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Is it necessarily a choice to give up ordinary high school to study vocational high school, secondary vocational school, technical secondary school, etc., that is, to take the path of vocational education?
In June this year, Jiang Ping, a secondary school student, was concerned by the whole people, and one of the details that was noticed was that she scored 621 points in the high school entrance examination and reached the admission line of the general high school, but chose to study at Lianshui Secondary School. According to Lianshui Secondary School, the reason why Jiang Ping chose the secondary school is that she is more interested in the clothing major and wants good classmates to study in this school. It is also said that Jiang Ping chose a secondary school because of the tuition fee and gave up the general high school.
The types of schools covered by the secondary school degree include secondary colleges, vocational high schools, secondary vocational schools and technical schools. In April 2022, the mainland revised the Vocational Education Law, emphasizing that vocational education and general education are equally important. Even so, many people are still anxious about the so-called "general job stream", and even have prejudice against vocational school students.
There are still some people, like Jiang Ping, who reached the admission line of the general high school entrance examination, but gave up the general high school and chose the vocational school that many people are afraid of "flowing".
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2023, the number of junior high school graduates in mainland China will reach 16.236 million, of which 6.165 million will receive secondary vocational education, nearly 40%. Large groups should not be labeled as marginalized.
Why do they choose vocational schools? What does real vocational education look like? What kind of study and career paths do you have? And, at a time when the employment environment is changing, how should we rethink and understand vocational education?
"People" found 4 people who gave up general high school to choose vocational schools, some of them have just graduated, some have been working for several years, and some are still studying. To this, they have their own answer -
Text: Wu Yuchen
Edited by Chu Ming
Photo (unless otherwise noted) provided by the interviewee
"General high school drops out of vocational high school,
I still went to undergrad."
Anhui Xuancheng Lin Xueer 2019 high school entrance examination
I still remember the day I got my marks in the high school entrance examination.
At that time, I was staying at a good friend's house, and the two of us checked the score together, and I got a score of 583, and after crossing the general high line, I immediately called my dad, and my dad was very happy. In contrast, my friend had a poor exam, and his father was in Shandong at the time, and he drove home across the province that day, and took her to the school to inquire about the situation.
I didn't have that much hope for getting into high school. There are about three (secondary) schools in our county, one is a public key high school, one is a private ordinary high school (general high school), and one is a public vocational high school (vocational high school). The score line of key high schools is particularly high, basically 60 or 70 points different from private general high schools. I took the high school entrance examination in 2019, and I still remember that about seven or eight hundred "top students" would go to key high schools, four or five hundred people would go to private high schools, and the remaining more than 1,000 people would go to vocational high schools.
I am more biased, mathematics has no talent at all, from the beginning of junior high school to spend money on remedial mathematics, for 3 years, my parents spent more than 20,000 yuan on me, but in the third year of junior high school mathematics grades still failed. But I was very good at political history, and I hardly had to memorize the lectures after listening to them, and I was able to get high marks in the exams. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to cross the high school line.
At that time, I didn't want to go to vocational high school. When I was in junior high school, the teachers all asked us to go to key high schools (the undergraduate rate of key high schools in our county is 96%), and we all felt that "poor students" with bad grades went to vocational high schools. After the scores, I felt that the dust had settled and the future must be very bright.
The good times didn't last long, and when school started, I couldn't adapt to high school life at all. I couldn't understand the knowledge of high school at all, it was like listening to a book from heaven. The teaching environment is still very harsh, with 3 hours of self-study at night, and some teachers are not even allowed to go to the toilet. I couldn't bear it anymore, I couldn't sleep at night, I just closed my eyes until dawn, and my hair fell off. I called my mom and cried, thinking, "I'm going to get out of here anyway, no matter what I'm going to read."
Later, maybe it was really enlightened, but after a month of attending high school, the teacher suddenly came to me and said, "Your mother said that you are not feeling well and wants to take you home to rest." I didn't tell my mom that I didn't want to study anymore, I just said, "I'm working hard here, I want to go home," and I burst into tears when I heard the news.
At that time, a relative at home gave my mother a suggestion, saying that I should go to the county's vocational high school, and the undergraduate admission rate was still 30%. That relative's sister was a computer major in vocational high school and then admitted to a university in Hefei for a bachelor's degree, and now her annual income is very high.
So, a few days after I left the general high school, I transferred to the vocational high school.
When I packed up and left from Pugao, my roommates asked me, "Where are you going?" I said, "Vocational high school." Everyone was surprised, but I was happy.
My dad was very unhappy when he knew I was going to vocational high school. He thought that I should at least finish the general high school, but I didn't expect that I took the initiative to go to the vocational high school, which embarrassed him, and he didn't talk to me for a whole year.
I still feel that going to vocational high school was the right decision. On the first day of reporting to the vocational high school, the school leaders came to pick me up, took me to the office, and recommended me to a major. At that time, he said several majors, such as agronomy and accounting, but these had to be science. Tourism management is considered to be a relatively small number of majors involving science, and the leaders saw that I was more introverted at that time, and said, "Reading this major can exercise your eloquence", so I studied tourism major.
When I came to vocational high school, my studies suddenly became much easier. School ends at 2:30 p.m. on Friday and returns to school on Sunday evening. When I returned to school during the first week, my mom asked me, "Are you still comfortable in school?" I didn't act happy, but I was secretly happy.
But I soon ushered in a new crisis in my high school. Because I transferred from a general high school, my grades were much higher than everyone else's, and one of my classmates in the dormitory united with other classmates to isolate me. One of the more impressive times was that I was not allowed to take a shower, and someone deliberately washed clothes in the toilet and did not open the door until 12 o'clock at night.
The problem of interpersonal relationships has been almost constant. In my sophomore year of high school, I was transferred to a new dorm and had a good friend, but this friend often asked me to help her with things unconditionally. Sometimes when I was asked to fold the quilt and asked me to clean up, she would say, "Aren't you my friend? Why don't you help me?"
Photo source drama "Young You"
I remember when I first entered vocational high school, I was actually very ambitious, and set a goal, that is, to study technical secondary school and be admitted to the undergraduate program. I love to read, and at the end of class, my classmates will come up to me and say, "So hard? I'm reading again."
In the final exam of the first year of high school, I took the first place in the exam, and I was very happy because I never seemed to have taken the first place. I feel more confident than I used to.
In addition to learning the cultural courses of language, mathematics and English, the three years of vocational high school are to learn three professional courses - Chinese tourism geography, introduction to tourism and tour guide practice. In addition to textbooks, we will also learn skills, including catering, guest rooms, and tour guides. I was impressed by the skills class, although the students in my class did not like the cultural class, they were very active and happy when it came to the skills class, because they could go to the training room to learn really useful things.
For example, in catering, we have to learn to set a large table in 20 minutes. How many meters from the table in the stands and how many centimeters from the edge of the table are all particular. The guided tour class will make us stand in a stand, and the spotlight will come and we will start to say the introductory words. In the guest room class, we have to learn how to spread quilts and pillows, spread the sheets at one time, and the four corners fall vertically, with no folds in the middle. A girl in our class really did a very good job, and in the first class, the teacher demonstrated it, and she was able to do exactly the same. In her third year of high school, she went to the hotel housekeeping department for an internship, and came back 3 months later to say that she earned 10,000 yuan, and we were all envious at that time.
At that time, vocational schools were also divided into college entrance examination classes and ordinary classes, and the students in the college entrance examination class had to participate in the corresponding college entrance examination of vocational schools in the future, which was one of the ways to go to junior college or undergraduate. Our school wants everyone to read more books, and we don't want students to go out to work early after finishing vocational high school, so there are no ordinary classes, they are all college entrance examination classes.
It wasn't until my sophomore year of high school that I found out what this college entrance examination was. The exam is a combination of language and mathematics in English, a combination of professional courses, and a skill display, with a full score of 750. The vocational college entrance examination may be simpler than the general college entrance examination. English is the level of junior high school English; Chinese tests such as character shape and pronunciation, sentence correction, classical Chinese and reading comprehension, but not written essays; The difficulty of mathematics is not as high as that of ordinary people. The exams for professional courses are very similar to those in college, with multiple-choice questions and essay questions.
It wasn't until my junior year of high school that I got nervous. At that time, 2/3 of our class had already left the school for internship, they did not choose the college entrance examination, and only 1/3 of the students persevered to the end. I was very anxious at that time, so I rented a house outside the school, got up at 6 o'clock in the morning every day, read first, memorized cultural courses after reading, wrote papers when I was tired of studying, and memorized professional courses when I was tired of writing. I had an acute appendicitis halfway through, and I still insisted on studying during the day, and I only went to hang water after self-study in the evening. That year, I should have been preparing for the college entrance examination for 13 months. Because of the epidemic, the unified examination of cultural classes has been postponed again and again, and finally the national general college entrance examination has ended, and we have not started the exam yet, which is called a torment.
At that time, the college single-enrollment examination and the corresponding college entrance examination were prepared simultaneously. I applied for some good junior colleges, such as Wuhu Vocational and Technical School and Anqing Vocational and Technical School, but none of them were admitted. I was very sad that since I was 16 years old, my birthday wish was to be admitted to the undergraduate program. You said that if you didn't get into the junior college, doesn't it mean that I must be admitted to the undergraduate? I think God wants me to do undergrad.
Cultural courses and professional courses are taken separately. I still remember that I was so nervous that I couldn't sleep on the day of the college entrance examination cultural class. There are 3 math problems that I can't write, and I don't have 12 points. I also felt that I couldn't understand the multiple-choice questions in English, and I was even more collapsed. I couldn't relax after the exam, and I thought, "I'm definitely going to repeat it," and I felt like my life was over.
As a result, a week later, when I checked my results, I saw that my score in the culture class was 268 points, I was so excited that I burst into tears, according to previous years, 260 points are no problem to go to undergraduate. Later, after the professional course exam, the score added together was 641 points. A few days later, the cut-off score came out and it was 638.9, and I was screaming excitedly at home, and my mom said, "Don't be happy, don't be sad." I said, "You didn't go to undergrad!"
The counterpart college entrance examination is like this, undergraduate colleges and universities will subdivide some majors, recruit students who are promoted to vocational high schools, I chose a normal university in the province of tourism management, this major has a counterpart class, there is an undergraduate class, I am a counterpart class, now I am a sophomore, I can get a bachelor's degree after graduation.
It was a very good feeling to go to college. It may be that the students from the general high school are more familiar with this kind of learning, so they are more indifferent, but we are very active in the classroom atmosphere of the oral class, the English teacher praised our students in the oral class, and said that we will apply to continue to take our counterpart class next semester.
I can still realize the difference between the counterpart class and the undergraduate class, our English textbooks are new starting points, they are new concepts, and the new starting point will be a little less difficult. We haven't written an essay in 3 years of vocational high school, and there is a lack of language expression. So I basically gave up on the graduate school entrance examination, and I knew that I had to work harder to close the real gap.
I don't have much detailed planning for the future. I've already taken the tour guide certificate, maybe I can become a tour guide no matter how bad it is. Looking back on my career in vocational high school, I don't regret it at all. Vocational high school has made me more confident and resilient. It also changed my professional concept, making me feel that there is no difference between professions such as tour guide, room attendant and doctor, all of them are for the people, and there is no such thing.
I learned to accept all the arrangements of fate.
Photo source drama "Nagi's New Life"
"I don't have any obsession with going to undergraduate.
The goal is to make money."
Guangdong Shenzhen Xian Yao 2020 high school entrance examination
After knowing that I was going to vocational school, I remember crying for three days. But my mom is as calm as no one, like the sky is falling. She asked me, "To be honest, you want to go to Pugao, can you stand it?"
I studied in one of the best middle schools in Luohu District, Shenzhen, but I was tired of studying, and my grades were always at the bottom of the class. Later, due to physical reasons, I took a year off from school, and after I came back, I slowly recovered my grades back to the middle of the class, but I still struggled. The year I took the high school entrance examination was 2020, and the full score of the high school entrance examination in Shenzhen was 450 points. We apply first, and then take the exam.
At that time, when I filled in the application, I first filled in a few ordinary middle schools, and my mother shook her head after reading it, and she said, "If you go to this high school, you might as well go to a vocational school." I changed all those high schools, and the cut-off score for the general high school at the bottom was 359 points. After the high school entrance examination, I checked the score with my mother and saw that the score was exactly 359 points. I remember that I was devastated, because in Shenzhen, admission had to be at least a few points higher than the cut-off score, and I couldn't go to this high school. I didn't fill in the other high schools I could go to. Further down the list, it is Shenzhen Second Vocational School (hereinafter referred to as "Shenzhen Second Vocational School") - this is the school my mother chose for me.
Shenzhen No. 1 Vocational School is considered to be the No. 1 vocational high school in Shenzhen, but there is no accommodation, and the second vocational school is far away from my home, but there is accommodation, so my mother chose the second vocational school. The score line for the second year of deep employment is more than 330 points, and my mother finally helped me choose an e-commerce major (cross-border direction) that looks better.
I didn't understand it at the time, it was really scary, and the concept that I was instilled in me since I was a child was "If you don't read high school, your life will be wasted". At that time, I felt that my life was going to be wasted. But my parents were laughing, and my mom said, "You have so many hobbies, it's better to go to a vocational high school." I know that what my parents want me to do is to live happily.
I started playing self-media in junior high school, and when I was 12 years old, I taught myself Vegas (video editing software), and I was the UP master of the "stationery area" at station B. At that time, I liked to collect stationery, bought a lot of brand pens, took videos and unboxed all kinds of stationery without showing my face, and there were more than 100 pens out of the box. At that time, the most popular video had tens of thousands of views, and it was a relatively large UP master in the niche track of "Stationery District". I also received an advertisement for food, which seemed to be 120 yuan a video, but it was also realized on the media.
Since then, I've been thinking about how to make money. I also like anime, I often go to comic conventions, and I like cosplay. For this reason, I also watched a lot of makeup videos to learn makeup, and every time I put on makeup, I posted my makeup in QQ space. I am a relatively "social cow" in our circle, telling everyone that "comic con can make an appointment", a women's makeup is more than 40 yuan, men's clothing will be a little more cumbersome, add more than 10 yuan, and slowly someone will come to me to make an appointment.
Summer vacation is the peak period of comic conventions, there may be five or six exhibitions, and each exhibition earns from one to three hundred yuan, starting from seven or eight o'clock in the morning to help people make up in the exhibition hall and make up until the afternoon. After making money, I started to buy stationery and shoot videos, anyway, I love to play and buy.
My parents have always been very supportive. I often have to bring several costumes with me to comic con performances, JK uniforms and suits are more expensive, but they are willing to buy them for me. They think that I don't like to study anyway, so don't lie at home and play whatever you like.
I guess I thought it was because they didn't put too much pressure on me. I still remember the first day of vocational high school, one of my junior high school seniors asked me on WeChat, "Where did you go for the exam?" I was so embarrassed that I didn't dare to tell him that I was in a vocational high school, so I replied to him, "Hahahahaha."
On that day, I was very impressed by the vocational high school, because it took more than an hour to walk around the campus alone. The school environment is very good and the weather is beautiful. On the first day of school, the teacher asked us to fill out a form and said that after filling it out, we would be free of tuition. I was a little surprised to see that the school was so well decorated, is this a school that you can study without tuition? Our girls' dormitory has 3 private bathrooms, and the remote control in the classroom can also be used to control the curtains. I was blown away.
School environment
When I inquired about the class, there were more than 30 people in the class, and many of them scored higher than me, because they were non-deep households and didn't want to go to a bad high school, so they came here.
I began to like the time of military training in vocational high school, and at that time, a club recruitment was organized on the playground, and there were many stage performances. I went to a club booth and sang a few songs with a microphone, and I felt very excited, and I joined many clubs with great interest, including hip-hop clubs, guitar clubs, and student unions.
After I started taking classes, I realized that I loved this major so much. Our professional courses include short videos, online store operations, live broadcasts, etc. I remember taking a PS class for the first time and thought it was really fun, and that's what I've always loved doing. I remember that I won the first place in the exam that year: the teacher gave me a subject and asked me to make the details page of Taobao, and I did the most reductively, and I was the only student in the e-commerce class that year who scored 90 points.
Live classes are also fun. This course will be more practical, the teacher will give a product, let us explain, and explain it with flying eyebrows. The teacher would teach us to write some small scripts to insert, such as "The boss won't let the price be reduced, but I have to reduce the price for the sake of my brothers", and we played it very fun. The teacher will also find some Internet celebrity MCNs to come and teach us live broadcasts, and I study carefully in every class. That's when I realized: Ah, it turns out that I don't like to study, I don't like to learn mathematics.
Of course, there are people in school who don't like to study, but there are no "mixed" people like they imagined. Our school is very strict, you can't bring mobile phones, and you will use metal detectors to search. My three years of high school were basically studying, and then participating in various events and performing on stage. During this period, I also did some part-time jobs, such as photography and retouching, and received an order of more than 1,000 yuan. Later, I posted videos of myself dancing on stage on Douyin and Xiaohongshu, doing self-media, accumulating thousands of fans, and also having commercial cooperation, with a price of thousands of yuan.
In the third year of high school, we will take the "3+ Certificate Higher Vocational College Entrance Examination" (referred to as the "3+ College Entrance Examination") in Guangdong. In the first two years of vocational high school, you must take a "3+ certificate", and with this certificate, you can take the "3+ college entrance examination", and you can take the junior college or undergraduate examination. At that time, I didn't have any obsession with going to the undergraduate program, my goal was to make money, and singing and dancing would make me happy, so I would continue to dance. After graduating from high school, I passed the "3+ college entrance examination" and was admitted to a junior college in Guangzhou.
To be honest, I don't have much pressure to get employed, and my academic qualifications are not enough to be my pressure. In the future, I plan to study in some companies for a while, and then start my own business. I don't think money is earned by part-time jobs. I think I'll go to the new media industry.
Dance performances
"I passed the high school entrance examination with 26 points,
I still took the initiative to choose a vocational high school."
Qingdao, Shandong He Bingyi 2023 high school entrance examination
On my first day of high school, the teacher told the class, "There is a student in our class with a score of 300, named He Bingyi", and the whole class burst into "wow". Maybe it's more out of everyone's understanding, "Why did you come here after taking this score?"
I haven't taken the high school entrance examination yet, and I'm already thinking about going to vocational high school. Around January last year, I watched a live broadcast on Douyin, and a teacher who specializes in education mentioned the "3+4" enrollment plan (the segmented training policy of vocational colleges and undergraduate counterparts introduced by Shandong, students can take the transfer examination of the corresponding undergraduate school after studying in vocational high school for 3 years, and can enter the corresponding undergraduate school after passing the test), I was very interested at the time. What attracted me the most about this policy was that I could go directly to a bachelor's degree, and I was still happy in high school for 3 years.
I think the difficulty of the Shandong college entrance examination is really hell-level. With my grades, I can only go to a second-class general high school in Qingdao, and this general high school is very hard, and I may not be able to go to undergraduate in the end, which is quite boring. My grades were not bad in my class, ranking around 10th. But preparing for the high school entrance examination is already very hard, and I have to study until eleven or twelve o'clock every night when I go home, so I can't quite imagine how hard it will be in high school.
Later, I mentioned it to my mother, and my mother was very supportive, and she also thought that it was good to be able to go to undergraduate and learn technology in the end. My dad didn't quite understand it, because he was a secondary school graduate, "smoking, drinking, everything," he told me. But I told him that because "3+4" also has relatively high requirements for the score of the high school entrance examination, the students who can enter the high school are the same as those of the general high school. The class teacher knew that I was going to go "3+4" and supported me.
It didn't take long for the head teacher to tell me one day, "3+4 has been reduced this year", and there were originally 11 schools that could take "3+4", and now there are 4 left. At that time, I was more sure that my goal was the "Electrical Equipment Operation and Control" major of Qingdao Electronic School, and after the enrollment was reduced, this school was no longer on the "3+4" list. At that time, I was more depressed, but I could still take the road of "vocational integration", study in vocational colleges for 3 years, and take the spring examination to take the undergraduate examination.
Therefore, when I filled in the volunteers before the high school entrance examination, my only three volunteers were filled in the second-class general high school with relatively high scores, and if I could rush in, I could also go to study, and the volunteers of the vocational college batch filled in Qingdao Electronic School. We got a perfect score of 360 here, 120 points for each of Chinese and English, and I finally scored 300 points. We had a high school score of 274 that year, and I was quite happy with that score. It's a pity that I still didn't get admitted to the general high school I wanted, but I've already figured out how to continue the next road, so I'm not too frustrated.
That's how I came to vocational school. My goal for myself is to study hard here for three years and not to be influenced by bad things and people. The first thing is to choose a class leader, and I want to hone myself. In the end, I was chosen, because there was no competition. At first, I chose to go to school, but then because there were sometimes traffic jams on the way home and I had to wait for 40 minutes on the bus, I thought about staying in the house, and the teacher advised me not to stay, for fear that I would be affected by the bad atmosphere. In fact, the classmates are quite kind. Sometimes when I'm doing my homework in the classroom, someone will come and block my book and say, "Don't roll it." But everyone is joking, the grades may not be so good, but they are not bad people.
When I went to secondary school, the pressure became very small, because the teacher spoke very slowly in each class and did not have much content. In the first year of high school, I studied cultural courses and some basic theoretical courses, and did not involve too many practical skills. I was the first in the first monthly exam except for the first one, and I was the first all the time. I hope to keep this record going.
I probably think a little more about going to high school than my peers. I know that the current employment environment is not good, and learning skills will help me find employment in the future. My dad is a bus driver, and he could still get six or seven thousand yuan a month in 2021, but now he may only get 5,000 yuan a month after his salary cut. I want to be an electrical engineer in the future, and if I travel a lot, I should be able to get 8,000 yuan a month. Now my parents are very supportive.
I am still learning about Germany's dual system, it has a German study abroad program, that is, the school and the enterprise cooperate, about 1/3 of the time in the school to learn theory, the rest of the time to go to the company for internship, the company will also give subsidies. After 3 years of study, I went straight to work at the company where I interned. I'm going to have a chance in the future. I have signed up for a German course and will start learning German in the summer.
I don't regret going to secondary school, I like it, and I have changed some of my mentality and habits. I used to be more emotional, but after studying engineering, I seem to think a little more rationally. In the past, I was more reticent in junior high school, only playing with my friends, but when I got to the top of the vocational high school rankings, I also became a class president, I was more confident, and I was better at dealing with everyone.
The only thing that has a flaw is that I am actually a liberal arts person, and I like to write essays very much in junior high school, but I don't write so much after I go to vocational high school, and I feel a little sorry for my past Chinese teacher.
"After studying for a secondary job, I built a subway in Shenzhen"
Guangdong, Shenzhen, Lin Xiaotong, 2014 high school entrance examination
In my sophomore year of high school, something happened that stood out to me. The junior high school students organized a party, and the teachers in the class were there, and I remember that the students were jokingly discussing "who is degenerate", but the English teacher answered: "Lin Xiaotong is really degenerate, go to vocational high school." Her tone was a little regretful, probably because I was still the representative of the English class in junior high school. At that time, I was a little embarrassed, so I had to make a few perfunctory words on the spot.
I was a candidate for the high school entrance examination in 2014, and I still have a deep memory of the high school entrance examination. On the day I finished checking the scores, my mom said to me, "Give me back the money for 3 years of tutoring." For my mom, it was probably a failed investment. They also said, "If you are determined, we are willing to pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to stuff you into Pugao." But by that time I had already retreated, and I felt that I should not be able to afford to disappoint them again.
I can't completely say that the high school entrance examination is abnormal, and now that I look at it, entering the vocational high school is also an arrangement of fate.
I was admitted to Huaqiang Vocational and Technical School, one of the best secondary schools in Shenzhen, if I remember correctly, the score line that year should be 425 points, except for the first position in Shenzhen, Huaqiang is one of the best secondary vocational schools in Shenzhen. On the day of the start of school, I was queuing up to hand in the materials, and I met a classmate from the next class of junior high school.
At that time, the most popular majors in the school were finance and accounting, which were also two high-scoring majors, and I chose accounting at that time following the advice of my family. Expectedly, I made it to the accounting class, which gave me some comfort and I didn't think I was too bad.
Lin Xiaotong takes accounting class
I inquired in the class, and I got a much higher score than me. I remember that the highest score was 540 points, because it was a non-deep household, so it was a vocational high school. I felt that I was not in a very bad circle.
The school is small, and the playground seems to be less than 200 meters, but I didn't dislike it, but I felt pretty good. School ends at 4:30 p.m., and in the first and second years of high school, students mainly study professional courses, and only take two classes of Chinese, mathematics and English every week. My English was already relatively good, but when I got to vocational high school, my English was even easier than that of junior high school. I quickly adapted to this new life, the class atmosphere was not so bad, but the temptation to play in adolescence was too great, and everyone played with their phones during class, including me. But I'm not afraid that I'm going "too far", I'm less timid, and most of my classmates in school are ordinary people who follow the rules.
In the first and second years of high school, like most of my classmates, I was relatively loose, I should learn and play, and I started to work hard in the third year of high school. At that time, our "3+ college entrance examination" was not yet able to take the undergraduate examination, and most of the people in the class wanted to enter Shenzhen Vocational and Technical College, Tsinghua University and Peking University, which is the junior college in everyone's hearts. I went home after my homework every day, studied hard, and got in the top five of my class. In the "3+ College Entrance Examination" that year, I scored 401 points out of 450 and was successfully admitted to the Shenzhen Vocational Institute.
Actually, I didn't like the accounting major, I would learn to count money, do accounts, and type the keyboard blindly, but it was relatively boring. When I arrived at the Shenzhen Vocational Institute, a senior brother told me that "you can choose the urban rail major, and the future employment will be more stable", so I chose this major.
The first major of urban rail was to learn more basic electronic and mechanical courses, and later began to learn integrated circuits. I am the kind of person who does not fight or grab, studies peacefully, and passed the interview of Shenzhen Metro Company in my sophomore year. There are more than 50 people in our class, and Shenzhen Metro should have admitted more than 30 people. I was a vehicle mechanic, and during the interview, the interviewer asked me, "Can I work the night shift?" I agreed. Because I love the job, I'm willing to take responsibility for it.
I have been doing vehicle maintenance in Shenzhen Metro for 4 years, and I will go to the bottom of the car every day to overhaul the vehicle, and I will get off work after 8 hours of repair. I love my job because I just have to face the car and don't have to deal with complicated relationships, which is what I want.
Moreover, I chose my own path. My mom changed a lot after I failed the high school entrance examination, she started to work out, lived for herself, and didn't interfere with my studies and life anymore.
The workplace environment here is also relatively simple, and I am the only girl in the whole team, and everyone takes care of me. Everyone's salaries are about the same, the salaries are relatively transparent, and there is no intrigue between colleagues. Undergraduate students are generally in technical positions, and we are technicians, and we are all in front-line positions. I don't have any psychological imbalance, they take more money, they take on more responsibilities, and they are more tired.
In retrospect, the significance of the middle career is that it frees up a lot of time and allows me to be exposed to more professions. I went to work part-time early, working at McDonald's in the first and second years of high school, at that time it was 11 yuan per hour, and then I went to a training institution to help change my homework, and the salary was a little higher, 25 yuan per hour, and then I went to work as a shopping guide, 21 yuan per hour. At that time, I felt that it was really humbling to do a service industry, and I would encounter a lot of incomprehension, and it was inevitable to have conflicts with people, and I also shed tears because I was scolded by customers. When I got to university, I went to teach swimming and finally got a salary of 200 yuan/hour.
At that time in vocational school, there were already many people who knew how to make money. Someone sells mobile phone cases to start a business, and he doesn't come to school anymore and takes his employees to travel to Thailand. There are also people who help grab sneakers, or just help others charge traffic. Because of the many jobs we have been exposed to, as secondary vocational students, we know better that money is not easy to come by, and we may not get much in a month of hard work. Therefore, when I went out into the society, I felt that my acceptance of work was higher than that of other recent college graduates.
When I first joined the company, I had ambitions to become the youngest team leader in the workshop and be promoted within a year, but after working for a long time, I will find that the rules of society are not something that can be climbed up with hard work. My current thinking is that I can be happy and happy. Looking back on my mid-career experience, there is nothing I regret. But occasionally when I calm down, I also think, if I can have a chance to study in an ordinary high school, will I have more choices in the year of the college entrance examination, will I have a different life?
(Excerpted from WeChat public account characters)