On the career path of a person, no matter how he chooses, there will be darkness and ruggedness. The key question is whether there are eternal bright stars above your head, illuminating the journey of your life.
Special Commitment | Lian Qingchuan
In my long media career, there are two people who have always supported my spiritual strength. Because of their existence, I can always find a way to heal myself when I am in great pain.
The photojournalist I worked with when I just graduated is one of the best photojournalists in this country. This conclusion was not what I made, because in the entire news photography circle, the recognition and awards he received were his medals.
But when I first met him, I was shocked by him. because his starting point is a miner. Yes, miners who mine coal, miners who go down the mine.
I forgot whether he graduated from junior high school or high school, so I went down the well. But he discovered his love for photography, so he used all his money to buy a camera. Later, he was admitted to the photography junior college and then went to the undergraduate degree of junior college and entered . After a long effort, he was assigned to Southern Press Group , became my colleague, and one of the best news photographers in China.
Another friend is an American. When I first met her, she was the deputy editor-in-chief of a major financial journal in the United States. Yes, it can be compared with " Times Weekly ". One year due to the impact of the Internet media, her publication laid off a large scale and began to turn to the Internet. Unfortunately, she became one of the first victims of the overall decline of traditional media.
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Not long after, when she met her again, she was already a grassroots editor of a local magazine. She told me very calmly: It doesn’t matter. For her, she likes the job of news, and everything she does is the same for her.
They are the same in my heart: Because there is a bright starry sky above my head, the earth under my feet is dark and rugged, they can be content with their lives, and their lives are abundant and beautiful.
I remember these two people who have had a deep impact on me because I have recently seen two news stories: the protagonist has different experiences, but he also chose the profession of delivering food.
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Anqing html The video of a 521-year-old girl bringing her children to deliver food has become a hot search.
This woman named Chen became the interviewee of a blogger by chance. According to the blogger, there must be a story for such a young girl to deliver takeout.
But Xiao Chen's story has become the convergence point of darkness and light in this world, full of maliciousness and hope.
She got married at the age of 17 and gave birth to a child at the age of 18. Her husband died in a car accident in the same year. Her mother-in-law got the compensation and drove her out of the house. So she left her hometown and came to Anqing and began her career of delivering food.
When she narrated in the video, she often burst into tears in her eyes. She is a very beautiful girl with big eyes. So when her eyes were filled with tears, it looked translucent and shining.
In the comments in the video, some people said, "I dare not look at her bright eyes."
This was originally like a story in "Les Miserables", but was forced to form an inspirational story of "When Happiness Comes Knocks on the Door".
Her entire dialogue language has a golden sentence constitution.
About working hard at a young age, "21 years old is the time to endure hardships."
About mother's love: (blogger) "Being a mother is tough", (she) "but not to bear it".
Simply know from Xiao Chen's own narrative that she is a person who can completely control her own destiny.
Why deliver food?
Why deliver food?
Xiao Chen said that the average local salary is three to four thousand, and she can earn seven to eight thousand a month for delivery of food. More importantly, the time for delivering food is relatively flexible, and she can take care of it when there are fewer orders. Child. The profession of rider is within reach and does not need to go through many levels; it is fair. As long as the basic conditions are met, everyone can enter this industry; it is stable, the platform is there, it is here.
She can start from here, first find employment, then choose a career.
▲ Dong Yuhui quotations (picture/ Douyin intercept Picture)
Today I saw a video of Dong Yuhui. There is a saying in him that makes people move: all beings are bitter, the heart is relaxed, and life is sweet.
Xiao Chen's life is indeed caused by many helplessness: she dropped out of school and married, gave birth to a child at a young age; her husband died early, and her mother-in-law was heartless; she raised her child alone, and life was difficult.
But Xiao Chen's life has thus burst out with a shiny quality like her eyes: Her autonomy and freedom. ml2 She chose a flexible employment like express delivery, with a good income and free time. In this way, she can fully arrange her time. The most important thing is that she relies on her own strength to raise her children. "She is in, all I want to live with." This is the consciousness of a mother: it is both her obligation and her happiness. Later, the company she served wanted to give her some financial help, but she just wanted to deliver food quietly; the Women's Federation contacted her to provide help, but she said she didn't need it. A person's quality of life depends on whether he chooses the lifestyle she or he wants.
She chose to become a beautiful mother, relying on her own hands to cultivate her children into a happy and self-sufficient person. She is still young and has time. Flexible employment can become her starting point. When supporting herself and her children, she can pursue a higher education and a better life. This is not her end point.
Her individual choice and inner freedom have instantly killed many trolls. She was well-enough, far beyond their understanding.
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Coincidentally, another deliveryman who has received a full higher education complements Xiao Chen.
He Cheng, a master's graduate who delivered takeaway in Chongqing, became the focus of public opinion. He is a master's degree in from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and has been graduating for three years. In August, it was registered as a takeaway, with an income of more than 3,000 yuan.
▲Reports on Weibo about master's delivery of food delivery (photo/screenshot)
such stories can always cause controversy. A master's doctoral degree delivers takeout, a master's doctoral degree works as a cleaner, a master's doctoral degree returns to his hometown to farm, and a master's doctoral degree sells pork.
I don’t know what people imagine for a master’s and doctoral degree? Is it that they all have to become professors and scholars, or become Bill Gates, Ma Huateng, or become the governor, or the minister, or go to space and trample on the moon, or become Newton, or Einstein, to meet people's expectations?
In an academic sentence, this is called stereotype .
Higher education has reached the modern era, and its goal is not to cultivate geniuses, but to improve the overall knowledge and science of society. It helps to build the overall cognition and knowledge level of society, rather than a kind of pre-job training, which does not guarantee the career future.
In He Cheng's resume, he actually had a lot of struggles. After three years of graduation, he worked as an English teacher for one year and a factory worker in Henan. Even today, he still hopes to become a self-media blogger by accumulating traffic. But he found that it was too difficult to obtain traffic, so he now chose to deliver food temporarily.
There is a saying on his social media:
It is not embarrassing to deliver takeout. People who feel that delivering food is embarrassing.
▲Comments on Weibo about delivering food for masters (photo/screenshot)
When there is a lack of sufficient jobs at the moment, is flexible employment not a good transition form? In this context, "employment first, then choosing a job" shows its importance and is one of the best solutions in times of distress.
It is certainly the wish of many people to find a position that matches their interests. However, in the reality of "there are too many monks and less porridge", instead of constantly searching, it is better to find a job with a positive attitude with a relatively considerable income first, accumulate some experience, and then make plans. We often say, "opportunities are always left to those who are prepared." Finding a job first and then choosing a job is undoubtedly a smart choice.
And under the framework of flexible employment, people find that there are many choices: takeout, express delivery, self-media, short video, live broadcast, e-commerce...
Under the Internet conditions, the occupational form of modern society has long undergone tremendous changes. Young people today are more willing to choose freelance careers with free time, unrestrained careers, and get rid of the 9-to-5 or even 996 employment state, that is, flexible employment.
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Taking delivery as an example, the price of riders running orders is clearly traceable, more work and more income, and workers can clearly calculate their own labor income, and the entire process is transparent and clear.
Flexible employment is not only a transitional form of occupation, but also a free choice for occupations.
again: Flexible employment is a starting point, but not an end point.
The belief that takeaway or express delivery is a inferior career choice, which is not only a slander for the concept of equality of professional sentient beings in modern society, but also a backwardness for the changes in modern society.
But this is just a starting point for the wrong understanding of He Cheng's career choice, and it is far from the end point.
In 2021, I was deeply moved by a report from Guyu. Its title is: "It is normal for a migrant worker to think about Heidegger."
31-year-old Chen Zhi dropped out of university because he was confused about his education and life. Then he became a migrant worker.
But his love for philosophy has always driven him. So while working, he translated a book that studied Heidegger .
His pain was not because he was a migrant worker, nor because of his low career, but because he lacked enough time and sufficient conditions to continue to become a person who studied Heidegger.
In our era, we have too many misunderstandings and prejudices about career, pursuit, and ideals. It seems that the goal of all our education is to be a good career: to become a civil servant, to become a white-collar worker, to become a billionaire.
What is the goal of making money? Not to think about Heidegger, but to make money.
▲Chen Zhi worked part-time English translation in his spare time (photo/network)
Chen Zhi did not have a very large financial goal. All his worries were because making money delayed his thinking about Heidegger.
The reason why my American friend can go back to her job as a grassroots editor is that she believes that the ideal that the profession of journalism exceeds the halo she once brought as the deputy editor-in-chief of an international magazine.
But from another perspective, people have to spend a certain amount of time making a living before they can engage in the career they love. For He Cheng, the current monthly income of 3,000 yuan is indeed not an ideal state. But what I believe is that if he can improve to 7,000 or 8,000 or even over 10,000 through a period of familiarity and construction, he can arrange and plan his life more calmly.
I don’t know He Cheng’s life ideals and what the future he wants is? Is it Heidegger? Is it Hemingway? Is it Martin Scorsis ?
He is only 30 years old, and his life has just unfolded in front of him.
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Any career choice has many helplessness and bonds. And any kind of bondage to the human body, no matter how golden it looks, is nothing more than a rope tied up in "Journey to the West": the light is brilliant, killing people.
The more modern it is, the more liberating it is to people and unbind human freedom.
I am not advising you to choose to be a flexible employment person, nor am I advising you to become a takeaway, or express delivery, or self-media person.
I just tell you: on the career path of a person, no matter how you choose, there will be darkness and ruggedness. The key question is whether there are eternal bright stars above your head, illuminating the journey of your life.
