Accompanying the boy to a haircut, doing a nursing treatment by the way, the girl who helped take care of it instantly caught my eye: 170 height, fashionable hairstyle and dress, two straight long legs, especially eye-catching in a shop dominated by male hair stylists.
We chatted naturally, this is a girl born in 2003, only 19 years old, just worked for half a year. When I heard her age, I couldn't help but marvel: so small, it is indeed the world after 00!
The girl looked at Zaizai and asked, "Your son is going to start school, right?" I said, "Yes, so take him to take care of his hair and freshen up for the new semester with a new look." ”
She sighed and said to Zaizai, "You should study hard and cherish the time when you can read!" ”
I looked at her in the mirror and asked, "Sounds like there are a lot of exclamations?!" ”
"Yes!" The girl said, "I used to dislike reading, and every time my mother asked me to study seriously, I was very unhappy." Especially during the holidays, the adults around me are playing, and none of them are doing the right thing, but I have to hold the book and do my homework bitterly. The point is that as soon as I play, my mother will talk about me, I will be very angry, and we will quarrel. ”
She told me that her results in the middle school entrance examination were not ideal, she went to vocational school, chose tourism management, she liked the profession, and her appearance and figure should be no problem as a tour guide. She herself originally wanted to go in this direction.
Her family encouraged her to finish her undergraduate studies, and she also actively enrolled in the entrance examination. When reviewing, she felt that the content was a bit too much, so she picked out the key points. There was a part of the knowledge that she had turned over many times, and every time she told herself that this would definitely not be tested, she didn't look at it at all.
On the day of the exam, she set the wrong alarm clock, she was late when she entered the exam room, and she was even more dumbfounded when she got the exam paper, and the last big question was that she had been skipping the part that she had not read. Anxious, nervous and regretful, under various factors, the results are naturally not ideal.
The moment she saw the results, she felt discouraged and didn't want to read anymore. To this end, the class teacher specially talked to her and asked her not to give up and prepare for the re-examination. With her ability, as long as she practices the basic skills solidly, studies hard for a few years, gets the undergraduate degree in hand, and strives to improve herself, increase the knowledge reserve, enrich the knowledge and vision, so that it will definitely help to find a job in the future.
But she felt that she had worked so hard for so long, her grades were so bad, that it was too wasteful of time to study, and that it was not necessarily easy to find a job when she got a bachelor's degree, so she decided to give up studying, go out to work, and make money early, so that she could achieve economic freedom, so as not to be counted down by her parents.
Her family thought she was still young and advised her to continue her studies, but she was firm, and her family could not resist her, so they had to agree. But girls under the age of 20 come out to work, and they don't have any professional expertise, and their families are not at ease.
It just so happened that her uncle was in Shanghai, a regional manager of this barber chain, and her uncle asked her if she wanted to come to Shanghai and learn haircuts, so that she could not only expand her horizons, but also have a skill, and have food in the future. She struggled for a moment, thinking about it, and didn't know what else she could do, so she agreed.
When she told her girlfriend that she was going to be Tony's teacher, her girlfriend was stunned, saying that it was very bitter to be tony, worried that she could not afford that suffering.
But she swore that it would be easier to be tony than to study, to live freely, and to make money. She told her girlfriend to wait for her to learn the craft, and then she would take care of her girlfriend's hairstyle and make sure to be at the forefront of fashion.
In this way, she left her hometown and came to Shanghai, and began a completely different life from reading. In the first few days, she felt very curious, full of enthusiasm for everything, whenever there was a guest, she was warmly greeted, she also began to study seriously from washing her hair, and when she had time, she figured out the techniques and techniques, and slowly she began to become more and more skilled, and gradually mastered the various techniques of dyeing and curling hair.
After a few weeks, the novelty began to fade, and she realized that the work was so hard. Every night it takes as early as 10 o'clock to close the business, and then there are meetings to summarize the day's work situation, and when all the work is finished and return home, it is often nearly midnight. If you encounter a guest hairstyle that takes a long time, you need to stick to it later.
One night at 8 o'clock, suddenly a guest came to perm + dye his hair, and the guest said that the next day there was an important activity, the hairstyle had to be done, and she and the barber could only stay and work overtime. They were busy until the wee hours of the morning, and by the time she got home, it was almost dawn.
No matter what time she is busy, the next day, she has to rush to the store at 10 o'clock, there are few guests in the morning, it is a good time to practice the basic skills, she must seize the time to practice first, but also beg the teachers to teach her some skills, so that when there are guests, she has the opportunity to practice.
When others rest on weekends, it is also the busiest time for their work, sometimes they are so busy that they don't even have time to drink water, and they can only find a gap in eating, quickly take a few bites, and sometimes they are called away just after eating one or two bites. When I was finished, I remembered that when I ate, the food was already cold and cold. Later, she developed the speed of quickly killing a bowl of rice in several large mouthfuls. She teased that she now understood what it meant to gobble it up.
Once during a break, she went to her uncle's house to eat, and her aunt specially cooked a large table of hometown specialties, and when she ate, she felt that she was so happy that she was going to fly. She never thought that after work, even eating a meal in peace was a luxury.
When she got home that day, sitting on the bed in the rented house, she looked at everything around her, thinking about the hard work and busyness after work, and couldn't help but feel sad. She began to regret why she didn't listen to her teachers at that time, why she gave up her studies, and if she insisted on finishing her undergraduate studies and looking for a job, she could at least have more choices. Unlike now, only Gao Chinese the space she chose was very narrow.
In her work, she also found that her knowledge was too shallow. Especially when listening to the guests chatting, their knowledge is so extensive, often let her listen to it with relish, some guests chat topics are often she has never been exposed to, watching others talk and talk, she will look envious.
She decided to use her break time to try to expand her knowledge, she began to read, used the time on the way to and from work to listen to some online lectures, after a period of persistence, she found herself very rewarding, more down-to-earth, more confident, and when chatting with guests, they are much more comfortable.
At this time, she understood that knowledge was so important. She said that if she had worked so hard before, she would definitely be able to get into a good high school and go to a good university. In the few days when I came home for the New Year, the most I talked to my brother and relatives was to study hard. She also stressed to Zai Zai that zai zai must study hard and enrich himself through knowledge at the best age.
I asked her, since she realized the importance of reading, why didn't she go back to study? She shook her head and said that she had deeply regretted giving up studying, and now that the basic skills of her haircut had just been started, she could not be a deserter again because of her desire for comfort.
I was also deeply touched by her determination. I told her that as long as she persisted, she would definitely be able to break out of her own business. She smiled and said, "Well, I'm sure that day will come." ”
That day, on the way home from the barbershop with Zaizai, we were both very emotional. Zai Zai told me that he originally felt that he was the hardest worker in the family, and after listening to the words of the little sister, he realized that reading was such a happy and enviable thing.
What I sighed was that the little girl was less than 20 years old, and she had to start to face the burden of life hard. She is just one of countless ordinary "us", and we and our children have had the same confusion as her at a certain stage in life, and we don't know why we have to study so hard. It is always after being beaten by reality that I understand the meaning of learning.
Today, it is the day when many children start school, and I would like to share the story of this post-00 girl.
In this era of super rapid knowledge change, no matter which industry you choose or what job you do, a good education is essential. There is no dream in this world that you can easily find a good job and win lying down. In any industry, you need to continue to learn and work hard, with hard practice, hard sweat, unremitting persistence to push yourself forward.
Perhaps reading books may not help you realize your dreams, but reading can make you stand higher, see farther, have the opportunity to explore your own strengths and talents, enrich your strengths, and let people have more choices in life. I hope that children have the opportunity to show themselves on a bigger and wider stage.