Unforgettable work experience

That's the beginning of 1998. I just graduated from junior high school and stayed at home, so I went to Beijing with my neighbors who work in Beijing.

Just out of campus, I was still a teenager. I don't know much about this society, but I have only a vague novelty and envy for big cities. But the days that followed made me really realize the hardships of working and going out.

First of all, I had to find a job, so I began to wander the streets, searching for job advertisements in front of large and small company restaurants and going to various labor markets in the city, hoping to find a job I could do.

After running for a few days, my mind is much clearer. Now all the recruits are highly educated, and the general condition is that college students have too low academic qualifications and shallow knowledge. Secondly, there is no practical technology to use. When I saw that even a handyman job was being competed by dozens of people, I really understood the cruelty of competition.

I remember once in Yuetan Park Labor Market, a restaurant asked the waiter to speak a foreign language. I have learned some English in junior high school, and my oral English is confident and simple. The recruiter asked me to introduce myself in English first, but after I said my name and age, I couldn't go on. My face was flushed and my heart was pounding like a small drum, but the more nervous I was, the more I couldn't say it. Finally, I had to squeeze out the crowd.

My heart was deeply hurt and I felt ashamed. I only hate that I didn't learn knowledge well at school, so I have an embarrassing scene today. Until this moment, I really realized the feeling of "using books to hate less"

After more than ten days, I was lucky to find a job. The owner of a food city asked me to learn roast duck from a chef in the store. There are fifteen or sixteen employees in this hotel. Only a pastry chef in his thirties named "Big Sister" and I are from Hebei. I seldom worked in the kitchen before. When I first came here, I couldn't even shred cucumbers. I have to learn everything from scratch. Others, big or small, have an art with him, and only I have become the object of ridicule. Wash dishes and choose vegetables every day, and do the dirty work. Who told you you were incompetent? Everyone has a large group of fellow villagers to talk about and play with. I am alone, and only unbearable loneliness accompanies me. The roast duck master stays away from me like a thief every day. Later, even the only fellow "big sister" began to sneer at me because she didn't like my clumsiness.

Leaving my hometown and being besieged on all sides, I was extremely depressed and sad. At this time, a little girl from Henan and a waiter named Xiao Deng comforted me. She said that she believed that I would be able to eat my own roast duck in the near future, and it was even more delicious than the roast duck chef baked now. At that moment, I shed tears, and there was a warm current in my cold heart, with joy and gratitude.

Although I was fired after half a month because of the poor efficiency of the hotel. A few days later, because the job was really hard to find, I went back to my hometown, but the experience of working this time made me unforgettable.

I know that if one wants to stand on one's feet, one must have real talent and practical learning. At the same time, I also realized how precious friendship is in trouble, and how important it is for people to care and love each other.

Thanks to this part-time experience, I learned the most precious and important lesson in my life.