In the long journey of life, everyone will face career choices and life trials. Some people struggle within the system, chasing relatively stable jobs and benefits, while others choose to leave the system and venture into uncertain territory in search of more possibilities.
Lao Chen is one such adventurer, whose career changes and experiences reflect the multiple tests of success and happiness in modern society.
In the past, Lao Chen was a police officer and shouldered the responsibility of maintaining social order. However, as time went on, he felt the limitations and pressures of his career.
Police jobs don't pay well, the hours are long and hectic, and the cruel gap between the fantasy of living a regular 9-to-5 life and reality is gradually emerging. Despite his relatively good welfare, he gradually felt as if he was trapped in a kind of mire of life, from which he could not escape.
So, at a certain turning point, Lao Chen made a bold decision - to quit his job as a police officer and step into the field of outdoor food anchors.
Here, he seems to have found a free sky to show off his food and share his life as he pleases. However, this was followed by a significant drop in revenue. Lao Chen, who used to earn millions of dollars a month, can now barely maintain a livelihood of a few thousand yuan to about 10,000 yuan a month. The hardships of life and the cruelty of reality make him begin to doubt his choices.
Lao Chen's experience is also a profound reflection on his career choice. He regretted quitting his job in the system, which he found more attractive benefits.
In the live broadcast, he expressed his contradictions and regrets for his past decisions, and felt the pressure of ** and the collapse of his reputation. The aura of the past is gone, and he finds that he lacks a skill in the new field, which is not in line with the direction he originally envisioned, and his life gradually falls into trouble.
Although the work within the system is relatively stable, it is also accompanied by certain limitations and the monotony of life. Officer Tan's example tells us that even if you have a great reputation in the system, it is difficult to monetize, which may be an inherent limitation of an "iron rice bowl".
For the police profession, the salary level is not high, and the work is extremely busy, but the benefits are relatively good. The peculiarities of police work make it necessary to make trade-offs between career development and life balance.
Some people believe that only money can solve various problems in life, especially when facing family situations. From the perspective of a worker, Lao Chen became a "soldier" in front of the screen in the live broadcast, although he was popular on the surface, he was actually still a member of the part-time job.
In Lao Chen's late-night live broadcast room, the audience saw the change in the mood of a once beautiful policeman. He shared his predicament and inner contradictions in the live broadcast, as if he reached people's hearts. What the audience sees is no longer a beautiful anchor, but a real, complex, and frustrated individual.
After quitting his job as a police officer, he fell into the vast torrent of the live broadcast industry, and found that it was not as easy as he imagined, let alone a wonderland of getting rich overnight. He thought he could succeed in this new field, but reality pulled him out of his fantasy like a handful of cold water.
He let go of the high profile and fame and fortune he once had, and began to show his life and share his feelings in a real way. In this process, he found that the audience did not reject the truth, on the contrary, they preferred to see a real, flesh-and-blood old Chen. Perhaps, this is the glimmer of life found in the predicament.
His experience reveals that even if you have a great reputation within the system, you may be constrained by the system, and it is difficult to realize personal monetization and development. It also makes some people in the system start to think about whether they should give themselves a chance at some point in their careers to pursue a wider sky.
At the same time, Lao Chen's example also gives a profound warning to young people who are chasing online dividends. While there are huge opportunities in the online industry, success is not easy to achieve.
The ever-changing nature of the live streaming industry requires everyone involved to be vigilant, Xi and adapt. How to stabilize one's position in the tuyere is a problem that needs to be carefully considered.
In these uncertain and challenging times, everyone is looking for their own direction. Lao Chen's story may be just a microcosm of the many individuals in society, but his experience shows us the complexity of life and the diversity of career choices.
Everyone has their own trajectory, and every choice leaves a lasting mark on life. Perhaps, it is in this tortuous journey that we can better discover our own value and find the meaning of life.