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As a teacher, the biggest difference from other professions is that there are two vacations every year, winter vacation and summer vacation. Every July comes as scheduled, and my summer vacation officially begins.
When I closed the dormitory door and left the school, I felt a little sad to think that I would not be back until two months later. How much I like living in school. I once said that a person becomes a monk in middle age and a half. Living in school is equivalent to becoming a monk for me.
If it is not for the original intention of “educating people”, as far as “teaching” is concerned, it is not my turn to work hard with the efforts of the students. Therefore, the daily routine at school is to get up, eat, and sleep on time. After work, drink tea, read, and occasionally invite young people to go outdoors to experience the landscape of nature and enjoy their own time, including loneliness and loneliness.
The arrival of the holiday means that the monkhood is over, and the home mode is restarted. The most annoying thing every day: eating. What are we eating today? when to eat Cooking a meal once in a while is the mood of life, but cooking it every now and then becomes a burden.
Compared with my leisure vacation, my friends need to go to work every day, and it is inconvenient to visit friends in time. What’s more inconvenient is that with the current economic downturn, everyone’s overall mood is not good, and naturally there is no happy atmosphere.
In such a big environment, people are a little too pessimistic, and there is a sense of the end of the world. Wealthy people are discussing “Run” studies, and want to immigrate to foreign countries to enjoy the wealth they have earned before. Ordinary people are worried about whether there is still room for next month’s salary after doing this month’s job, but they want a stable job.
This reminds me of the era of economic upswing a few years ago. At that time, everyone felt that if they did not make a small goal, it would not be enough-that was obviously too optimistic.
Another thing related to this general environment is young people’s choice of college. Just passed the college entrance examination, and after the results came out, few families seemed to be happy.
People’s attitudes towards college are changing rapidly. After all, it is so difficult to get a job now. After Zhang Xuefeng pointed out the reality under the table, everyone is more pragmatic (P.S. I personally think that at this time, I should not follow the trend. ).
This year, it is very difficult to get a job in university. It is difficult for people with high education to get a job. The competition for public examination and registration is fierce. Graduate students will become university dormitory administrators.
The professor next to me told me several times that she had a feeling that reading was useless, and that it was not as interesting as what the owner of the repair shop I knew did. He spent thousands of dollars to buy a minivan and refitted it so that we could Outdoor car for going out to play outdoors.
The direction of academic depreciation is certain. Higher education in our country has entered the stage of popularization. Just like developed countries, finishing a Ph.D. does not mean that you will have a good job. A British professor once said: Your family’s economic conditions are not good, so why do you study? PhD?
Reading is not useless. For example, studying for a Ph.D. According to my personal experience, the material gains directly brought about by the diploma itself in the secular sense are not great, at least not as good as imagined. But in the process of this journey, I think the indirect gains it brings are great, such as the way of thinking, high-quality interpersonal relationships, the establishment of self-confidence, and the improvement of cognition…
This process is like climbing a mountain. Although the scenery on the summit may be good (or mediocre), the scenery and mental journey along the way, and the sense of accomplishment of overcoming gravity, are more meaningful and interesting than the summit itself.
Between being overly pessimistic and optimistic, maybe the real norm should be a peaceful life and heart. In the boring vacation, I will go to pursue the ordinary in life again. The small hermit hides in the mountains, and the big hermit hides in the city.
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