Guide: Inspirational learning is not only to activate a person's desire for wealth, but also to activate a person's life energy and awaken a nation's creative enthusiasm. Losing creativity is the greatest sorrow of a person and even a nation. And inspirational, is to make people glow this power again. The following is the inspirational story of Zhang Tianyi, a master of Peking University, which I found for you. I hope I can help you!
Why do I still sell rice noodles after my master's degree? In 20 14, I will soon end my master's study career in Peking University and face the choice of graduation. I chose to open a rice noodle shop. As far as the expectations of relatives and friends are concerned, I will either go to the law firm, the office or go abroad. I have been a student since I was 6 years old in primary school. The criteria for judging my personal value are very simple, that is, exams and scores, so most of the questions I think about focus on what the standard answer is and rarely pay attention to why.
Now I am about to enter the society and find that I am no longer a student. I also found that the days when everything had a standard answer are gone forever. No matter why, many life choices can't find a reasonable basis. For example, a friend told me that he would stay in Beijing and have a car and a house in Beijing through struggle. I wondered why he had to pay such a big opportunity cost to achieve this goal in Beijing, which is easy to achieve in any third-tier city. At this time, friends will throw another argument, Beijing has many opportunities. However, in my opinion, there is a threshold for opportunities in Beijing. For example, before you have an account, all the benefits in Beijing have nothing to do with you, so there is still the problem of opportunity cost.
After asking countless questions, I began to fear the lawyer's life of squeezing two hours to work every day and the civil servant's life of following the rules. In the end, I simply don't know what to do. After more than half a year, I figured it out because of these things.
The first thing is that I go to the driving school to learn driving and chat with the coach of the driving school. The dialogue is as follows:
Coach: Is it easy for you college students to find jobs?
Me: Hey, it's not easy to find. This is not good.
Coach: What's your salary as soon as you graduate?
Me: seven or eight thousand, something like that.
Coach: Hey! That job is not easy to find. After graduating from primary school, I feel that the employment situation in the country is good and there are job opportunities everywhere. That's why I want to be comfortable. I am a driving school coach, and I used to earn a lot of money driving a taxi. I just can't do anything. I go to the construction site to move bricks and eat 300 pipes a day. How can it be difficult to find a job?
This incident made me feel suddenly enlightened. If the orientation of finding a job is just a means of making a living, then I find that there are more than 10 thousand means of making a living, not just two or three. Of course, the truth is easy to think of, but it is not easy to do. Just like the Peking University alumnus who sells pork, it is a shame for his alma mater to always say that he is sorry for his alma mater even though he has made a business. After all, people are social animals, and we should care about the expectations and eyes of our family and people around us: if we are college students, we should be college students? Should? What I did.
What moved me even more was what my tutor Mr. Wu taught me. In my thank-you speech for my master's thesis, I once wrote a passage: No matter what happens in the future, you can do what you like, experience the process rather than the result, and live rather than survive. Even if I sweep the streets in the future, if I can get peace of mind, it will be a great warmth of my life. ? In my opinion, this passage expresses my thinking about life. As a result, Mr. Wang criticized me after seeing it. He told me that sanitation workers are no different from other occupations, and they are all indispensable parts of society, so my expression is problematic. At this time, I remembered what my husband often taught us: There is no high or low position, just a different division of labor. ?
Through this matter, I read that nothing happened at all? Did the college students do it? And then what? College students haven't done it? The difference. Anything, as long as it is done well and done with heart, can contribute to society in the end.
My other worry is that after studying law for six years, I seem to be wasting my time on a job that has nothing to do with law. But I soon figured it out. In my opinion, besides the specific provisions, the spirit and thinking behind the law are more important. In fact, six years of law study has not brought me a specific knowledge point. I have forgotten most of the laws. More importantly, I dare to be shy, Yan Di said. I have mastered some laws and legal thinking and ways of doing things. Doing things with a kind of thinking, I don't think the industry is necessarily so limited. Just like internet thinking, you can use it to do the internet, and you can also use it to do finance, real estate and catering. In this way, if there is a kind of legal person thinking in the world, it seems that I can use it for catering.
The psychological burden was almost reduced, and I began to seriously consider the problem of opening a restaurant. I began to ask myself, what is my ideal? Do you have to mention it again here? There is no high or low position, and the division of labor is different? Everyone understands this sentence, but it is not so easy to do it. Perhaps this is also the fundamental reason why the driving school coach of primary school culture thinks that the job is easy to find, while the university graduate like me thinks that the job is not easy to find, but thinks that many jobs are very disdainful.
I think that if one day, our society will no longer be based on? Peking University students sell pork? 、? Tsinghua students as security guards? When such news is hype and gimmicks, when we respect every lifestyle and every professional post, our society can be regarded as a normal society, and perhaps many of our problems will be solved. At least, it won't be so difficult for college students to find jobs. This is my ideal, to open a restaurant and stick to my choice and lifestyle. Just like Jiro, who sold sushi all his life in "The God of Sushi", he won the respect of others because he respected his career, and probably my life goal was achieved. Finally, I contacted three friends to do this with me, which also made me very encouraged and moved. In this team, there are masters, MBA and civil servants. We deal in rice noodles and a way of life.
What kind of restaurant do I want to open? I have already run two small restaurants when I was an undergraduate, and I have experience in opening small restaurants. Can you do something different this time? What I have to mention here is that restaurants such as Diaoye Beef brisket and Huang Taiji, which are operating with Internet thinking, have given me great encouragement and inspiration. However, after eating a bowl of beef brisket rice with Diao Ye 100 yuan and pancake fruit with Huang Taiji 10 yuan, I found that the former two only improved customers' expectations through strong marketing and so-called internet thinking, but they did not substantially improve customer experience, and customers had to pay for marketing costs. Internet thinking to make products is essentially a fast-breaking thing, while catering is actually a slowly accumulating thing. When the two are combined, it is easy to disconnect between speed and speed. Huang taiji is famous, but the products may not be so satisfactory. To find a balance between the catering industry and the Internet, I think the key lies in what products to sell: is there a food that is easy to standardize, represents the tastes of a considerable number of people, and contains our cultural traditions and connotations?
Finally, I thought of Changde beef rice noodles. Rice flour is the staple food of southerners, which can correspond to noodles in the north to some extent. In my hometown Changde, rice noodles are the staple food for breakfast every day. The streets and alleys of Changde are full of such rice noodle shops: more than a dozen tables and chairs, five or six small stews, and soup rolls and beef are fragrant inside. Boiling water and cow's head soup always keep a small boiling point, and the multi-level fragrance of spices, the mellow fragrance of butter, the umami flavor of soup, the fragrance of pepper and the meat flavor of beef are all hovering and transpiration in slow fire. If a guest comes into the store, a bowl of yet we called and urged a thousand times before she started toward us rice noodles will boil in boiling water, and it is really a great enjoyment of life to pour the soup head and tauren oil code, sprinkle with a few scallions, drop a few drops of sesame oil and put a little pepper on it. More importantly, the production of Changde rice noodles is mainly in the early stage, and beef and beef bone soup need to be prepared about ten hours in advance. In actual operation, the whole process from cooking powder to serving does not exceed 30 seconds. Long-term boiling and complicated ingredients are the soul and philosophy of Chinese food, but the extremely fast eating speed makes this food have the possibility of standardized operation to some extent. If someone can turn pancake fruit and meat buns into hamburgers and hot dogs in China, then I think rice noodles, a food with huge geographical representation, will eventually become spaghetti in China, which is predictable. I started to prepare from February 20 14, returned to Changde and ate all the rice noodle shops in Changde. Eating one bowl a day is enjoyment, and eating ten bowls a day is a nightmare. One of my friends joked with me that eating rice noodles made Chrysanthemum angry. Finally, I chose a rice noodle shop with the most authentic taste, and went through a series of apprenticeships and learning skills, standardized and refined. We bought a small scale, weighed each Chinese herbal medicine and ingredients for countless nights, and invited chefs from several most famous local rice noodle shops to taste it through Changde Catering Association. Finally, we made these recipes.
I returned to Beijing in mid-February, started looking for a facade, traveled all over Beijing, and finally lived in Jintai Zhao Xi World Financial Center. Counting the time for handling relevant formalities, it officially opened on April 4. This speed should be very fast, because for this matter, all the savings of the university have been taken away. If it is not opened as soon as possible, the money for eating will be a problem. In order to prepare for the opening and earn living expenses, I also took three part-time jobs without a job. An unexpected joy is that I lost nearly 15 Jin.
Opening a restaurant in an office building is sometimes busy until midnight, but my heart is full of pleasure.
? Funiutang? It's a small test platform for me. There are no waiters in this shop. We have three trash cans. After eating, customers collect their own bowls and sort the garbage according to the order of residual soup, plastic bowls and chopsticks crumbs. In return for jointly fulfilling environmental responsibility, we will give back a fruit. This experiment is of great significance to us. I hope to explore a win-win model for shops and customers to do this: on the one hand, it protects the environment through garbage sorting, on the other hand, customers enjoy fruits after meals, and shops save labor.
Or in the future, this store can be like a fast food restaurant in America. It took four people to run, but in the end it only took one or two people to do it. The cost saved will be used to improve the treatment of employees and provide training and career development for employees. If a pattern can be formed, perhaps the catering industry will gradually attract more college students, making rice noodles will become an art, and the catering industry will become a respected industry. This is a somewhat unreliable wish of mine. Besides, Funiutang has done many interesting things, such as cooperation with Greenpeace and uneven planning. His future is like an operating system with infinite possibilities, which can load many apps. I respect my rice noodles and the catering industry, so we have watched "The God of Sushi" for nearly ten times, trying to do every link well to the extreme. With all due respect, we also want to do more interesting things.
Yesterday, someone asked me if I had thought about what would happen if things failed. I thought about it. From the first day this restaurant opened, maybe for myself, I have succeeded. I feel that there is nothing external to fight for. It's not difficult, but I rarely break my inner rules.
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