After three years of unemployment, the liberal arts student worked in more than a dozen occupations

Author |Mao Lina.

Edit|Li Chunhui.

Yes? I'm going to share the stage with Mr. Huang Xi? At the end of November, Ye Zi received a rescue from a friend**, saying that there was a talk show at Tianjin Jinwan Grand Theater and invited her to be the opening guest. At this time, there are still five days left before the official performance.

In these five days, in addition to being excited like electricity from time to time, Ye Zi rewatched a large number of performances and interviews with Huang Xi, and then spent a day writing new paragraphs about Huang Xi.

40 minutes before going on stage, the leaves were so nervous that their stomachs hurt. Someone Zhang Luo found her some hot water to drink, and Huang Xi quietly told her, don't be nervous, it's easy to act in a big show.

This is Ye Zi's third year as a talk show actor, and it is also the first time she has stood on a big stage that can accommodate thousands of people, although it is a warm-up.

Since being honorably laid off from a film and television company in 2021, Ye Ziqian has tried more than a dozen different professions, online anchor, skit actor, guest director, temporary producer, wild curator, talk show actor, Tianjin dialect teacher, marriage and love private detective...even tried to be a funeral host, which is what we northerners commonly call "branch guests". Many of them may no longer be called occupations, but only career experiences.

Zhang Xuefeng said, "All liberal arts majors are service industries, and they can be summed up in one word, which is licking." The words are ugly, and the more realistic pain of liberal arts now is the desire to lick it, and there are fewer and fewer things that require liberal arts students to add icing on the cake. Party A is difficult to serve, but even if it is difficult to serve Party A, it is okay.

There is no standard for the work results of liberal arts students, and there are no boundaries for the career trajectory of liberal arts students. This can't help but remind people of "Cui Yongyuansky" 20 years ago, "I have a normal heart, I don't have a signature pen, I still eat and drink spicy food from all over the country" (archaeology, please search for "**October"). It's still the same thing, and the mood is very different.

The daily life of cultural and entertainment migrant workers

Of all the professions he has tried, Ye Zi's favorite is still talk shows. When she was unemployed in 21 years, she and a few friends thought about forming their own talk show studio, but various factors failed to do it. "I'll go if I have a job now, I don't care so much about giving more or less, I act diligently and go on stage, don't be rusty. ”

Leaves go to the stand-up to strengthen the business learning Xi.

But talk show work is limited after all, Ye Zi has to open the door widely, and some of the work is magical and bizarre, such as Wang Shuo's "The Stubborn Master".

Ye Zi has been a skit actor for a while, and he has also added a few actors. From time to time, someone in the group posted recruitment information, and one day she saw someone looking for "over 35 years old, with executive style, and at first glance, he is the kind of royal sister actor who has worked and has more aura". I quite meet the requirements, so Ye Zi handed over the ** resume.

They think it's okay, I usually ask who will do the makeup and hair, and he said that he is not acting short**, but acting a real person. Ye Zi asked a few more questions, only to know that the other party hired her to play a female executive in real life to interview employees, "You can't say much about the specifics, you have to keep it secret, it's not illegal anyway." But this magical experience is really very reminiscent of the recent Noah thunderstorm involving Luo Jing finding someone to pretend to be a JD employee.

Another job that needs to be kept secret is the Tianjin dialect guidance that Ye Zi received this year.

In that movie set in Tianjin, the heroine is the only outsider, but she has to bear a lot of Tianjin dialect dialogue, so she needs a person who understands Tianjin dialect and best understands entertainment to do the guidance. Although the remuneration was not much, Ye Zi still signed up and was successfully selected.

Her job is to teach the actress to use the Tianjin dialect line by sentence, and in the end, the actress's Tianjin dialect level is almost fake. Thinking of the days when he was paid 300 yuan for biting a mosquito bag, Ye Zi still felt that it was worth it, "I can still do this kind of work next time." ”

Tianjin dialect directed crew lunch.

The attitude of "those who come do not refuse" makes the leaves particularly "attracting" to magical work. This fall, she almost went to do the same as "Tianjin Wang Detective" to catch three detectives.

Tianjin Detective Wang's business is marriage investigation, tracking and collecting evidence of cheating, and it is said that the price is tens of thousands at a time. "It's a friend's business, I think Detective Wang is expensive, and asked me if I would like to help, they will pay for the road and the hotel, and pay 2,000 a day for labor. I thought it was interesting and had a lot of money to do, but they didn't know what to do. ”

There is a lot of work that casually "no follow-up". During the period before sharing the stage with Huang Xi, Ye Zi was busy with an immersive performance project in vain and black, and flew to Chongqing several times at his own expense. "But in the end, we sat down and settled the accounts, and found that the investment in the early stage of this matter was too large, and it could not be recovered in the later stage, and Party A was likely to lose money, so we simply didn't do it. ”

After months of hard work, the last dream of yellow sorghum is the norm for Ye Zi to be unemployed for three years. "That's why I'm always busy with different jobs and trying to make money. ”

Find a job anytime, anywhere

In fact, these jobs are not actively looking for by me, they are all introduced by others. Ye Zi worked as an entertainment reporter in a newspaper for 7 years, and later worked in a film and television company for a few years, and his connections are relatively wide. "There are 2,740 people in my WeChat, and even if 700 of them have blocked me, there are 2,000 left. ”

Ye Zi's experience is that on the one hand, don't be afraid to make a fool of yourself, show more of your abilities and what you have done; On the other hand, you should also make good connections, and if you can help someone else's circle of friends, you can help if you can, and people will think of you when they have a job in the future.

For example, Tianjin dialect directs this job, "First a girl from Tencent came to me and asked me if I knew such a person, and I said that I was actually quite suitable. I was talking to her, and my colleagues from our newspaper also sent WeChat messages in the past, saying that sister, isn't this what you're looking for? ”

There are also job opportunities that start with a café "eavesdropping".

During the Spring Festival last year, Ye Zi was chatting with a friend in a café about a project at hand, and a big brother next to him listened silently for a long time, and stopped Ye Zi when she was about to check out and leave, "Sister, I hear what it means that you are doing entertainment, can I find you to work." ”

Now the coffee brother has become Ye's long-term partner, he does the execution, he is not good at words, and Ye Zi helps to bid and talk about PPT. Unlike the previous contact with Party A, the industry where the coffee brother is located does not have arrears, and Party B will not cooperate with you again if you owe money once, so the eldest brother often has to pay the money first.

Do on-site execution for Big Brother Coffee.

I want to share the burden with him, for example, if we shoot a promotional video together, he will pay the camera and editing first, and my money can wait. "Because of this, this café encounter turned into a stable partnership.

Ye Zi admits that, like a migrant worker squatting on the street, she seems to be able to do anything, but she is not good at anything. Although it seems that he has done a variety of jobs, he is actually still revolving around the entertainment industry, but his roles have changed. "I started as a reporter writing scripts, and slowly switched to copywriting and planning, and in the process, I came into contact with the execution link, except for what I really don't know, editing and shooting, the rest have similarities, just try to get started. ”

There are no dates and no dates to hit three poles", is the criterion pursued by Ye Zi after he is unemployed. As soon as she entered the unfamiliar industry, she was also afraid of what to do if she messed up, but the idea of "working to make money" was stronger than any other thought.

Get a job, get respect

Is it for economic reasons? The leaves gave a negative answer. As she herself said, she has many skills but is not refined, so she is not well paid. For her, working non-stop brings a sense of fulfillment and security, and when she stops, she becomes anxious.

In fact, my biggest monthly income is still writing manuscripts for people, do you think I really make money doing these things? No. Tianjin dialect directs 300 a day, and the female executive gives 500 at one time, and I occasionally have to rely on my parents for relief. She paused, her voice trembling a little, "Work is how I earn respect." ”

Leaf work photo.

In the past three years when she has not worked odd jobs, self-loathing has haunted her from time to time. Especially when her father was worried about her difficulties in life and transferred her living expenses, "I took money from him, and every time I felt that I was useless and a waste." ”

Twenty-two years ago, when 15-year-old Ye Zi began writing for Tonight, Tianjin's largest local newspaper, she could clearly sense the smiles on her parents' faces and their flaunting in front of relatives, whether consciously or unconsciously. "I wasn't a good student since I was a kid, and at that moment I could feel that they were proud of me and that they loved me. ”

Later, the paper media building collapsed, the reporters made their own livelihoods, Ye Zi did the North Drift, and returned to Tianjin to work in the advertising company at the middle level. She felt her parents' love and respect dissipate from her career change after career change until it dropped to freezing point in 2021 when she lost her job.

She admits that her parents are not bad to her, and every once in a while they will ask her if she has enough money to spend, and turn it to a few thousand. But, "My dad has to be weird every time, I just lost my job and it's hard enough, he shouted at me to beg your college classmates, beg someone to help you find a job, you are 35 years old, there will be no serious place for you." ”

Because she took the teaching qualifications after graduating from university, she also had the idea of becoming a teacher after she lost her job, but she was extinguished by her father's "madness". Her mother would persuade her to grasp the most important thing in her hands, and her father would give her money whatever she liked. But she will be depressed because of a word and a look, and fall into self-denial.

Since I was a child, I have known that the love I get has a price, and I have to put in the effort and make results before I can have love in return. No matter how much she earns, Ye Zi will save half of it each time for a rainy day, and when she sees that card, she will feel that there is a bottom to support her. "Several Party A have not paid the payment, and I am now using the money in the card. Although it feels bad to have less money, I don't want to ask my dad for money. ”

If sharing the stage with Huang Xi is Ye Zi's happiest moment in the past three years, then every time she is helped by her family, it is her lowest moment. "Maybe in the future, I have a new full-time job, and I can overcome this hurdle. ”

Once, Ye Zi needed a crying scene to be a short ** actor, and she didn't know how to cry without professional training. "I opened Station B's Crazy Zhou Gongzi's ** "The reporter who reported on Wenchuan 14 years ago, why has it all changed? There is a sentence in it that tears come down as soon as I hear it, and it is not a whimper, but a howl. ”

Why don't you come back and be a journalist? I really want to, but I can't go back, can I? ”

Ye Zi's promotional photos for the short drama are also the cover of her circle of friends.

The story of the leaves is the epitome of this generation of people who have just been left behind by the times and have not been able to stand. Their post-60s parents can't understand why it's so difficult to find a stable job that can do it until retirement, and why everyone else can do it but you can't. But Ye Zi felt that he was lucky, at least he was interested in what he was interested in, much better than those little friends who stopped talking.

When it comes to her plans for next year, she hopes to try to find a full-time job. "I talked about the position of executive broker, and there is a middle-level of a cultural and tourism enterprise, but I can't do it anymore, I hope it will be done next year. ”

That love and respect may also come back with her new job.