Recently, an employment survey was circulated on Weibo, in which the average starting salary of undergraduate students was 5825 yuan per month, and master's and doctoral degrees were all starting salaries of tens of thousands.
The average starting salary of a specialist student is slightly lower, and it is also nearly 4,000 yuan.
The cumulative discussion of the topic soared to 30,000, and netizens complained.
Because in reality, there are people with a monthly income of two or three thousand, not to mention the starting salary, that is, 5 years and 10 years, and many people cannot reach this "average".
Every time I see this kind of data, I even suspect that I am not receiving a salary, but a low insurance.
Sometimes you have to admit that the so-called average salary has little to do with ordinary people.
I don't know if you have found that every time the topic of "average salary" appears on major platforms, there is always a sentence behind it: "Have you pulled your hind legs?" ”
This at least proves that you are not the only one pulling your hind legs.
Imagine sending red envelopes in the WeChat group, sending 100 yuan of red envelopes, there are always people who grab twenty or thirty yuan, or even more than 50. But grab one or two pieces, or even a few cents, is not in the minority.
The same is true of wages, where is the average?
To beat yourself up with an average salary is nothing more than self-inflicted guilt.
The most exaggerated income statistics I have ever seen is the per capita income of the major cities of Fortune magazine in 2021, excluding senior leaders, and the average monthly income is 20,000 or 30,000, which has to make people a little ashamed.
But if you look closely at the following situation, including fund stocks and including rent, it is not pure salary.
In addition, in every city, there are always a few people who are particularly rich, as the law of two eight says, maybe 20% of the people, control 80% of the wealth.
In fact, 80% of our salaries are evenly paid.
Netizen @ a certain Meng Jiazhao said in the comments, for example, there is a boss Zhang in the village, who earns 10 million a year, and the salaries of nine neighbors are calculated according to zero, and the average annual income is millions.
Most people's income situation is the same as ours.
In 2020, a survey released by the China Internet Network Information Center showed that 72.5% of the people with an income of less than 5,000 yuan were accounted for.
You always envy the reputation of a certain enterprise, and there is money to be made, but you do not know that the grass-roots employees are also tired and tired, earning a basic salary;
You always hear that so-and-so Internet celebrities earn more than 10,000 yuan a month, but you don't know that the small anchor at the bottom still lives in the basement and lives;
You only see some people doubling their wages, but you don't know that more people are fiercely investing money and doing things, and in the end they will lose everything...
It's not nothing that makes a lot of money, but it's always just a rarity.
Those ordinary people who are averaged, the migrant workers who struggle to struggle, the nameless people who worry about life, we are the majority.
You may have heard something like this as well:
"There's no money you can't earn, only people who don't work hard enough."
"You still need to be coaxed to make money, and you should be poor."
"If you don't push yourself, you don't even know how good you are..."
What others tell us over and over again, when we cheer ourselves up, we say it over and over again, but sometimes making money is really not so simple.
We tried our best, and most likely just finished the lives of ordinary people.
After watching an interview with a vegetarian, the fried chicken stall owner Hai Ge got up at 6:30 and began to take orders on the software, first delivering three and a half hours of takeaway.
In the middle, he simply made up for it, and he had to go to the goods again.
At the beginning of the stall, he operated 3 orders at the same time, one weighed, one heated, and one was controlling the oil, until 10 o'clock in the evening, he did not have a chance to catch his breath.
Once a young man brought him a hot drink, and he put it in the end, so he could only wrap it in a plastic bag and go home to reheat it.
Tired, tired to the extreme.
But the money was more and less, and even the cold wave came for two days, he was so cold that he couldn't get out of the stall, let alone how much he could make.
Those cleaning aunts who are cleaning on weekends, just to earn that little more money, are they not working hard enough?
Those white-collar workers who leave early and return late, carefully calculate the rent, is it because there is not enough overtime?
Sometimes the world is like this, not all the bitterness and tiredness, accompanied by flowers and applause.
Two days ago, there was a very heartfelt news, a 2-year-old child shouted at the family monitoring: "Mom, Grandma is not here, can you call Grandpa?" ”
The child's grandmother had Alzheimer's disease, and when Grandpa went out to buy vegetables, she ran out on her own.
The child felt that his grandmother was in danger and cried and asked for help in front of the camera.
Some people blame the parents of the child, putting the elderly with dementia and the 2-year-old child together, which is inherently unsafe.
But the elderly and children who cannot take care of themselves are at home, and the young people earn money to support their families, is this not life?
Trembling and stumbling, it is not easy for us to complete the lives of ordinary people.
Many people who work hard in ordinary posts see hope and break out of the hall of fame, but in fact, people who are still difficult to live and people who are still confused may not be lazy.
In "Dust", it is said: "Some people are gone, some people are still there, some people are rich, some people are still struggling." Whether people are in the presence or absence, rich or poor, life is moving forward.
And where it goes next, no one knows. ”
The difficulty of life, we have actually experienced it earlier, but we have collapsed countless times, we still choose not to give up.
A woman in her 20s, with low blood sugar, fainted in a subway station.
But when the staff brought hot water and soup pots to let her rest, she hurriedly got up and left the station, and only rested for less than 10 minutes.
Nothing else, just to clock in on time and get a attendance award.
We don't expect a sudden time to come, just move forward steadily, can be better than the present, all the efforts will be worth it.
Du Yang, 38, has a master's degree from Sun Yat-sen University and used to do education and training, but now he is in Kaimo.
When he was unemployed, it was because of a misunderstanding that he was regarded as a master of Mo, and then he thought that he could not be idle, so he really opened Mo.
There is no self-abandonment, let alone self-depreciation, but the adult world, there is no word "easy".
If you put down your face, you can adjust your state and make money, which is already lucky.
I still remember the little girl in the takeaway box, because there was no one at home to take care of her, and her father Li Yuanyuan had no choice but to take her to deliver takeaway.
There is a total of one bed in the family, living in a rental house of less than 10 square meters, and when the child has children with pediatric pneumonia, they have spent all the family's savings.
But the family survived, lived an ordinary and warm life, and the girl who smiled sweetly in the takeaway box still loved to laugh.
Li Yuanyuan is still delivering takeaways, withstanding the wind and sun, and his wife sells pork in the vegetable market, and it is still difficult to work hard, but thinking about the future of this small family, there is motivation again.
We have all been through it countless times, crying with red eyes and setting off again the next day;
There is not enough money in the pocket, grit your teeth and save another province;
Suddenly catch up with the layoffs, collapse while looking for the next job...
I've always felt that God isn't so fair.
Maybe with all our might, it will be difficult for us to get rich, it will be difficult to catch up with a friend's salary, and we will have a sense of superiority, but people like us are all around us, all over the corner.
All the tiredness and hurt, but for a little sweetness in life.
As long as that little light is enough to sustain us until dawn.
Before there was a very hot video, called "4 a.m. train station", the picture is real in the world:
In order to save 30 yuan for accommodation, passers-by who sleep on the stone steps;
Cleaners who start work early;
Epidemic prevention personnel at the exit gate;
The taxi master waiting at the door to grab the life...
Hidden here are the epitomes of most ordinary people, some rolling up the futon into luggage, some carrying a pot for eating, and they are like us, they are all averaged.
Maybe we just need to suffer a little more than others, toss a few more times, in order to get what we deserve.
Liu Tong has a saying: "Everything always has a past, sometimes looking back at the rest of my life, I find that everything has a crack, that is where the light comes in." ”
Click "Watching" and stay up again.
Who is right, the road ahead is not a smooth road?
Author | Yew, the iron lady of the post-90s cute system, can turn the knife with a pen, and the eyebrows are smiling.
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