Today's story
Today, I will take you into a pancake and fruit shop opened by a Chinese postdoctoral couple in Cambridge, England. I hope that their conversation will give you and me some different inspiration in front of the screen.
First of all, I would like to introduce the couple's original occupations: postdoctoral fellows and university teachers.
Moderator: Why did you choose to sell pancakes?
The female shopkeeper said: Because the university teacher was mental work before, it was too tiring. My husband is more introverted, and he can't cope with so many things.
Moderator: What's the difference about selling pancakes?
The female shopkeeper said: Selling pancakes is very simple, there is no interpersonal relationship, there is no need to engage in the relationship between colleagues, and there is no need to contribute money.
Moderator: Would it be a pity to come to sell pancakes after studying for a master's degree and a doctorate?
Shopkeeper: Reading is to make your life better. Going to college is just one of the processes you have to go through in life. As for what you do, it doesn't matter. You don't study for the sake of a career.
Moderator: Will it be a waste to sell pancakes after studying for a Ph.D.?
The shopkeeper said: Life has no meaning in the first place. It's just a process. Life is an experience, crying at birth, and it's not easy to do anything. Everyone has to go through this journey, so it doesn't matter if it's wasteful or not.
The male shopkeeper said: There is no waste, you adapt to this society, you make valuable things, how can it be called waste?
In the end, the female shopkeeper said that now they will be given 10 million to go back to be the principal, and they will not go back. Because selling pancakes is only light manual labor, there is no need to engage in scientific research projects, do not need to prepare for classes, and do not need to compete for first-level and second-level professors.
Moderator: Finally, please give some advice to young people who are confused at the moment!
The female shopkeeper said: Young people who can't find the direction can only look for it in life. Lying flat is also an experience, and working hard is also an experience. Running away and suffering are all experiences. Life itself is meaningless, it is about personal experience.
What do you think about the fact that they are not university teachers after completing their PhDs, but instead sell pancakes in Cambridge?
Netizen Guo Milk: They sell pancakes is also a life experience, ordinary people make a living by selling pancakes, and now they are tired of experiencing it, there is a way out, this is different, and like they are basically about to retire, it doesn't matter.
Netizen Angel: Three hundred and sixty lines, the line is the champion: This has nothing to do with the academic qualifications on record, which line to do is not the point, the point is to suit yourself and do it happily.
Netizen Xiaoye: I very much agree with what she said, very realistic, very transparent, high education is to cultivate and improve the personal soul, enhance the height and depth of thought, what industry to engage in can not be said to be a waste, let your life experience suitable for your soul life is worth pursuing.
Netizen clown: There are 30,000 people with doctors and masters delivering takeaways, and whether it is a waste for doctors and masters to go to highway toll collectors reflects the abundance of our educational resources and achievements.
Netizen Neutron Xingdong: As long as you do what you want to do, what waste to talk about, the reason why waste is a pity is that it is mostly snobbish, and the work people are divided into three, six, nine, etc. It is the remnant of feudal society.
Netizen Wangnian: Life is meaningless, the meaning is added by yourself, from the dirt to the dirt, I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain. There is nothing, where to stir up dust, the owner and the couple see through life, life is an experience, it is a process.
Netizen Li Jing: The multiple-choice questions of this highly talented student also provide some high-talented students in China with questions about the philosophy and ideology of life! Don't choose a job if you can't do it or choose it low! Rather, it is necessary to target and face the practical problems of the social environment! Let go of your self-esteem, put down your body to find your own and choose a job that suits your actual situation......
Netizens are idle: Maybe people are doing scientific research when they sell pancakes, maybe they will realize a scientific truth in the process of selling pancakes, and ordinary people selling pancakes are selling pancakes.
Netizen Yufu: Fisherman fishing and rich man fishing seem to be the same, but there are essential differences.
Netizen Crazy Bull: If you buy pancakes, you can't be a university professor, and a university professor will definitely do a good job of spreading pancakes with the spirit of scientific research, repairing water pipes and other micro-physical technical work! That's what reading is all about.
Netizen Harlan: The two couples are now selling pancakes in the UK, and their annual income can be 180W It is still useful to study, at least their English is good, and it is relatively easy to make money from foreigners.
Write at the end:
I don't think work should be divided into three, six, nine and so on, no matter what work you do, it should be according to the same salary system, unless there is a special contribution. In this way, the society is much more peaceful, and people who sit in the office do not think that they are superior to the cleaners on the street. I hate people like this the most.
The reason we work is to trade our time for what we need. I don't think that civil servants are more noble and elegant, they are also ordinary people, but also public servants of the people, and take on more missions.