At 6:48 on January 14, the G276 train departing from Guangzhou South passed through Hengyang East and Zhuzhou West and arrived in Changsha at 9:45. Yang Yi, who is 14 carriages, is still one of the wanderers returning to Xiangxiang this year, she grew up in Huaihua, Hunan Province, and is now a drop in the ocean of Guangzhou's Internet industry. In the past 3 years, Yang Yi first experienced the bankruptcy of his company, unemployment, and career change... However, this year, she has a boyfriend who accompanies her on the way home.
12 hours after Yang Yi left Guangzhou, Liu Xiyun and her family drove from Shenzhen to their hometown of Sangzhi, Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province. In 2022, Liu Xiyun, who failed to start a business in her hometown, went to Shenzhen to work, which was the first time she left Shenzhen to go home for the New Year. "The exhaustion of 24 hours of traffic jams was healed by a table of meals cooked by my mother."
Vichy from Chenzhou is still working, and in the past two years she has gone from the education and training industry to the construction industry and back to the education industry, from Hangzhou to Guangzhou. "On my birthday last year, I suddenly wanted to eat my mother's cooking, and the next morning I bought a ticket to go back and eat my mother's cooking, and it felt like coming home from school as a child."
No matter what you have experienced outside this year, for the wanderer, the comfort is always in the fireworks of the hometown.
After more than 4 months of unemployed after the Wuhan epidemic, it is not easy to chase the "outlet"
At 5 a.m. on January 14, a small district in Panyu District, Guangzhou, was still sleeping in the night, Yang Yi and her boyfriend pushed suitcases to rush home, there was silence everywhere, and the sound of suitcases rolling on the concrete floor was particularly loud. Large bags and small bags are standard for the Spring Festival, Yang Yi pushed the suitcase and carried the backpack is not enough, and carried a white plastic bag in his hand, "There are too many things I want to bring back." ”
At 6 a.m., taxis approached Guangzhou South Railway Station, and the surrounding area gradually became lively, surrounded by people pulling their luggage and heading down. "It's still early, and there aren't too many people yet." Fortunately, the time was accurate, Yang Yi and her boyfriend lined up to enter the waiting room, and began to check in tickets and get on the bus, which was Yang Yi's second year from Guangzhou South and embarked on a journey home.
In 2020, when the epidemic broke out, Yang Yi was in Wuhan and other "Project Management Professional Qualification Certification" exam results. "At that time, the company I was in collapsed directly because of the broken capital chain, and I took this exam again, thinking about going home for the New Year after the exam." Yang Yi majored in computer science at university, and was working as a product manager when the company collapsed, "At that time, I didn't expect that the epidemic was suddenly serious, and in January there was no way to return to Huaihua, I could only go back to Huanggang, Hubei with a colleague, originally thinking of waiting for the epidemic to pass, but I didn't expect to stay until April." ”
In April 2020, the epidemic was suspended, Yang Yi returned to Wuhan and joined a company as a project manager until November 2021, in order to find better development opportunities, Yang Yi chose to go to Guangzhou.
"From outsiders, the Internet industry may be a 'vent', but in fact, it needs to continue to learn, constantly update its own technology, and invest in greater competition." Living in Guangzhou is not easy, and at the end of 2021, Yang Yi, who had not returned home for 2 years, set off from Guangzhou South and arrived in his hometown in Huaihua, Hunan Province. "At that time, I was very desperate to go home, but I haven't been home for two years, and it feels familiar and strange to see my family."
"When I go home this year, my feelings are more complicated, and I am always afraid to compare with my peers." The train set off in the morning light and drove to Shaoguan, Guangdong, the golden sunrise appeared outside the window, it passed through the morning fog, sprinkled on the faces and bags of people on the way home, Yang Yi smiled bitterly, "Because I want to switch to the direction of big data, I have been applying for classes this year, and I haven't made any money, my peers may have already bought a house and a car, I feel a little sorry for my parents." The boyfriend next to him has been smiling, next to Yang Yi, "but I always have to go home."
Failed to start a business, went to Shenzhen to work, blocked on the road for 24 hours and was cured by a table of dishes made by his mother
At 7 p.m. on the 14th, Liu Xiyun and her husband from Sangzhi in Shenzhen also set off, and the couple drove back to their hometown with their cousin for the New Year. With the decreasing temperature outside the car window and looking at the densely packed lights on the highway, at 8 pm on the 15th, the couple pushed open the door of their home.
"There was a traffic jam on the road, it took 24 hours to stop and go, and my butt hurt." Liu Yunxi said, "But I am very excited to go home, because there are many people who are worried about us and waiting for us to go home, and when we get home, there is a table of dishes prepared by my mother, which is very happy." ”
This is Liu Yunxi's first year of returning to Xiang from Shenzhen for the Chinese New Year, and before going to Shenzhen to work in 2022, she and her husband, who was still her boyfriend at the time, started a business in Zhangjiajie and opened a tattoo shop. "The store that opened in March 2021 invested about 100,000 yuan, and starting a business has always been our dream, and all our savings have been invested." Liu Yunxi said, "Zhangjiajie is a tourist city, and later affected by the epidemic, the flow of people became less and less, the business was average, and the store was closed at the end of the year, and it probably lost tens of thousands of yuan." ”
At the beginning of 2022, despite the failure of the business, Liu Yunxi and her boyfriend decided to get married, and under the witness of relatives and friends, they formed their own small family, "Many things may not be under our control, life goes on, with the family, no matter how difficult it is, you can always feel the power of supporting each other." ”
After the Spring Festival in 2022, Liu Yunxi and her husband went to Shenzhen to work and became a "migrant worker" again. Liu Yunxi joined an entrepreneurial e-commerce company and worked as a customer service in the company, "When I first came, I was still a little unaccustomed, whether I was in Changsha or Zhangjiajie, everyone liked to hang out together. Shenzhen is very big, everyone is busy with their own lives, it seems to be very tired, then the work gradually started, after work also accompanied by my husband, gradually adapted. ”
"Because I don't start my own business, I will be more stable when I go to work, and I don't have to take so much risk." Liu Yunxi plans to stay in Shenzhen for a few more years and save more money as a start-up fund to start a business again, she said with a smile, "I will still start a business in the future, and I will not stop dreaming." ”
For Liu Xiyun, the exhaustion of being stuck in traffic jams on the road for 24 hours will be cured by a table of meals made by her mother; After several twists and turns in life, it will finally be smoothed out by the company of his family.
It's hard but always have to try, and now I want to be closer to my family
Near Chinese New Year's Eve, Chenzhou native Vichy is still working in an industrial park in Guangzhou, and she is now doing new media operations at a study abroad service company.
In August 2020, Vichy returned to his homeland after completing his master's studies in the UK. After several searches, Vichy went to Hangzhou, a city he had never lived in, and joined a well-known teaching and training institution to teach English courses. At that time, Vichy had the courage of a newborn calf not to be afraid of tigers, "I have never been to Hangzhou, so I want to go." ”
In April 2021, Vichy left this well-known education and training institution, "because I studied media and wanted to try to do some professional-related work, I chose to leave the education industry at that time and went to a company in the construction industry to do e-commerce operations. At the construction company, Vichy is familiar with e-commerce operations.
At the end of April 2022, Vichy moved from Hangzhou to work in Guangzhou, "The general environment has a certain impact, plus I graduated soon after I also want to try more in the workplace, Guangzhou is closer to home, and there is just such an opportunity." Affected by a variety of factors, Vichy returned to China for two years was not smooth, she worked hard to adapt from student to "worker" identity change, with the experience of the first two jobs, she found a combination in the education industry and Internet operations, joined the current study abroad service company, do new media operations.
"It's hard and difficult, but you always have to try to know what you want," Vichy concluded on January 15, looking back on his two-and-a-half-year life back to China, "I want to do this job now, because looking back on these three years, I haven't officially stayed in a company for one year, so my goal now is to stay for one year." After saying that, Vichy laughed.
Since May 2022, Vichy has moved 3 times in Guangzhou. "Whether it's difficulties or setbacks, you don't need to tell your family, as long as you persist, it will pass, compared with when you studied abroad, these are nothing now." Vichy understated, and his tone became cheerful again, "But now it's very close to home, take the high-speed train from Guangzhou, cross Shaoguan, and Chenzhou, it only takes 1 and a half hours." ”
"After moving here, I really wanted to go home in time, when my birthday in July, I suddenly wanted to eat my mother's cooking, it was a weekend, I bought a ticket the next morning, ate my mother's dishes at noon, and went back to Guangzhou in the evening, like coming home from school when I was a child." Vichy said, "So coming home for the Spring Festival is also normal for me. ”
(Yang Yi, Liu Xiyun, and Vichy are pseudonyms in the text)
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Chen Mengjuan