The entry barriers and difficulty of starting a business in the food industry are relatively low.

Just imagine whether to establish a successful real estate company, automobile manufacturing company, financial or technology company or to establish a successful catering company, which one requires the least resources? Manufacturing companies in the food industry will feel lower, while catering companies that directly face consumers have cash flow.

It’s leveraged, there’s no Party A’s father to make things difficult, there’s no unscrupulous customers to press for payment, and you get whatever you sell, which is more obvious for companies than in other industries at the age of 35.

1. The difficulty of employment in food majors is very low. This refers specifically to counterpart employment. Inter-industry employment has no reference significance and is not included in the discussion. However, the salary situation is not ideal.

Looking at the pros and cons of food majors only from the perspective of employment, the probability of the food industry declining or disappearing is basically zero in the foreseeable future.

Unless one day humans can legally use solar energy for photosynthesis, the food industry will be able to break away from rigid needs and turn into enjoyment needs. In fact, food is not entirely a rigid need now; the food industry needs money, technology, or any other aspect you can think of.

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Each supplier in the food industry has different brands for each raw material. There are hundreds or even thousands of permutations and combinations of the same brand at different prices. So what are their differences? Which supplier and which brand?

What grade and price of raw materials can meet your development needs? Even shipping costs, warehousing fees, and taxes must be taken into consideration. This is also the cost of raw materials.

2. The food industry is a labor-intensive industry with low profit margins, which directly leads to a considerable gap between the income of practitioners and other industries.

Taking the food quality management job I have been engaged in as an example, the starting salary was so low when I first entered the industry that it is estimated to be between 3.5K and 5K now.

As your qualifications and abilities improve, your salary will slowly and steadily increase after you become a veteran.

When you become the head of the quality department, your salary will basically be between 10K and 20K, with a year-end bonus for those who are not good.

Better ones have year-end dividends. The amount varies and is related to the company, its own capabilities and negotiation skills, and is difficult to estimate.

Here you will find that after all, it still cannot keep up with other industries.

Among the advantages, it is mentioned that the technical requirements of this industry are not high, and most companies do not have core technologies, let alone forming technical barriers.

Therefore, at least at the enterprise level, most people think that if you can hire someone with a skill level of 70% for 6K, you don’t need to spend 20K to hire someone with a skill level of 90%. For those who want to establish themselves as professionals, the difficulty increases.

3. I graduated with a major in food quality and safety. It has been three years since I graduated. Now I am engaged in testing work in a milk powder factory. My monthly salary is 4,000. After deducting five insurances and one housing fund, I can get 3,000. Let me talk about the employment situation of my classmates. If

It can provide you with some directions if you want to engage in this major in the future.

I only talk about the position, not the salary, because I don’t know the salary. Let’s talk about the public examination and editor examination first. The positions that you can apply for are the Customs and Market Supervision Administration, etc., and the editor examination can be biology and chemistry teachers, or some

Some directly affiliated public institutions.

Mengniu, Yili, Coca-Cola, Shuanghui, Haitian, Muyuan, etc. Other than that, there are no other professional jobs. What exactly do you do? It varies from person to person. Just write it down based on your interests. I feel like there are quite a lot of choices. Summary

Looking at the jobs in this major, they are nothing more than quality control, testing, sales, and R&D. To be honest, I feel that the salary is not high except for sales.

4. Coming from a practitioner in the food industry, I think food majors should not stick to tradition, but should think divergently and look for new changes in the industry. Only new things are more promising and have a better future. New consumer fields are a good place for food research and development.

I have worked as a food product manager and product director at New Consumer Company, and have interacted with many food professional R&D colleagues. I have also interviewed about 50 food professional job seekers, all in Shanghai. The time span is as follows.

Product managers and supply chain departments may be able to help you, but you can’t make a recipe and ask once. Suppose a bread product uses seven or eight raw materials such as flour, milk, cream, butter, etc., and each raw material has seven or eight ingredients.

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5. The highlight moment of the food industry was more than ten or twenty years ago. Some seniors with bachelor's degrees could get starting salaries of 7 to 9k in foreign fast-moving consumer goods companies. At that time, 985 undergraduates in Guangzhou only received 3 to 5k.

Of course, it can’t be said to be bad now, just average. Income is normally distributed, with more in the middle and less at the ends, just like most manufacturing industries.