In the early years, if you did not do well in your studies at home and could not get into a good university, it seemed like a good way out to go to a university abroad, or to go on to graduate school. After studying abroad for a few years, even if you return to China, you will be a returnee, you have seen the world, and it is easy to find a job.
Many of my colleagues and friends have children studying abroad, but the endings are different, it can be said that they are varied, but one thing is very consistent, then burn money, more can spend two or three million, less can also spend six or seven hundred thousand.
Colleague Lao Li's family is well-off, Lao Li can be said to be the third-in-command in our unit, and his daughter-in-law runs a liquor store at home, and the business is very good, it is said that how can she earn 1.8 million yuan a year. Lao Li has only one daughter, and he went to a private undergraduate in China, just in time for the Korean Wave a few years ago, so he had to go to South Korea to study after graduation. Originally, I wanted to study for a graduate school, but I didn't know what the difference was when I was a **, so I could only study for an undergraduate, majoring in animation. After graduating from South Korea, I wanted to stay in Korea to find a job, but I couldn't find a suitable one, so I had to return to China after more than a year of unemployment. After returning to China, I took the civil service and career editor exams for two consecutive years, but I didn't get in, and finally opened a shop selling Korean cosmetics, which can be regarded as a job. Later, she simply married someone directly and became a full-time mother at home. According to Lao Li, his daughter spent more than 1 million yuan in South Korea in the past few years, not to mention, and she couldn't even find a serious job when she came back, which was really a loss.
The daughter of my colleague Lao Chen also studied at a secondary college in China, and after graduating from university, she had to go to South Korea to study for graduate school, and returned to China after graduating from graduate school. Lao Chen said that he spent nearly 600,000 yuan in South Korea, but it was cheaper than Lao Li's daughter, but cheap has the disadvantage of being cheap, Lao Chen's daughter wanted to take the civil service exam after returning to China, but her graduate degree was not recognized by the Ministry of Education, that is to say, she spent 600,000 yuan in vain, but she came back from Pheasant University, not only did she not use it, but she also delayed her time for three years and wasted 600,000 yuan in vain.
My friend Sister Yan's family business is one of the largest in our small county, and it costs tens of millions of dollars in taxes every year, and her daughter's name is very good, called poetry. When Shiqing took the college entrance examination in China, she did not reach the admission line for undergraduates, so she could only go to a junior college, but Sister Yan was unwilling to let her daughter only go to a junior college, so she asked her daughter to study in the UK. After just a year of studying abroad, it was just in time for the global outbreak of the new crown epidemic, and Sister Yan was not worried that her daughter was abroad alone, so she let her daughter return to China. After the epidemic ended, Shiqing returned to the UK to continue her studies, and she has not yet graduated. Sister Yan never said how much money her daughter would need to study in the UK for a year, but once I heard her tell her daughter in **: This month's living expenses have been called to you, a total of 10,000 pounds, save some money, don't spend it before the end of the month. The cost of living is this money, not to mention the tuition fees.
My colleague Sister Lu's family is a well-off family, and her husband also runs a small business, so the family's life was very nourishing, but because her son insisted on studying in Japan, the family now has to tighten their belts to live. Sister Lu's son was admitted to a second-class college in China, but her son insisted on going to Japan to study, and as a result, he went to Japan after only one month of undergraduate studies in China. After going to Japan, I first took a Japanese cram school for a year, and then the epidemic broke out in Japan, and the college entrance examination was postponed for a long time, and after the epidemic ended, I took the Japanese college entrance examination again, saying that I was admitted to some Sophia University's economics major, and the Japanese university seemed to be enrolled in the spring, so I couldn't enter the school for more than half a year. In this way, his classmates in China have graduated from college, and he has only started his freshman year.
Sister Lu said that since her son went to Japan to study, the family has not been willing to buy more expensive fruits, you must know that she used to be a full durian control, but she herself said that she was not willing to buy and eat for several years. My son's annual study abroad in Japan costs at least 400,000 yuan, but in the end it is only an undergraduate.
The daughter of my colleague Sister Song also studied in a secondary college in China, and she seems to be majoring in English. After graduating from university, other classmates either took the exam or went to a foreign company, but she had to go to the UK to study. In fact, Sister Song and her husband are ordinary office workers, and their lifetime savings are not enough for her daughter to go abroad. Her daughter contacted an agent herself, saying that she had to save 600,000 yuan in her account to be eligible to study in the UK. Sister Song didn't want her daughter to study abroad, but her daughter was on a hunger strike, and she was smoking and drinking to spoil herself, so Sister Song couldn't bear it. So he took out all the money that the two of them had saved for a lifetime, borrowed some from relatives, and finally got together the 600,000. After collecting the money, there was a new problem, and she had to pass IELTS to go abroad, but Sister Lu's daughter failed the test four times in a row. In the end, the agent said that it doesn't matter if you take IELTS, as long as you take 50,000 yuan, you can do it. I wondered, Sister Song's daughter herself is an English major, why is it so hard to pass IELTS, and besides, she said that she would be given a graduate diploma after studying in the UK for one year, so what kind of diploma is it, domestic graduate students study for three years, and foreign graduate students are so watery?
Graduate student The daughter of my colleague Lao Li studied a vocational college in China, and went to Russia to study after graduation. This is also the case with the daughter of our big leader, but the daughter of the big leader is reading a second book in China. According to Lao Li, studying in Russia is still cheap, but it costs more than 200,000 yuan a year. Lao Li's daughter is a graduate student in Russia, and she just left last year, so it is not clear what will happen after graduation. But the daughter of the big leader happened to graduate in Russia last year, but in fact, because of the epidemic, she didn't go to Russia to study at all, but she spent a lot less on living expenses. But I don't understand a little, some time ago, the daughter of a big leader wanted to take the military civilian exam, and it stands to reason that she should use a graduate diploma, but why did she use an undergraduate diploma, and his daughter's undergraduate and graduate studies are in the same major.
Later, I heard from other colleagues of mine that the daughters of the big leaders may not have graduated from graduate school in Russia, because Russian schools are the kind of schools that are wide in and strict out, and it is not easy to get a diploma at all. Indeed, in our small county, there was indeed a craze for studying in Russia in previous years, but almost none of them got a diploma. You think, you are all scumbags in China, and you can excel abroad if you go abroad, not to mention that you don't understand the language.
It can be seen from the living examples of these people around them who study abroad that if they can't even get a good undergraduate in China, studying abroad is basically wasted, which costs money and wastes youth, and is useless. Besides, although our education in China is not as good as that of developed countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States in some aspects, it is not bad, so let's study hard at home. Parents' money is also hard-earned, you must know that the money earned by your parents in the first half of your life may be wasted if you go abroad to study once, so whether your parents can earn this money again in the second half of their lives, it is not easy to say, what do they take to provide for the elderly, and how can they provide for their parents as children?