Data map: Escape room shop. Figure ic photo
In the past two days, a news that "the mother of the 211 college graduate 'playing a ghost' in the secret room has attracted attention".
According to **, after "playing the role of a ghost" in the secret room for a while, the 211 college graduate named "Seven" told his mother what he was doing. When the photo of the work in the secret room was sent, the mother cried, she had been looking forward to her daughter having a "serious" job, and originally thought that her daughter was glamorous in Shanghai.
Knowing that her daughter was "playing a ghost" in the secret room, her mother cried. As for the behavior of 211 college graduates going to the secret room to "play ghosts", many netizens also lamented the depreciation of their academic qualifications. But this kind of thinking is obviously still the old tune of "serious employment concept" and "face employment concept": parents hope that their children's employment is guaranteed contract employment, and it is best to enter a unit in the system and find a "serious job".
However, at a time when new forms of business continue to emerge, it is actually a bit dogmatic to use the traditional concept of employment to examine the employment choices of young people, which will not only limit students' choices, but also affect the healthy development of new business forms.
A case in point, just a few years ago, many people were biased against flexible employment, questioning that it was not guaranteed formal employment. For example, the delivery of food by college graduates was once considered unorthodox. However, with the increase in flexible employment in recent years, the bias against similar employment options has decreased.
Previously, college students who chose "slow employment" and "gap year" after graduation were also considered to be inconsistent with conventional expectations. However, during the gap year, it is not a bad thing for college graduates to do something they like, think more about their future development, learn more about society, and not rush to find a job.
Just like this girl, she went to experience the secret room game industry in the interval of a few months. This is a field that she has never been exposed to before, and this experience has been beneficial to her to further understand society, herself and her profession.
It is regrettable that some members of the public still wear colored glasses when they look at such professional experiences, as well as some new forms of occupation. is like this girl's mother, who shed tears after learning that her daughter was "playing a ghost". In her eyes, this is a "disgraceful" job, a career that she chose only when she was "forced to be helpless".
However, "playing a ghost" in a secret room is not the same as being an actor? It's just a move of the stage to a secret room and add some entertainment to the work.
Some people will say that this is "pretending to be a ghost" to make others happy, just like pretending to be a clown to make people happy. It's the old thinking of treating these jobs as low-grade jobs in the service of others. Further, there is no essential difference between "playing a ghost" in a secret room and playing a doll in Disney, and if you look at these professions with colored glasses, you will feel disgraceful.
With this mentality, it is difficult to have a sense of professional fulfillment, which not only affects the realization of personal life value, but also affects the development of the industry. In recent years, new business formats such as escape room games and script killing have emerged, and these new formats belong to legal industries, and practitioners who enter these new formats should also be respected.
Moreover, China has entered the era of universal higher education, and the gross enrollment ratio of higher education has reached 59 in 20226%, which requires a change in the stereotype that college graduates have to work in "glamorous careers". In addition, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, the future career form will also undergo great changes, and many new forms of business will appear. It is clear that the public will also need to change their mindset about these new professions and their practitioners in a timely manner.
In short, the two-way rush between the popularization of higher education and the development of new forms of business requires updating the concept of education and talents, and breaking the rigid thinking of "face-saving employment" and "serious employment".
Written by Bingqi Xiong (Education Scholar).
Edited by Bruce Ma.
Proofread by Zhao Lin.