Why do we have to work hard?
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That year when I was just graduated, I went shopping with my friends, saw a fancy bag, costs around $2000.
With this, I have to talk about Lisa, a senior manager of a foreign enterprise.
In order to buy this bag, Lisa began the crazy austerity, daily meals are steamed bread for breakfast, instant noodles + ham sausage as lunch and gruel + mustard for dinner.
She was doing this for 2 consecutive months. The side effect is that she can’t hear the word “ham” and “sausage”, can't look at mustard because she will feel nausea.
Once, a bad friend said to her, Do you think that after you bought a luxury bag you will able to raise your social status? Although you are carrying a luxury bag, you are still the same from the inside. Even if Victoria Beckham is carrying a plastic bag, people will still feel her high-end status.
At that time, Lisa was just an ordinary clerk, she has a loud nickname "the printer", aka "the Printer Guardian".
The bad friend's words are rough but reasonable.
Lisa had her reflection, and only changing herself and improving herself, can be worthy of everything outside.
She has become hard working. Because she is smart, she is smart enough to promote herself at a department meeting.
Before each meeting, she would practise speaking in front of the mirror. Her English is not good, but also learned to use a few words during expression.
Gradually, she got the approval of the superior. From the clerk to BD, got promoted twice, became a senior manager. In the higher position, her vision are wider, learned a lot more things, more and more emboldened.
In fact, the salary of a foreign company clerk is not low, five years ago, she can probably get 5k, and more than enough for her to live alone in the city. Now, she took 20k+ of salary and continue to improve herself.
Sometimes, efforts, is not only to meet a better material needs, but also to meet a better self.
Can you find a job without graduating from college?
Of course.
Can you find a good job?
Yes.
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Fabio failed several courses during university, he had retake several times but still not able to graduate from university. But in the end, he still able to find a job because he majored in Hydraulic Engineering.
He was deployed to the construction site of the frontier boundary.
He worked for half a year, his biggest feeling is: Lonely and cold. Almost never seen a woman, the only woman in the company is only the canteen lunch lady.
He regretted his choice, but was compelled to do so, because only enterprise in the same field wanted him.
Moreover the girlfriend he made online, after knowing his working environment, always offline.
He never give up, and keep on calling her.
When the phone call was finally connected, said: "If you keep on harassing my wife, I kill you!"
He made up his mind and resign and return to university to finish his courses. Finally, he able to graduate, and now working in a research institute, have a better life than before.
Sometimes, the effort is only to determine our life.
My high school classmate, Mei is a civil servant, she has a selected group of targets that needed help.
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Once, she sent me a link. In the link is about a villager, suffering from liver cirrhosis, have no money to treat the disease, so needed to raise money online.
I advised her to contact the media.
She said she already contacted the media, NGOs, charitable funds, the local public organization all said can’t help.
She feels that the world is too cruel. The local news media directly refused, not even have the opportunity to communicate; NGO said there is no relevant funding projects, need more discussion; The charitable fund says it needs to be audited for a longer period; the local public organization says there are too many similar cases needed help.
In the link, the helpless patient lies lifeless in the hospital bed. Facing the cruel pain, he had to bow down and have to turn to the public for help ...
It's all right if the patient has the money. But for the average person, money is not a gale, but a hard earned one.
Sometimes, the effort is to calmly deal with the pain, to stay alive in this world.
There is a hurtful words on the Internet: Hard work is not necessarily lead to success, but not hard working must be very comfortable.
But I believe: this comfortable, must be temporary.
Because of efforts, we can see our limits, know how to adjust ourselves, so that we will meet a better self.
When the desire to advance get stuck, do not interrupt, but turn and change direction, you can always find something worth your interest at any corner of life, it is worth to enjoy its happy things.
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