Graduate teacher turned confinement nanny, with a monthly salary of 15,000 just to pay off the mortgage, how much is your dignity worth?

When I was browsing my phone, I saw a piece of news about "211 key university graduates becoming courier boys." This courier boy is Zhang Jin, who graduated from Beijing Forestry University. In 2019, he chose Change jobs and become a grassroots courier.

Zhang Jin also became the first batch of couriers with professional title certification in Hubei. Zhang Jin himself also said: "Actually, I am very proud to be a courier. Talents and champions can be found in every line. You may be interested in this." I don’t understand why I want to be a courier with such an academic qualification, but I am still very happy and have a sense of accomplishment.”

As soon as the news came out, the melon-eaters were divided into two camps. I think this is a waste of social and educational resources. With this level of education and academic background, you can definitely find a better job, and the job of a courier will not have much impact on career development. develop. Many netizens also said: "If I had such an education, I would definitely not work as a courier. On the one hand, I don't have the courage, and on the other hand, I feel that courier is indeed a low-level profession."

Of course, in addition to those who oppose the business, there are also voices of support:

"It has become the norm in today's social environment for highly educated people to engage in jobs with relatively low thresholds. We should not be judged by our academic qualifications. Coercion, this society has never stipulated what kind of job should be done with what kind of education, and the job is not waiting for you, you need to fight for it yourself."

"Some people say that this is high. People with a high degree of education take jobs from people with a low degree of education, but society itself is a form of competition. If you feel that others are taking your job away from you, it is because your competitiveness has been reduced, and when you are engaged in a job with a relatively low threshold with a high degree of education, , His academic qualifications are basically of no help. The only thing to blame is his lack of hard work."

"Three hundred and sixty, he is the top scholar in all walks of life, and he has strong academic ability and educational background. It means that you can have a smooth career in the workplace, so it is no longer strange for someone with a high degree to work in a low-barrier job. Everyone is working hard to make a living. There is no distinction between high and low, it is all a matter of personal choice.”

Various facts continue to tell us that there are hidden elites in each of the 360 ??industries today. Even the seemingly inconspicuous delivery boys and Didi drivers have elites who have changed careers from various walks of life:< /p>

1. Wang Yulan, 32 years old, worked as a teacher for two years after graduating from graduate school, and then switched to a confinement nanny. Her monthly salary increased directly from the original 4000-5000 to 12000-15000 yuan, and her salary increased three or four times. , when the reporter asked her why, she was also very calm: "The salary as a teacher is not enough to live on, and the salary of the confinement nanny can help me pay off the mortgage, so the financial pressure will be smaller."

2. The minimum requirement for campus security recruitment at Shanghai Jiao Tong University is a master's degree or above.

3. When Moutai Group recruits brewing employees, it requires 985 and 211 academic qualifications. You must know that this is only the most basic requirement for brewing workers.

4. Liu Shuang, a female master's degree student with an annual salary of 300,000 yuan, gave up her high salary and switched to monthly search. A film art director with a monthly salary of 40,000 yuan switched to a food delivery boy. They think this is the right choice.

It seems that these people have made choices that ordinary people would not make. For ordinary office workers, we would rather work in the office and get a monthly salary of 3,000 than do anything. The takeaway boy who earns 10,000 yuan a month feels that such a job is not respectable and will be looked down upon.

But the truth of the matter is that the security treatment of Shanghai Jiaotong University is not low. The salary of Maotai brewing employees at the grassroots level has caught up with the level of civil servants. The salary of a confinement nanny can be equal to that of a director in a company. Qi, are these jobs that seem unworthy of a try and disgusting, really not "respectable" enough?

What is the definition of "decent"? What kind of job is “respectable”?

According to the understanding of most of us, a decent job should meet the following characteristics:

1. High social status, good working environment, and easy work

2 , The job sounds high-end, and the clothes are always bright and bright

3. Work from 9 to 5, have stable weekends, and have various benefits

But in real life, this is not the case In this way, many people are unable to achieve true dignity in their work. The so-called dignity is just a sense of comfort and self-superiority that everyone is looking for under the pressure of life.

Nowadays, even these undignified jobs are a threshold that many people cannot cross.

Everyone says that this year is the most difficult year for fresh graduates. In terms of quantity, compared with the 8.34 million graduates in 2019, the number of graduates in 2020 is as high as 8.74 million, setting a record. The new high, coupled with the impact of the epidemic, has made the already severe employment situation even more difficult. For many graduates, it is difficult to even find a job.

For many young people in their twenties, their career must be a process of constant trial and error. After trying various careers, they may not really know who they are until middle age. What you like, what you want, you are even on the way to continue exploring.

You don’t have to feel that you have no face and no future because you have worked as a salesperson, delivery boy, real estate agent, etc. On the contrary, in the first half of your career, through various attempts, You will learn about many career paths and channels, as well as the requirements for your core competencies, to discover a job that you like and can stick to.

Everyone thinks that the cost of trial and error is too high, so when you are young and still have the ability and capital to take the risk of trial and error, you should try your best to add more to your life, so that you can achieve your ultimate goal. It's becoming clearer.

Don’t be led away by social anxiety, facing reality rationally is the right way

Recently, I believe everyone has seen a surprising number: 600 million people in the country have an income of less than 1,000 With such an income, it would be very difficult to even rent a house in a medium-sized city. This is a cold fact.

According to CNNIC's latest "Statistical Report on China's Internet Development Status":

The monthly income of 650 million Internet users across the country is less than 5,000 yuan, accounting for 72.4%.

This includes 20.8% of people with a monthly income of less than 1,000 yuan;

33.4% of people with a monthly income of 2,001 yuan to 5,000 yuan.

After seeing these data, do you feel that there is a big gap between the phenomenon that people everywhere earn more than 10,000 yuan a month as mentioned on the Internet? In fact, in the real world, only a handful of people can really earn more than 10,000 yuan a month. Even in quasi-first-tier cities like Beijing, less than 20% of people can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.

The people we see who earn more than 10,000 yuan a month are only a very small number of the vast army of office workers. Some media amplify these phenomena and lower the threshold, which can easily make us fall into the trap of anxiety and make us Everyone thinks that they can easily earn more than 10,000 yuan a month, but the reality is that no matter how hard they work, earning more than 10,000 yuan a month is still a goal and a dream.

I still remember clearly that there was a piece of news about Zhang Xiaoyong, an outstanding graduate of Tsinghua University. After resigning from a foreign company, he chose to return to his hometown to work as a security guard. But now he is working in the market customer service department. Director.

I have always believed that there is no criterion for what work a person should do and what work he should not do. Academic qualifications and educational background should not be a constraint on employment and job selection. And coercion, it seems that the higher our academic qualifications, the smaller our range of choices will be. Social evaluation, parents, and friends around us all seem to be pressurizing us to tell us what jobs we should and should not do with your academic qualifications. Work.

In fact, no matter what kind of job it is, it is a part in the big machine of society. Serving the society, creating and dedicating one's own value to the society is the necessary meaning of a job. , this is your own life value and social value.

It is precisely because of this that those who dare to get rid of the constraints and constraints of academic qualifications to find a job are truly decent.

Most of us are ordinary people. Think about the highest career height that you can achieve from the perspective of an ordinary person, instead of avoiding some jobs from the beginning.

Really powerful people never feel that their development is limited because of what kind of job they choose. On the contrary, they will achieve career advancement and leaps through their own efforts. , realize your own life value.