Internal employees in China are indeed well-off. My cousin works at the Tobacco Bureau, and her life is quite comfortable.

Her base salary is 4300 yuan, and she receives performance bonuses quarterly, which can be around 5000 yuan. These are all guaranteed earnings. Additionally, she gets various benefits such as transportation and housing allowances, adding up to about 2000 yuan. When you calculate it all, she can earn 8000 yuan a month. She's just a grassroots employee; what's more impressive is that her annual bonus is around 40000 yuan.

Her job is quite easy, starting at 9 AM and finishing at 5 PM, and working feels like play. She says her salary isn't that high, and there are many people earning less than her, but at least she has a stable income. In my opinion, her salary is already quite high.

Even during these three years of Y situation, her salary has not decreased; she hasn’t lost a single cent from her quarterly performance bonuses and year-end bonuses, and this income ensures her family’s normal expenses. It's tough to find jobs nowadays, and such stable work is rare. The income is stable and won’t be affected by much, and the job is easy, but it's also important to maintain good relationships with colleagues and superiors.

If you want to take the civil service exam, this industry is really quite good, but there are too many candidates every year, like a thousand troops crossing a narrow bridge. Friends, which industry are you working in, and how is your life going?