I saw a public list of people to be hired by the China (Ministry of Education) Overseas Study Service Center in 2023 for public recruitment, and the recruits for position 1 were actually graduated from Harvard University.
The reason why it is described as unexpectedly is because this position is not a career establishment, but a contract worker that everyone often says, which is the so-called "temporary worker".
I have to say that the current academic qualifications are really volumes. Students who graduate from top schools like Harvard can only be "temporary workers".
After seeing this announcement, I suddenly understood the sharp decline in the number of graduate students this year. In the past, when the university did not expand its enrollment, it was really as long as you were admitted to the university, you would have an iron rice bowl, after all, at that time, all industries were in a stage of rapid development, and talents were needed everywhere.
Later, with the rapid development of the Internet, the demand for college students has increased again, and some students who graduated from famous schools can have an annual salary of three or four hundred thousand yuan in the first year of joining the Internet giants, and they envy a group of old employees who have worked for many years.
As a result, more and more students began to take the postgraduate entrance examination, because at that time, some employers explicitly only recruited graduate students.
However, with the increase in the number of universities and the continuous increase in the number of graduate students, the competition for highly educated talents is becoming more and more fierce.
Because, at the same time, the development of all walks of life has entered a stable period, and the number of employees has not only not increased significantly, but has begun to shrink.
In this context, those who used to be able to find a job after graduating from undergrad, after finishing graduate school, suddenly found that their academic qualifications seemed to be useless, because in addition to undergraduates competing with themselves, there are more graduate students who are looking for jobs.
At this time, everyone realized that the investment in high education can no longer allow them to maintain a competitive advantage. So, instead of studying for a few years in graduate school and still not finding a good job, it is better to start working after graduating from undergraduate school, so that you can accumulate more work experience.
For this student who graduated from Harvard and went to work as a "temporary worker", we ordinary people really don't need to feel sorry for him.
Because, families who can afford Harvard's tuition and living expenses for a few years must not be weak financially.
We went to graduate school for better wages, and for families like this one, sending their children abroad to study at prestigious schools is just a life experience.
When I returned to China, I was willing to be a "temporary worker", more just to have a stable and regular life, not to make money.
Of course, for ordinary people, the books that should be read still have to be read, because for now, this is a good way to change the fate of life.
It's just that we should let go of our enthusiasm for academic qualifications, and understand that academic qualifications are just a stepping stone to our professional career, which is good enough. There is no need to waste two or three years of youth for a little better possibility when you can knock on the door of some enterprises.
Only by returning to reality and combining with our own situation can we have better development.