26: I just don't want to be the one to let myself down

Wendy 2022-10-18 18:40:45



On Christmas Eve, I was watching "The Younger Generation", and I received some Merry Christmas wishes. I thought this Christmas would pass so peacefully like other times, but suddenly I received a WeChat from an intern: "I can't do your
English translation. Let's
do it."

Before I came to my senses, my phone rang again and again:
"You can't let me do all your work.
Taobao costs 800 yuan an hour and
I'll give you a 50% discount. You give me the money." "

I thought about it carefully. In three weeks, two interns, including her, translated a total of three articles in English, and each article took about ten minutes to speak. Is such a lot of work?

And I always emphasized to them during the process.

Now post-95s, is it rude or I am outdated, the logic itself is right, you give me money, I will do things for you, why is there no salary for the first month of the internship? No matter how big your platform is, it's useless.

Later, I went back to her. I worked overtime until almost midnight for three days last week. If you didn't see it, just speculate, and you're just talking. The most trivial work, if you can't even do this job well, and you keep complaining, you just see me going to work at 11 o'clock, but you can't see me getting off work at 11 o'clock, I don't bother to explain.

Because she was rude, I was reluctant to tell her: When I was 22 years old, I was looking for a part-time job in Australia. I had no experience at the beginning. I sold snow boots in QVB. But I am very happy, because I have practiced my speaking, and I can sell things while chatting with people, which gives me a sense of accomplishment.

I also didn't want to tell her that when I was 23 years old, I decided to graduate and enter the journalism industry. At that time, I had almost no work experience except for my major, so I was willing to do a free internship in a large institution in order to gain experience. What I did in three months was the most basic translation and interview.

I am even more reluctant to tell her that when I was 25 years old, I found that I had new ideas about life, and now in the workplace, when no one's living condition is that I envy and satisfy, I silently prepare Relevant knowledge, resources, next home, without complaining why the current unit sucks.

When a person matures to a certain level, he will understand how important it is to keep your eyes on yourself, not others, and know where you want to go and what you want to do.

After this little Christmas turmoil, although I was shivering with anger, I calmed down and began to want to look back on this year, 26 years old, what have I done and what do I want to do?

The heroine, Liza, has gone through divorce, bankruptcy, single motherhood, and can't find a job, so in real life, she gives herself a chance to rewind and go back to 26 to see if everything changes.

She didn't complain that she was forty, and she had to start as an assistant, adding tea, pouring water and buying coffee for the boss; she didn't fall into deep fear because she didn't have a house; she didn't turn around and leave because her little boyfriend had no money and shared a lease with others .

On the contrary, in terms of career, she chose to enter the publishing industry of her dreams, and then started from small things. In love, she chose the voice in her heart: yes, I love Josh.

My 25 and 26-year-old, for work, I cried a lot. The initial grievance was because the ideals of journalism I adhered to were met with a wall in reality. I felt that many regulations were stupid and decadent, but I couldn’t change them. In the end, it's just doing the basic work of serving people? ; Why is something that I wrote, but can be arbitrarily taken away by others in the end? Sometimes it is because I can't get along with my colleagues, and I am bullied by strong and old-fashioned colleagues.

When I was promoted, I would occasionally cry because I was too tired. After working until 10:00, it was normal. When I was chatting with my parents, I would cry because I was tired and aggrieved. When I got home, I even took off my makeup I lost my strength and fell asleep. On the weekends, I always feel like my tendons have been pulled out, and I will be dead for a day; because I have to lead others when I am young, I often encounter situations that are completely out of my imagination: I was unfriended by a colleague for no reason. Think carefully, is it because you complained about the other party before? Poor quality work? The older colleagues refused to obey, and even though the other party was doing a mess, they still quarreled with me confidently; the younger colleagues were sharp-edged and straightforward, and they didn’t care about my feelings at all.

After working, I saw the complex and realistic side of the world. However, in the process, I also grew up quickly and realized that the world is not peaceful or perfect. All I can do is learn to protect myself and keep upgrading. , against evil, and protects good.

I am now 26 years old, as old as the 40-year-old heroine pretends to be, and is called the "young generation", but I want to say to myself at the age of 40:

Don't expect the unfulfilled dreams at 26, Unrealized plans and unsolvable problems are easily solved at the age of 40.

A 26-year-old fitness program that didn’t come true because of sleeping in late,
a book that I read less because I couldn’t calm down, worried that I wasn’t good enough, and the man I missed
who didn’t send that resume would just miss it because I was timid, lazy, and hesitant, There may be fewer possibilities in life. At the age of 40, there will only be more troubles: the elderly to support, the children to support, and the husband's marriage itch, it is more difficult to find a satisfactory job... Therefore, at the age of 26, it is not too late to change everything, do what you feel Meaningful things, the pursuit of their own happy life. Towards the dream, go straight, don't turn, don't hesitate, don't be lazy, at least this way, when you find a bigger world, there is still time to start again?












On this Christmas Eve, I'm thinking about 2017, I'm 26 years old and there's still half a year left. I just want to be a person who makes me satisfied and happy. Younger and Liza gave me a chicken blood. Now that I have a direction, all I have to do is to Just hold on enough.

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  • Liza: There's something I need to tell you.

    Liza: Never mind.

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