Chapter 2: Too Bad Luck (1)
After listening to the manager's emotional speech, the female journalist nodded in satisfaction and instructed the photographer to go back and edit it. Then she faced the camera and summarized: "Who dares to say that washing feet will wash away the ambition of self-cultivation, family management, national governance, and world peace? Will a foot massager strangle the grand vision of striving for progress?"
Xu Wei was very impressed with the manager's adaptability, and even more admired the female reporter's summarization ability, but had no interest in washing feet at all. After the interview ended, he hurriedly left.
Afterwards, Xu Wei visited several company booths.
A large livestock company is recruiting dairy cow breeders. The age requirement is 20-28 years old, and the applicants must be fluent in English, have knowledge of animal science, and be proficient in playing a musical instrument.
At the scene, a man who claimed to be Director Zhang from the China Dairy Research Center explained: "Our company has always been committed to researching the relationship between music and milk production. Through experiments, we have proven that cows produce more milk and better quality milk when they listen to music every day. Therefore, we are recruiting people who are proficient in music."
As for the requirement of being fluent in English, Director Zhang explained: "Our breeders need to participate in external activities frequently, promoting our company's products and technology." After listening to Director Zhang's explanation, many listeners were disappointed, thinking that they had spent ten years studying but still didn't qualify to become a dairy cow breeder.
There is also a domestic service company called "Beautiful Maid", which recruits high-paying domestic caregivers and managers, with on-site applicants flocking to apply. What's strange is that this recruitment requires not only academic qualifications but also strict physical appearance requirements, like a beauty pageant, requiring not only a pretty face but also elegant manners, making one wonder about the future work content of these maids.
Apart from the above-mentioned companies with strong personalities, there are also state-owned large enterprises and Fortune 500 foreign-funded enterprises at the recruitment site. The HR of large enterprises are all high-level talents, with the ability to memorize at a glance, scanning resumes faster than bank tellers counting money, and throwing them into a trash can beside them after finishing reading.
Xu Wei was a man of principle and didn't want his carefully crafted resume to be treated like trash. After spending an entire morning at the job fair without submitting a single application, he concluded: "Job fairs are places that insult knowledge." From then on, he never attended another job fair again.
Xu Wei's classmates, however, had no such principles and were willing to suffer humiliation. On average, they would attend two or three interviews a week, but almost everyone couldn't even get a phone call back. Those recruitment units seemed like the demons from "Journey to the West" who vanished into thin air after a gust of wind blew by. The students didn't have the all-seeing eyes of Sun Wukong and couldn't understand the subtleties, so their fear and pressure grew with each passing day.
In the midst of a frantic job-seeking wave, Xu Wei has always maintained an extraordinary state of "when all is turbid, I alone am clear". He compares himself to a "rabbit", claiming to be a "cunning rabbit with three burrows", although he gave up attending recruitment fairs, he still has endless retreats.
The key to job hunting lies in personal connections, and he happens to have a good mother with a vast network of relationships across the strait.
Xu Wei's mother is a doctor, born into a family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, with three generations of doctors in her family. Xu's mother did not disappoint everyone's expectations and successfully entered medical school to study Western medicine, becoming an excellent product of the stage of exploring the mechanism of combining traditional Chinese and Western medicine and theoretical innovation. Xu's mother is a typical career woman, known as "talented girl" when she was in medical school, after graduation, she was assigned to Xicheng District People's Hospital, specializing in ophthalmology, for many years, she has been devoted to her work, publishing countless papers, enjoying extremely high reputation among peers, and her position gradually rose from an intern doctor to the hospital president.
Behind every successful man, there must be a woman who is willing to make sacrifices. Conversely, behind every successful woman, there must be a man who is willing to bear the burden and humiliation. The key to being a successful man behind a successful woman is to accept calmly the role of being a stay-at-home dad, actively taking care of all household chores, including taking care of children. Xu's father has undoubtedly been successful in this regard. He cooks well and is loved by everyone in the family, becoming a true "family chef". Xu's parents were university classmates and had feelings for each other since their school days. After graduation, they were assigned to work in Haicheng City and their relationship became official. Xu's father worked as a teacher at a middle school in Xicheng District for many years, working diligently and conscientiously, but his position remained unchanged for twenty years, like the expression on the face of the Jade Girl from Hong Kong, and he is still just a class advisor.
