Netizen Contributions:
As a master of fine arts, studying in these years has cost the family countless money, at least more than 200,000 yuan, and now it is difficult to find a job with a monthly salary of 5,000.
Let's talk about what I've been through over the years. No experience, all lessons, hope to give the students some inspiration.
I am an art student graduating in 2020 with a master's degree and a professional oil painting.
After graduation, I worked as an art teacher at a middle school in my hometown according to my family's arrangement.
The salary is not high and only a few thousand dollars, and the art teacher is not as valued as the teacher outside the number of words.
So doing that job at that time, there was no sense of accomplishment, the salary was not ideal, and it didn't take long for me to quit.
Another opportunity for me to quit my job was that I had a college classmate working as a web designer in Guangzhou with a monthly salary of 20,000 yuan.
I thought to myself, I am also studying art, my education is higher than hers, why can I only get a few thousand monthly salaries.
After resigning, I went to our provincial capital city to look for a job.
There are many job opportunities in the provincial city, but because my major is very restricted, I can only find jobs related to art.
I started by pitching my resume for a design role, but after going to the interview, I found out:
I can only draw, but the company wants design talent, and I won't be proficient in using those design software yet.
These jobs can only be missed.
Later, I found a game company, applied for the original artist, and after doing it for a while, I felt that the work pressure was too much.
And I don't have much freedom to work, I say that I am a painter of the company, an "artist", a creator.
But in the end, it has to be pointed out by people who don't understand design at all.
During my time at this company, I taught myself some design software.
After quitting my job, I got a job as a web designer for six thousand a month.
This job is not paid well, but it is much less stressful than the previous job.
My monthly salary is six thousand, and after deducting the expenses of seven seven eighty-eight, I only have more than four thousand in hand.
Here I have to rent a house, take the subway to commute, and have very little money left to save every month.
Now that I think about it, I regret quitting my stable job as an art teacher.
Although there are many opportunities in big cities, I can not use every opportunity.
Moreover, my profession is very embarrassing, the scope of job search is particularly narrow, and I can only work in the art field.
Therefore, I advise my students and students, unless you really like art, don't take the road of art easily.
In the future workplace, it will definitely become more and more volume, if it is not a mine at home, it is better to learn an ordinary major.
After reading the above submission, I think of a hot search I have seen before:
When you were an art student, what was the thing you regretted the most?
There are many answers below, one of which received tens of thousands of likes:
"The most regrettable thing is to study art and take the graduate school."
A netizen shared his experience.
First, tell me why I studied art.
First, because I have loved anime since I was a child, I like to draw;
Second, because it is clear that their cultural class results are average, the grades in the class have always belonged to the middle and lower reaches, and if they participate in the regular college entrance examination, the probability of going to undergraduate may not be high.
So after the family consulted, she became an art student.
Her family was not very wealthy, but her parents gave her up in order to support her to study well.
Learning art, painting materials and painting tools are very expensive.
Others go to ordinary majors, and it only takes tens of thousands of dollars for four years of college.
She spent more than two hundred thousand, or even more, from undergraduate to master's degree.
But after graduation, finding a job is not ideal, and the monthly salary has been hovering around four thousand.
Why do art students have such an embarrassing job search situation?
There are three reasons for this.
First, too many people regard "art students" as shortcuts, and shortcuts have become crowded canoe bridges.
As the second case above said, many students and parents are reluctant to take the "one-wood bridge" of the college entrance examination.
Instead, I found the secluded "little arch bridge" of "art students" who seemed to be not crowded and had no one to compete.
However, this small arch bridge, more people walk, has also become a "single wooden bridge".
More critically, if you want to pass through this small arch bridge, the price is not cheap.
Learn music to burn money to buy musical instruments, learn art to burn money to buy painting materials, learn sports to burn money to buy protective gear...
This seemingly secluded little arch bridge was made of gold and opened up with money.
And as more and more people come to the small arch bridge, the small arch bridge is also crowded, but it has become another more expensive single wooden bridge.
Second, many art students have no talent for art, nor do they like it, but just use it as a tool for further education.
I have to say that in fact, many art students passively choose this seemingly easier way to further their education just to avoid competition with most people.
But in terms of results, in fact, the road to art examination is not easy.
Because we have a large base of candidates, the competition for the art examination is just as cruel.
On the premise of not liking it, there is naturally no real "creativity".
For this part of the students, it is just a detour, admitted to the undergraduate, and that's it.
Third, time was wasted during college, and there is no planning for future careers, resulting in no relevant workplace skills.
Whether we really love art or not, we have to admit:
If you want to simply find a job through "art" and make money, "talent + effort + luck" is indispensable.
But most people do not have such superior conditions, there are so many people who study art, how many famous artists are there?
Most people still have to find a job that pays thousands of dollars a month to make a living.
Art students often neglect to cultivate workplace skills during their school years, resulting in the embarrassment of going to society after graduation and facing unfavorable job search.
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Master of arts, study costs more than 200,000 yuan, and it is difficult to find a job with a monthly salary of several thousand. What do you think of this phenomenon?
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