"I spent 150,000 yuan in four years of college, but now my monthly salary is only 3,000"Rural parents feel sad.
When I was in high school, I heard a teacher and parents say, "If you keep going, it will be easy to get into college." However, when they actually stepped into college and entered the workplace with a diploma, they found that this sentence was purely a fool, so it was jokingly called the second biggest lie by adults after "the mother of the New Year's money will keep it for you".
For college students who lack career planning, the road to graduation can be described as "difficult". Nowadays, in an era of "heroes based on performance", students are the beneficiaries of cramming education from 9 years of compulsory education, high school to university, all the way.
As a result, students have little time to really think about their interests and future career paths, even though they can flexibly respond to the types of questions they need to adjust their learning status. Whenever the college entrance examination is filled in, many candidates choose a major that is not clear about the future development direction, and after four years of university life, they find that they do not meet the recruitment requirements of those high-quality positions.
At this time, they can only develop towards sales and administrative positions that do not require high professional and academic qualifications. However, such a choice often leaves them feeling confused about their future employment prospects. Employment anxiety is prevalent not only among students, but also among parents.
Some parents from rural areas pay a huge amount of money for their children's education, but due to their lack of workplace experience, it is difficult for them to give their children substantial employment advice. Some parents told sad stories about their children who spent 150,000 yuan in four years of college, but their monthly salary was only 3,000 yuan after graduation. This shows that even if parents make great efforts, they may not be able to provide the right career guidance for their children.
Therefore, when parents see that their children have graduated from undergraduate but have not received the desired salary, they often feel frustrated, and even think that their investment in education is in vain, such as Sister Zhao's family.
Sister Zhao and her husband are pure rural people, and the family's main income comes from growing soybeans and corn. Although the two have worked hard to accumulate some family funds, it is hard-earned money after all.
However, during the college entrance examination, Sister Zhao's son's grades were abnormal, only 28 points higher than the undergraduate file line, and finally he could only reluctantly apply for a computer major in the first class.
As we all know, the tuition fee is expensive, and the tuition fee is as high as 250,000 yuan, plus 2,400 yuan per year for accommodation, is already a headache for ordinary families. Not to mention the regular living expenses for the children, these trivial expenses add up to a total of at least 150,000 yuan.
However, when Sister Zhao was looking forward to her son being able to earn "return money" for them after graduation, reality hit Sister Zhao's family hard.
Due to the low prestige of the school he graduated from, coupled with the lack of professional knowledge, Sister Zhao's son has been unable to find a job. Even if he eventually moves to a sales position, the monthly salary is only 3,000 yuan. In the face of this kind of unrequited dedication, Sister Zhao felt sad. Whenever she sees "other people's children", she can't help but sigh: "My son spent 150,000 yuan in four years of college, but now his monthly salary is only 3,000 yuan. ”
College students themselves don't want to face such a reality. Spending 150,000 yuan to study, but the monthly salary is only 3,000 yuan, such a gap is something that all college students are unwilling to face. However, the reality is that "it is difficult to find employment".
According to the 2022 National Bureau of Statistics, the number of fresh graduates graduating this year reached 10.76 million, an increase of 184%, a record high. However, the number of jobs that match it is only 11%, which is almost negligible.
What is even more frustrating is that small and medium-sized enterprises, which were originally the "main force" of employment, have not only begun to reduce hiring, but the number of jobs has dropped by 116%, and began to expand the scope of recruitment, which is even worse for fresh graduates.
Therefore, this group of post-00 newcomers in the workplace has encountered the most difficult "employment season" in the past four years.
In the face of employment problems, can fresh graduates choose "slow employment"?
According to the relevant survey of Zhilian in 2022, in the face of the severe employment situation, there are more than 159% of the students chose "slow employment".
Put simply, this means that they do not immediately join the workforce after graduation, but rather slow down and delay the time to choose a job, so that they have more time to fully consider and observe the market.
Of course, this choice helps students make more favorable judgments, but a long time of "staying at home" will also make fresh graduates resist society, so that they will gradually change from "slow employment" to "new type of gnawing at the old".
Therefore, the author suggests that when students choose "slow employment", they should first set a time when they must step out of the "comfort zone". After all, the employment problem is always there, and there is no point in running away from it.