01.
"How many times, I'm bleeding from my head. I feel like I have ten thousand reasons to hate this world. All of them are my enemies, or potential enemies. But the kindness, friendship, and love in life pull me back from the cliff of despair. No matter what predicament I sink into, I still have to have light in my heart."
This passage is the heartfelt words of Xu Jingjing, the heroine in Teacher Yan Zhen's new work "What to do" at a class reunion 10 years after graduation.
Jingjing, who graduated from a key university, experienced a campus love breakup, worked as a teacher in education and training, worked as a real estate salesperson, and finally married a graduate alumni who was a deliveryman.
After marriage, he was transferred to the real estate (state-owned enterprise) headquarters for his outstanding business ability to do public account promotion work.
ends with a bold move in real estate self-media field.
Jingjing's father used to be a rural teacher, but there was no staffing. After the education reform, he completely lost his job and ran on transportation and trucks. His parents had no pension.
So, in the eyes of parents, it is not considered serious work without compilation, and this concept is also rooted in Jingjing's heart.
However, as a young and beautiful female college student who graduated from college, there have been several "opportunities" to change her destiny.
The father of a student who was a tutor in college harassed her and proposed the temptation to let Jingjing go to the hospital to work after graduation.
14 places to be admitted to the graduate school, Jingjing ranked 15th and was just out. The first-ranked student was preparing to go abroad, but Jingjing missed the admission to graduate school because of a letter of complaint.
has submitted countless resumes and cannot find a "decent" job in Lucheng. The invisible rich second-generation college classmate has extended an olive branch to Jingjing who has broken up. As long as they are together, they will give her the TV station work arranged by her family to her.
Jingjing accompanied her classmates to meet her parents, but she really couldn't accept that her classmates were short + mother's baby.
After the training and training, she was attracted by her boss and proposed to support her for two years to ensure that she has no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life.
I went on a blind date with a civil servant who had a villa but had a greasy feeling, but I still didn't feel it...
The love line and the career line are intertwined.
At work, Jingjing also went to Hainan for telephone sales for several months. Making money means making money, but she is not at ease. To put it bluntly, it is a fraud. Finally, she said that her father was critically ill and was able to get out of here.
In terms of love, Jingjing also met divorced boys with children in the training and a scumbag who specializes in cheating girls in the outdoor group, and experienced all kinds of experiences.
The last couple who got married, don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t play mahjong, and don’t cheat, are just too stingy.
The house was bought by Jingjing with a loan. He paid a 50,000 yuan betrothal gift. Later, he thought about the bride money when he encountered something.
Xu Jingjing often sighed that an invisible power has already stipulated my role. It is actually meaningless to resist this regulation.
02.
After the official novel "Canglang Water" became the gods, few works of Yan Zhen were published.
7 years have passed since the 2015 novel "Above Lives" and Teacher Yan Zhen's new work "What to Do" has finally been published.
waist seal reads: "A book describes the difficulties and persistence of young people today."
I think it is more appropriate than the female version of "Canglang Water" described in book marketing.
"What to do" does not have Chi Dawei's fight in the officialdom in the second half of "Canglang Water". There was no bloodless war in the officialdom, but it gave me a real sense of oppression. A piece of letter paper was clipped in the book
. Yan Zhen’s original intention of writing "What to Do" is also in this letter.
"A few years ago, my son worked in a company and worked 290 hours a month. There were no weekends, and he was nearly 10 hours a day. He was asked by his boss to talk to him and asked him why others worked 300 hours but you didn't achieve it?..."
At certain moments in your life, you stand at a certain intersection in your life, searching up and down, but don't know what to do. You assume responsibility for your loved ones and don’t even have the qualification to give up.
This is the living state of many young people in contemporary times, and it is a survival dilemma that young people have to face.
Finally, did Xu Jingjing solve the survival dilemma? Yan Zhen did not explain, leaving it to readers for imagination.
I can't help but feel sorry for the heroine, thinking how good it would be if she had realized it earlier. In fact, it is more to lament myself. If I had realized earlier, maybe I would have lived a better life now.
However, there is no medicine for regret in life. Fortunately, more young people can now recognize the status quo early.
Some people chose to escape, while others faced the challenge.
03.
After reading this book, I suddenly thought of my previous leader. She is also a post-80s student and a master's degree from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is now an editor-in-chief in a magazine and a state-owned enterprise, and has no editorial.
Because the magazine has been reformed for a long time, it has not been compiled, but the work is still stable, so you can save face when you say it out.
She once sighed that when she was young, she had the opportunity to go to the publicity department of Shanghai Grade A Hospital, but now she is over 35 years old and has no chance.
She just graduated and joined a magazine. Later, she went to several foreign-funded hospitals and worked in Ping An Health. After suffering from a serious illness, I was unable to bear high-intensity work, so I returned to the "Old Boss" magazine.
However, the leader's family is from a good place, and the couple are both highly educated and from Northeast China. They bought a house in Shanghai and gave birth to two children.
, the leader's family has such good conditions, and finally returned to the magazine in order to stabilize.
It seems that the end of the universe is civil servants, and this sentence is correct.
Especially in the three years of the epidemic, fresh graduates cannot find jobs, Internet layoffs on a large scale, and survival in all walks of life is very difficult, which makes us firmly believe that the most stable within the system.
Perhaps, the only way for us ordinary people to "change our destiny against the will of heaven."
However, remember this sentence written in Yan Zhenshu. No matter what predicament you sink into, you still have to have light in your heart.
