"You're not for us, sorry, next." A middle-aged man wearing glasses with a sparse top of his head, the bridge of his nose and eyebrows overflowing with oil beads, said, although he was polite, but his face was expressionless, he couldn't see any sincerity, and he was perfunctory as a matter of course. The person who was persuaded to quit was Chen Erdong, 22 years old, who had just graduated from university.

"How's that company?" A young man who was queuing up in front of a company's recruitment desk asked, this person is called Lin Daqi, Chen Erdong's sworn friend who has been in the same school from junior high school to university.

"I don't look at the works, I only look at the school, there is no drama." Chen Erdong was very calm, this was already the seventh family unit that rejected him.

"Damn, don't you fucking damn it's not the point? So why do you open these non-key universities? Lin Daqi said angrily.

"Come and line up with you, and see if you're going to have any better luck along the way."

This is the Chinese talent exchange market in 2006, fresh graduates are like dumplings in this huge and air-conditioned venue, hundreds of employers are as neatly listed as the vendors in the night market, but not now, holding a mobile phone to chat with HR and then send a resume.

The so-called interviewer is just a part-time worker who is forced to open a business because of his complaints about the boss in the sauna world, and he can only look at the swarm of job seekers, looking at the school with a high salary, and looking at the appearance with a low salary, and this kind of lust is not limited to men and women.

"Dongzi, I've got a job." A simple-looking young man ran towards Chen Lin and the others, a little panting, but very excited.

"So soon, Dayong, I want to go home, come out on a hot day and suffer this crime." Chen Erdong did not synchronize the excitement of Dayong, whose name was Fu Huayong, who was his roommate in the same dormitory and was from the countryside.

"What company, Dayong?" Lin Daqi asked with concern.

"It's not a company, it's an art department, recruiting apprentices, I have no problem with software, I mainly follow to learn production."

"You're going to the art department too? Brother, are we learning advertising design? Lin Daqi was very puzzled.

"I can compare with the two of you, I can be content with a job now, at least I don't have to ask my parents to pay me in the future." Fu Huayong was a little disappointed.

"What about wages?" Chen Erdong asked.

"The probation period is 1500, and the regularization is 2000."

"Heh, what the is this going to do?" Lin Daqi sneered.

"Almost, I've basically figured out the market in the past few days, and the fresh graduates of our major are generally in their early 2,000s, and the better ones are three or four thousand." Fu Huayong explained.

After waiting in line for about half an hour, it was finally Lin Daqi's turn, although he was still immersed in various dissatisfactions, he still adjusted his mood and prepared to face the recruiter.

"Resume." There was a woman in her thirties sitting at the recruitment table, she didn't look up, and whispered to Lin Daqi, who handed her resume with both hands, and then put her portfolio in the interviewer's hand.

"It's Jincheng again? This school is not very good. The interviewer said to himself, his voice was not loud, but every word was inhaled into Lin Daqi's ears.

"Teacher, this is my portfolio, please take a look, my strength is graphic design, space ......"

"Alright, I'll see for myself." Before Lin Daqi finished his introduction, the interviewer interrupted him, and then flipped through a few pages, each page stayed for no more than a second, which seemed to be reviewing the design work.

"Not up to our request, next." The interviewer impatiently returned the portfolio to Lin Daqi, but Lin Daqi did not reach out to take it.

"Teacher, please take a second look, there are a lot of logos I made in the back."

Seeing that Lin Daqi didn't take it, the interviewer threw the portfolio directly at him, her original intention was to let Lin Daqi catch it, but Lin Daqi didn't react, and watched the beautifully bound portfolio fall heavily on the dirty ground.

Lin Daqi leaned over and picked up the portfolio, this is his four-year college effort, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a baby, he is an art-oriented person, and he hates others trampling on art the most, and today someone actually threw the baby on the ground in front of him.

"You're a bully! Why throw my stuff on the ground! What a broken company! Lin Daqi was instantly furious, Chen Erdong and Fu Huayong hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, afraid that he would act uncalmly, this roar also attracted other applicants, watching excitement has always been a hobby of Chinese, and many people gathered around.

The interviewer also realized that his behavior was inappropriate, and when he saw the young man in front of him so angry, he felt cowardly, changed his previous indifference, got up from his seat, and apologized repeatedly.

"Just you company! Act like a snob! Please come to Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will not come. With that, he walked out of the stadium angrily.

"Let's go, find some water and sit down for a while." Chen Erdong wanted Lin Daqi to lower the fire, the water bar was similar to a café, but it was not so advanced, and the young people in Jincheng called it that.

"Then I won't go, I'm looking for a job, I'll go back to the dorm room and pack up my things." Fu Huayong is still living in the school for the time being after graduation, so he can save a lot of rent money, and it happens to be the summer vacation, so the school acquiesces, which is another reason why he is eager to find a job and move out before the start of school.

"Alright then, let's go."

"Dongzi, when will your computer be moved back?"

"You can keep it for fun, anyway, I still have one at home, don't look at little Japan, haha." This computer was bought by Chen Erdong's family after he went to college, he knew that Fu Huayong could not afford to buy a computer, so he planned to give him the computer after graduation, if there was no computer, it was difficult to imagine how empty Fu Huayong's leisure was.

Finding a job is certainly not a comfortable thing, and the chances of meeting you and my employer are no less than looking at each other on a blind date, especially for ordinary undergraduates who graduated from non-prestigious colleges and universities. Although it is more practical for fresh graduates to find a job as soon as possible and participate in practice, Chen Erdong and Lin Daqi still hope that they can meet a favorite unit when they are just starting out, after all, they are quite confident in their professional ability and are unwilling to compromise.

Sitting in the water bar, the two didn't talk much, each drinking a drink boringly, Lin Daqi's mobile phone rang suddenly, and he looked at the unfamiliar number and said in a not very friendly tone: "Who?" ”

"Is it Lin Daqi?" The other party was a girl with a sweet voice, and when Lin Daqi heard it, he immediately came to his senses, cleared his throat and responded gently.

"I'm Jincheng Talent Market, I heard that you just had a little unpleasant with the employer, this is the negligence of our market management, I'm sorry."

"It's okay, I'm not in a good temper, what's the matter?"

"That's right, we read your resume and helped you recommend an advertising agency, you can go for an interview next Monday, which can be regarded as compensation from our management, do you think it's okay?"

"That's so kind, thanks thank you." Then the other party left his contact information and hung up the phone, Lin Daqi thought that he could actually encounter a good thing of blessing in disguise, and was about to be happy, but suddenly saw Chen Erdong sitting opposite.

"A call from the talent market, let me go for an interview on Monday."

"I've guessed it, I'm lucky."

"So what do you do?"

"I'll keep looking, you just have a good interview, what's the matter with me." Chen Erdong knows him very well and knows that Lin Daqi attaches great importance to love and righteousness, which is something to be happy about, and he doesn't want him to be too careful.

The next day, Lin Daqi lay at home and slept profusely, and Chen Erdong didn't have the heart to go to the talent market to find guilt, so he accompanied his girlfriend Shen Pei, who had been dating for a year, to the mall in the name of applying for a job.

Both of them are each other's first love, although they have only been dating for more than a year, but they have known each other for ten years, Shen Pei is also his classmate in middle school for six years, from strange to gradually acquainted, and then to the same table when they were regarded as a confusing ambiguous relationship by their classmates, they have never pierced that layer of paper, until Chen Erdong's junior year, they changed from classmates to bed because of a winter vacation trip.

Even if they have only been dating for a year, they have a sense of déjà vu as an old husband and wife. Shen Pei's family is well-off and has a printing shop, so she is not in a hurry to find a job, but will continue the leisurely summer vacation of her senior year.

This mall is called Nagato Department Store, which is from Japan and is very famous in Jincheng City, which has the most complete range of Japanese imported goods in the city, and customers always flock to it, and business is booming.

When I walked to a clothing store, the radio of the shopping mall suddenly broadcast a recruitment message, it turned out that Yongteng Department Store was preparing to open recruitment planning personnel to the society, and fresh graduates could also participate, which happened to be the professional counterpart of Chen Erdong, and it was a well-known foreign company.

"Male, do you want to try it?" Shen Pei's name is Chen Erdonggong, which is her husband's nickname.

"Forget it, this kind of big enterprise, with my diploma, it's no fun." With the setbacks he has encountered in the talent market in the past few days, Chen Erdong seems very negative.

"Go and try it, don't compare the big companies with the stinky fish and rotten shrimp you applied for, big companies value ability more, I think you can do it." I have to say that Shen Pei's encouragement played a certain role.

"Really?" Chen Erdong will be skeptical.

Shen Pei didn't say anything more to him, dragged his arm and followed the guidance of the broadcast to the customer service center to get the application materials. The attitude of Yongteng's staff is very friendly, and the faces in the talent market are very different, Chen Erdong specially helped Lin Daqi pay attention to whether there is a position for designers, but it is a pity that this recruitment is only for planning personnel, and the designer establishment is full.

Compared with those units that have been interviewed before, either he thinks that his graduate school is not hard enough or inexperienced, or he feels that the unit is not pleasing enough, so he has a slight good impression in the face of the planning department of Yongto Department Store, but he does not have any hope that he can be selected. Shen Pei is very supportive of him, and after visiting the mall, he has to invite him to a big meal, and wishes him success in advance.

When young people fall in love, there is an indispensable place to spend money, Chen Erdong's pocket money is not much, and after graduation, he is not too embarrassed to reach out to his family to ask for money, it is almost impossible to expect him to bring material enjoyment to the woman, this section, Shen Pei knows it, so in the scene with a high consumption base, she is mostly paying for it.

In fact, Chen Erdong's family background is not bad, his father Chen Mowen is a well-known cultural person in the city, he was a young man who went to the countryside, and later worked for Jincheng TV, is a program producer and director, in that era when the second generation was rampant, Chen Erdong often laughed at himself as the second generation of literature.

In addition to paying the bill, Shen Pei usually likes to buy him this and that, after all, she is a girl who has her own small treasury and loves her boyfriend, although Chen Erdong has shirked many times, but he still can't change Shen Pei's attitude, and over time, he acquiesces. And Shen Pei's sensible thing is that she never gives Chen Erdong a face because of economic differences, and even when they quarrel, she will never say anything embarrassing to the other party.