After I started college, I was thinking about whether or not to take a part-time job. On the one hand, I wanted to rely on my own ability to earn a living and enrich my social experience, but on the other hand, I was afraid of wasting my time by choosing a meaningless part-time job. As a statistics major, I didn't dare to neglect the basic courses in the first year of college, so I dawdled and dawdled, and the semester went by.

Part-time work is more important for students to gain and accumulate, and cheap labor is definitely not in the scope of reference. But at the beginning of my sophomore year, I actually saw a guy in my class with good grades riding an electric bike delivering takeout! We didn't know each other well, so the suspicion stayed with me. It wasn't until later that I accidentally became teammates with him in the school's mathematical modeling competition that I finally found the opportunity to ask him why.

It turned out that he wasn't just "delivering", but "remodeling".

The takeout service for restaurants in university towns has been widely criticized for its long delivery times, with students often waiting up to an hour for their meals. He also found the low delivery efficiency, and after considering it, he joined a takeaway company as a "delivery boy" and slowly figured out the management system.

Based on the data he got from the company, and combining it with his own personal experience, he built a model using the relevant knowledge in operations research, and after two months of calculations and refinements, he put together a complete program and handed it over to the company. After a small-scale test, the efficiency of food delivery was indeed significantly improved, and the company's senior management, like a treasure, wanted to keep him, but he politely refused, and the company only regretted to buy his model and program at a high price.

I can understand why he didn't stay with that company. His strength and the wings of his dream required a wider world. He humbly said that that company had not optimized much before they looked at his scheme, in fact, the model still has a lot of places to improve, this is just an attempt to combine his knowledge with practice.

It's like a dream come true for me, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get a job in the future, because I can't afford to make a mistake, let alone try to get a job without a sure thing. The same is not true for part-time jobs, which can be abandoned at any time. In the same way, in the social platform, mistakes can be repeated, and failure is also a valuable experience.

The day I returned to the dormitory with a lot on my mind, I saw my roommate fiddling with Excel, and she was working as a part-time clerk in a company. In fact, I have never been optimistic about my roommate's work in the office as an understudy. After all, the requirements of the statistics profession are different from those of clerical staff, and do not require such fine office skills.

But once again, the facts turned my thoughts upside down. In the second semester of the sophomore year, many people have taken the office advanced operation certificate, but most of them just narrowly over the line, but my roommate got a high score of 94 points, which fully proved her proficiency in the operation of the skills. And the advantage of this skill, in a variety of activities in the performance of the best: all the defense of her PPT is the most neat and clear; student union planning book she can organize and edit overnight, well organized; professional class teacher assigned homework, we have to program the book with software in order to calculate the results, and she used Excel can be refreshingly resolved.

She was rightfully noticed by her superiors for her excellent work, and was given the opportunity to show her professional skills. The statistics counterpart is a data analyst, and the company she works for runs a travel website and is in dire need of this type of talent. She summarized the current traffic trends of the website by analyzing the documents she usually compiled, and made a clear and beautiful document with the refined suggestions. Soon she was promoted to the only part-time employee in the R&D department by virtue of this brick in the wall. Whether or not she stays with the company in the future, it will be a bright spot on her resume.

Now I have changed my mind about part-time work. Not wanting to be left behind, I'm also involved in the management of a public website, and in the process of organizing all kinds of data in the background every day, I realized the huge difference between theory and practice. Without feeling it first, I believe the cost of recognizing it after work is much higher.

It's true that many people around us waste their youth and precious time just to earn a little snack money and save up a little microblogging experience, but that doesn't mean that part-time work is a costly endeavor that pays more than it pays off. The employment situation of college students is becoming increasingly severe, companies no longer need a false name, but also do not have the energy to cultivate the rash, they are thirsty for those who can create value as soon as they join the staff. After graduation to consume valuable workplace resources to improve their own too extravagant, rather than so, it would be better to start in this part-time experimental field, with a clear goal to learn to use, and so on later interviews, will be able to rely on skilled skills to make themselves stand out from the vast number of fresh graduates.