The reason why I want to write such an article today is really out of feelings, because from the students I have been in contact with recently, I can most intuitively feel the anxiety in the hearts of students who failed the public entrance examination Far beyond expectations!
In their words: " The current state is that I feel that I have been separated from society for too long. I don't have any work experience, and I have no self-confidence after successive failures. "
When you mention continuing to study for the exam, they will even naturally reject it, almost PTSD; when asked about the most real thoughts at present, the answers they give are also surprisingly consistent: find a job as soon as possible, any job is fine, if you don’t want to Let the heart be empty.
The Temptation of "Once a Daoist and a Chicken Dog Ascend to Heaven"
Admittedly, I don’t deny that for students who take the postgraduate entrance examination, the ending of “one day’s enlightenment” is good, but we must also recognize the cruelty of reality, because what happens around you and me is more of “everything” . People fight over the single-plank bridge" .
Let’s take the postgraduate entrance examination first. Pursuing personal value and striving for greater development opportunities are the choice logic of most people, but at the same time there is also a hidden motivation behind it to avoid employment pressure. When this choice is recognized by the majority of people, the madness of introversion is inevitable.
With the number of postgraduate entrance examinations hitting new highs, the number of applicants in 2023 has reached 4.74 million. Correspondingly, the admission rate for postgraduate entrance examinations may be less than 20%. It's no wonder that some people complained: With the current rolling method, it's useless to study and train systematically without taking off work!
And behind the off-duty, compared with the migrant workers who entered the workplace early, it is more or less a "gamble" in nature. It should be noted that it is good to successfully go ashore, successfully graduate, and successfully get a job in one go. I am afraid that I am afraid of repeated defeats in many years of battle. This is the most regrettable.
Because this kind of students not only gave up the opportunity to work in the workplace, but also their age will increase year by year as time goes by. It can be said that most of the enterprising spirit of striving for ideals back then was exhausted, and years of hard work and cost did not yield any results. In the end, I had to honestly find a job to go to work. They really don't have many options.
Compared with the postgraduate entrance examination, the motivation of students who take the public entrance examination is much simpler. All civil servants, career editors, state-owned enterprises (even teachers) are notified all over the exams, practice tests, application essays, and interviews are prepared one by one.
Sometimes, knowing that the volume is terrible, I still can't help but persuade myself to rush in. The reason behind it is that "it's all done in one battle". To put it bluntly, it means: use temporary hard work in exchange for the comfort and ease of the rest of your life. After all, "more money, less work, closer to home", holding an iron rice bowl so that you can live comfortably, such a good job is really too tempting!
In the face of this attractive fruit, too many people tend to have huge expectations, so big that they devote everything and do not allow themselves to lose. So, we saw repeated defeats, repeated defeats, repeated defeats, and so on... Every time after failing the rankings, the faces of chagrin and disappointment seemed to have collapsed, and there was no hope in life.
But is that really the case?
Probably not.
A person's life is doomed to make too many choices
I admit that some students have long made up their minds to amplify their self-worth through the postgraduate entrance examination or public examination, and are willing to make unremitting efforts for it. But I believe that there are quite a few students who do not have their own opinions and "blindly follow the trend". How can they stand out from the crowd of test preparation with the mentality of giving it a try?
Ask yourself, which category are you in?
Furthermore, in this journey of preparation for the entrance examination, it is doomed that only a small number of people can be selected to go ashore, so what should the majority of students who fail the rankings do? Have you seriously thought about this question?
The failure of World War I and World War II, followed by World War II and three wars, regardless of the passage of time, is it really an inspirational story? This may be the case for students who have successfully landed.
Fortunately, there is also a relatively rational situation, that is: timely stop loss.
After repeated failures in preparation for several exams, such students know how to reorganize and plan their career goals and pursue new development paths. Especially in the face of the reality of crazy introversion in the postgraduate entrance examination, it is indeed commendable to be able to withstand the "temptation" and the so-called unwillingness to choose to quit rationally based on self-knowledge.
I also often tell my classmates that this life is always full of possibilities and opportunities, and we always need to learn to choose at critical moments, because the correct choice can really help us avoid unnecessary silent costs! (not limited to time and money)
For the students who are too obsessed with preparing for the exam, to put it bluntly, they will face the embarrassment of few choices, difficult employment, and unsatisfactory careers; I did not say that they are wasting time and youth, at least in Before the results were announced, the parties never thought so.
As for the students who can withdraw rationally, although they failed to go ashore and hold a decent iron job as they wished, they all lead to the same goal. Who can say that it is not a kind of success to achieve financial freedom through another method?
Sometimes I even think about it, if I take out the energy of the postgraduate entrance examination and use it on changing careers in IT and the Internet, there is really nothing that can bother them. Of course, I am not saying that changing careers to IT is the only choice, but from a comprehensive comparison of various industries, the salary advantage of the Internet industry is the closest to everyone’s ideal demands, and with the same labor effort, its returns are also the easiest to fill and share. Level the opportunity cost behind your choice.
We are all adults, we must learn to pay for our choices and be responsible for our choices, right? And I believe that for those students who withdraw rationally and stop losses in time, they really feel that nothing is a problem in the face of the so-called Internet involution.
Here is a set of employment data of our school in 2022. It can be seen that students with higher academic qualifications have more obvious salary advantages in the Internet workplace; students who do not meet expectations for postgraduate entrance examinations, or who are not satisfied with their majors and jobs , I think it is time to reorganize my career goals.
It takes 3 months to fight for a high-paying offer, isn't it better than taking the postgraduate entrance examination? After all, with the experience of preparing for the exam and the blessing of academic qualifications, you will definitely be more confident and calm in front of high-paying offers!