Just when Su Xiu was thinking about Hong Yanwu and reminding Hong Yanru how to prevent problems in the bud, she didn't know that coming to the tourism bureau was actually a helpless move for Shui Lan.
On the other hand, Shuilan still felt wronged precisely because she also felt that her four years of college were in vain. She felt even worse.
Thank you to the "77th and 78th Class", the first batch of "real college students" after the resumption of the college entrance examination. They have attracted much attention since they entered the school. They are regarded by the school and the public as the hope of the country's future. They have no idea what they carry.
With so many people’s expectations.
And they are convinced that they are talented students, and when graduation is approaching, they are gearing up to make a big difference.
But all this is actually false prosperity in the spotlight. It is only when they truly enter the society after graduation and leave school that they can see what reality is. When the dreamy aura around them recedes, they can clearly see their true qualities.
Indeed, the units assigned to these two batches of college students by the school are quite good. In today's terms, they are all "high-class" places that ordinary people look up to. Especially for students who graduated from prestigious schools, they even have some special care.
For example, Shui Lan chose between the "Ministry of Mechanical Engineering" and the "National Academy of Sciences" according to her own wishes, and went to the latter to report for work.
But she didn't expect that because the National Academy of Sciences was overcrowded, it could only arrange a place for her in the academy's archives.
In the new working environment, although the work is easy, it is really not interesting.
Being buried in a pile of newspapers every day, with no chance to stand out, and no excitement or fun, made her feel extremely depressed. Therefore, after staying there for less than a week, she couldn't stand it anymore and asked her boss to change her position.
Unexpectedly, the leader's reply was simply impossible.
The leader said that there are many people in the archives who are older and more knowledgeable than she is, and there is no way to arrange them. If you think the work is boring, you can either find a way to transfer yourself, or you can work hard.
Don’t you value intellectuals?
What a joke! The most important thing here is intellectuals. The scientific backbone is completely exhausted. Even the associate researchers were graduate students in the 1950s.
The old one has to die before a new one can be evaluated, right?
Is the policy towards intellectuals not implemented?
So how would you like to implement it?
Do you know how many research projects in the institute that have been approved cannot be started? Do you know how many scientific and technological backbones do not even have a small bungalow and live in two separate places?
If you don’t understand, go and watch the movie “Middle Age” that is being screened outside. Which unit doesn’t have people like Lu Wenting? But no one can solve the problems exposed.
There is only one Chen Jingrun in the world!...
The leader's words were like lightning and thunder in a violent storm, which almost stunned Shui Lan. What was particularly chilling was that there was not a single falsehood in it, and the cruelty revealed was all reality.
Originally, Shui Lan thought she was just unlucky and didn't choose the right employer, which was why she ended up like this. After some calculations, she went to find those proud classmates to see if there was a chance to change jobs.
But what she didn't expect was that despite the superficial comments about how good their jobs were and how they were valued by their leaders, when she actually came to complain, she found that everyone's situation was almost the same.
Zhang Juan, who went to the "Fifth Institute of National Defense", actually worked as a cashier. Every day she looked at the reimbursement documents for office materials. She never even saw rockets, satellites, or space dreams, let alone touched them.
Huang Guangliang, who went to the "Mechanical Engineering Department", did deal with leaders every day, but he mostly dealt with leaders' families.
It turned out that he was assigned to the administrative department, responsible for leading the complicated and trivial affairs of the family building.
It was precisely this opportunity to "get close" to the leader that made him feel so miserable. He had to run around all day long under the orders of a bunch of old women, and he didn't even dare to steal anything.
And Wang Jing, who finally got her wish and went to China Television Station.
When she met her classmates, she said "our art team". But in fact, her job was to find an electrician while the drama was being recorded in the theater, then wait outside until it was over, and then help her colleagues get the equipment back from the stage.
It turns out that no one is much better than anyone else. These people are just talking hard to satisfy their temporary vanity and self-esteem.
Is it possible to blame them? Everyone wants to save face. Who is willing to tell others about their own faults?
Isn't it the same for Shui Lan herself? Neither her family nor her family dared to reveal even a single word about her real situation at work.
If she hadn't really felt that she would be suffocated if she stayed in her current position, and would become as mediocre as those old comrades who looked like zombies, she would not have come to these classmates for help even if she had a good face.
But then again, even they themselves were confused by these truths, so confused that they couldn't believe that it was all true.
Even if you tell the truth to others, can they believe it?
Is it true that four years of college were in vain? How could there be such a big gap between ideals and reality?
In fact, this problem is not difficult to explain.
Although the starting point of the "77th" and "78th" college graduates is higher than that of ordinary people, it only ensures that they do not have to do physical work after graduation, but it does not allow them to really rise to the sky like a carp jumping over a dragon's gate.
Change.
Because there are too many people in our country, we have created a population peak. If it weren't for the fact that employment could not be solved at all, how could we send people to the countryside?
Moreover, they left in batches at the beginning, but came back in batches. In the past few years, the capital city has had to solve the employment problem of millions of educated youth who have returned to the city. If you think about it, you will know how difficult the actual situation is.
Although high-end professions require people with certain cultural qualities to take on them, don't forget, how many intellectuals and leading cadres have been rehabilitated one after another? In reality, one full-time job requires seven or eight deputy jobs, and almost all of them are
They occupy seats and don't do any work.
In addition, during the ten years of the "movement", university campuses have not been idle, and they are still graduating workers, peasants and soldiers every year.
Not to mention that ranking based on seniority is a feature of our system. From a practical point of view, worker, peasant, and soldier students are not as bad as people think.
Although these groups of college students were called "half-hearted" college students, there were many jokes passed down by word of mouth later, such as the math major who couldn't read a scale, and the Chinese major with many typos. Even when the person being introduced was told that they were workers, peasants, and soldiers, they would say, "You
You can't introduce me to a fool."
But in all fairness, workers, peasants and soldiers students should not all suffer such criticism and ridicule. Their overall quality is higher than that of ordinary peers.
This is because no matter how many backdoor students there are, no matter how disabled the system is, most people who can take the initiative to fight for such opportunities are still the best in the crowd and the smart people in the unit.
Those short-sighted and mediocre people who don't like to study and don't seek to make progress simply don't have the confidence and ability to fight for opportunities, and they don't want to cause trouble.
In particular, the early days of the "movement" and those after 1974 should be viewed separately.
Beginning in 1974, school curriculum began to become more formalized.
By the 1976th session, the curriculum was almost the same as that of the 1977th and 1978th session. Many classes were taken by "worker, peasant and soldier students" and "regular students" together.
At least the level of worker, peasant and soldier college students in the past three years is similar to that of regular students.
It is precisely because of these objective realities that these workers, peasants, and soldiers have good careers after graduation. Even because of their excellent political conditions, they have unique advantages in the field of political cadres.
Moreover, after the college entrance examination was resumed, these people did not do nothing. Some smart ones continued their studies and passed the postgraduate entrance examination. Some also obtained opportunities for cadre training within the unit. They used their experience in party schools and cadre school training classes to save their disadvantages.
Anyway, in general, the regular college students of the "77th" and "78th" did not have the overwhelming advantage over the workers, peasants and soldiers students as people thought later. In terms of academic qualifications, they may have higher gold content, but in terms of first-mover advantage and
Many workers, peasants, and soldiers students overwhelm them in terms of their interpersonal and political qualities.
By the time the so-called winner or loser is determined between the two groups, it will be at least the late 1980s.
This also includes the fact that workers, peasants, and soldiers have no successors, and many of them have "whitewashed" themselves with graduate degrees. There are also various factors that lead regular college students to only promote the glamorous side of the group.
Therefore, I am afraid that the true objective reality can only be truly understood by those who are in it.
Thousands of words merge into one sentence, our country lacks everything except people.