A guy doing "occupational touch" (what do you do?), Self-made money to learn whatever you like, alone white from Hanoi to start a business. Currently, he owns vending machines in Da Nang. These are also the first vending machines in Da Nang.
"The college entrance exam, said the park, the family is not enough to take care of children to school!" That is the mother's words, when Dinh Quang Minh (born in 1983) prepared to step into life.

Get paid by lunch

Born in a difficult family in Son Tay town (former Ha Tay, now Hanoi), 18-year-old Dinh Quang Minh started to work as a housekeeper in a carpenter's workshop before moving to Hanoi to earn money. Computing and Computer Science at Hanoi University of Technology (HUT).

In 2001, few people know about computers so everything related to computers can make money: Install Windows, install drivers, install software ... Quang Minh apply for a job as a business machine located in Ly Nam De Street (Hanoi).

Unfortunately, Minh has the opportunity to "learn" the experience of the technician. Thanks to these experiences, Minh always leads in the courses in the vocational training class, granted the degree of 3/7 workers.

Minh said: "We help unpaid work from morning to noon. Until now, people eat rice, they can get back, hurry and ride down the school. Then, I was paid a lunch, worth 3,000. Salary increases by 4,000 meals, then 5,000 VND.

Graduating from a vocational course, however, knowledge gained much thanks to the "learning" at the computer company. Minh is retained by the company as a full time employee, with a starting salary of VND10,000 / day.

At the salary up to 25,000 VND per day, Minh would take leave and move to another company, doing retail sales, computer assembly.

Minh said: "Every night, I do more by visiting the client installation Windows, installed drivers ... At that time, not many people know the computer should make money quite convenient. Each time to the guest house, I was paid 50,000. The job to help me have money to study in the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Commerce.

Along with studying in college, Minh attended short courses to equip himself with knowledge such as: studying securities (Banking Academy), studying for international programmer (FPT Aptech), studying network management ACTA (Aptech Polytechnics), Study Export and Import (Foreign Trade University).

In 2005, Minh borrowed $ 1,970 to take an international programmer course and open a public Internet cafe. With the economic downturn, in 2008, Minh decided to enter Ho Chi Minh City with only 7 million, suitcases clothes, laptop backpack and motorbike.

In Ho Chi Minh City, in early 2009, Minh was admitted as a network administrator for a magazine. Shortly, the multifaceted guy "mon men" helped the marketing department do the event to promote the image of this magazine.

"Khiêng" vending machines to Da Nang

In mid-2012, Minh looked at the market demand and boldly entered the first vending machine in Vietnam to sell beverages.

Nearly a decade ago, big brands used to sell vending machines that sold beverages, but they did not empty.

However, Minh gathered money to save, borrow more, contact with the US partner via e-mail to enter the vending machine by sea, self-made customs, and then registered to establish the company . Next, he brought a machine out to learn how to master it. When re-installing it ...

Machine does not work anymore but in return, Minh has mastered all the basic knowledge, principles of operation, how to solve the problem of vending machine ... He considered that machine is the tuition fee to learn another profession

The difficulty of mastering the technology seems as though it is over and can start making money. But Minh was wrong. The most difficult is the license to place vending machines. Minh contacted the university, pier, bus station, train station, hospital in Ho Chi Minh City to put the machine but are hopeless.

Tracking information, Minh said Danang is quite a "city" for public services, civilized. He sent a letter to Da Nang People's Committee.

Only 3 days later, representatives of the People's Committee invited Minh to Da Nang to survey and make a detailed plan of testing vending machines in public places. However, it was not until 6 months later, Minh set up the first vending machine.

There are 4 automatic vending machines: 1 was destroyed for "learning", 2 machines are operating in two public places of Da Nang, the rest, Minh is waiting for paper allowed to continue to serve in Da Nang. The business is hard but promising Minh.