Employment View in the Changing Times
Recently, "9.09 million college graduates this year hit a record high" has become a hot topic again.
After more than two months, these graduates will enter the society in search of work.
How is the employment situation this year?
What do young people expect?
Let us listen to the true views of young people on career choices.
Don't let industrial workers "broken down"
█ Wu Kuan Founder of Shanghai Manu Art
Our company is engaged in creative design, and is a back-to-back community of destiny with manufacturing companies. We often go deep into the factory and control quality on site.
Some time ago, two female employees left the company.
One is a newly graduated overseas returnee designer who is responsible for product design; the other is a process engineer with more than 20 years of work experience who is responsible for production process introduction.
They usually need to go to the factory, deal with various product processes and workers, and turn products from paper into reality.
It is said that they are no longer ordinary industrial workers, but engineers and designers, but they are still looking for other ways.
Take the newly graduated overseas returnee designer as an example. The family has spent a lot of effort in training, costing money, and high hopes. It is estimated that they do not want their children to go to the factory because they are afraid of getting dirty, and they are not enough in front of relatives and friends.
This is especially true for girls, for fear that they will not be able to marry a good family, let alone stride across the upper class. The next generation will cycle like this, and there is no hope.
Nothing is true for a decent job.
From the resignation of two female employees, looking back on the increasingly serious "labor shortage" in the upstream manufacturing industry in recent years, I am really worried that there will be a "generation" of industrial workers in our country?
Many young people, including their parents and elders, are generally not optimistic about the profession of skilled workers.
In the face of employment, there are many choices.
In the last short training class, you can go to work in a game company without being dirty or tired; engaged in live webcasting to bring goods, the personal output value may be higher than that of a company, which is both beautiful and affordable.
From the perspective of parental psychology, most children are only children. They would rather nibble at home for a few years, and there is no need to rush to let the children enter the factory, "sell labor at a low price," and work in the "bottom of society" for a lifetime.
Nowadays, it is not that companies cannot recruit people, but manufacturing companies have difficulty recruiting people.
There are still many job seekers in industries such as the Internet, finance, and real estate. It is an indisputable fact to compete with the manufacturing industry for human resources.
This phenomenon is widespread not only in China, but also in developed countries.
The more developed the society is, the more the industrial chain develops towards high-end, and the manufacturing industry also needs a comprehensive industrial upgrade and the development of high-end intelligent manufacturing. However, the supporting talent training system has not been established, and the salary and social status have not kept up. The manufacturing industry and young people There is a danger of going further and further between people.
In my opinion, the manufacturing industry will increasingly use robots in the future, and high-end intelligent manufacturing requires a large number of highly educated and highly skilled industrial engineers. Young people, including women, can fully use their intelligence in the manufacturing industry. Create a better future for ourselves and our country.
Weiyu finishing
Fall in love with a career without a "ceiling"
█ Liu Yiwen, worker of Sichuan Chengdu Runchi Precision Electronics Co., Ltd.
After graduating from the Sino-German (Chengdu) AHK Vocational Education Training Center in June 2019, I successfully entered Chengdu Runchi Precision Electronics Co., Ltd. and became a five-axis machining center worker.
Being a 20-year-old man as a worker is not yet a mainstream choice.
The classmates and friends around me are more in sales or service industry. They are active in the city center every day and it is very lively. Only I deal with machines in factories on the outskirts of the city. It seems boring, but it also has real fun.
Production is dynamic, and it's not that you don't need to worry about anything as long as you start the machine.
In addition to operating the equipment every day, I also observe the products and find problems in time.
If the processed parts are not in good condition, I, as a worker in this workshop, will be responsible for solving them.
Last month, when I inspected the processed parts, I found that the gloss was not enough and the size was not up to standard. I judged that there must be a problem with the tool.
Sure enough, the parts that came out after I sharpened the tools were really good products!
These moments of work always give me a great sense of accomplishment.
In addition to ignorance of the real working status of "workers", perhaps young people do not know much about the manufacturing industry.
After graduating from junior high school, I felt that I was interested in machinery. When choosing a school, I chose the Sino-German (Chengdu) AHK Vocational Education and Training Center, which specializes in cultivating manufacturing talents. When I graduated, I quickly got 3 jobs, none of them I need to look for jobs by myself, and I am also very satisfied with the salary.
In recent years, the output value of our country's manufacturing industry has been increasing year after year, and we are moving from a large manufacturing country to a strong manufacturing country. The demand for talents is great, and skilled workers are a position that can be continuously advanced.
Technology requires continuous learning and accumulation. It is not about eating young. Experienced workers can see where the problem is at a glance, and they are very respected.
Coupled with the continuous innovation of production technology, no one can say that they have mastered all the technologies.
It can be said that a skilled worker is a profession without a ceiling.
My goal now is to advance from a worker to an engineer. In the future, I will be able to think about, find and solve problems independently. I hope I can become a skilled worker like my master.
I am full of hope and confidence in China's manufacturing industry in the future. I hope that the glimmer of countless front-line workers like me will contribute to the motherland's manufacturing industry.
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The spring of skilled workers is here
█ Zhu Zhijun, China Construction Shenzhen Decoration Co., Ltd. plumber
Since I was a child, my parents told me that there is only one way to go to school if you jump out of the farm.
When I was in middle school, I also thought about trying hard to get admitted to a good university and becoming a white-collar urban worker in the future.
But the results were not satisfactory. In the end, he was only admitted to the Hunan Urban Construction Vocational and Technical College, where he studied architectural design and embarked on the career development path of a skilled worker.
I am currently working as a plumber in the company's Guangzhou Knowledge City Hotel project. This is a very hard job. In order to ensure the quality of the project and the progress of the construction, I often have to work overtime.
Many people think that our profession is narrow, low wages, and hopeless.
Indeed, to become an excellent construction worker, one must be able to endure hardships, be willing to study, and be able to endure the wanderings of the world and the day and night working conditions.
Although this was not my original goal in life, I never regretted becoming a construction worker.
On the contrary, I worked very hard and I was very proud. When I watched the construction projects I participated in gradually grow up, I can deeply feel that I am a part of the construction of the motherland and a builder of the new era.
In recent years, the country has encouraged the development of vocational education and issued many policies to train more specialized skilled workers, but many of my classmates are still unwilling to become skilled workers.
In the eyes of most people, going to college is the best way out.
This is social cognition that has been formed for a long time, and it cannot be solved in a short while.
But I often think that we are on the road to a strong manufacturing country. If there are no skilled workers from all walks of life, and not so many people are willing to engage in first-line technical jobs, how can we talk about the road to an industrial power?
In December last year, the first National Vocational Skills Competition was held, and I was excited about it.
Groups of national-level skilled masters have adhered to the original intention of serving the country by industry, and have achieved extraordinary results in ordinary positions.
I secretly made up my mind to be a good mechanic in the new era and take the road of becoming talented with skills and serving the country with skills.
In the company, I often listen to my colleagues telling the stories of Shenzhen landmark builder Jia Jinxuan, Guangdong skill competition champion Cao Yuhua, and migrant worker party branch secretary Guo Hongwei.
They are my colleagues, representatives who have grown from unnamed ordinary craftsmen to the backbone of business management and technology, and are representatives of inheriting the spirit of craftsmanship. I take them as an example.
I am very fortunate to have chosen the industry I like, and I am also grateful for the importance attached to skilled workers by my company.
The company has a special system to promote the transformation of migrant workers into industrial workers in the new era, and gives us all-round training; there are special masters to help us, and regular skills competitions are organized. Our career platform and skills stage have become wider and wider.
Three hundred and sixty lines, the best.
I really want to say to the students who have to enter vocational and technical colleges like me, don't underestimate yourself. Now the spring of skilled workers is here, and there is a lot to do in the future.
Now I am learning the skills of drawing drawings and using construction software, hoping that I can quickly stand out, become the craftsman of the great country needed by the times, and realize my life value.
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█ Catering owner in Leshan, Sichuan, India
After graduating from my job that year, I returned to my hometown, just as a paper mill where my parents worked was recruiting workers.
As a "second generation worker", my parents, who were senior technical backbone workers in the factory at the time, took me directly to the factory as a trainee.
Their original intention was that I could also rely on the skill that practice makes perfect, and stay in this factory only two kilometers away from home, so that a family of three can take care of each other.
So, at first, I followed the arrangement of my parents and started working as a paper car operator at the most basic level in the factory, and then I took turns training in positions such as mechanics, quality inspectors, and paper transporters.
Sometimes I pass by my parents on various production lines, and I can only nod and pass by.
It didn't take long before I started to feel some physical and mental discomfort.
First of all, because I had rhinitis since I was a child, as we all know, there will always be some pungent and unpleasant chemical sewage smell in the sewage from the paper mill, which often aggravates my symptoms.
During that time, I would often blow my nose, pick my nose, and wipe my nose more or less intentionally or unintentionally. I was a little embarrassed and let others see it and it hurt my image.
Secondly, I feel that working in the factory restricts my own development. Every day I stay at two o'clock in the factory and go back and forth.
Moreover, the paper industry in Sichuan Province was under great competition at the time. For our traditional paper mills with relatively lagging production technology and sewage equipment and insufficient innovation, wages were often not paid on time. For the "post-90s" like me at the beginning of the world. In terms of it, it is undoubtedly a great suffering.
Third, there is not much room for promotion in the factory.
If you stay here, you won't be able to learn anything or be proficient in the end.
As for the desire to broaden the horizons of thinking, it is a mirage-like fantasy.
Therefore, after comprehensive consideration and weighing, I decided to leave home to work, learn a craft steadily, and get close to the pulse and heartbeat of the times in big cities by the way.
Later, I chose the catering industry, starting as a chef, and slowly learning management and marketing, and now I have embarked on the position of manager.
In my opinion, whether it is a skilled worker, mental work or management level, it is necessary to correctly weigh the occupation to be engaged in according to their own actual considerations, and make the most effective decisions and actions in order to get the greatest pleasure and satisfaction from their work. sense.
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Being a rider is freer than being a worker
█ You Guodong, rider at Beijing Meituan Changping Huilongguan station
In 2014, when I was discharged from the army, I was not satisfied with the several jobs I have worked on.
In 2016, introduced by my comrades in arms, I came to Meituan and became a rider.
He told me at the time that his income was pretty good.
Sure enough, after half a year of work, I am satisfied with this job.
The threshold to be a takeaway rider is not high and does not require years of adulthood.
Everyone joked that they can do it by riding an electric bike.
I walk through the streets and alleys near Huilongguan every day, starting from 10 o'clock in the morning and ending around 9 o'clock in the evening, and I will send more than 40 orders in a day, and I can get more than 50 orders when there are more.
Although the work is relatively hard, as long as they are willing to endure hardship, the income is also considerable.
Now my monthly income is more than 10,000 yuan, which is considered a high salary in my hometown in Hebei.
Apart from my wife, I have one son and one daughter.
As the pillar of the family, this income is very important to me.
Judging from the riders around me, most people bear the responsibility of supporting their families, and many have two children.
Under pressure, there are not many positions available.
In my opinion, the biggest advantage of the rider profession is to strictly follow the principle of "work more, get more money". Every income is "visualized". As long as you are willing to spend enough time and energy, there will be a corresponding return. .
In addition to satisfying salary, "freedom" is also another important reason why our riders generally agree and stick to this profession.
Even if the wind comes and rains all day, at least I have been seeing different people and things, unlike staying in a factory, where I face machines all day.
Riders have a higher degree of freedom in work, more free and flexible working hours, and can work according to their own time.
To me, takeaway riders with high pay and free working hours are far more attractive than industrial workers on the assembly line.
On the other hand, after years of dismantling in Beijing, the general manufacturing industry has basically been dismantled. The employment threshold of manufacturing industry has been increasing year by year, and knowledge-based and skilled labor will become the mainstream.
To become a senior skilled worker, it is impossible to do it without ten or eight years of work.
The rise and popularization of the Internet economy has given young people more choices.
I think that being a rider, eating by labor and creating a better life of your own, is not also a contribution to society?
Our reporter He Yong collated
Save enough money to study beauty in big cities
█ Wang Qin, shoemaker, Guizhou Xishui Junhua Footwear Co., Ltd.
On the day of his father's birthday this year, he posted a WeChat Moments: "Daughter is sensible!" The picture is a screenshot of the red envelope I sent him and a photo of my life.
The moment I saw WeChat, a warm current surged in my heart.
At the beginning of 2020, I entered the Junhua shoe industry as a workshop worker responsible for making shoe uppers.
Working hours are from 8 am to 6:30 pm every day, with one hour off at noon, and two to four days off a month.
This is the first time I earn money to celebrate my father’s birthday, and I bought cakes and cooked a table of good dishes.
There are many workshops in the shoe factory. Each workshop is responsible for the production of different parts of the shoes. It is an assembly line. The wages are settled on a piece-by-piece basis. Most of the workers are older and there are mostly women. There are very few 19-year-olds like me.
The work is fresh at the beginning, but after a long time it is actually very boring. Whether it is making toe caps, shoe buckles or making heels, I have been dealing with shoes all day long.
Although shoemaking is a technical job, it is possible to make a pair of shoes independently after more than a year, but it is not challenging to do more.
For young people, it is not fashionable and decent to go to the factory to make shoes.
A boy next to me came into the factory and was told by his girlfriend that he was not self-motivated, and soon quit his job and went to do other things.
To be honest, compared with jobs like couriers and food delivery guys, they work freely and earn more.
To make shoes, work hours are fixed every day, and there is little rest time. You also need to constantly improve your craftsmanship and speed, especially when you work overtime to catch up with the goods, you will be very tired.
Our factory is processing on behalf of others. Therefore, no matter how good you are, no matter how good you are, you are a shoemaker. He is too old to bear the body and has no sense of accomplishment.
Now, my monthly salary is three to four thousand yuan, which is not bad in the county. The factory takes care of accommodation and food, but this does not mean that I will work for a long time.
I want to wait until I save enough money next year, then go to the big city to study beauty, go out to meet the world, learn the technology and then go back to the county to open a shop.
Organized by Wang Zhiqiu and Li Jia