Inspirational story: high school education, how I work hard

I write this experience is not to show off and show off, just want to through my experience to tell everyone who is in the trough of life: many of you in the origin, education, economic and so on are better than me, I can go through this section of the trough, you can also.

19-year-old high school graduates, because the college entrance exams played poorly, so did not receive a letter of acceptance from the university of choice; so after listening to some of the enrollment information on the network, haphazardly enrolled in a private university in Beijing. At that time, I really do not know that most of these so-called private universities are hanging sheep's head to sell dog meat school, but in their propaganda, they are and Peking University and Tsinghua is a class.

After coming to Beijing, I realized that this school is far away from the imagination, the content of the teaching is all self-test content, and the teachers without exception are not any level (not intentionally denigrate, please forgive me), because I later realized that many of the teachers in this school are freshmen recruited to come, and many are still tertiary institutions (some teachers were teaching us at the same time, but also self-testing with us).

I didn't want my life to be like theirs, so I weighed my options and decided to drop out.

But the family didn't agree with this decision, so there was a falling out with my dad on the phone? Perhaps many people do not know, the respondent is from a minority autonomous region in southern Sichuan, mom and dad's occupation is business + farming (this way of doing business is to occasionally buy some agricultural products from other villagers, and then look for opportunities to resell to foreign businessmen? This kind of business is hard-earned money and very tiring). The biggest feature of this region is that it is poor and transportation is closed (the biggest relief problem during the Wenchuan earthquake was transportation), and the furthest place I've been before I was 19 was 30 kilometers away from my home.

And this Beijing school, which is thousands of miles away, was promising to give students jobs, so when I wanted to drop out, my dad was very disapproving, because he thought that even if this school was bad, at least there were jobs, and that would mean that the respondent wouldn't have to toil all her life like they did. But what they didn't realize was that the promise of such a school was just a lie. In the end, my dad finally compromised me and agreed to drop out of school. After getting my dad's approval, I quickly went through the withdrawal process.

The decision to withdraw from school made me feel guilty about my mom and dad, because when I came to Beijing, I brought more than 10,000 yuan (more than 8,000 yuan in tuition + accommodation fees of about 2,000 yuan + living expenses and other expenses) to my mom and dad, so I withdrew from school, which means that more than 10,000 yuan was lost, and for the first time in my life, I realized that I owed it to my loved ones, which is very difficult to bear. So, after the withdrawal of the first thing I thought of is to work, I want to use my own hands first will be more than 10,000 yuan to earn money out.

Based on this idea, the answer to the school next to find a small restaurant to work, the work content is to do waiter, the wage is 400 yuan / month (at that time, the answer to the good, think 400 a month, a year down is not 4800? This was a lot of money for the respondent at that time). After working as a waiter here, the unanticipated embarrassment was that teachers from this school often came to eat at this small restaurant, so when I carried the food to serve the guests, I realized that the guests were my English and physical education teachers at this school, and that embarrassment is still unforgettable.

By the way, I forgot to mention the time, the respondent was born in 1985, came to Beijing on September 1, 2004, and stayed in this school for one semester, and returned to the school in March 2005, decided to quit, and the family circled around for a month, and in April 2005, officially quit the school.

I thought everything was going to be fine here, but one day a month or so later (just before my birthday), the owner of the restaurant declared bankruptcy and told me to find my own way. I was so confused that I didn't know where to go. Eventually, the chefs in the back kitchen took pity on me and asked me to follow them. I came to Fangshan with them the next day to a place, everyone that night more than ten people on the ground who hit the ground in a room of more than 20 square meters, there is no air conditioning and no fan. The next day, we have nothing to do they went to Xidan mall to play.

We play in Xidan Mall, this chef's a friend (also do chef) called, said that their restaurant to 2 people, let us this send 2 people over. The head chef then called me and another hometown (in fact, not really hometown, just we are from a province) to go to this hotel. Years later, I remember, I have been called Wang's head chef, he will only have 2 job opportunities when we are in trouble together to the 2 people who do not know each other, this favor I have not forgotten, but unfortunately now can not contact him.

After I went to the restaurant with this old man, his job was to be the busboy and I was the handyman. His job was to cut a lot of dishes and configure all kinds of ingredients every day, while my job was to wash the dishes, pick the vegetables, sweep the floor, and take out the garbage? It was summer, the whole city of Beijing was like a steamer, and we were all sealed in the back kitchen, and whenever the chef was stir-frying the food the temperature was really indescribable. I was so busy every day that I didn't even have time to drink or catch my breath. And then I took on the job of making congee and frying steamed buns for breakfast for the entire back-of-the-house staff, a job that gave me memories of a certain time when my right wrist was scalded by boiling oil, the marks of which are clearly visible now.

The respondent worked here for 2 months, and the head chef gave me a salary of 500 yuan per month, of which 250 yuan was deducted for the health certificate, and 250 yuan was deducted for half a month's salary when I left the company, and I received only 500 yuan in the last 2 months. During these 2 months, I was endlessly bullied, abused, ostracized, and bullied in all kinds of ways. Every day when the guests were looking for trouble, the people in the front office would put the blame on the back kitchen, and the people in the back kitchen would always take their anger out on the handymen like me. The 2 months I was here was May?June 2005.

After that the respondent went to another restaurant where the owner offered $600/month, but withheld another $100 from his paycheck when he left. The **** same thing about these 2 hotels, they were both lodging basements. At that time, the accommodation for the respondent and others was: 4 people slept on 2 student beds, the whole room was less than 4 square meters without any air conditioner or fan, but fortunately it was a basement so it wasn't too hot in the summer. However, at that time, I only had one pair of underwear, so every time I washed and dried them, I slept in the nude, and when people laughed at me, I replied that sleeping in the nude was more relaxing. But the reality is that I really couldn't afford a pair of panties at that time.

The basement is characterized by humidity and darkness, and as a southerner I was not used to it, and it didn't take long for my hands to be full of various spots and blisters. Of course, rats, mice, and other things are not a problem.

The only comfort in this hotel is that I met a waitress who is very sympathetic to me, she has a very miserable past, and she is very trusting of me, and we were actually a little confused with each other at that time, but we are brother and sister. Many nights after work, she and I walked to the crossroads where Puhuangyu and Fangzhuang meet and looked at the skyscrapers next to us and giggled. At the time when the respondent was at the lowest point in his life, she and I were at the end of the world, but unfortunately, after the respondent left the hotel, and she lost contact with her, and now nowhere to be seen and heard.

The same thing happened to the respondent in this hotel.

In July 2005, the respondent was so fed up with all the bullying and oppression that she was planning to leave the industry for good at that time. At that time, the respondent had no other desire or need, just the thought of not being bullied every day, but it was clear that in this industry is unlikely to change. And at the time, the respondent also felt that my life could not be a dishwasher for the rest of my life.

So in August I quit my job and went back to a small town in Beijing's Daxing district to rent a teeny-tiny hut (the rent was 50 yuan/month ?). You can imagine the remoteness of this place), after renting a good house, I bought the year's adult high school textbooks to review, because at that time I want to go back to school through the adult high school way, want to say goodbye to every day suffered from the bullying of the dishwasher career.

This hut is airtight, no fan (air conditioning is delusional), and the heat went through the roof in August? Now I don't even know how I managed to get through that little house that was like a steamer. So is their own review 2 months later, October enrolled in Beijing's adult college entrance examination, after the examination blank, did not pay too much attention to the results, at that time just want to hurry to find a job to earn some money, because of the 2 months of full-time review to make my financial expenditure is tight?

So, into the examination a test (November or so), I immediately ran to Haidian lodging in Xiyuan this a friend here lodging (I really do not have the money to rent a house, and Xiyuan this side of the house I can not afford to rent? At that time it seems to be the Xiyuan Fuyuanmen this bungalow it, 350 yuan a small single room), so cheeky lodging classmates. The first thing I did was to get the money to pay for the job, and the second thing I did was to get the money to pay for the job.

A week later, I applied for a waiter at the south gate of Beida in a Chengdu snack (now moved away), the wage is 600 yuan / month, the boss said that you have to do at least 3 months, because there are still 3 months on the New Year's Eve, I do not intend to recruit again, so you can not leave between these 3 months. I was so thankful that I almost kneeled down and kowtowed, because the boss said that would mean I would have a stable job for the next 3 months.

The owner operates two restaurants on the floor diagonally across from the south gate of Beida, and the owner has set up the first floor as a Chengdu Snacks restaurant, and the second floor as a general home-cooking restaurant, and I work in this Chengdu Snacks restaurant. Because Chengdu Snacks is fast food in nature, my work is very hard, for example, I have to get up at 6:00 in the morning to clean up and sell breakfast (it's not easy to get up at 6:00 in the middle of winter), and at night I have to work until 11:00 at night before I can have dinner?

The answer was very diligent here (after all, although it is also very hard, but more or less better than the previous 2 restaurants), so the boss gradually will answer from the waiter jumped to the back of the kitchen, in charge of the Chengdu snacks at that time shabu shabu (a small hot pot, and sip feed similar to that) of the food (according to the customer ordering customers with a variety of ingredients), the benefits of this work is Comparison of easy, so the respondent will have time to read the book (if in the winter of 2005 to the south gate of the University of North that named? Three Brothers. Chengdu snacks? Eating friends have seen a person sitting next to the book, it is probably me).

One day in November, the front desk cashier of this restaurant received a phone call, the phone said ta is a teacher of the People's University, to make this call is to convey me I have been accepted by the People's University? After this little girl put down the phone, I was admitted to the People's University of the news spread throughout the hotel, I guess everyone did not expect this hotel actually have a waiter admitted to the People's University (but they do not know that this is not the authentic full-time education and adult education), so they are very surprised? Maybe in their eyes, the waiter of the small hotel, should be the waiter material.

This time is 2005 November.

In February 2006, I left the hotel (because to report to the National People's Congress), the boss said in the settlement of my wages, I should have deducted 10 yuan of wages, but in the case of my so hard so progressive on the part of the deductions will not be, so that I can study hard to make a name for myself, do not come back to be a waiter. At that time, I was especially touched, this is almost the first time I encountered the warmth of life; after that, the boss's wife also said to me that the People's University is good, you should cherish this opportunity, and don't do this kind of shitty waiter again, and come back to see them when you have time, I said yes, but after 2006, I never saw them again, and this restaurant is now closed down early, 8 years have passed, and I don't know all the news of them anymore!

In 2006, the restaurant was closed down.

In 2006, I came to NPC to study. I was able to study almost full-time in 2006 and 2007. I was too precious for this dreamy opportunity.

I was renting a semi-basement in Xiaonanzhuang, the west gate of NPC, and a bedspace near Shangdi Nankou, near Beijing Sport University, at a price of 120 yuan per month, with four beds in a room of less than 10 square meters, sleeping eight people.

This was the last youthful time of my life, when I was very enthusiastic about studying, and what I often did was to get up at about 4:00 in the morning, ride a second-hand bicycle bought at the Xiyuan food market for about 60 yuan to the NPC, and then start studying. At that time, I ate at the NPC West Gate Cafeteria, and I remember now that what I ate at that time was a portion of cabbage + a portion of rice, and then a bowl of free broth (thanks so much to this free broth from the NPC West Gate Cafeteria, which didn't let me starve to death at that time).

In the NPC in this 2006?2007, I met my first love briefly, as well as a descendant of a Ming dynasty sage (he is Fang Xiaoru descendant?). Fang Xiaoru was killed by Zhu Di, the only clan then traveled to escape, the clan later anonymously south, that is, this friend's ancestors), when the descendants of the great sage into the search group, and I rented an apartment together so they became friends.

In October 2007, this friend introduced me to a job? A small e-commerce company's network editor, I am now on his favor has always been in mind, because he took me into the Internet.

I have been in this site to do in March 2008, during the period of a BBS community active, so it is the community of an Internet company's HR to dig over, give me 2500 yuan / month's salary (at that time very happy ah, wages rose 2.5 times), but after 3 months I do not like the personnel struggle here and leave. During the period is the May 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, home 2 times (home to experience a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, the first time to experience death so close).

After experiencing the tossing and turning of the home, back to Beijing again in the fall, this time I no longer live in the bed, but in the south exit of the Shangdi this one is called? The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. The place to rent a small single room of about 6 square meters (rent is 200 yuan, the conditions of the answer will not say, we imagine themselves according to this rent it), after that is the pyramid scheme organization tricked to Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province (is the real thing, do not get me wrong is not to say that Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province is not good, please do not think too much), at that time, thought that the life of the little no, but by a stroke of luck is escaped (when escaped from the body of the money is not enough to buy a train ticket to Beijing), so from Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province to Beijing to buy a train ticket. So from Pingxiang, Jiangxi Province to Shanghai to find an old friend, this old friend eventually bought me a ticket back to Beijing, Shanghai)? The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.

After returning to Beijing in November 2008, I found a job as a senior web editor with a monthly salary of 2600 RMB.

The company to which this job belonged was later merged into a large financial group (doing futures), and I was fortunate enough to become an employee of this group until July 2010, when I left. During this period I work especially hard, because I like the Internet and do the work is also the Internet, so I in addition to sleep almost all the other time in the company, several times exaggerated is my morning 7:00 less than to the company (the security guard is very depressed)? In this company's work for about 2 years, in addition to my job, the rest of the time to write things, write a variety of business, Internet, IT reviews (in fact, at that time was blindly written, did not think of other, pure hobby writing to play), did not think that this next wrote a little fame (this small circle).

July 1, 2010 from the financial group out, rested more than 10 days to go to an IT site, because I have been writing a lot of things in the past 2 years, so come to this site, the boss of the site is very appreciative of me, directly to let me take up the position of director of website content (and later concurrently as director of operations), in the six months of time, I gave him to form a team that includes two returnees. In six months, I set up a team for him, including two returnees.

This is the first time that I've been able to get a job in the industry, and it's been a long time since I've been able to get a job in the industry, so I've been able to get a job in the industry.

After I got out of the site, I decided to do something on my own, in 2011, when I was 26 years old.

The most direct reason for deciding to do something on your own is that you felt you had wasted more than 10,000 yuan of your mom and dad's money by dropping out of school, and at that time, my mom and dad bought a house in our hometown with all the money, and borrowed 30,000 yuan for my relatives at that time, so at that time, I immediately felt that there was a quicker way to get ahead in life, and then thought of starting a business of my own (thinking about it now, and I really think that it was really bold).

So register the company, the registered capital of the registered company is to let people advance capital, plus the other side of the labor fee what a **** 6000 yuan, I use the overdraft credit card (because and family members to buy a house in their home counties, so they have saved tens of thousands of dollars of money are gone, so this 6000 yuan can only overdraft credit card. However,, after the company was registered, I found a bigger problem? I have no money on hand to run the company (such as renting an office to buy a computer ah)? What I did was to run to a friend where to work, this friend at that time gave me a salary of 5000 yuan / month, I did 3 months, earned 1W5, and after that went back to start doing their own thing.

So in Beijing, a certain 5 ring and 6 ring intersection of ** bridge here to rent an office, the rent is is 3200 / month, all of a sudden paid 3 months rent + a month of intermediary, 1W5 will be gone? At this time, my heart was on fire, but after I calmed down, I told myself that in the next 2 months (because the rent of this house is paid one month in advance) I must have an income, or else I would be dead. After that, the first month passed while I was busy with various company things and there was only one month left? And that's when an old coworker of mine who had left that financial group brought me a small business over, a small $10,000+ job, and I was so grateful that I thought she was the Goddess of Mercy. It was the end of 2011.

2012 began, I intend to run the company well, but the beginning of the stage can only keep the money (at that time, no connections, no resources, no stable customers), but the good thing is that at the end of 2012 when we received a good customer, so that the company's income is guaranteed; the beginning of 2013 when the company is still good, during the period of time, I will be out of several tens of thousands of dollars of the money I earned, and bring the company's coworkers to go to Hainan to walk! A time. After that, I intend to do something else project, the results of this idea finally died, this impulse to bring the impact of the company is also subject to ups and downs, and then to the beginning of 2014, that is, now.

At present, he has 2 companies (shame, ah, are not making any big money), in the Tongzhou area to buy a small house, also made a good girlfriend (currently we are planning to buy a 70-year property rights of the big house), while he intends to study the 2015 MBA, in addition to planning to publish 1?2 books (work related), next year, I plan to take my mom and dad! I'm not going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it.

As a once uneducated passer-by (I think many people's reality is much better than mine), I would like to answer the owner's question, which is: self-education (hard work) does not necessarily change fate, but if you do not self-education, you may not even have the opportunity to change fate.

You are only 24 years old, and you are perfectly capable of striving for something better in the future by working hard now; I started working as a dishwasher when I was 19 years old, and I didn't think at the time that I would become a CEO, that I would become an expert in the field? expert? , but these things crept up on me when I went to work on pursuing the unknown in life. Similarly, you don't know how to change your destiny through self-taught skills right now (in fact, I don't know either), so all you have to do now is go ahead and take that opportunity.

As for what you say you should teach yourself, my advice is:

1) something that interests you;

2) something for which there is a clear need in this day and age (e.g., if you're going to get into math, I'd say forget it).

The first point allows you to do in this field is not boring, do go on; the second point allows you to do things have been recognized by the current value of society.

So the question of what you should learn, you have to answer yourself, for example, in your interest in learning a practical skills, I think it will be better.

A little of my personal advice:

1, career direction selection

I do not know what causes your high school education, if it is because your academic performance is not very good (please understand that I said straight), then I think that now your self-study you can choose to choose a number of pure skills of vocational and technical, these things, although it seems to be not so lofty, but at least can make you have food to eat.

If you have a certain computer foundation, then Photoshop, graphic design work, are a kind of vocational skills, whether it is a general company graphic designers, or the roadside print store, such work can make you at least have a meal (but may not have the face of the street, such as advertising stores such as this);

If you like some life skills, then I also think you can try to consider some vertical areas of skill learning, for example, if you are willing to be a chef, you can start with the basics, step by step to cheer, and strive to achieve a five-star hotel chef, so that life is also a kind of enrichment (but do not bully the waiters, handymen and so on ah?).

Other fields, such as computer repair and so on these fields, I think you can try.

2. Be sure to combine your interests, conditions and starting point.

Some netizens advocate SEO, station building so, I do not support. I came from the grassroots of the Internet, I think these things are not easy for you to get a foothold in society and get enriched.

And open Taobao store like this, I do not recommend (too difficult to do), of course, if you have a unique advantage of another argument.

Regardless of what field of work, I suggest that you must combine your current characteristics, such as you have no interest in computers and have no contact, then go to do computer-related work is not very realistic; and then for example, you have no sense of linguistics, then you want to go to do a simultaneous interpretation is not realistic?

3. English and education.

If your time permits, I would recommend that you study for a degree. There are many ways to get a degree, such as online correspondence, adult education, and self-testing, so if you have enough time, I would recommend that you work for a degree.

This is something that the public has reason to say, and many people think it's useless, and many people value it, and for me, my view is that if you have enough time and experience, it's better to get one. Not to tell others that you are highly educated, but to give yourself a kind of account.

In addition, in a city like Beijing, you have to apply for a work residence permit or something else, which is closely related to the degree. So if you can fix it, you still have one, after all, it's better than none.

In terms of qualifications, I've been there before, and I'm not sure how many people know about this. In my past work process, in fact, I have many opportunities to go to Baidu, Tencent, such a large company, but because I dropped out of school and do not have a complete degree and end? So?

English, many users also suggest that you learn English, my view is that English is very important, but if you are engaged in the work is not English-related, then amateur time to learn on the line. The current priority is to learn things that are directly related to your food and survival, and although English is important, it can't be something that affects your survival.

4. Make full use of the resources around you.

My own experience has taught me that it is better to be brute force than to think clearly. Now look back at my experience, whether at work or in business, is to crawl around alone, a lot of places, if someone points under the words, it is estimated that today's results will be a different pattern.

For example, if you want to learn, there are a lot of convenient resources on the Internet now, and I think the NetEase cloud classroom is a great resource. Other aspects, such as networking these, can help you place, you try to use.

5, do not forget the beginning.

At any time, do not forget why you want to start.

In this process, but also to ensure that their own mentality, do not easily affected by the outside world or other people, the inner life of your identification of beliefs, not because of the momentary failure and discouragement, give up on their own; not because of the momentary success and pride, overestimation of their own. Always keep your mindset of departure to pursue goals that have not yet been reached.

6, in the pursuit of the process, a little more effort, this point may determine that you and others are not the same.

Postscript:

I write about my own experience, really not for any bragging rights, just want to tell you through this story, whether in terms of education or origin, many of you start from a better place than me, I can come over, you can also