After finishing work at the agency, Ms. Hoang Thi Yen returned home. She checked the chicken flock, supplemented feed, cleaned the breeding area and monitored the animals with abnormal signs.
The work is repeated every day, even on weekends. Some days, just completing the documents, she checks the price of food, calculates the time of sale or contacts to find outlets.
For her, raising chickens is not a hobby in her spare time but a way to create additional income besides salary. From this source of money, she set a goal to keep 2 million VND per month to make a reserve fund for the family.
According to Ms. Yen's sharing, to start, she invested nearly 30 million VND to build a chicken coop. The female employee hopes to take advantage of off-hours and available conditions at home to improve her income.
However, the money spent did not immediately bring profits. In the early days, she did not have much experience in choosing breeds, caring for them, and calculating costs. At one point, the chicken sales did not cover the capital, causing the savings plan to be temporarily suspended.
Raising chickens is not simply buying breeds and waiting for the day to sell them. As long as feed prices increase, livestock grow slowly or output is not favorable, profits may decrease significantly," Ms. Yen said.
After times of losses, she began to specifically record expenses.
Seed money, feed and incurred costs are separated from revenue. Only after returning capital for the next crop, the remainder is counted as income. This helps her see the effectiveness of farming, avoiding confusing the entire amount of chicken sales as profit.
When the model gradually stabilized, she set a principle of deducting 2 million VND into her private account each month. The remaining money is used to reinvest or support living expenses.
The female official also said that she does not try to maintain savings at all costs. If the chicken flock encounters risks or revenue decreases, she prioritizes preserving capital and rebalancing the plan.
Conversely, when sales are favorable, she still only sets aside a fixed amount, avoiding increasing spending according to income.
According to her, 2 million VND is not a large number compared to the income levels shared on social networks. But for her, it is the result of many evenings and days off for the barn.
That amount of money helps the family be more proactive when things are broken, incurring medical expenses or having things to solve. More importantly, she does not have to take all the unexpected amounts from her salary.
After having to re-learn from the beginning, the female official shared that what she received was not only 2 million VND per month. It was also the experience of managing a small source of income and a sense of stability when the family had an additional contingency.
