The job as a tour guide will only be known after experience!

I saw a problem on Zhihu. What's your favorite occupation? Some people answer that it is a tour guide, because you can travel freely and earn money. I just want to say that the pattern in Tucson is broken, boy!

1 1 I have been working in a travel agency since graduation. Although I am not a full-time tour guide, I have taken several tourist attractions in Korea, Singapore, Mattel, Taiwan Province Province and China. The tour guide industry is really not as cool as you think. Here I once again recall my first outbound tour group. Please feel free to:

The first outbound tour was to Xinmatai, an old-age tour organized by a health care product company. Generally speaking, the elderly can join the group for free by purchasing about 8000 health care products at one time. There are more than 40 people in my tour group, ranging in age from 62 to 94. The moment I got the power of attorney, I felt dizzy and disheartened. However, the plan tells me that the ticket has been issued and I have no way out! ! !

You have seen Ode to Joy. I am probably a combination of Guan Guan and a small earthworm. I didn't say anything stupid, and I didn't have any courage (of course, I'm no better now).

After the screaming briefing at the airport (why screaming, because my grandparents are hard of hearing), we got on the ash machine and went to Thailand. I've been trying-my grandparents don't know English, and their eyes are blurred. I stamped dozens of entry cards.

When we arrived at Don Mueang Airport, a dark-skinned tour guide came to meet us, and my nightmare began immediately. He asked us to call him "Pi Yong" (later checked, in Thailand, Pi is a respectful name, and the table is crooked). Pi Yong is less than 170, wearing a tight shirt, a big gold chain and a gold ring, with three or seven points of hair and a smell of cheap perfume. I don't know if he likes smoking or something. His lips are black and purple, which is a bit like the underworld in Hong Kong movies. Seeing my heart beating drums, the first sentence I met asked me how many times I had been to Thailand. I answered truthfully that it was the first time, and his expression was very strange. I can't tell him how he feels (when I came back to chat with the senior tour guide, they said they were asking me. If it is the first time, many things can't be touched, such as commission and so on. )

It was dark when I got on the bus, so I hurried to the hotel after eating in a hurry. On the way, the driver has been calling in Thai. I guess he got lost. The itinerary says it's 20 minutes' drive from the hotel. God knows why we walked for two and a half hours. Pi Yong introduced Thailand with a straight face in Mandarin that he didn't understand. After a few words, he began to talk about shemale, crocodile skin and snake medicine. The tourists on the group are older, many of them are going abroad for the first time and are curious about everything. Naturally, they are not surprised. But I soon realized that this was paving the way for the next shopping and self-financing

The whole journey took one *** 1 1 day, and Thailand was the highlight, which took five days. Everything was fine in the first two days in Bangkok. On the way to Pattaya the next afternoon, he began to talk about transvestite in Thailand, and then extended to legalize the porn industry in Thailand, and then extended to how wonderful the night show was. The grandmother in the front row has put her head against the window and dozed off. I know it is time to stop him, but I don't know what to say. My heart is beating nervously. "Yong elder brother, I heard that the wedding custom in Thailand is very special. Can you tell us something? " This sentence brought him white eyes and endless silence.

After dinner, everyone went to experience the Thai spa according to the itinerary. After that, they took the Oriental Princess to watch the shemale performance on the boat. After the spa, Pi Yong didn't see anyone. I found him smoking in the VIP room and asked him when we would meet. He smiled contemptuously twice and said, "Get together? Do what together? Don't go anywhere, don't take part in any projects. There is nowhere to go these days. You can wait by the roadside with them. Oriental princess 1 1 will board the ship. " I looked at my cell phone. It was just after 8 o'clock. I asked the old people to wait at the roadside until 1 1 before taking the boat and then going back to the hotel. It is estimated that it will be tossed until 2 am. Old people used to go to bed early and get up early. This arrangement is obviously unreasonable. I learned from other tour leaders that the boat runs every hour, so I asked him to change to an earlier one. I didn't expect him to be like a lighted ball in an instant. "Do you want to change it?" You can take it with you. I quit. X, your mother, a tour guide like you does nothing but play and live for free. Hurry back to China. ".Although I was a steamed stuffed bun, I couldn't bear to be scolded like this inexplicably, and then I went back with a national scolding. At this time, several old aunts in the group also gathered around and accused him: "Why doesn't Xiao Zhang work?" She always runs all the way for us, but you are always selling ... "

I ran to one side, dialed the number of Ji Diao, a domestic travel agency, with trembling hands and told her what had just happened. What I never expected was that my colleague and "senior" Ji Diao not only didn't give me a word of comfort, but accused me of not knowing how to cooperate with the tour guide "* * * to win", and then told me that she couldn't manage it after work and let me "take the blame myself". I really was. In desperation, I dialed the phone number of an emergency contact in the notice of sending a group, and the problem was finally solved, but it further angered the tour guide.

In the next trip, he sat in the first row of the bus early in the morning and turned to play with his mobile phone. He doesn't talk to his friends or even talk to me. Drivers go all the way to places, and tourists get off for sightseeing. Although I followed, it didn't help. Even when I went to nongnooch Tropical Garden, he kept my ticket and told me to wait at the gate of the scenic spot. The reply of the travel agency is still that Pattaya is far from Bangkok, it is too expensive to change tour guides, and there are really no other tour guides in the peak season, so let me find a way to "reconcile" with the tour guide myself, at least fooling her for two days.

In the meantime, another thing happened. Pi Yong had been calling in Thai in the car before, but I happened to hear him calling his friend in Chinese, to the effect that he would borrow the kid raised by his friend for a few days, let his friend deliver it and return it after the tour. I've never eaten pork, but I've read a few Tianya articles. I know roughly what a Thai child is. I have always followed Confucius' advice to "stay at a respectful distance from others", but in order to work in a foreign country, I was so naked threatened. I was in a mixed mood at that time. I want to have a colorful flower like Jenny in fairy tales, grab a petal and hope to go home at once, but I don't have a colorful flower. Even if I did, I couldn't leave it.

Soon I arrived at the next scenic spot, called Jiu Zhenfo Mountain. Pi Yong is still sitting in the car playing with his mobile phone. Maybe the team members overheard the phone call on purpose. In the scenic spot, my grandparents, uncles and aunts surrounded me and said that I couldn't be embarrassed anymore. They agreed that they really didn't want to watch the evening show. If you can't, you can go to see another shemale show at your own expense, or you can tip him 200 yuan each from Qian Qi. I am very touched. They may be as frugal as my grandparents' parents in life, and they will bargain with vendors in the vegetable market for a few cents. However, they are willing to spend 300 yuan, equivalent to half a month's food for an unrelated person, to see a performance that is not suitable for them. I didn't want them to spend the money to please the evil tour guide, but in the end I couldn't beat them, and the money went to Pi Yong. After getting the money, the ice on his face began to melt slowly. Although he still doesn't want to talk to me, he is finally willing to show the old people around the scenic spots.

There is nothing to say about the next tour in Singapore and Malaysia. Singapore's tour guide is very considerate and the service is first-class, so that the aunts and grandmothers on the group bought a lot of anti-wrinkle crocodile oil. Uncle Malaysia's tour guide, well-educated and well-informed, is just right for the taste of the elderly in the group, safe and sound.

During the trip of 1 1 day, I took good care of every old person in the group, helped them get on and off the bus one by one, wandered around the scenic spot, reminded them to avoid getting lost (most of them didn't roam internationally, couldn't speak English, and were deaf), helped them fiddle with the camera+take pictures, patrolled every night, and taught them how to identify shampoo and body wash. And how to use the air conditioner and TV remote control (English reminds them to put anti-skid mats in the shower to prevent wrestling ... To be honest, if you want to ask me what scenic spots are in Thailand, I really can't say, because I'm not in the mood to enjoy them at all. However, there are not many entrance and exit locations, landmark assembly locations and Chinese signs of each scenic spot, and you can basically know what to do.

In retrospect, although the tour group met a bad tour guide, it also gained a lot of warmth. On the day I took the Oriental Princess, a tour leader in Guangzhou told me that the boarding time could be adjusted, encouraging me not to be afraid and not to let them think that the tour leader in mainland China was easy to bully. On the day when I was scared by the Thai boy, a Thai tour guide waiting outside the scenic spot comforted me and told me that the Thai boy was not as terrible as the outside world. Chatting with black drivers in Malaysia in broken English and giving me a beautiful ashtray decoration; When we broke up, the old people in the group reluctantly wrote a letter of commendation and sent it to the company to say that they wanted to recognize my granddaughter. ......

I have to say that a tour guide is a conscientious job. I didn't have any lofty career ideals at that time. I just think that many old people live to this age and may never come back in this life. I try my best to serve them so that they can feel more happy and happy when they recall this trip to New Matai in their lifetime. Of course, the news of bad tour guides in society is not uncommon. Some unscrupulous businessmen engage in vicious competition by using zero-negative low tour fees, which confuses the tourism circle and pushes tour guides to the forefront of justice and income.

My first tour experience was written here. What I see here is true love. Thank you. Now that she has become a mother, a super cute shota resigned from the travel agency at the beginning of the year and took him with her. After visual inspection, she will never return to the tourism circle. And some of my friends and colleagues are still struggling on the front line, treading on thin ice to cope with every challenge; Some of them are already very relaxed. With their rich contacts, they start purchasing, but they are also happy. I wish them all the best. If you meet them, please be gentle with them, because they are also children and the darling of their mothers.