What is the monthly salary of 30 thousand in Shanghai?

Ma Dong said: Yes.

Then he added an ambiguous, meaningful and endless sentence: I'm not that narcissistic.

Compared with narcissism, Xu, who is also a senior intellectual, is obviously willing to accept this era of entertainment to death, and does not put on airs. He thinks that this era of impetuousness, greed and vanity is not worthy of his senior head.

Most of these senior intellectuals are concentrated in Beijing, where thousands of people pretend to live. It seems that those engaged in culture, internet and investment are all clustered in Beijing.

In Shanghai, there seems to be a group of exquisite egoists. Thousands of people pretend to have a high quality of life, bury themselves in office buildings and cafes, talk and exchange WeChat quickly, and then tap the keyboard quickly.

Turned his head, there will be an uncle in a formal suit asking Zhihu questions:

"I earn 30 thousand a month, but I will still be very anxious and more stressed. What should I do? 」

In Shanghai, a monthly income of 5,000 is not poor, but a monthly income of 30,000 is really poor.

Most of my friends are Internet practitioners and full-time new media people.

In the era of "the Internet will completely subvert human life", the Internet and new media have indeed made countless seemingly ordinary people become the upstarts of this era.

I have come into contact with many girls who are envied by the student party and even the junior white-collar party.

They usually don't get up until ten or even noon. After putting on makeup, they invited their girlfriends to go shopping. Every photo taken in the street is comparable to a photo. After eating, drinking and having fun, I went back to the attic with a monthly rent of tens of thousands at night.

They don't have to go to work, they can often attend various brand conferences, and they can also get in touch with Xiaohong or Dahongxing, and they can travel at any time.

Ask about income, with a monthly income of tens of thousands, and some even have an annual salary of one million.

Most of them work at night, take off their makeup, sit in front of the computer, open the document, think hard, and type out a wonderful article for the assistant to typeset and publish.

Tens of thousands of people read in one night, and sometimes, the industry benchmark number "10w+" appears.

They are new media people who are envied and spurned by countless people. They are authors, internet celebrities, kol, entrepreneurs.

It sounds enviable, nobody cares about it every day, and it can be beautiful, and you can get in touch with various brands and stars.

If they tell you that they are poor and anxious, it is estimated that you have the heart to kill them.

Actually?

A few months ago, at 2: 30 in the morning, when I was lying in bed worrying about the logic of the new curriculum, a girl sent me WeChat and said to me:

"I'm alone in the bar. Jane, I really want to die. 」

I'm so scared that I'm not sleepy at all. I was in a hurry to call her, but no one answered even a dozen times. I was in a hurry when the phone was connected. Before I could say a few words, she began to cry.

In this line of work, many people suffer from depression.

They are under pressure that others cannot imagine. Many people quit their excellent jobs or even give up their studies to work in this industry. Every article, every typesetting and every distribution is an invisible war.

The panic feeling of sitting in front of the computer and not writing a word before the deadline, the helplessness of advertisers repeatedly asking for wonderful changes, the anger of people who never understood Qian Qian's online language violence, and the fatigue of not taking a day off. ...

In Shanghai, they can afford bags that ordinary Shanghai girls can't afford, but they still feel poor.

After all, people who have done well in the industry have long been famous cars and luxury houses.

In Shanghai, there are also experienced programmers and financial practitioners. They made a lot of money, but they still felt poor.

I met a girl at the beginning of the year. She is an assistant to the president of a financial group. She often travels around the world by plane with her boss and stays in five-star hotels.

The president is a strong woman, running like a machine, always answering messages and emails, and never stopping.

Take people around you to luxury stores, and the president will buy several bags without blinking, so that people around him can feel the gap between the rich and the poor in minutes.

This kind of people who live at the top of the magic capital are not poor, but you can hardly see their joys and sorrows. They have lost their private lives and their whole body and mind are working for their jobs and careers.

Even if they can buy something you can't even think about in the blink of an eye, they don't have much time to enjoy it, just to relieve stress.

It is common for employees around these top people to earn 20 thousand to 30 thousand a month, and so are assistants.

I met her in a bar on the Bund, had a drink for a while, and we wandered around the Bund. Later, she said to me, "I have been in Shanghai for almost a year, and this is the first time to go shopping on the Bund. 」

I mentioned several famous communities in Shanghai, and she shook her head and said she didn't know she had never been there.

Then what is she doing in Shanghai?

She spends most of her time in Lujiazui, dealing with one thing after another with the president, and then getting on the bus to go shopping, or getting on the plane to go to various places at any time, with almost no holidays.

In the eyes of outsiders, she lives a rich and beautiful life, completely ungrounded, and the real suffering is only known to her.

A few years later, she resigned. Before she resigned, she cried and accused me that her boss was like a psycho, always angry and insulted her with the worst words.

She said that she had earned enough money, so she dared to resign. However, before she resigned, she had too much money and she was forced to fall into depression.

And my programmer friend.

Compared with network celebrities and assistant presidents, they are not even glamorous on the surface.

They earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month, wear plaid shirts and glasses, and have hairless hairstyles. Their bodies gain weight every other year, and it is impossible to imagine that they are middle class with an annual income of nearly 400 thousand to 500 thousand.

For them, writing code and fixing bugs has become a daily life. For example, a programmer in Weibo got married during the holiday, caught up with Lu Han's public affair, and crashed the server, trying to save the server at the wedding scene.

They are also anxious. When they have the capital to buy a house and a car, they will find that every choice may push them to the wall, and they dare not spend a penny.

After all, programmers are also afraid of the tragedy that the whole family will collapse after Huawei employees are suddenly dismissed from buying a house and paying their mortgage.

In Shanghai, not many people really discuss "Do you like this era?" .

Everyone catches up with one new data after another, and it is more practical to buy one new vanity.

Therefore, people who come to Shanghai for the first time will describe it as "indifferent", and those who have stayed in Shanghai for a long time will gradually be inseparable from this city.

If you have something to say, business is business, and private affairs are business, which saves a lot of interpersonal costs.

This is undoubtedly a paradise in heaven for "doers".

After all, the poorer the region, the more sophisticated the people are, and the cities such as Beishangguangshen and Shenzhen are at least relatively fair.

As a result, more and more counter-attack stories are staged in Shanghai.

The story of a monthly salary of 5,000 to 50,000 after graduation in one year, the legend of becoming a core executive from a grass-roots employee in two years, and the myth that the C round of financing is favored by capital after leaving the company in three years. ...

In Shanghai, these are not rare things.

However, when everyone pretends to be successful, they find that anxiety has become the main theme-

I found myself in more debt. I found that I could hardly support myself. I found that I still couldn't afford Xujiahui's long-cherished house.

After all, desire is endless.

Finally, thank you for reading these words briefly. If you have anything to say, please write it here. I will read it. I am your good friend next door.

Although I have the trouble of earning 5000 yuan a month, I am far from tired.

In Shanghai, after earning 30,000 yuan a month, people will think about how to earn100,000 yuan a month and how to afford more expensive things. In the end, desire and anxiety overwhelmed everyone.