Female doctor complains about hospital salary, collects trash after work, shocking amount of money earned

Despite being criticized and slandered, the female doctor still determinedly continued this job. Every day after work, she collected recyclables to sell, and the money she earned was even more than the hospital paid her.

During the economic downturn, prices of everything are rising but salaries are stagnant or even falling significantly. As a result, more and more people are looking for side jobs to supplement their income. Recently, a beautiful girl from Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China attracted attention when she posted a video on Weibo introducing herself as a doctor, and her "side job" is collecting trash after work.

According to Xiangjiang Morning News, Ms. Xiong is a rehabilitation doctor at a local private hospital, working during the day, mainly performing rehabilitation and instructing functional exercises for the elderly.

"I go to work at 8am every day and leave at 5:30pm. After work, I go to help at the waste recycling station managed by my parents. If I do more work, my parents will have less work and I will also learn a survival skill. So, I often come here to help my parents," the female doctor shared.

Xiong added that the recycling station at her home mainly collects metal waste, which is sorted and sorted daily before being sold. Even though she has hired people, there is still a lot of work to be done, so she and her parents have to work until 9 or 10 p.m. before returning home.

Because she often sorts trash and moves goods, the female doctor's arm muscles have grown bigger and bigger. In addition to hanging around the rubble, Xiong has been ridiculed by netizens. But she doesn't care at all, and is even proud that it brings her more money than her main job.

It is known that the hospital pays her 4,000 yuan (over 14 million VND) every month; although she does not receive a salary for helping her family, her parents still give her money from time to time, and the amount is more than her income from working as a doctor. "As long as I can make money, I don't care," Xiong said of the criticism and the nickname "garbage collector" that some netizens call her.

To those who say that garbage collection is dirty and unhygienic, Xiong carefully explains that metal recycling is not dirty, but a little rust will stick to clothes, which will not affect the body too much. In recent years, she has adapted well by rotating between working at the hospital and the recycling station.

When some netizens said that she posted the video just to become an internet celebrity, the female doctor quickly responded, saying that she was only recording her daily life and had started sharing videos related to recyclable waste since 2020.

In addition to Xiong, a mother named Ariana Rodriguez (35 years old) in New York is also attracting a lot of attention and discussion when she revealed that she found luxury goods worth 30,000 USD (about 800 million VND) just by rummaging through trash cans for 6 months. From a classic Burberry coat worth 500 USD, Prada shoes worth 900 USD to a Sohmer & Co piano worth 3,000-10,000 USD, she turned "trash hunting" into an inspiring journey.

A longtime lover of second-hand shopping, Ariana began looking for free stuff three years ago, after joining a neighborhood Facebook group called "buy for free." There, she learned how to "soop" - pick up discarded items on the street.

Ariana was amazed at what was thrown away: from furniture like mirrors, nightstands, real gold jewelry, cash to a 1960s Bally briefcase. She also found a $200 game bag and a $397 Stokke high chair for her youngest child.

When she can't keep everything, the mother donates unexpired food, blankets, and clothes to the local church to support those in need, or resells items like furniture and jewelry through her business. "Even if it's a small item, I put it up for sale. If it's furniture, I keep it for a while and then sell it," Ariana said. She estimates the total value of the items she finds could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, with $30,000 in the past six months alone.