Chapter 1 The Waves Are Coming
In today's society, academic qualifications are really important. It is your stepping stone to a better life. It doesn't exactly represent your abilities, but it can give you a lot of extra points. It is one of the conditions that best reflects your own abilities in such a competitive society.
The senior year of life means that the vast majority of people are about to end their entire student career and will directly enter the society. If you don't have the idea of going to graduate school, starting a business or going to a public institution. The easiest and most direct way to enter society and prove one's worth is to find a good job. Especially for a man!
Duanmu Wulie is a senior from Linhai Province. He wasn't very old, in his early twenties, but his face was a little more mature than that of other college students with fine skin and tender flesh. He was slightly chubby, slightly beer-bellied, flat-headed, and wore a pair of adult glasses. He is a civil engineering student at the Beichun Institute of Architecture, a former student union minister, a probationary member of the Communist Party of China, and a person who firmly believes that his destiny is in his own hands.
Time flowed like flowing water, unconsciously flowing to a sunny day in the autumn of 2018. The sun in autumn is so charming, shining on the entire Beichun City. The maple leaves reflect the warm sun, and there are many complicated people under the sun. Everything is so calm, so usual. But everything seems to be driven by some force, closer and closer, closer and closer. The calm heart also began to quietly stir, as if the waves were about to storm the city.
On September 8th, the fall job fairs of various universities in Beichun City have begun. In a classroom of Linhai Jianzhu University, a lecturer of a construction central enterprise is passionately explaining their corporate preaching. Duanmu Wulie walked on the porch outside the classroom, listening to the loud voice of the speech coming through the door. He wandered aimlessly, unable to hide the unrest in his heart. Sometimes he stood up and walked a few steps, sometimes he sat on a chair on the porch, sometimes he stroked the bracelet that was wrapped around his hand. The bracelet was not strictly a bracelet, but a string of rosaries. It is made of spade and strung together in a large string like a string of small pearls. Originally, it was used for chanting scriptures when the Buddhist Zen Tao nourished the mind and concentrated the mind. He wrapped it three times around his left hand and turned it into a bracelet. When something comes to mind, I gently stroke it with my hand, thinking about what is going to happen. Silently prayed in his heart that fate would bring him a lucky arrangement. This time he touched it because he knew that the moment that would decide the fate of his life was coming!
The classroom, just a wall away from him, was filled with graduating college students. But these college students are all students of Linhai Jianzhu University. Because the students of other schools were stopped by the student guards of the student union of Linhai University of Architecture. It may be related to the employment rate of the school, and the student doorman of the student union of Linhai Jianzhu University received the task of "blocking all students applying for employment from other schools outside the door and not allowing them to enter." "To put it bluntly, it is to let the students of Linhai University of Architecture eat alone! They will ask students to show their resumes and will be turned away if they find out that they are not from our school. How unfair this is to the students of the school. However, there is no way, this is the cruel social reality.
Duanmu Wulie stayed with the students from other schools who were denied entry to the information meeting but wanted to apply. They were so helpless and lost, like the people who were abandoned on an island when Noah's Ark left. Quietly waiting for the end to come, but at a loss, I don't know how to change. They hid in a corner, like a bunch of children who had made a mistake.
Duanmu didn't seem to be dressed as formally and decently, just wearing his usual sportswear. He did not print out his resume. Because he just wanted to get a feel for the atmosphere of the job fair in advance. He was originally interested in finding a job, but he also seemed to understand what he was about to face. Because he is a student of a private undergraduate school, which is the so-called Sanben student in society. Like his fellow college students who were rejected, his heart was full of bitterness and unwillingness. I am also full of anxiety and fear about the unknown things that will happen in the future. But he had to face it. Because he knew that it was going to be something he was going to face no matter what.
Next to Duanmu sat a handsome boy wearing a designer suit. The mood of disheartenment has shrouded his originally handsome face with gloom. He sighed and said, "Hey, we're going to die." Who let the college entrance examination score not be as high as theirs, and did not get into a good university. ”
"No, no! We must not accept our fate like this, we are worse than them. But that doesn't mean we're really worse than them. My family has worked hard for me to read for so many years, how much blood and sweat we have shed, and how much sweat and tears we have paid ourselves, how can we accept our fate so much. Next to him, a boy who was also dressed in a suit but rustic, rejected the boy just now with resolute eyes.
"It's okay, it's okay. It doesn't matter if you don't have any results today, there will be many opportunities in the future. Isn't the autumn recruitment just beginning? Duanmu pretended to be sunny and said to the two of them with a smile. The two of them glanced at the person they didn't know at the same time, and they didn't know whether to agree or relentlessly. After one glance, they all turned their heads back and stayed on the place where they had been staring again. Duanmu also understood that he was a person who didn't even wear a suit. It was a complete fool's dream to say this, so I didn't say anything more. After seeing that there was no reaction, he continued to be a quiet person.
I don't know how long it took for the information session to end. The recruiting company staff walked out of the classroom with a large pile of resumes. The university students from other universities who were waiting at the door to recruit were also welcomed, and they all put aside their unpleasant feelings at the time and tried their best to make a good impression on the interviewers and company leaders. They pounced on it like moths to a fire. However, reality is reality, "I'm sorry, dear students, we have recruited enough people, thank you for valuing the company." The female interviewer with the resume said to them. Duanmu could feel the heart-piercing feeling when he sat beside him. The people around her were overwhelmed by such a sentence. Some turned away, while others were cheeky and continued to follow them with a glimmer of hope. But anyone with a discerning eye knows that nothing will come of it.
And just like that, the first day of the job fair ended. Back in the school dormitory, he lay in bed and thought about it for a long, long time. His eyes were fixed on the lamp overhead, as if he had many things hidden in his heart. Over and over again, he stroked the bracelet wrapped around his left wrist, and kept thinking in his mind: "It's time to change your fate, you must think of a way." Now the autumn recruitment is for a while, and some large state-owned enterprises and well-known Fortune 500 companies are recruiting people this month. The whole society of seniors is squeezing their heads to get in. If this month passes, and I can't enter a state-owned enterprise, what will be my fate in the future? You have to find a way! Be sure to find a way! ”
After that, Duanmu sat up. Find a place where there is no one and turn on your phone. Then he dialed his mother's number: "Hey! Mom is there. "He wants help from his family. His family is relatively good, a working family. His father is a civil servant, his mother is a teacher, and his parents take good care of him. He knew this kind of thing, and his own connections couldn't reach it. Need help from someone with many years of social experience.
"What's the matter? Old son. A middle-aged woman's voice came from the other end of the phone.
"Mom, there's something wrong. I need your help. ”
"What's the matter, tell me."
"Mom, I'm looking for a job. You and my dad asked if they knew anyone and our current school degree. It can be a bit difficult to get into a good business. ”
"Oh, good. Got it, your dad and I helped Zhang Luo, Zhang Luo. You still have enough money to spend, right? ”
"It's all enough, you don't have to send me money."
"Good. Got it, take a good rest. ”
"Uh-huh, okay. Mom, you should rest early, too. ”
After putting down the phone, Duanmu's mood was much better. At least now someone has someone to share the pressure on him. In this world, your parents are really the only people who can help you selflessly. But he still wanted to try his luck because he didn't want to go directly to his parents for help, although he did it anyway. But that strong heart is still trending, and he must continue to go to the job fair tomorrow. He took out his mobile phone again and looked at the online recruitment notice of Linhai Jianzhu University:
September 9, 9:30 a.m., Comprehensive Building: Huaxia Construction Second Engineering Bureau Group Recruitment......
He didn't want to give up the opportunity in front of him, so he did what he said. He first chose a resume template on his computer that was not fancy or monotonous using a word document. took out the awards he had won in the past three years, and he solemnly arranged them on his small bedroom desk. Against the backdrop of the lamp, he himself did not summarize himself in such a general ...... of "outstanding student cadres, cultural and sports activists, and outstanding League cadres": "In this university, I didn't expect that I was average in learning, but I was a good cadre." Thinking of this, he smiled slightly, as if he had found a trace of comfort in the tired real world. So he had a little motivation, "Don't lose hope in the world, don't lose hope in the future, don't lose hope in yourself." Go for it! Everything is worth it. "He put on his resume all the titles he could boast of, and everything he could do to put a gold stamp on himself. CET-4, various skill certificates, and even a C1 driver's license.
Then he pulled out the suit he had been given to him by school from his dormitory closet. His suit looked too thin, and it was the suit that the college had given him when he joined the student council three years ago. He is now in a slightly fat figure, and he is very out of shape in his clothes. And the time is relatively short, and I don't even have a decent pair of leather shoes. There are no good shoes, so I can only wear the usual sneakers. After a brief preparation, he tried it on. He was alone in the dormitory, facing the mirror, and gave an American-style military salute.
"Fight!"