Labour Day

Mr. Ngatmin and His One Million per Month

As a labour of farm, Mr. Ngatmin makes money by farming. He and his wife work on field of village head with system of renting rice fields sharing the crop 50-50. His total income permonth is one million whereas he has two sons who are in college. In order to survive his life with his family, he must borrow some money to his neighbor. Sometime he also borrows to the bank.

“I do not have enough money to pay semester tuition of my two sons. I borrow some money from my neighbor and the bank,” he said. “I have responsibility on my daughter with his son too, because her husband had passed away 2 years ago”.

The menu of his food everyday is vegetable from his field or sometime his wife buys in small shop. The vegetable which he consumes everyday, usually vegetable such as cassava leaf, papaya leaf, and tuber leaf. He and his family seldom consume vegetable such as broccoli, squash, cabbage, etc. if he wants to eat them, he has to buy them first.

“ya, usually we pick vegetable from the field or around my home when we does not have money,” he says.

Fortunatelly, his job is as farmer, so, he does not need to buy rice. If he also has to buy some rice, maybe he can not give pocket money to his sons. Nothing else than his sons have to bring some food from home. His sons sometime make money by selling brooch to elementary school students. Their income can be used to buy gasoline.

Mr. Ngatmin says, “my first son sell brooch to his students in elementary school to buy gasoline. He makes those brooch by himself while my second son help him in selling it to his friends in college. However, I thank to Alloh that my first son has been a job as a teacher in elementary school. Although he does not graduate from college yet”.

Mr. Ngatmin hopes that his two sons can reach their dream and pay all the debt. Although he had sold apart of their field to pay when his son enter the college. He wants his sons get a job suitable with their dream and can make money as much as possible. He always encourage his son to study hard because he does not want his sons life in miserable.

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Considering his age, he has been a leader of Karang Taruna in his village. He also win some contests such as calligraphy contest, contest of mascot KPU, and java speech contest.

Besides, he joined to some organizations. They are Karang Taruna, Ikatan Pemuda Peduli Anak Bangsa, Rohis, IPNU, etc.

Taqin said there are some goals in his life. When he was child, he wanted to be artist while nowadays he wants to be character designer. In short, as book illustrator.

“I am very interested in artist when I was child. But now, since I am in visual art department, I am interested in character design and illustration,” he said.

In order to reach his goal, he receives order from consumer on field of art and design. He held art exhibition with his friends such as the exhibition of Pasar Branding, Metamorvisual and Pameran Angkatan.

Although he still receive order of art and design, he also make money by teaching extracurriculer of drawing and coloring. In addition, he is GTT (Guru Tidak Tetap) of TIK (Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi).

“Firstly, I am as a teacher of extracurriculer of drawing and coloring. But there is a teacher of TIK resigned from the school,” he said. “The headmaster of this school asked me to replace her position as TIK teacher.”

His career as a teacher does not give enough money, so he tries to make a course and translation. As a matter of fact, there are some obstacles in building it. Moreover, there is a student who deceives him by asking him to translate her final project and she does not pay the money.

“There is a student of IAIN Walisongo who ask me to translate her final project. In fact, she deceives me,” he says.

Since then, he tried to make money by other way. He made accessories such as  brooch. He sold it to his students and his friends. He did not open translation service anymore. However, his course grew well and many students from elementary school up to senior high school take private course in his course. He did it together with his close friends. He also has accessories shop which join with his sister.