These days, Yang Haozhong had been writing his graduation thesis at home. His thesis was only missing an ending. He wanted to finish it as soon as possible and hand it over to his supervisor so that he could find a job earlier. He looked at the 50 resumes that had been printed on his desk and felt a sense of accomplishment. After studying for 17 years, he finally graduated from university. He remembered that when Yang Songwei was alive, the happiest thing he did was to talk to Lou Tingyu about how their son would definitely be able to go to university in the future. He would become the only university graduate in the Yang family for decades.
Because of his poor family background, his parents 'relatives and friends had always looked down on them and never interacted with them. Yang Songwei had long regarded his university studies as a milestone to show off in front of his relatives. Now, he had done it! If his father was still alive, he would definitely be happy and proud of him.
The teachers from the school's career guidance service center gave a lesson to the fresh graduates. They analyzed the current employment situation in detail and hoped that they would be mentally prepared. Yang Haozhong weighed himself. Although his results were good, he was only a graduate from a third-rate university. He would definitely be at a disadvantage compared to those who graduated from famous universities. Therefore, he would lower his stance and find a professional advertising company. It did not matter if it was big or small. As long as he could get in, he would talk about it. After all, he did not know anything now. After a few years of hard work, he would be able to get familiar with the business. He was full of confidence in his own ability and believed that capable people would definitely make a name for themselves. Looking forward to the future, he was as energetic and motivated as many of his classmates who were about to step out of university.
Two days later, Yang Haozhong finally handed in his graduation thesis. The instructor told him to leave it for now and contact him in a few days. He happily agreed.
When he walked out of the school gate, Yang Haozhong took a deep breath of fresh air. He was instantly relaxed and refreshed. The university life that he had dreamed of was finally over! After four years of hard work, he dreamed of graduating from university as soon as possible! But now, when he was really about to leave, he had a deep longing and reluctance.
The unusually difficult university life always passed in a hurry. It came in a hurry, and it left in a hurry. I wished I could meet again. Meeting was a song, and in the song, there was you and me. He had never had the time to appreciate the charming scenery on the avenue, appreciate the charming scenery of the Unnamed Lake, or savor the rich scholarly atmosphere of the university campus. Someone once said that one should carefully appreciate the taste of life when they were young. That was a true happiness. Yes, his university life had passed in the blink of an eye. Before he had time to savor it, it had ended early. Perhaps one day, when he was old, he would regret his university life for the rest of his life. Yang Haozhong shook his head and smiled bitterly at his sudden sentimentality. He put away his complicated and messy feelings because there were more important things waiting for him.
Early Saturday morning, Yang Haozhong came to the talent market with his resume. There was a special job fair for fresh graduates today, attracting many graduates who were about to step out of university. Along the way, there were some people who looked like students.
"Sir, may I know how to get to the recruitment exhibition center?”A fashionably dressed girl with a shy face ran over and asked him.
"Follow the main group. You'll definitely be able to reach it.”Yang Haozhong pointed his crossbow at the surroundings. This was already the 30th person who had come to ask for directions. There were actually so many people attending this job fair today. He was very surprised.
When they arrived at the entrance of the recruitment venue, Yang Haozhong was so scared by the black crowd that his jaw almost fell out. He opened his mouth exaggeratedly and looked at the four long winding lines outside the four gates of the recruitment exhibition center. He could not speak to himself for a long time.
Since you're here, you should take it easy. Then they should just line up obediently. They couldn't waste so much money to rush here so early in the morning. Yang Haozhong was at the last position of the first entrance. In less than five minutes, he had already occupied a position that belonged to the front.
"Sigh, can I trouble you to see if my eyeliner has melted?”
"Can I trouble you to check if my hair is messy?”
Yang Haozhong turned around and looked at the girls who came with him. They took out powder to apply foundation. He wondered about these familiar movements, because he often saw those girls hiding in the corner of the Dream Bar secretly applying foundation.
This was a job fair. Was there a need to do that? It wasn't like they were looking for an actress. From their unskilled movements and rough makeup, it could be seen that they did not know how to put on makeup.
"Are you here for the interview?" Yang Haozhong asked curiously in a low voice.
"Nonsense, why are you here if not for the interview? Are you here to line up to buy eggs?" The girl who was using a powder box to apply foundation on her face rolled her eyes at him.
"Do you need to put on makeup?"
"Why are you so nosy?”
"I'm sorry, she's in a bad mood.”Beside the fierce girl, a girl with a ponytail pulled her companion and smiled shyly at him. Yang Haozhong nodded his head in greeting.
"We want to package ourselves better and be more mature. This way, the employer will like it." She replied politely and glanced strangely at Yang Haozhong, who was dressed in a school uniform.
"When an employer comes to recruit talents, can they get extra points by looking good? Anyway, they all know that we are fresh graduates of the university.”He did not agree with the immature thoughts of these girls.
"Ignore him! What a bumpkin!" The fierce girl spoke again.
Yang Haozhong was a little angry. He didn't provoke her, so why was she looking down on him? He turned away from them.
The long queue finally moved forward slowly. The recruitment fair had begun. The four security guards at the entrance stood straight like four Jiang door gods, without any expression. It was as if this building was no longer a job fair, but a group of young beasts fighting for the first time after leaving their parents. It was a bloody and cruel fight.
Yang Haozhong and the others finally entered the recruitment hall. The crowded scene in his memory was still the scene when he went to the exhibition with his parents when he was three years old. He rode on his father's neck and slowly moved along the three or four meters wide passage. The shops on both sides were crowded with people who were rushing to buy goods. She didn't expect the university recruitment fair to be like this.
Although they could hear the curses of people stepping on someone's foot and hurting someone, the crowd did not stop. Yang Haozhong couldn't care less. He wanted to find an advertising company's booth and squeeze in.
It took about an hour for Yang Haozhong to take a cursory look at the recruitment positions in the entire hall. There were only a dozen advertising companies participating in the exhibition. Their recruitment requirements were strange. It was clearly a recruitment for fresh college students, but they had set the standard of requiring more than three years of work experience. The most interesting recruitment requirement was written like this:
[Genders: Male]
master's degree or above
Age 25-27
At least 3 years working experience in related industries
Give priority to customers
The person who wrote this requirement would definitely fail elementary school mathematics. Master's degree, more than 3 years of work experience, 25-27 years old? How could this be possible? A math problem at this age couldn't be an equation unless it was a young college student. This rate was similar to buying a lottery ticket.
Yang Haozhong had been selected. He didn't want to waste a resume, so he only found three units that might be suitable for him. He had a clear goal and squeezed into one of them.
"Teacher, I want to apply for the position of advertising design assistant in your unit.”Half of Yang Haozhong's body was in the crowd, and the other half of his body finally crawled in front of the booth.
"Oh? Where's your resume?" The main examiner was an old woman in her fifties. She wore a pair of presbyopic glasses and looked dignified like an enlightened monk. She sat upright, forming a sharp contrast with the bustling recruitment scene. She didn't even raise her head. She only took the resume that Yang Haozhong handed over with both hands and scanned it up and down. She casually threw it on the resume that was piled up like a hill and said coldly,"Go back and wait for the notice. I'll inform you if the conditions are met."
Yang Haozhong was stunned for a moment. Before he could ask more questions, he was already pushed out by another wave of people who came from the surroundings. He wanted to ask him why he didn't ask any questions and just passed like that. Wasn't this recruitment too casual? In fact, he did not know that there were tens of thousands of people attending such a recruitment fair. If he asked them one by one, he might not be able to finish asking them for ten years. Moreover, there were only a few people at the booth. They were purely here to collect information. It would take them ten days to half a month to collect the information of the applicants and review it. Therefore, many applicants were mostly waiting for notification, or they would be notified first if they met the requirements.
Yang Haozhong spent a lot of effort to submit the other two resumes. When he walked out of the crowded crowd, he realized that it was already noon. From the beginning to the end, he had spent three and a half hours to submit three resumes. It could be seen that the current employment situation of college students was already quite grim. He went back to the booth where he had submitted his first resume. The staff was already sitting and eating their lunch boxes, and the crowd around him had dispersed.
"Sister Zhang, get me a tissue to wipe it off. My soup spilled.”
"Oh, wait a minute. I'll give you a piece of useless waste paper.”The woman in charge of collecting resumes casually flipped through the pile of resumes and took out a few pieces of paper to pass to the girl who spoke. The girl glanced at the paper in her hand and asked,""Sister Zhang, is this student's resume useless?”
"Why are you here? Today, we received a lot of students from key national universities. There are so many university graduates that we have never even heard of their names. It doesn't matter.”
"Oh." The girl nodded and wiped the greasy stool with the paper. Then, she crumpled it into a ball and threw it on the ground. The ball of paper rolled on the ground and happened to stop at Yang Haozhong's feet. Yang Haozhong saw the familiar face in the photo on the crumpled resume smiling at him. He squatted down, picked up the papers, and spread them out. The girl saw something and was slightly stunned. She blushed and said in a low voice,"Sister Zhang, this?"
"What are you doing?" The old woman raised her head and glanced at the girl next to her before staring at Yang Haozhong strangely. She definitely didn't recognize him. Yang Haozhong angrily walked to the booth where she was sitting and slammed the greasy resume he picked up on the table. He pointed at her nose and shouted,"F * ck, you sons of b * tches. If your company doesn't need someone to invite you, don't deal with my resume like this. How dare you wipe the table with my painstakingly printed resume? Hmm?" The old woman's face instantly turned pale, and she was dumbstruck. Yang Haozhong picked up the dirty and wrinkled resumes again and crumpled them into a ball. He threw them into the trash can beside him and scolded,"Damn it, what kind of world is this? Was this how the world respected knowledge and talent?”He ignored the old woman's hesitation and left angrily.
Yang Haozhong walked out of the recruitment exhibition hall before he could vent the anger in his chest. Never in his dreams did he expect that the college degree that he had earned through years of hard work would be so cheap that it was like trash in the eyes of the hiring unit. The college student halo that he had been wearing was instantly shattered.
Within a month, Yang Haozhong appeared at various job fair held by various schools and society countless times, and he sent out another 19 of the 50 resumes that he had already prepared.
At a job fair, he met a classmate who asked him how many resumes he had sent and how many interview notices he had received. He said that he had sent 19 copies and had not received the notification yet. The student laughed at him as if he was looking at a fool."Why are you so stupid? Don't you know that you have to cast a bigger net to catch fish? I sent out more than 1000 resumes and only received seven or eight interview notices.”
"Are there so many jobs related to advertising design now?" he asked curiously.”The classmate said angrily," With the current severe employment situation, you don't have to care about what position you have. Just apply for it first."”
He had never been able to accept it. Perhaps he was very stupid. How could he give up the professional skills he had learned for four years so easily? He knew nothing about other positions and lacked the advantage to compete with others. The excitement he felt when he was about to graduate and the longing and anticipation he had for the future were all worn down in the job fair after job fair, where he could not see any hope at all. All that was left for him was frustration, frustration, despair, helplessness, and hesitation.
At the request of his instructor, he had made a few symbolic changes to his graduation thesis and passed it easily at the graduation thesis defense meeting. It was not like the exciting and intense scene he had seen on TV before. Some professors were still busy with their own things.
Yang Haozhong's university life ended in this disappointment.
In the past two months, the owner of Dream Bar, Chen Yanhong, had called him several times, but he did not pick up. She had no choice but to send a text message to Yang Haozhong asking him when he would go back to work. Yang Haozhong had been avoiding it because he really didn't want to go back. That place was incompatible with his ideals. He wanted to live a normal life and realize his dream of becoming a high-class white-collar worker, an elite of society, rather than going to a ghost place where dragons and snakes mingled to serve others.
However, the unusually cruel reality hit him all the time. If he could not find a job within a month, his family would not be able to survive.
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