A friend said, let's do copywriting (I majored in advertising in college, and I have no special skills. My first job after graduation was as a copywriter.
"Why?" I want to know.
"Other jobs have no technical content, so it is better to do copywriting."
At first glance, this friend's words seem reasonable. After all, many friends who haven't graduated from high school can do this kind of work, get a certificate, or go to a professional technical school for a few months, or be an assistant apprentice for a few months.
As a college student, my parents have been trying to train themselves to go to college. Finally, if they choose a job that they can do after graduating from high school, what is the significance of studying in college for so many years? What are parents working so hard for for so many years? Neighbors all know what they will think of such college students. Besides, young people in their teens and early twenties may be "old people" doing this kind of work. Although there are high and low jobs, compared with others, it is a bit embarrassing to start doing the work that high school students can only do at my age.
But on the other hand, I think this friend is wrong. As the saying goes: "360 lines, each line is the best." For example, for a tour guide, who says that tour guide work has no technical content? It is not easy to be an excellent tour guide with so many people's organization, order maintenance, safety maintenance, coordination with the industry, study and explanation of scenic spots, accommodation and catering arrangements, etc. Including so many complicated jobs that I didn't know about. These abilities, right?
Copywriting is indeed a highly technical job, with a huge knowledge system, flexible thinking ability and strong logical organization ability, and it's not that I don't like writing. Then why don't I want to do copywriting?
For me, words should be notes to express thoughts. The creation of words is what the heart thinks and what the eyes see and feel. Although literature and art are higher than life, they also come from life. In the days when I was doing copywriting, I kept searching online, paying attention to hot spots, tracking fast food culture, and then rushing around and racking my brains to connect it with Party A's products in order to win the attention of users. When I saw those "works", I obviously wrote them myself, but I didn't feel any traces of myself, and I didn't even remember what I wrote in the blink of an eye.
This makes me feel very lost. It seems that I just stole those achievements. I became a porter of fast food culture, but I didn't feel any self-worth. Or is it my fault that I don't work properly? But the leaders like it, and Party A likes it. I lost myself in the copywriting work.
Work is for a better life. Shouldn't the ultimate good life be the pursuit of happiness and happiness? So I don't want to do copywriting, even if copywriting is really more technical, let alone more technical than other jobs I listed above?