(ECNS) -- As requested by his wife, a man in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality is trying to earn 200 yuan ($30) extra a day after hours as a part-time driver in a car-hailing service to make ends meet, local media reported.
Fang Yu, 29, works for a media company in the city, with a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan, while his wife Luo Li earns 3,000 yuan a month.
Fang registered as a driver with Didi Chuxing, China's top car-hailing service, in January and began earning about 100 yuan a day, thanks to a high subsidy policy at that time.
Seeing it as a chance to make money, Luo later asked her husband to drive more hours after work and earn 200 yuan a day except Saturday.
Besides the expenditure on daily necessities, the couple needs to pay a house mortgage of 2,800 yuan a month and 2,000 yuan car loan. The couple will finish paying off the latter in 18 months.
The birth of their first daughter at the end of last year put the couple under more financial stress. Fang said he doesn't even have money for food after buying baby care products.
The father said he knows the extra work would help provide their daughter a better life but he was so tired that he had to keep cooling ointment in the car to keep sober-minded. Fang routinely needs to send a screenshot of the income he makes driving at night to his wife before returning home.
He also said he usually works until half-past nine in the evening, and sometimes into the wee hours, although he needs to get up at 7 a.m. in the morning. After Didi Chuxing reduced its subsidy to drivers, Fang said he had to work even harder because his mother-in-law is also on the side of his wife.
Luo told the newspaper that her strict requirements on her husband are in the best interest of their daughter. Luo's mother also said a man should bear more family responsibilities.
Chen Zhilin, a psychological consultant in Chongqing, said Fang already frequently complains to passengers due to high stress levels, which may affect his heath.
