Stories of 100 schools
In the decade of the last century, when Mitterrand was in charge of France, there was a female astrologer Elisabeth Tessière. **Daily fixed to meet him at the Elysée Palace, which lasts for up to seven years. It is rumored that the two met for the first time and talked for an hour and a half, leaving Jackson, a black American politician, waiting outside the door.
In the memories of the astrologer Ctesier, she measured the fortunes of the country. During the Gulf War, Mitterrand asked her for advice before making every judgment about the situation.
Marianne, Ph.D. in History from Tsinghua University, entered the university with the first grade in her major, and her research field includes the former French **Mitterrand. She wondered why such an intellectual, who was known for his rationalism, hired an astrologer all year round
Marianne began to understand astrological gossip, curiosity, research, systematic study, training, and it happened naturally. Until the people around her couldn't help but ask: You have been addicted to astrology for two or three years, what is going on?
In 2022, she graduated with a Ph.D. of Marianne and is working full-time as an astrologer. When I graduated, my monthly income was about 8,000 yuan and it was not stable. Not long ago, when Marianne appeared in the hot search, her monthly salary was 30,000.
Going from the purely academic world to the real world is not an easy task. The superimposed labels of "Tsinghua", "Female Doctor", "Astrology" and "30,000 monthly income" will inevitably trigger countless discussions.
There are still many unresolved puzzles, but Marianne is sure of one thing: it is her sense of mission to do enlightenment in a commercial way.
After five years of exposure to astrology, three years for study and internships, and two years for paid astrology, Marianne has received thousands of clients.
She can't remember who her first client was, but she can be sure that the first and even the first few astrology clients were Ph.D. alumni from the same university or Peking University next door.
In 2006, China Youth Daily published the cover image of "Doctoral Students Face a Severe Employment Environment, Life is Hard, and Mental Depression".
Until now, most of her clients are from the stratosphere, including masters and PhDs from the world's top universities. From Qingbei to the Ivy League, there are Chinese colleges and universities at home and abroad, Marianne has basically received astrology consultation, and she sometimes feels that she has almost opened up the Kochi group of customers.
Everyone's consultation questions are similar, related to studies and employment: What should I do if I can't write it?How can I publish more smoothly**?Should I go to **?How should I choose?
Marianne found that in academic circles, there was a tendency to self-deprecation. People who come to consult often say, "I feel that I can't write", "I think I am the worst among all these people", "I am afraid of the teacher criticizing me every time I do something".
These words often come from the best masters and doctors in the top 2 universities.
She asked, "Did the mentor really criticize you?"The answer is often no.
But for doctors, such lack of confidence is commonplace. In a 2019 survey of 690 Chinese PhD students conducted by Nature, 40% of respondents said they had sought help for depression or anxiety caused by their PhDs.
Marianne was also deeply involved. Even though she came all the way to the praise and encouragement of her teachers and classmates, she entered Tsinghua University for a doctorate with the first grade in her major.
Marianne. The collapse of happiness begins with a failed intimacy. When she got out of that extremely bad PUA relationship, she thought, "I think I'm a feminist, how can I not even handle my own intimacy?".Ex-boyfriend studied under the big guy of the liberal school of economics, why are liberals so rubbish?
Life is in a state of stagnation, and there is not much faith left. It wasn't until the graduation opening site that a teacher publicly criticized many grammatical errors in Marianne's proposal and suggested that she go back to her undergraduate program and relearn it. That was the final blow.
In what she thought was already a bad life, the only remaining academic confidence was denied.
Marianne cried and even threw up on the spot. She began to develop severe somatization, an outward manifestation of an inner state of mind under psychological stress.
For a few months, Marianne would retch when she started writing, unable to write a single sentence. At the height of 2019, she couldn't walk 300 meters from the dormitory to the cafeteria. Panic attacks as soon as you go out. A common scene is when she forces herself out of the house, and after a few minutes, she vomits cradled over a garbage can on the side of the road. Sometimes, you can't even find a trash can.
Marianne's faith was all ruined.
She only realized it later. Not only her, but not a single one of them had confidence.
During her Ph.D., all four girls at Marianne's level were depressed.
Some of the problems are obvious. For example, where to go after graduation, the path of a traditional liberal arts doctor is basically to continue academic research in universities or go to publishing houses, and there are very few who change careers or go to industry. For example, even in universities in Beijing, the monthly salary of lecturers is 8,000 yuan, and the monthly salary of professors is only 13,000 yuan.
Marianne still remembers that in the early days of her Ph.D., the girl she met during her master's degree had entered the workplace, with a monthly salary of more than 30,000 yuan. She only has a subsidy of 5,000 yuan, but there is no imbalance in her heart, she only feels happy, happy that she signed up for the sketch and dance classes she is interested in, and happy that she is happy for the accommodation fee of about 600 yuan, which is about 600 yuan for free. "I studied in the major I wanted to study, and the school paid me, and I was simply the happiest person in the world. ”
Marianne. But there are still some problems that we have to go on to see. For example, on the issue of postponement, Marianne's discipline direction, the proportion of postponement has reached more than 50%, and it is normal for a doctor to postpone his completion.
There's also a very realistic trouble, **How to write?It wasn't until shortly before graduating from her Ph.D. that Marianne realized that she couldn't write because she hadn't mastered the writing routine, and she always blamed it on her lack of ability.
She immediately asked her partner at Peking University next door for help, but she learned that the other party would not either.
Later, Marianne heard that there was a 985 university next door, and as soon as the doctoral students started, the teachers taught ** writing routines. She realized that the more established top-level colleges and universities in Fudan, Qingbei, the more professors follow the tradition of traditional liberal arts preaching and teaching to solve doubts, and hope that students will complete basic training first. It's enough to write a good doctor**, as for those small **, there's no need to do it.
The school did not offer a writing course. However, for the graduation and employment of doctors, employers regard a large number of C journals as an important criterion.
Liberal arts PhDs at top universities are torn and ashamed to ask for help. They were embarrassed to say that they wouldn't do such a routine, and they were even more afraid that they would be scolded if they said it, and everyone was very broken.
But the liberal arts training led many people, including Marianne, to believe that after so many years of study, even if they wanted to change careers, they had no other way to make a living in the secular world, and academics were the only way. Marianne referred to a term often used by her liberal arts classmates, the Weimar literati—a term for people who were depressed and powerless against reality. "I feel like I have a lot of ideals and ambitions, but I can't do anything well at the reality level. ”
The feedback cycle of academic research is extremely long, unlike high school and college, where you can get a good score and feedback on a question and an exam, and the time to wait for a general journal after a PhD is six months to a year, and it takes two or three years for the top journal.
For Marianne, there was good feedback during her PhD, but there was more bad feedback. The standard answering mode that I used to be good at is no longer applicable. Although I can still hear the affirmation and praise of the teacher, "I have an academic vision" and "I am a piece of jade, which needs to be polished well". But there was still a long dark night with no end in sight in front of her.
Marianne has been trying to save herself.
She turned to the school counseling center. After three times, the other person said, you're all right. Marianne's condition is getting worse and worse. She went to the Sixth Hospital of Peking University several times to find a psychological counselor, and tried to find a way to get better at any cost.
Psychological counseling made Marianne feel better little by little, and astrology gave Marianne a more certain direction.
Soothing and sedifying crystal purification array for Marianne's own use.
In 2019, when it was difficult for Marianne to step out of the dormitory, she learned about astrologers and unexpectedly met the top astrologers in China, who looked at the astrolabe and told her: After the return of Saturn, your fortune will be better, and there will be about three more years.
In the originally boundless night, there is a gap where light can shine in.
Later, Marianne and her friends finally found the savior. Her senior sister is the deputy editor-in-chief of a C journal. She had come to find Marianne for astrology.
As graduation approached, Marianne was sure that she would not be able to roll up the academic road for the time being. Without any other choice, she decided to switch careers to astrology.
After learning the news, her teachers and friends didn't think there was anything wrong. Marianne's friends were mostly students of world history, and in French history, the A side was rationalism and the B side was mysticism. Napoleon, Charles de Gaulle, ......There are many people who believe in astrology.
The mentor recommended that she look through Mrs. Reagan's biography, which contains many accounts related to astrology. When the pandemic began, her French history teacher encouraged her to study Nostradamus, an astrologer active in France during the Black Death.
Elizabeth Teissier, a famous French astrologer.
My boyfriend's first reaction was that the astrology industry was countercyclical and he hurriedly changed careers. Marianne also knows that the astrological ** is not bad. Students who change careers can earn 30,000 yuan a month, while top astrologers can earn more than 50,000 yuan a month.
The only objection came from a senior sister who was good friends with Marianne. "Others can earn 30,000 yuan, can you?”
Marianne still didn't hesitate. "I don't know, but I decided to give it a turn and give it a try. ”
By then, she had already completed the basic course of the London Academy of Astrology and a free one-year astrology internship in about three years. Before graduation, Marianne could earn about 8,000 yuan a month by virtue of astrology.
In the process of in-depth study of astrology, Marianne found that astrology has long been streamlined and standardized, and there is a complete way of training.
In addition to astrology courses, if you want to be an astrologer, you still have to learn a lot, Marianne has spent a lot of time practicing how to listen, including empathetic listening and understanding the superficial and deep meaning of other people's words, and she has also participated in EFT (emotional focus**) training, psychological counseling training, to better apply it to astrology. Until now, Marianne continues to participate in various trainings related to this from time to time.
Certificate in Marianne's other continuing education courses.
In the domestic astrology market, many people teach themselves astrology, open a business and take orders, and rely on their intuition**. The reality is that the basics of astrology are not so easy to learn on your own. If you want to see a case, you need to study systematically for at least half a year.
Many of Marianne's clients have told her that they have been doing astrology consultations and have become more and more depressed because they have been "intimidated" by some astrologers and persuaded to pay for more healing projects.
Marianne says that astrology is not a mystical force. She studied modern Western psychological astrology, a school of astrology that is trending rather than outcome.
A person is born at a certain moment, with some energy at this moment, so that he has some innate temperament, such as whether he is active, whether he is impatient, these characteristics make his parents form a corresponding parenting style, and then form a person's character. After the personality is decided, many big and small things in life will be dealt with in the same way, and a person's life script will be slowly formed. This means that a person's fate can also be **.
But astrology is not the same as fortune telling. She mentions most of the stratosphere customers before it went viral. "People actually know that fate can not give much to it, and they are relatively more pragmatic, and they will focus more on asking what to do. If published, what resources are available?I'm having problems with my intimate relationship, what changes can I make?”
Shakespeare: Our destiny is in our own hands, not the stars in the sky.
She hates people who treat astrologers as gods the most. But with the popularity, such customers began to pour in in large numbers. The other party often comes up and asks directly: Am I healthy?Can I get promoted?What is the specific answer to the xx question?Their purpose is simple and clear, and they are desperate to find the only positive answer to the problem.
Marianne gave another more understandable example. "Horoscopes measure the good or bad of cycles. For example, tell me that tomorrow will be fine, and I know that there will be a lot to do that day. But some people want the astrologer to tell him a sure answer - tomorrow the weather is fine, and you can directly make a lot of money. ”
Stripped of stigma and mythology, astrology in Marian's eyes is not non-mainstream, it is the first branch of occultism, a general discipline. "It's an important topic of discussion in the history of science, and you can just take a look at it at the Department of History of Science at Tsinghua University. ”
Marianne has repeatedly stressed that astrology is nothing but an ordinary thing.
But it does seem that many times, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is not so ordinary.
A month ago, Marianne saw a classmate from Peking University frequently post on Douban that it was very uncomfortable to find a job. She felt unbearable, so she took a look at it for free: "You wait a little bit, and there will be a new offer when you work in December." ”
Recently, she received "good reviews" from the other party. There are indeed better offers, and there is more than one, so you have to think about it.
There are many such examples. Calculate that the project application will be successful, calculate the personality of a person and the reasons behind the original family, and calculate that a schoolgirl is not suitable for choosing a school that everyone says is good. The other party insisted on going, and soon began to regret it, and became her first real repeat customer, and now often comes to the calculation and consultation.
Marianne. In Marianne's astrology consultation, there are few clients who are not confused, and she feels that astrologers are more like life coaches, using the astrolabe as a tool to help others understand their life scripts, clear up their life puzzles, and propose some neutral and rational possible solutions to problems.
As more and more clients came to the astrology, Marianne found that sometimes the accuracy of the horoscope had nothing to do with the astrology itself, but because there were too many samples. A group, after being exposed to enough samples, has a rough idea of what they will say in the first sentence of their mouth.
People in large enterprises will say, "My income is okay, my job is okay, but it's boring." People will think I'm moaning innocently, but I just think that my work is meaningless." Civil servants basically asked if they wanted to be promoted, "On the one hand, I think it's good to stay in the same position, but on the other hand, I feel unhappy to see people who are less capable than me being promoted because of sycophants." The academic circle is self-deprecating, and the most said is, "My ** can't write anymore, I think I'm the worst among all so many people." ”
Marian astrological daily affirmative words help form positive self-prophecies.
Marianne still remembers that at the beginning of astrology, a student girl in the real estate industry thought that the effect was good after astrology consultation, so she called all four people from their company in one go. The four of them talked about almost the same topic, Party B was very bitter, kept drawing, worked more than ten hours a day, the work pressure was high, and the boss was unpleasant.
In the past two years of astrology, more and more people have been exposed to the industry in finance, the Internet, the system, and various niche professions, and she has gradually understood the situation of different industries and what the group cognition is in various fields.
She found that she had become an information collection network or humanoid GPT, fed a lot of information by different people, her brain automatically iterated, and her cognition of the world and various industries was upgrading.
Marianne. This also helped her astrology career.
Originally, Marianne could only talk in general terms based on a person's astrological chart, personality, etc., and give some relatively vague directional suggestions. As we learn more about the various industries and categories, the recommendations we give become more precise.
A classmate studying foreign languages and law came to do astrology consulting in the direction of his career, and Mary directly suggested that he consider the legal counsel of a multinational company. The liberal arts student, according to the astrolabe, likes to make friends and write, which was also confirmed in the consultation, and Marianne suggested that she try a job as a marketing editor. The astrolabe, the galaxy, the workplace and life are combined to have a correspondence.
Because there are the most work problems in astrology counseling, Marianne also went to take the career planner certificate. If a purely rational person comes to ask, she solves the problem of his work from a rational point of view.
Many people told Marianne that after chatting, they suddenly became more enlightened, and felt as if life was not so confused, and the psychological space was slowly expanding.
After rushing to the news hot search, there are many new customers in the friends list. Marianne's original schedule of one consultation a day was completely disrupted. At the end of November, she stopped receiving horoscope inquiries from new clients, but even so, her schedule was scheduled until the end of the year, during which she received about four inquiries a day.
In fact, Marianne's psychological space is also getting bigger.
At first, she couldn't let go of her identity as an intellectual, and was ashamed to bargain, and the single charge for an hour of astrology was only 200 yuan, which was the ** tutor for liberal arts students. An astrologer with the same level of training in the astrology industry charges around 500 yuan. It took Marianne more than half a year to start tuning.
Not long ago, Marianne updated the news in the circle of friends: "As a first-class astrologer, I also need my ** and my ability to match. ”
Marianne's lecture courseware.
She was not very good at management, time planning, and speaking in public, but now she updates every day, arranges full counseling orders in an orderly manner, starts standardized astrology training, and squeezes out time for psychological counseling classes. She rushed to the hot search, although she didn't like to display labels, she still frequently mentioned keywords such as "Tsinghua", "female doctor" and "monthly income of 30,000".
She knows that only in this way can she be seen and have the right to speak for more liberal arts students. She wanted to be seen by liberal arts students who were genuinely bothered;I want them to know that getting into the real world isn't easy, but there are other paths.
Some of Marianne's clients are now her students. At first, the trainees who participated in the training were basically Kochi, including Chinese who settled abroad, as well as students from Zhejiang University and Peking University.
Marianne wanted to make astrology a standardized, professional training. But that doesn't mean she gave up on her former love and academic ideals.
Her Douban profile always says, "Friends in the academic world, if you want to count ** publication, I can help you calculate it for free." ”
Marianne. The network of information collected in astrology gave Marianne more ideas. She reached a consensus with her brother from a large publishing house to cooperate in selling books, helping her fellow sisters to do live broadcasts of academic works, and using her personal popularity to promote academic content.
When she studied French history, she admired the French scholars of the sixth and eighth generations, who did not stay in the academic world, went to business, made publishing houses, magazines, and debated on **. On the one hand, we do technology, and on the other hand, we intervene in society.
We also have such a scholar in China named Shen Zhihua. He made a lot of money in business in the 80s and later went to buy archives on the collapse of the Soviet Union. After more than ten years of academic work, East China Normal University hired him as a professor. He went from outside the system and back into the system. I want to change the way liberal arts scholars are only in the academic world, and I would like to follow the path they have taken. I can do whatever they do. ”
I remembered the first day we met, and she chatted about it in the middle of the night with great interest, wanting to do enlightenment in a commercial way. "I studied French history, and my master's degree was the Enlightenment and the Revolution. I also had a birthday with Voltaire, so I felt like I had a sense of mission. ”
She told herself, don't rush, take your time, there are still many ways to get to the end.
Note: Unless noted, **Provided by respondents.