Going to boarding after graduating from college?

After graduation, some young people choose to become host families. They put away what they learned in college, repeated simple manual labor, and received low wages. Some people make this choice to quit involution, while others use it as a springboard to save energy for their next goal in life.

Become a boarding house with a monthly salary of 1700.

"Give this Nell a root canal and let her brush it first. She only has two buckets. " The supervisor pointed to Su Guan Ni Baihe, who had just reported for duty, and directed his work in Shandong dialect with Jinan accent.

This day is the housekeeper's "trash can brushing day". As usual, the housekeepers put the big trash cans in the dormitory area together and washed them with water. Few students know that on weekdays, the "aunts" in boarding apartments not only take care of the students, but also are responsible for cleaning all the garbage cans, large and small, in the buildings they manage regularly.

Divide the tools, and Ni Baihe is wearing a colored plastic apron sent by a hot pot restaurant. Standing on slippers, she stood firm on the steps at the entrance of the dormitory building and began to clean a green trash can about one meter high.

Domestic workers generally use short-handled brushes, and it is very laborious to scrub such trash cans. In order to clean the trash can, many aunts drill into the fallen trash can with brushes.

Because he didn't want to get into the trash can, Ni Baihe found a long bamboo pole and tied it to the handle of the toilet brush, and used the extended toilet brush to brush the black dirt in the trash can.

Ni Baihe is a third-year student in the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. On September 8, 2022, she officially took up her post and became the dormitory administrator of Building 6, which is her dormitory. If he didn't become the housekeeper of this building, Ni Baihe, like many students, didn't know the housekeeper "Auntie" who manages students in the sky and underground on weekdays. He also wanted to keep the trash can corresponding to the building clean.

After becoming the matron, she grabbed the punch card machine like a mobile phone every day, walked around different floors according to a certain route, and checked the damage of public equipment.

Figure | Ni Baihe punched the card with a punching machine

After punching out at 7: 30 every morning, Ni Baihe needs to pay attention to the movement of garbage trucks entering the dormitory area.

As soon as the bus arrived, she had to run out, move the trash can in charge of this building to the side of the road, and put it together with the trash cans in other dormitories to facilitate the workers on the bus to dump it. The domestic garbage generated by students in the past day is handled by dormitory buildings and workers every day.

The garbage collector is not responsible for putting the trash can back. After the garbage in several vats was taken away, Ni Baihe had to drag these dirty big guys back to their original places bit by bit with his bare hands.

This is purely manual, and the boarding house on duty is completed every day. In addition to learning to hold her breath and prevent the pungent smell of garbage from invading her, she has to face the unabashed questioning eyes of strangers around her-in many students' life experiences, the boarding is often middle-aged, and Ni Baihe's face is too young. Occasionally meet a familiar classmate, and the other person may even ask her directly: Why are you still like this?

Should I be ashamed or run away? Ni Baihe disagreed: I don't want to follow the trend. "As long as I don't attack and offend, I don't need to take care of it." Ni Baihe said. Moreover, these tests hardly affect her life. In her post, she has to spend energy to cope with more trivial, more specific and more energy-consuming labor.

For example, all kinds of registration and inspection work, lending and recycling of related keys, brushing trash cans and so on.

When she first went to work, in order to save trouble, when she brought the trash cans back, she randomly pulled two of the empty trash cans back to the dormitory. After that, she stopped doing this, because a cleaner in her 60 s and her work partner reminded her: "Don't take the trash can indiscriminately, our bucket is very clean. You have to brush these trash cans later. "

"Do you still need to brush the trash can?" Ni Baihe could not help but ask.

She was surprised and found it hard to accept that the dirt on these trash cans should be cleaned by her.

Work, either adapt or resign. Ni Baihe didn't resign and soon got used to it. Less than a month later, as usual, Ni Baihe and other housekeepers gathered in front of the dormitory to clean these huge barrels. She is very calm and upgraded her "equipment" around this work. After autumn in Jinan, the temperature is only 7℃ every day. She changed into thermal underwear and trousers, plus a polar fleece coat, and bought sleeves, a thick apron and rain boots to minimize the contact between her body and the trash can.

In the past, boarding apartments in China schools were usually occupied by middle-aged and elderly people who were nearing retirement or had already retired. Most of these silver-haired people have low academic qualifications and are responsible for some tedious chores, such as registering accommodation and distributing bedding, as well as cleaning.

Nowadays, due to the resistance to overtime culture, the need for self-pursuit and the demand for dual-purpose jobs, some young people have decided to quit the fierce industry competition and choose "less jobs" such as boarding houses. There are also some young people who become boarders as transitional jobs during the public examination and postgraduate entrance examination.

20 17 Grain Rain graduated from Istanbul university majoring in civil aviation cabin service. After several jobs, she returned to her hometown and became a boarding school in a university a few kilometers away from home.

After graduation, many students in Grain Rain became flight attendants or airport ground crew. Grain Rain didn't want to face the varicose veins, irregular work and rest, late marriage and other problems, so she switched careers early and left the aviation industry.

Figure | Grain Rain's graduation ceremony

After that, Grain Rain worked in two units, administration and reception, with less work and less money. When she worked in the last company, she was always run away by the government because she offended a "rolling king" in the office. She couldn't swallow this tone, and she resigned with 300,000 savings in her wallet.

After spending more than a year at home, Grain Rain decided to go out to work again. Because she has been in a state of low-frequency communication for a long time, she feels that she has been "stunned" and even can't understand the words. After that, she submitted her resume to the university a few kilometers away from home and applied for the job of campus dormitory administrator.

Originally, the recruitment target of the school was "2020 undergraduate fresh graduates", but the fresh graduates were not fully recruited, and the school opened its posts to the society, giving Grain Rain the opportunity to apply.

The next day, after receiving the interview notice, Grain Rain took his father to the shopping mall near his home and bought a suit. Shirts, skirts, woolen coats and a pair of black leather shoes, nearly 2000 yuan.

Later, she was interviewed successfully in that suit, and her monthly salary 1700 yuan was basically the same as the value of her original interview dress.

On the morning of the interview, it didn't take long for Gu Yu to arrive at the office of the logistics department. He felt very nervous. This is a 3V3 interview. Three interviewers in their early forties and three applicants were sitting on both sides of a long table. She was the youngest person in the whole interview.

"Do you know anything about boarding houses?" The interviewer asked.

The other two applicants were silent. Although he did his homework the night before the interview, Gu Yu kept his mouth shut.

After that, the interviewer took the initiative to introduce the work contents in a chat tone: daily duty, dormitory inspection, and student problem coordination.

In Grain Rain's view, the interview was not serious, and the interviewer didn't have a tendency to strictly examine the candidates. The recruitment process seems to be loose, fast and casual. It's more like testing who is really willing to accept the job than the requirements for ability and skills. "It's not like a serious workplace." Grain Rain described it this way.

After the interview, Grain Rain learned on the spot that he had passed and could go to work within a week. The news came suddenly, and she only felt flustered: Why did you go to work so soon? Can I do it well? Do you quarrel with students?

After the young people took over the dormitory building

After becoming a boarding apartment, most of the time, Grain Rain stayed in the duty room of more than 10 square meters on the first floor of the dormitory, and was also responsible for lending the keys to students and workers who came and went to the dormitory for maintenance. The school doesn't allow the housekeeper to leave personal belongings on the desk in the office for a long time. Many times, there is only one file rack on the desk, with work records such as roster and books for staying up late.

She was worried that her clothes would get dirty at work, so she left an old down jacket in the duty room, put it on at work, and changed back to her daily clothes to leave after work.

During the first two months of boarding, Grain Rain wore delicate makeup to work every day. After officially joining the company, Grain Rain found that his colleagues were all middle-aged people in their thirties and forties. Colleagues told her that after 50 years old, she would probably be dismissed from school.

After working for nearly two years, the habit of dressing up for work gradually faded, and Grain Rain often didn't even wash his face at work. She needs to clock in at 7: 30, get up at 7:05 at the latest, and go out to school by battery car at 7: 15.

Grain Rain, who is in her twenties, is a little "disobedient" and sits in the boarding house. When the freshman started school in September, the school arranged for her and another resident to be on duty at the outdoor information desk. Although the information desk with one desk and two chairs is simple, it is convenient for passing students and parents to ask questions.

Just during the class, a graduate student who had put away her luggage and was going out to buy daily necessities came over and asked Grain Rain, "What are you doing?"

"I am on duty." Grain Rain replied.

"Ah?" The other party is obviously a little surprised. "So miserable?"

Gu Yucai realized that her new classmates misunderstood her and mistakenly thought that she was a student who was "caught up by a young man". Later, the other party came back and gave Grain Rain a steamed stuffed bun. He wants to "reward" the volunteer teacher elder sister. Under Grain Rain's explanation and shirking, he took the bread and walked away.

Ni Baihe's colleagues are all uncles and aunts who have passed retirement age. Most of these housekeepers use old mobile phones that children have eliminated, and then adjust the font to the maximum. An aunt came back to school from work and found that the mobile phone could not locate the punch card. Ni Baihe taught her: restart the positioning and log in to the punching system again.

These old colleagues don't understand the meaning of smart devices. After a long time, Ni Baihe became a know-it-all in the eyes of aunts, and even a slogan commonly used by aunts appeared: "Go to Building 6 to find Little Neil."

At school, Ni Baihe was liked by people. Whenever a housekeeper or cleaner passes by, she will warmly greet and hand over some stored milk or fruit. Since Ni Baihe moved from the sixth floor to the first floor, her former roommate always asked her when she would move back. She is not here, and the whole dormitory is quiet.

When such a young man took over the dormitory area, the relationship between students and boarding apartments began to loosen.

There is a big mirror in the hall outside the duty room. Whenever passing girls take pictures here, Ni Baihe will silently add a narration for them: beautiful, let's go!

Students often flock to the duty room to find her. The most exaggerated one is that students came to talk to her from 8: 00 in the morning, and then three or four people came to talk to her until the evening 10. These friends may not be familiar with them, but because of the base of boarding duty room, gossip between teachers and students has a channel to spread, and strange students have a social place.

Figure | Ni Baihe's carefully arranged accommodation room.

Ni Baihe hates rain most, because students don't like going out on rainy days. She had to face the dark world alone, and no one said anything when she was full. If you meet a classmate, Ni Baihe will also stop the other person: "Learn something and go later."

Some contradictions have also eased. There was a couple who had a conflict outside the dormitory building before. The girl is sitting in the back seat of the electric car. As soon as the car stopped, she immediately got off and walked into the building, and her boyfriend ran behind her.

Ni Baihe immediately stopped him: "Hey, hey, that boy, come out! This is the girls' dormitory. "

"I'm not going in!" The boy's tone was blunt and urgent.

Ni Baihe stared at him, but did not dare to conflict with him. At this moment, the girl came over and added "I'm sorry, sister", and then went out of the dormitory with her boyfriend in tandem.

As a host family, most of the students I met are very friendly.

Some of her classmates are doctoral students in our school. My roommate, a doctoral student in Ni Baihe's dormitory, jokingly called "Auntie" every time she passed by. Ni Baihe replied, "All right, little classmate, hurry up."

Even chatting with her former roommate online, Ni Baihe's nickname has become "Aunt Ni". In her mind, "aunt boarding house" has become a general term in the language, just like "police uncle".

But she dresses up a little every time she goes to work. Her short hair is a little long, so it looks refreshing when tied up in a pony tail. It's one thing to be called "auntie", but it's another to look like auntie. Anyway, she still doesn't want to look old and passively become a real "aunt"

Compared with the elderly housekeeper, she can feel that her classmates prefer her to be an "aunt" here.

Unlike Ni Baihe, who can accept the title of "auntie", at the beginning, Grain Rain will correct students from time to time.

On the first day of work, a student pushed open the door of the duty room and said, "Aunt, I need to borrow the key."

"Can you call me sister?"

"Yes, so young, sister-"

Gu couldn't tell when this change happened, but unconsciously, she accepted the students' call of "Aunt".

A school is like a China Merchants Bureau. The student is the customer, and she is the after-sales of this company. Most of the time, she tries to keep a nodding acquaintance with her students. She should control herself, don't add students' WeChat, and don't get too close to a classmate, because being too familiar means that students want to find her for everything. Instead of arguing with students about the difference between "aunt" and "sister", it is better to deal with the problem quickly and let her go fishing alone.

Some people transition, some people breathe.

In addition to complicated and simple labor, in Ni Baihe's understanding, practitioners living in this position need patience to stay in a position for a long time. Do nothing, just stay and don't leave your post. It is also an important aspect of this work to spend a long time on standby to deal with all possible situations in the dormitory area.

Ni Baihe didn't have an interview before she joined the company. She used to be a fresh graduate living in a dormitory. One day, in order to avoid the dust scattered during the air conditioning maintenance in the dormitory, she hid in the corridor and happened to meet the dormitory administrator who was patrolling the building. The housekeeper saw her and asked, "Nell, do you want to be a housekeeper?" The girl dormitory in Building 6 where Ni Baihe lives has only two floors. The dormitory requires the administrator of this community to be on duty 24 hours a day, and the former dormitory administrator intends to leave because of the difficulty in asking for leave. As a part-time job, it's students' turn.

At ten o'clock in the morning, after chatting with the accommodation manager, I went back to the dormitory to prepare. An hour later, Ni Baihe sat downstairs at the front desk with a computer. In the afternoon, she filled in the information on the App and applied for a job. This job works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without five insurances and one gold, only paying accident insurance. In 30 days, the salary that Ni Baihe can receive is 2200 yuan, and the average daily salary is about 73.3 yuan.

In Ni Baihe's plan, staying in charge of this job is to prepare for seeking a teaching post after graduation. She intends to apply as a lecturer after graduation. Before this, boarding in colleges and universities is a good transitional work. While earning income, she left her time and energy to prepare for the teacher job.

Ni Baihe is a medical student, but she said that she couldn't find a suitable job after graduation, so she went to the standardized training of medical staff and officially became a doctor. She doesn't intend to be a doctor as her first career choice after graduation, because "training is really tiring."

She also knows that neither a teacher nor a doctor will live in a boarding house all her life. The boarding house is just a springboard to accumulate resume materials for future delivery of lecturer positions. She also set a time limit for herself: before the winter vacation in June 5438+February this year, she will resign.

Yang Miaomiao, born in 200 1, also graduated from medical college. For her, the counterpart work in the hospital is completely out of proportion to the salary. A job with a high intensity of working from eight to eight can only get a salary of about 2,000 yuan per month. In her city, it costs at least 1500 a month, excluding rent. So, she came up with the idea of being an accommodation manager.

When she told her mother this idea, her mother showed an incredible look: "What little girl went to boarding?" Mother blurted out.

At present, she tries to convince her mother with the theory of occupational equality: "Now every profession in this society is the same-what the workers pay, and then the unit will give you a salary return. I don't have any problems even if I am a sanitation worker now. "

On the other hand, she wants to be a homestay, and she also has a transitional mentality similar to Ni Lily. If she successfully enters the job, she plans to work while preparing for the adult self-taught undergraduate course to improve her academic qualifications. In this future planning, boarding is not a complicated job, but a good transitional business.

Ancient jade is different. She regards this job as the end of her career. "I can't find a job that suits me like this in the world." She said so.

Gu can always feel some details that make her happy from her daily work. Housekeepers divided the responsibility blocks, and Grain Rain was assigned to clean the stairs at the entrance of the dormitory. This means that she is on duty at ordinary times, and she needs to be responsible for cleaning this area. After sweeping the fallen leaves in front of the door, Grain Rain often plays with his mobile phone on the stairs. You know, being assigned to other conspicuous places to brush your mobile phone, there is no condition to invest like her.

After getting tired of playing with mobile phones, Gu Yu sometimes begins to feel that time has passed very long. When this long period of time begins to show unbearable signs, she can get up and wander around, sometimes talk to the cleaning staff, or go upstairs to check the maintenance of equipment or furniture.

The days are long. Grain Rain thinks that the happiest time of the year is when graduates leave school and students move out to the dormitory "Taobao Bay". Every time a graduate leaves school, he will leave a lot of things in the dormitory that he can't take away. During her boarding life in the past two years, she picked up curling irons, toilet paper and seven or eight bull newspaper clippings.

Whether in transition or lying flat, young people who choose this job have found a suitable position for it in their future planning. The remaining embarrassment lies in how to explain the reasons for this choice to some people around you. In some people's eyes, deciding to become a host family means putting down what you have learned with energy and money and "flowing down" to do a job with simple content and no obvious sense of value.

Ni Baihe, who lives in Jinan, is silent about being a host family when facing her tutor. She is worried that the tutor will associate her lack of academic output with the part-time job of the host family. But she feels that even if she doesn't do boarding, her academic level will not change much.

Grain Rain's father and Ni Baihe's family supported them in this work. Grain Rain still remembers the day when he submitted his resume. When my father knew it, he simply said "Well" and then said, "Go ahead."

But until now, Grain Rain didn't tell her mother that she was boarding. Her parents divorced in her early years, and she has been growing up with her father. Her father's personality is similar to her, gentle and sincere, everything goes with the flow, not too much pursuit. However, in Grain Rain's impression, mother's personality is different. She is strong, enterprising and has some desire for control. She always compares Grain Rain with other children of the same age. Grain Rain's strategy to deal with his mother is to talk less and argue more. Anyway, her mother is doing business in Turkey, far from home, and her palm can't reach home.

This is a boarding job directly recruited by the last school in Grain Rain's city. Other boarding work has been outsourced to the property, and she heard that her position will be outsourced.

When can I stay in this position, Gu Yu is not clear. She said that when she lost her job, she would simply take the money and leave.

* Some characters in this article are pseudonyms.

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Writing | Xue Xiaodong

Edit | Wen Lihong

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