On the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2025, Mr. Hoang Chi Dung (residing in Mau A town, Van Yen district, Yen Bai province) earned hundreds of millions of VND from selling peach blossoms and some fruit trees.
From his work, Mr. Dung also created jobs for dozens of seasonal workers in Van Yen district with an income of about 10 million VND/person/incident.
The story of a farm business owner who was determined to quit his government job is still being mentioned by many accountants of Van Yen district, Yen Bai province to Lao Dong Newspaper reporters.
Mr. Dung said that after graduating from an intermediate school of accounting, he worked at a cooperative in the district. After that, he took an entrance exam to become a school civil servant and was in charge of accounting for 3 schools at the same time.
After that, he continued to study on his own to get a university degree in accounting at the position. At that time, he received a salary of less than 4 million VND/month.
His wife also works in the education sector. Both husband and wife often work far away and do not have enough time at home to take care of their sick elderly mother. Therefore, Mr. Dung decided to submit a resignation letter in 2020.
When he was a civil servant, he still maintained forest planting and some types of trees such as peach and cinnamon. After quitting his job, he had time to spend with his family and focus on the farm business.
Mr. Dung shared that his average profit per year is about 200-300 million VND, enough to cover his living expenses. Not only that, every harvest season, he hires more workers to support, both creating jobs for the rural people and making himself less arduous.
Recalling the day he decided to submit his resignation letter, the 54-year-old man was moved: "I also had to spend a few nights thinking. But if I had to choose again, I would still have decided to quit my job. At a time when I feel it is not suitable, I should leave to give opportunities to others, especially young people".
According to Mr. Dung, each job has its own hardship. With the job of an accountant, during many years of working, he has almost never had an evening without bringing his work home to work. When doing farm business, he had to face capital turnover, not having extensive experience in animal husbandry...
For current cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers in the streamlined sector, Mr. Dung advised them to prepare mentally and professionally to continue to have jobs after leaving the public sector.
Mr. Dung confided: "As a civil servant, my clothes are always clean, and when I am farming, my limbs are muddy, but I have more time to take care of my mother and children than before. There is no shortage of jobs, the important thing is how people accept and change".
Speaking to Lao Dong Newspaper, former Deputy Director in charge of the Department of Employment (Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs) Le Quang Trung said that streamlining human resources really needs support solutions from the Government, ministries, branches, localities and units and enterprises so that soon-to- notice employees can have suitable jobs.
According to Mr. Trung, it is necessary to organize a review and assessment of training qualifications and expertise, training needs; working ability and personal aspirations when finding a new job for each person who stops working due to the implementation of restructuring, merging, and streamlining the apparatus.
At the same time, management agencies need to collect and count the reception and recruitment needs of businesses and organizations in each locality and the whole country. From there, there are orientations and plans for training, retraining and job creation.
