I don't know when it started, but the nine-to-five jobs that people born in the 1960s and 1970s yearned for have been increasingly bored by young people born in the 1980s and 1990s.
"There are always 30 days in a month when I don't want to go to work."
"Unskilled people will sell their time for money."
"Going to work is a waste of time and youth."
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Such remarks frequently appear in our social networks and life, so "going to work" sounds like a very sad word.
According to the Survey Report on Salary Adjustment in 20 17 released by a job-hunting website in China, the turnover rate of fresh graduates has been soaring in recent three years, with the highest turnover rate of 26.5% in 20 16.
"Why don't young people want to go to work now?" There must be complicated reasons behind any social phenomenon.
As a post-90s generation who has been attending classes for more than three years, I am full of curiosity about this issue. So some time ago, I read a lot of articles about "not going to work" and chatted with friends who no longer go to work around me, which gained a lot.
Talk to you today: "Why don't young people in this era want to go to work?" And "What can I do if I don't go to work?"
"Going to work and working are completely different things."
First of all, we need to make it clear that "going to work" and "working" are completely different things. Most people say they don't want to go to work, but they don't really want to go to work.
I am watching the talk show "Round Table School" No.2016 "Stay: How can I break if I don't want to work? When, was awakened by Chen Danqing.
"Going to work" is a "business transaction" between an individual and a company. If the company pays your labor time, you must do the prescribed things at the prescribed time and place according to the company's rules and regulations.
And "work" is one of the means for a person to settle down or realize self-worth.
In short: work is for others, and work is for yourself.
In the Baidu Post Bar of "Tang Qiang's tripe", a netizen defined "going to work" and "working", which I think is very appropriate.
Going to work = ordinary families, young people and middle-aged people with no special skills, do things with a reluctant, unwilling and passive attitude, just to avoid being labeled as "unemployed" by shame. "muddling along" is the common mentality of office workers. Because the income is not high, but it is indispensable, the proportion of patients with "anxiety disorder" is relatively high, which is most obvious in countries with more wolves and less meat and strong competitiveness. Of course, some people are used to it because of inertia, and their requirements for life are not high, so "muddling along" is their best day.
Work = positive things, not just people who have goals, can combine their own abilities, want to realize their own value in their work and enjoy it, in order not to be discriminated against by others as unemployed.
So don't confuse the concepts of "going to work" and "working". Those who clamor for not going to work all day may just not want to work. Work has a strong driving force. Chen Danqing said he didn't like going to work either, but he could wake up like a bug and work late into the night.
Then the true meaning of "going to work" is clear, so let's see why young people don't want to go to work now.
"The development of the Internet has made us see each other's lives clearly."
Actually, I don't think most people are born to hate going to work. Otherwise, why does job burnout generally appear in people who have worked for several years, rather than fresh graduates? On the contrary, fresh graduates who have just left school have the highest enthusiasm for going to work because they are fresh, curious and inexperienced. Before we have a clear concept and experience of going to work, we often confuse "going to work" with "working" in order to get pleasure from going to work.
But the result is often that the longer you work, the more you find that the essence of going to work is actually to make money and make a living. If you are lucky, it may also bring you a sense of accomplishment beyond money; It's a pity that you are simply doing a transaction of exchanging time for money, which is why some people complain that "going to work is a waste of youth".
But living in a material society, one must sacrifice something in exchange for money if one wants to survive. Sacrificing time can be said to be the lowest-cost business that everyone naturally owns. Therefore, working to make money has become a common practice in this society, and the meaning behind it is: if you want to survive, you have to work.
Therefore, even if most people are not so happy at work, or are doing things that they are not interested in, they can only submit to humiliation. After a long time, boredom will naturally come.
I believe that every generation will feel the burnout brought by going to work. But why is it that our parents' generation has never heard of anyone who resigned directly without going to work?
The round-table view is very interesting: it has something to do with the rapid development of the Internet.
In the era when communication and Internet were not so developed, people's lives were relatively poor and simple. At that time, the focus of their work and life was in their own circles, and they didn't know the outside world or how people lived.
But in the internet age, information is more open and transparent. From the world to the side, you can see everyone's lifestyle and living conditions: who has studied abroad, who has started a business, and who has made money by traveling around the world. ...
In addition, various media, advertisements and internet products are changing every day, providing various lifestyles: elites want to drink a certain brand of coffee and wear a certain brand of watches; The middle-class standard is one room and one car, and travel abroad twice a year; A girl with a monthly salary of 20 thousand, an avocado every day; Middle-aged men who are not greasy sweat at the gym on weekends. ...
On the one hand, people of different classes see each other's living conditions without reservation; On the other hand, society is increasingly advocating the same values and success standards. Gradually, everyone crowded into the same place and struggled in the same direction.
Sadly, however, the East is a hierarchical society, and the psychology of comparison between people is extremely heavy. So those who can't break through the status quo can only envy other people's lives and strive to improve themselves, but at the same time they lack the fighting spirit and ability to struggle, so they are constantly frustrated, and finally they can only become marginal people in society, repeating hopeless classes day after day and living helplessly.
"Young people who seem to choose a lot have no choice."
Although young people can do more things without work now than in the past, the pressure of survival in first-tier cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen is much greater than in the past.
Especially for those young people with ordinary family background who leave their hometown to work in big cities regardless of their parents' opposition, the pressure of subsistence and the inflated material desire make them hesitate when they don't want to go to work. Without the support of parents and the financial strength to take risks, it seems that there is no choice but to choose more young people. So I had to complain about "not wanting to go to work" and continue to work hard.
So "I don't want to go to work" is actually a very depressed and helpless sentence of contemporary youth. Behind it is the helplessness of going to work.
If the people described above are the majority of those who don't want to go to work, then the young people who really make the decision to resign and stop working can be said to be "real warriors" in this group.
What can I do when I'm not at work?
Negative choices: eat and die, and stay at home.
Among the people who don't go to work, there are two contrasting States: the negative state of eating and waiting for death, muddling along; And a positive state of despair and despair.
The common manifestations of negative state are: going home to eat the elderly, squatting at home, selling existing assets, and sitting in the empty field (this phenomenon is more common in people with richer family conditions).
Today, the concept of "NEET" is not new, and the new concept of "squatting pit" has appeared in people's sight.
As the name implies, most of the "dwelling people", that is, unemployed young people who don't go to work and stay at home all day, exist in first-tier cities with fierce competition, such as North, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. A while ago, domestic psychology published an article from the media Knowyourself, analyzing the unique "squatting pit" phenomenon in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The article describes them like this: "These people are highly educated, have no jobs, have neither passion nor struggle. They rent a house in a first-tier city, can't go home, can't stay any longer, and do nothing all day. "
The product of the era of "squatting among the people" fully verified the saying that "efforts may not be successful, but it is really comfortable not to work hard". I sometimes wonder whether our times advocate "hard work" so much that everyone seems to be in liquidation, as if life without hard work is not worth living. Obviously, some people are naturally lazy and are not interested in anything, but they are forced to make progress by the values of this society and strive to find goals worth fighting for all their lives.
In Round Table School, Tao tells the story of a young man who quit his job as a teacher and went back to his hometown. He doesn't even want to eat when he is hungry, and he doesn't want to drink when he is thirsty. He stays at home all day, not going out. After not seeing him for a long time, the villagers found that he had starved to death.
This should be the ultimate in squatting.
Chen Danqing said: Some people are born with no interest in the world, but they cannot be born with selectivity. They looked at the world and found nothing to live, so they chose to leave.
It makes me sad to think that a group of people live in such a strange place in this world.