What’s the hidden meaning behind Jinan’s “post-90s” college student couple giving up medicine and selling fried dough sticks to earn an annual income of 300,000 yuan?

There is a set of data on the Internet that surprised me. The data shows that there are currently 60,000 graduate students and 170,000 undergraduates working in the express delivery industry. Many people are wondering: Is it the ability that fails to live up to the diploma or the lack of education? Diploma fails ability? Does the food delivery industry really need such highly educated employees? From this, I couldn't help but think of a once-hot couple. They were a young couple studying medicine in Jinan, Shandong Province. For some reason, they gave up their professional expertise and switched to selling fried dough sticks. After this incident was exposed by the media, it immediately aroused heated discussion. Many people thought that if they had known that they were going to sell fried dough sticks, why would they have wasted money to go to college? After all, buying fried dough sticks has nothing to do with studying medicine. ? Would it be easier to pick up the tongs of fried dough sticks with the hand holding the scalpel?

What is the purpose of studying? What is the purpose of our education? I think our education is actually relatively utilitarian. Whether it is teachers or parents, the concept instilled in students is that studying is to find a more relaxed job in the future, get rid of manual labor, and get ahead.

The concept we convey to children is that high education means high income, and education is directly proportional to income. But when students graduate, they discover that high education often does not mean high income. The wages of some college students are actually no higher than those of migrant workers carrying bricks on construction sites. There is a joke circulating in the market that may illustrate this helplessness: a monthly salary of 3,000 cannot hire a migrant worker, but it can hire a college student.

Whenever similar news breaks out, the theory that reading is useless will always rear its head. These examples will also be cited again and again by parents and students who do not attach importance to reading and learning, just like the graduates of Peking University In the years since Lu Buxuan started selling pork, people always used him as an example to illustrate the uselessness of studying. Until Lu Buxuan used facts to prove that selling pork is really different from selling pork. People who graduated from Peking University can sell pork to establish a company, create their own brand, engage in chain operations, and turn pork into a big business. Isn’t this something to learn from? effect? Don’t have the connections accumulated at Peking University? So reading is certainly not useless!

What education gives us is the right to choose more, broadens our horizons, and allows us to have more and better connections. Although you may not use these resources and rights, they are still there. There is no high or low profession, but there is a difference between relaxation and fatigue. Different people working in the same profession may have completely different results.

There are so many people selling pork. Why is Lu Buxuan, a graduate of Peking University, able to go public? Doesn’t this have something to do with his studies? Take the two couples who gave up their medical careers and switched to selling fried dough sticks. It is said that they earn 300,000 yuan a year. Although it has nothing to do with their profession, I believe they still have confidence. At least if they fail to sell fried dough sticks, they can still pick it up. My own line of work.

Just like carpentry, a masonry worker can earn four to five hundred a day, but I can only earn a hundred as a teacher. The working environment of carpenters and masonry workers is relatively poor, the labor intensity is relatively high, and there are certain safety risks, so I can only sit in the office to prepare lessons and correct homework. We only see people who sell breakfast and fruit making hundreds of thousands a year, but have you ever seen them get up at four or five o'clock to work? We only see masonry, carpentry, and steel workers earning over 10,000 yuan a month, but have we ever seen them sweating profusely under the scorching sun?

Are there any teachers who earn 300,000 per year? Of course there are. As for scientists, doctors, and engineers, there are many who earn hundreds of thousands a year. Why are these not news? Because everyone thinks it is normal and the salary matches their abilities.

Why is it news to people who earn 300,000 yuan a year selling fried dough sticks? Will many people be surprised? Because most people selling fried dough sticks can't make that much, everyone feels that this income is a bit high for selling fried dough sticks, even though they work hard.

Whether it is delivering express delivery or selling fried dough sticks and pork, we must understand the ultimate purpose of education. Learning is not only the growth of professional knowledge, but also the cultivation and quality of life, and the expansion of personal connections. Education can sublimate our thoughts and lay the foundation for our careers. Although sometimes you don't feel this, it is always there.