorching sun was still felt even though Gerdy was sheltering under the shade tree of the road. He took out a handkerchief wiping away the sweat that melted on his forehead. His throat was dry, even though a glass of orange ice had just stopped by his stomach.

Offices in the western region have almost all been visited, from skyscrapers to chicken scrapers. The same answer received. Obsolete answers. No vacancies or looking for experienced people.

How to have experience if they always say there are no vacancies, prioritize people who have worked, as if only want to move employees from one company to another, not recruit unemployment.

Nadine moved easily to a convenience store near baby care, rising to office anyway, without any convoluted process. Or women are easily accepted as long as they dare to wear high skirts?

"Dispose of your filthy thoughts" Nadine said. "That servant has a woman."

"Your weak people are strong in solidarity. Different from my people, each wants to show themselves as men."

Actually Gerdy wants his wife to quit work, and Nadine does not mind staying at home taking care of the baby. But circumstances forced him to change his decision. And this is the first defeat as the head of the household.

They believe Gerdy's smart. Original undergraduate certificate, not buy or stealth school. But to get a job is not just need to believe.

Again Gerdy watched the sign next to the gate. Is correct. The address matches what was written in the newspaper.

After a futile visit to an office filled with young executives, he tried to go to the factory loaded with life executions, applying to become a laborer. He does not care about the education owned, large or small companies, which is important to get a job, earn income.

After tidying up his appearance, Gerdy crossed the road towards the factory gate. He took public transport from home. Motor brought Prilly to college. His sister-in-law successfully penetrated the state university in this city. His wife's car works. He felt freer on foot and more like an ordinary person.

Gerdy stood long enough in front of the gate waiting for a security guard to come over. Huh, a fat stomach is so used as security. Let alone chasing thieves, racing just as snails must lose!

"Good day, sir," said Gerdy politely.

The man in a brown uniform resembled a policeman who was observing with full probing. Groomed.carry map.... If you are not applying for a job, ask for a donation.

"What do you need?"

The coldness of the sound made Gerdy almost choke. Everywhere is the same. No matter in the multi-storey office or butut post. If you see people bring proposals, the speech is not friendly.

"This factory needs a new employee?"

"Apply work?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"It's closed."

Gerdy was confused. How come! He knew once the advertisement had just been posted this morning, in a small newspaper, there was nothing on the internet, and now it was only eleven in the afternoon.

Well, Jakarta seems to be crowded with unemployment. People are racing to find work, so that workers in small factories are losing fast.

Gerdy was about to excuse me when another security invited a girl in through a small door at the end of the gate.

"Kok can he come in?" ask Gerdy astonished. "I came first."

"Security is the connection."

"Connections?"

"Is that weird?" sambar the moustached man was fed up. "KN can come down from the pulpit. But here, in the real world, so beggars alone must be thrown out in a crowd if they have no acquaintance."

Without taking any more care, the walking barrel left Gerdy standing stunned. One year ago, a security man did not dare to just leave himself alone. Today anyone can dump him like a fly.

Gerdy came home almost dusk. A full day around the west. Many addresses are addressed. Sometimes the walkway enters a narrow alley. Really draining energy.

But Gerdy could still give a piece of smile to his wife who was standing up to him on the veranda. The smile that Nadine so memorized means, failure. Wonderful, her husband is smart brained, education is enough, a healthy body. Why is it so hard to get a job?

Maybe there are other requirements. It does not depend on education and intelligence. The connection! His reputation, work because of connections lead to corruption. The world is full of talk!

"I'm missing" Gerdy said as he sat on the bed. "Registration has been closed or deliberately closed."

Without saying a word, Nadine put Idyla in the cot and undressed her husband's shoes and clothes. Then go outside the room to make a warm drink.

"Don't green tea" Gerdy said. "I'm starting to dislike."

"Mixed cream?"

"Not good for health."

"Sweet coffee?"

"I heard the price of sugar is going up."

"Bitter coffee."

"It means mineral water."

"Don't green tea, creamy mixed milk, bitter sweet coffee, or mineral water" Gerdy said. "White water."

"What hasn't been cooked?" nadine's half-literate. "There is no need to use a glass, just go straight from the tap."

"Water ripe," Gerdy's smile wryly. "That's also if you don't have a husband to be a hive of bacteria."

"So unemployment does not mean quality of life is ignored" Nadine said. "Unless you don't have money to buy."

Nadine leaves and briefly appears again in the room with a cup of green tea. The drink was handed over to her husband.

Gerdy took a sip of green tea and put the cup on the small table, then said, "You know all the ads in the newspaper and the internet? Thousands of job openings available. All it takes is one.connection!"

"Or experienced," Nadine smiled as she sat by his side.

"You know my experience is just reading job openings."

"So what's the newspaper? Stop subscribing?"

"If Prilly doesn't have a need, just stop. I'm trying to find a job without advertising."

"What do you want to do?"

"Many roads lead to a plate of rice."

"If it's just for a plate of rice, you don't have to be tired of work."

"Good for a plate of rice the nobles."

"You still wish you were a noble?"

"Whoever wishes to be a noble. But day by day I became more and more challenged as an ordinary person. Just for a plate of rice it turns out it takes a struggle."

This passionate spirit still makes Nadine always heartened. Gerdy is strong-willed, unyielding. Failure after failure has been met.

Nadine had never heard a single piece of complaint come out of her mouth. Never seen his face in despair. He could still smile despite being rejected as a laborer though, and could still throw fresh words among the remnants of his weariness.

Nadine doesn't know that Gerdy's mind is mumbling right now. He's out of his mind to find a job. From the successive failures he received today, he knew what it meant; education was worthless. But if you are looking for a job without education, is there?

"Why not try the foundation?" nadine Mulan. "You don't have to go around the office, just wait for the call."

"His terms?"

"Circumcised salary."

"Think about it."

Acquaintances. Circumcised. Small people become milk cows. But nevermind. He has no time to talk.

"Eat now?" ask Nadine. "There's your favorite yellowfin fish."

Gerdy looks unhappy. "I told you that food is my past. I want to eat what you eat."

"At least once a week is okay."

"Let's eat it later."

Gerdy notices Nadine changing baby diapers. He quietly took a bitter breath. His wife was already quite busy with work; taking care of children, cooking, making a living. But still make time to serve the husband.

He still had time to make a warm drink, prepare a meal, welcome home, and open clothes. Gerdy always fails to bring home the shopping money.

"Don't torture yourself" Nadine said. "Saving doesn't mean inviting disease."

Nadine knows her husband never eats out, except with family. He eats when his stomach is really hungry. Sometimes only once a day. Breakfast fried rice or sandwich. New habits since he's not working.

"Not hungry yet" said Gerdy.

"The creepy's cold."

"Mostly warmed up again."

"Eat. I'll have to maag."

Seeing the look in Nadine's eyes dim, Gerdy was forced to get out of bed and go to the dining room. He doesn't want his wife to worry about him. He wanted to see that face always smiling!