A few years ago, I graduated from school and came to work in an advertising company in Shanghai, after deducting five insurances and one housing fund, I can get more than 4,000 wages per month, and then deduct 1,200 yuan of rent, 750 yuan of food expenses, and about 500 yuan of various living expenses, and can have more than 1,500 yuan leftover. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info over the past year, saved more than 10,000 yuan, changed a computer, changed a mobile phone, and there was not much left around.

In the summer of the second year of graduation, I unexpectedly learned that a college classmate was admitted to the hospital because of poor health. On the phone, my classmate told me that his problem was not serious, there was some water in his body, a benign tumor, but this hospital, 20,000 or 30,000 yuan was gone. Although the company has been paying medical insurance since graduation, even if the insurance amount is deducted, it still costs tens of thousands of dollars for such a trip.

So I looked at the savings in my bank card, more than 900 yuan, such a balance is not even enough for me to get sick. Soon, I stopped complaining that the company was too far away, the working hours were too long, and the anxiety in my heart was swept away. In its place was an even worse mood, worry.

I'm worried that I can't afford to get sick, I'm worried that I can't afford to buy a house, I'm worried that I won't be able to get a wife -- of course, I have to have a girlfriend first.

So after a few days of thoughtful thinking, I decided to make the switch.

It was my classmate who was sick and hospitalized, and he found a job for me.

The name of the company is [Ocean Adventurer] Outdoor Equipment Company, from the data, it is a company with special outdoor equipment manufacturing and sales as its main business project, this company is recruiting advertising planning clerks, requiring at least 5-10 years of work experience.

The classmate who introduced me to the Ocean Adventurer Company was named Zhang Sheng, who was from the same university, but had different majors, and I knew him, mainly in the football team of the university, when he was the striker of the team, and I would sometimes make a cameo appearance as a substitute. In college, everyone plays football together, drinks alcohol, and masturbates strings, and they are familiar with each other.

"So, you must pay attention to your body, it's only been a year since I graduated, and my stomach is coming out. As a result, he was hospitalized. "Zhang Sheng is in great health at university, and when I heard that he was sick and hospitalized, I was very surprised.

Zhang Sheng is currently in charge of technology research and development at one of China's top zipper companies, and it is said that their R&D center has enough patented technology to meet the manufacturing standards of spacesuit zippers. When astronauts enter space, in a state of complete vacuum weightlessness, the spacesuit is the only guarantee for astronauts, and as the most problematic link is the zipper, so the quality of the aviation zipper is particularly important!

When Zhang Sheng introduced me to the Ocean Adventurer Company, I raised questions about the so-called "special equipment", and Zhang Sheng used aviation zippers as an example to explain to me.

"General outdoor equipment includes jackets, hiking boots, gloves, backpacks, tents, fluorescent lights, cooking utensils, water bottles, communication facilities, and so on."

"If it's a general camping, then the equipment that ordinary companies have abundant is sufficient. But if the place that the outdoor adventurer is going to is too complicated, special equipment must be used. For example, diving, if a person wants to dive 20 meters, there is a big difference between the equipment in the diving 200 meters, and the diving equipment for diving 100 meters is hundreds of times more expensive than the general equipment. ”

"In addition, outdoor adventurers use different equipment to climb 1,000-meter peaks and 3,000-meter peaks, and above 3,000 meters, the temperature is generally about 18 degrees Celsius cooler than the ground, the air pressure is lower, and the wind speed is higher. If you want to camp at high altitudes, you need special equipment, tents to block high winds, cooking utensils to use in low pressure conditions, and climbing equipment above the ice line, all of which require very high specifications. ”

After Zhang Sheng gave an example, he also listed some technical indicators to me and told me what special outdoor equipment is. These metrics are as complex and cumbersome as the zipper data that Zhang Sheng studied, and I didn't actually remember much when he said a series of things on the phone, as a job seeker applying for an advertising planning position, I just need to master the ability to distill product highlights. Unless there is a professional party, customers will not care about the production indicators of the product.

What's the use of a product manual if an advertising planner needs to put a lot of cumbersome data on the ad?

"Ocean Adventurer is our customer, we have a large number of special zipper orders every year, never default on payments, and the company is quite reliable. Although your working experience has not reached 5 years, the HR of the other party is still willing to meet you for the sake of the supplier's introduction. I still believe in your ability, and I hope you can succeed in your application. ”

The job opportunity that Zhang Sheng provided me with can be said to be quite good. Ocean Adventurer is a Sino-foreign joint venture, all the staff recruited in China, all according to the level of public institutions, provide five insurances and one housing fund, in addition, this company offers a salary of 6,500 yuan after tax, and includes room and board, which makes people feel quite excited.

After graduating from the same university, Zhang Sheng's salary has reached 12K, and I am still excited about the 6.5K job, this is the gap. In the advertising industry, there are a lot of people who eat and drink spicy, but there are also a lot of people at the bottom, and I am not as good as Zhang Sheng, a technical party in science and engineering, who is still beautiful in college, which makes people feel a little embarrassed.

Life is like this, there are countless intersections. We may have met once, but in the end we were separated, and the intersecting trajectories of life eventually formed a huge web.

After a month of deliberation, I finally chose to resign and bid farewell to my old company.

Ocean Adventurer's China headquarters is located in a science and technology park in Shanghai's Pudong New Area, about an hour's drive from the international terminal. The production and manufacturing department of Ocean Adventurer is not in one place, the location of my interview is in an office building in Lujiazui, there are about three floors upstairs and downstairs, more than 3,600 square meters, administrative, sales, foreign trade and exhibition area, all projects related to office office, are located in this place.

The HR manager in charge of the interview was a smart and capable woman in her 40s, and after asking a series of job search questions, the HR asked me for some copywriting from my previous job. In the year after graduation, I didn't have too many jobs in my first company, and even if I had a good plan, I would eventually write the name of the team leader or department manager, but fortunately, the HR of Ocean Adventurer seemed to know the rules of the industry very well, and there were not many doubts about the source of the copywriting.

About a week later, I joined Ocean Adventurer Outdoor Equipment Company as a new employee and started my second career after graduation.

I used to fantasize that my world would be very different, and that when I grew up, I would have a new definition of success in life. I want to have a stable life, a house, a car, and two children, and I can take out a loan to spend, but it's best that the monthly repayment pressure is not too great.

Seriously, I never thought I'd do anything earth-shattering. As a newcomer with very low working years, I have always maintained the habit of listening more, doing more, and talking less in the month since I entered the company.

During this time, our team was mainly responsible for the publicity and promotion of several outdoor swords. For this reason, we spent more than a month to familiarize ourselves with the steel used in various sabers, casting technology and various technical indicators. For a long time, our team even moved all the more than a dozen sabers in the exhibition area to the office, and usually took the whetstone and the study of knife oil when I had nothing to do, until I came into contact with this industry, I knew that there was still a huge difference between sabers and sabers.

Although we moved a lot of sabers to the office, the process of getting them was very complicated, and each of us had to go through a period of training and sign some agreements before we saw them. And we can't take the saber with us, and if we lose any piece of equipment in the office area, we all need to be held accountable in the end.

Generally, the price of sabers on the market is between 300 and 700 yuan, but the knives produced by the Ocean Adventurer Company start at 10,000 yuan. I heard that a bicycle in some of the major tours in Europe costs 100,000 euros, and I didn't believe it before, but when I saw that a saber can start at 100,000 euros, I knew that anything is possible in this world.

I once witnessed a man who accidentally scratched his finger while researching, and in an instant he almost saw a bone. After seeing the real saber, I became curious about the ocean-going adventurers, what kind of organization can produce such a level of equipment?

I've never been an extremely curious person, and even if I have certain doubts about ocean-going adventurers, even if I stay here for ten years, I don't necessarily want to actively explore. What I have to do is very simple, I just have to work hard, save some money, first provide for a house, then buy a car, and finally get a wife and have a few children.

Zhang Sheng once said that I lack the momentum of young people, saying that no young person who is really rich and ideal will be as ordinary as me, but when Zhang Sheng said this, I actually felt that it was not easy to buy a house, and for me, this is a very great thing. Anyway, it's my effort!

Really, at least in 2014, I thought so.

But soon, in my third month with the company, something broke the peace I had assumed.

It all started with the company's dispatch order.

In October of this year, Ocean Adventurer's internal documents solicited candidates from the Chinese headquarters and sent them to Peru in western South America, where about 8 people were needed, including 1 senior executive, 3 senior engineers, and 4 administrative and civilian personnel. The expatriate period is 2 years, and the candidate needs to work for Ocean Adventure Company for more than two years and meet the internal assessment indicators.

Such a document did not attract my attention at that time, for the simple reason that my working years were too short. But about a week after the paperwork was issued, my supervisor suddenly asked me if I wanted to go to the Americas, and my supervisor told me that my salary would be doubled during the assignment. After a long time, looking back on all this, whether it was coming to the ocean or being sent to Peru, it was full of all kinds of coincidences, maybe this is fate.

(The new book is for collection, the plot needs to start in the first person, and I found that the third person is actually better to write, and the adventure flow novel, so stay tuned!) ）