Today's Late Night Topic【Can You Find a Good Job After Graduation?】

Being at Todai, looking at the people around me and at myself, I only then realized that the vast majority of ordinary young people spend their entire lives on a predetermined path of discipline:

Bury yourself in studies——fight hard to get into university——panic at graduation——rush to find a job, following the prescribed order, not daring to deviate

During those days near graduation, I believe many graduating students carry with them a kind of blind arrogance

Thinking their school grades are outstanding, consistently ranking in the top three of their major, clutching a few competition certificates in hand, they naturally carry an aura, always believing that stepping out of campus means smooth sailing, that plenty of quality companies will compete to hire them, and high-paying offers are within reach

But when you arrive at the recruitment venue, you realize it's filled entirely with top talent students from all over the country, a scene no less intense than the thousand soldiers and ten thousand horses crossing a single-log bridge that is the college entrance exam. PhDs, Jiaotong University graduates are everywhere, standing there is their real competitive advantage

You're just an ordinary undergraduate, an ordinary 211 student, with no experience to speak of, and can't compete on education either. Many people think that knowing how to use AI, or being able to manage crayfish farming well, can land them jobs with million-yuan annual salaries

But if you haven't truly mastered these things, haven't deeply understood them, and haven't produced any actual valuable projects or works, who would hire you! With China's massive population base, what we have the least shortage of is talent

This Canton Fair spring recruitment fair is recruiting approximately 85,000 positions in total, but over 160,000 people showed up to apply, which means at the very least, half of them won't get jobs

So what can these people do, and what will they do? Some might choose to take the civil service exam, then continue falling into the infinite cycle of internal competition, wasting their own precious time

Some might choose to start a business, but this path is nine deaths and one life, and those who succeed in the current environment are all survivors of bias

Most people always think graduation is the endpoint of hard studying, the moment to cash in on expectations, but only when you truly step into society do you understand that this is merely the beginning of another round of elimination

Without the protection of campus, without the judgment of grades, so-called future, prospects, good jobs, have never had standard answers

When education is no longer a universal passport, when hard work may not bring equivalent returns, what exactly should we rely on to establish ourselves?

Is it to continue trapped in internal consumption, going with the flow, or is it to settle down and hone our real competitive edge? This question perhaps requires us to spend a very long time finding an answer that truly belongs to us