As the president of Danbei University, Zhan Mingyuan has a wide range of contacts, but after seriously thinking about his daughter's request for him, he decided to ask his old classmate and evening newspaper president Wang Wenli for help. Because he understands that his daughter has taken such a lot of trouble and solemnly entrusts him in the hope that he can help Bai Xiaoding find a decent job, and according to his job search direction, being a news reporter is undoubtedly the first choice. Wang Wenli is the director of the evening newspaper and an old man in the propaganda outlet of Danbei, and he is very familiar with the leaders of the daily newspaper, the morning newspaper and several other newspapers, and he also understands the situation of each newspaper and can speak.

Zhan Mingyuan called Wang Wenli in advance to ask him to have a small gathering, and the latter happily agreed. On this day, he booked a private room in a restaurant specializing in seafood, ordered a few exquisite side dishes, and brought two bottles of Wuliangye.

"Old classmate, I know that you have always had two reluctances, one is reluctant to ask someone to do something, and the other is reluctant to ask someone for dinner. Not only did you treat me to dinner today, but you also brought me some of the good wine that you had treasured for many years, and I was a little flattered. ”

"Wenli," Zhan Mingyuan picked up the wine bottle and poured wine for Wang Wenli, "I am willing to invite you to dinner today, and I want to beg you to do something." ”

"Look at you," Wang Wenli pretended to be surprised, "I know that there is no good wine in the world!" I told me I wouldn't come! ”

"I'm afraid that you won't tell you if you don't come, but now that you have eaten my food and drunk my wine, you have to help me with my affairs!"

Wang Wenli nodded Zhan Mingyuan with his hand, and the two laughed together.

"Mingyuan," Wang Wenli thought for a while and asked, "Last time you called me and said that you wanted to recommend a student to be a reporter at the evening newspaper, did you ......?"

"Yes, that's it. I know that the recruitment of reporters in your company has ended, and I would like to ask you to help me pay attention to similar work and recommend my student, after all, you are more familiar with the situation of the press in Danbei than I am. ”

Zhan Mingyuan said very politely, for people with heads and faces in the system, it is common for them to recommend individuals to each other and transfer jobs.

"Okay, I see," Wang Wenli nodded, "Mingyuan, let me ask you more, who is this student you are talking about?" Why did he make you so concerned? ”

"He......" Zhan Mingyuan hesitated, "He's a good friend of Xiaopai, and they are high school classmates." ”

"Oh, what's his name?"

"It's called Bai Xiaoding."

"Bai Xiaoding?" Wang Wenli groaned, "Such a coincidence......"

"How do you know him?" Zhan Mingyuan was a little surprised.

"Well," Wang Wenli nodded, "He also signed up for our company's recruitment last time, and I also interviewed him." ”

"Oh? So what do you think of him? Zhan Mingyuan asked.

"Very good!" Wang Wenli said with certainty: "He was the last one to come in for an interview that day, I asked him a lot of questions, he was quite quick-witted, and he was relatively solid, otherwise, I wouldn't have been so impressed." ”

Hearing Wang Wenli say this, Zhan Mingyuan was relieved, if this old classmate had a bad impression of Bai Xiaoding, then he couldn't ask him to do it, "Well, this kid is very good, he has been a cadre of our school's student union for four years in college." ”

"I also read his written test paper, the score is very high, if you score comprehensively, among nearly 200 applicants, he should be among the best, but unfortunately there are only two places...... Wang Wenli thought for a while and said: "Mingyuan, since you are talking about Bai Xiaoding, it is not impossible to let him work in the evening newspaper." ”

"Aren't you guys already recruited?" Zhan Mingyuan was puzzled.

"Last time, I recruited two people," Wang Wenli nodded, "but the overall team of reporters in the evening newspaper is still weak, and we are going to expand the edition next year, and there will definitely be not enough reporters, so I think we can let him be a trainee reporter first." ”

"Journalist trainee?"

"Yes, the trainee reporter is not established for the time being, and the salary will be slightly less than that of the regular reporter, if he is qualified to work during the one-year probationary period, I can give him a regular job, what do you think?"

"Yes!" Zhan Mingyuan's eyes lit up, if this was the case, he would have done what Xiaopai had entrusted him.

"Well," Wang Wenli said, "if he wants, he can come to the agency next week to report." ”

Zhan Mingyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and toasted Wang Wenli with a cup, "Oh, old classmate, you have helped me a lot, thank you!" ”

"Mingyuan, you really don't have to be polite to me! To be honest, if the person you mentioned is not Bai Xiaoding, I'm afraid I won't deal with it like this, if it's him, it may be that you found a thousand-mile horse for our society, and I have to thank you when I go back! The two looked at each other and smiled, clinking glasses and taking a sip of wine.

"Oh, old classmate," Zhan Mingyuan put down his wine glass, "I know you are comforting me by saying this, and I have accepted this love." In recent years, the number of college graduates is large and the number of jobs is small, and this situation of more monks and less porridge has become a norm, which can not be changed in a day or two. ”

"Yes, the country's labor market is unbalanced, and the employment pressure is high, especially for the post-80s generation like Bai Xiaoding, the number of college graduates continues to increase, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find employment."

"Well, people's impression of the post-80s generation is generally 'lucky and happy generation', I don't think so, they are facing no less pressure than their predecessors, and it is particularly obvious from Xiaopai and her classmates, and the difficulty of employment is the first to bear the brunt." Zhan Mingyuan said.

"Yes," Wang Wenli nodded with feeling, "Compared with the 70s, 60s, and 50s, the post-80s generation has indeed suffered nothing, and their lives are much better than those of their predecessors, but they also have their own troubles, for example, they caught up with family planning, and most of the post-80s generations grew up alone; Waiting for school, what awaits them is exams, rankings, and parent-teacher conferences again and again. And parents almost all have a goal, that is, they hope that their children can complete their dreams that they can't realize back then, hoping that their sons will become dragons and daughters will become phoenixes. ”

"When it was time to take the university entrance examination, the enrollment was expanded; When I went to university, I abolished public scholarship again. Parents have to pay for their children's education; And after ten years of cold window, waiting for the post-80s generation is no longer the iron rice bowl of the past, what 'drought and flood income', 'housing welfare' are gone, what greets them is the employment war and workplace competition, they can only face, there is no choice. ”

"So I use three sentences to describe the post-80s: born in a honeypot, grown in a birdcage, and living on the battlefield!"

The two old classmates sighed while chatting......