Ho Chi Minh City night workers in photos
Wednesday, January 21, 2015, 10:34 GMT+7
While the city is going to sleep, a number of workers start their working “day” in Ho Chi Minh City.
They are road, cable, and plumbing repairmen who always begin a working “day” at night when people are about to go to bed, and call it a day when people wake up.
At 10:00 pm one day, a group including more than 40 workers gathered on No Trang Long Street in Binh Thanh District to install underground electric cables.
The group, divided into smaller teams for digging under the street and installing cables, did their job in a hurry because they had to get the road back to its original condition before 5:00 am.
Le Van Loi, 35, from the southern province of Tien Giang, has 21 years of experience in doing this night job.
He said the workers are mainly poor laborers from central and southern provinces who come to Ho Chi Minh City to earn a living.
As the Lunar New Year (Tet) is approaching, the men are working harder to earn more money to go back to their hometown for family reunions.
Tet is Vietnam’s biggest holiday, when everyone gets together with their family after a year of working or studying away from each other.
It falls on February 19 this year, with festive preparations beginning a week before that and the celebratory atmosphere lingering another week after it.
Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper gives you a look at these workers’ normal working “day”:
The hardest obstacle of the night job is mud. Photo: Tuoi Tre
The workers have to finish a larger number of tasks entailing strict technical criteria. Photo: Tuoi Tre
A worker labors under light from an incandescent lamp. Photo: Tuoi Tre
A group of night workers are busy doing their job. Photo: Tuoi Tre
Two workers dig out a sidewalk to install underground electric cables. Photo: Tuoi Tre
Three workers prepare the cables. Photo: Tuoi Tre
The workers always do their job in a hurry to get the street back to its original condition before the morning. Photo:Tuoi Tre
Two workers rest on a sidewalk grass field. Photo: Tuoi Tre
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