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I always tell others, that English really makes a huge impact on my way of thinking, or expressing.
I do not recall when I write my last article, and for how long have I not felt the passion to write something. But right now, here in my dorm, at 4 a.m., I finally decide to write something, in English.
This is my fourth year studying in SUSTech. As a senior, I do not have burden of courses, and should have plenty of time planning my future. However, I could not. The year 2020 seems to have interrupted my life. In 2020, we seemed to have only done one thing: to live. I recall that I had all my classes on-line, with “Pass or fail” gradings, and grew weight. I mean, lots of weight. In June, I managed to get an internship of Huawei, the world-leading company in telecommunication. I was so thrilled, since I knew how important it is to have an internship, if you want to have an offer in the upcoming autumn.
It was a pleasant experience, the internship. The colleagues in my team were so kind, and gave me so much guidance. I did not learn much due to the 2-month-limitation of my summer holiday, but I was told one thing before I left, by one of the elder colleagues: The time you spend in a company worth much more than that in school. I still believe that. I was so confident about the high possibility that I could get the job in autumn, but I have not heard from Huawei, ever since. My guess is that, in early September, Mr. Donald Trump, president of the USA, strengthened the sanctions on Huawei, disabling it from obtaining more chips, even from MTK. There were no other options. I understood that the company was suffering from great harm, and me, an averaged intern (maybe below average), with a bachelor’s degree, would not have been a great choice to keep the company running. They need elites, at least those with master’s degrees, but not me. But I did not give up waiting until this spring, because I believed, that there was still hope.
But nothing happened. I mean, literally nothing. For the whole autumn, in which there should be a lot of companies coming, in need of graduates, there seemed to have none connected to my major: communication engineering. There were companies, true, but mostly about finance, or IT. Not only I felt being dumped, many of my friends majoring in communication engineering felt the same. Traditional companies like ZTE, Huawei, disappeared. Only Hytera came and gave some offers, which I, unfortunately, did not participate, due to the Non-compete Agreement I signed with Huawei during internship, with the consensus that I would join the company after graduation. It left my hands tied. The confidence of having the chance to join Huawei with internship, becomes desperation.
It did not just stop. The Post-graduate Entrance Examination which took place in December, 2020, somehow became a possible cure for my desperation, in my mom’s opinion. She started to talk about the rising standard of employment, where only with degrees higher than master’s would have the chance to get a job, which is partly true, since Shenzhen Middle School just employed graduate students as teachers, with doctor’s degrees. One with bachelor’s degree would not even be qualified to apply for primary school teachers. It started to strike me, that whether or not I could even get employed as I anticipated when I chose communication engineering as my major.
I still believed in the saying from my colleague in Huawei, that finding a job is more important. Because in the company, I learned almost everything from scratch. I once thought that what I learned in the university will have great use in my future work, truly. And it was then proved very wrong. But it seemed to be only me. My mom insisted that getting a master’s degree was the best choice, and she could argue that with me for months. I thought the only way I can prove her wrong, not 100%, maybe 60% wrong, was to find a job, a decent job, with little worry of working overtime, and get paid well. But it was impossible, as an engineer in communication, with bachelor’s degree and no work experience.
I will spend another 3 years to obtain the master’s degree. In my understanding, 3 years would be sufficient to have at least one promotion in the company, which will give me a step upwards, or forwards. A master’s degree will not bring one knowledge learned in the company, during the period. I would never choose to spend that time. I will also not choose to do that overseas, because I think it not worth the money. I needed to keep going, to find a job.
The spring in 2021 would be my last chance to attend a campus fair, and I grabbed it. BYD offered me a job as a software engineer, another name for coding peasant. Choosing this job, I may never have the chance to do work related to 5G, even LTE. I might shift my life path. But I chose to accept that, nor because I like this job, or because it pays well, but because it is a start. I went to so many interviews, and all of the interviewers will ask me one question: What is your plan for the future? My answer will always be “have a start, learn things, and climb up”. I believe, whatever industry I am in, the start always matters. In a company, a start might not determine the whole path. But, only with a start, there could be possibilities. Like the nuclear fission, a start is the neutron, and it will create more neutrons, more possibilities.
But it never stops my mom from asking for a better job. My roommate, who majors in computer science, gets an offer from Byte Dance, in which he will get 400k per year, without taxes included. I only get merely one third of that. I would never know what I will be doing, how intense the work would be, and how fast I can blend in, until I start to work. I will never know his 400k-salary would cost him what, until he starts to work. I really do not think it reasonable to discuss the future of these jobs.
Please, please let me get this job started.
It has been one and a half hour since I wrote the first word of this article. I should get to sleep. Other than the jobs, I have my graduate paper untouched, and a course unfinished. A new day has started for almost six hours, and I look forward to it.
Please, please leave me alone.