Chapter 3 Part 1: Three years after fulfilling the contract

Dear Teacher Xu: For three years, I wanted to write to you on impulse.Since I listened to your lecture in the New Oriental Auditorium three years ago, I have often been like this. I have been reading your books non-stop, about the guidance of studying abroad, including "American Visa Philosophy", "America Studying in Japan" and so on. Every time I read it, my blood boils. I am the girl who pestered you to ask questions after listening to your lecture in the Zhongguancun Auditorium during the winter vacation three years ago.At that time, I asked Mr. Xu, I got 620 points in TOEFL and I am preparing for GRE now. I am studying English International Trade. What major do you think I should choose?You simply told me that I should not take the GRE test now, that I should go back now, study hard, find a good job after graduation, come back to you after working for two or three years, and guarantee that I will study at Harvard or Stanford.

I was stunned for a moment, and then I started crying.You patted me on the shoulder and left me a business card with your mobile phone number and email address on it. Let me come back to you in three years. It's a pity that I only kept the small piece of paper for two years, and lost it in the constant moving.I couldn't find the phone number after searching several times.I can only write to this mailbox, because I am on the verge of a dilemma. After crying that time, I went back and failed to pass the GRE test. Although I took the test again, I failed to apply to a good school in the United States. In July 2000, I came to Beijing directly from Hangzhou after graduating from my undergraduate degree. I successfully found a job in a well-known joint venture company and have been doing so until now.I worked in the operation department for a year, and then I asked to be transferred to the sales department. One year later, I became the company's Top Sales, and my annual salary changed from less than 50,000 yuan when I just graduated to 200,000 yuan now. The work is recognized and appreciated by everyone. In June 2002, I invested in a small company for a friend.After more than half a year of hard work, the company has finally started to make money.

Last October, I fell in love with a really, really nice boy.He has all the excellent qualities I like, sincerity and kindness, successful career, handsome and funny, dedicated to emotion, and he also takes good care of me. We are very harmonious together.I love him very much and would like to be with him for the rest of my life.He asked me to marry him many times, but I never agreed. Because, the dream of going abroad when I was in college is still in my heart, lingering.But I really can't let go of this relationship.He's a good boy in a million, and I don't want to pass it up.But the dream in my heart has tortured me for several years, and I don't want to give up.What's more, the best girlfriend in college is leaving this year. Back then, we promised to sit in an open-air cafe in Paris on the Champs Elysees and taste the strong aroma together...

No matter how ridiculous my thoughts were at the time, I really hoped to step into the palace of a well-known foreign institution of higher learning, really be able to communicate in English, get that paper diploma, be plated with gold, and experience a completely different foreign culture and customs Human feelings, really improve their knowledge level, enrich their experience.I want a wider horizon.I love change and I don't want to be doing the same thing this time next year. Many things are difficult to let go, but always want more things.Gains and losses are so difficult to weigh, Mr. Xu, can you tell me what to do?How to go abroad and how to apply are not the most important thing. I believe that what you can guide me is the direction of life development.Three years ago, it was you who promised me to find you three years later, for the date three years ago... I am waiting for your reply and suggestion.

Your student, Yue Hui Dear Yue Hui: I saw you that day, although I don't remember seeing you three years ago at all, but your beauty, confidence, femininity, and professionalism left a deep impression on me.After talking to you, I'm still excited for you.I am excited for you because I have seen a witness of opportunities in China, a young man with a successful career, a generation of young people are proudly and successfully developing and living in China - live and enjoy.I saw how a correct life development path can bring a strong guarantee of happiness to a struggler's life.However, while I am proud of you, I am even more humbled for myself: Since a chance can help you change the trajectory of your life, why can't I—I know this is the eternal responsibility of me and New Oriental—I Why can't this trajectory be turned into a galaxy where young people like stars surf together, a route to fly freely?Let more people like you achieve impressive success?

You have only worked for three years, and relying entirely on your own efforts, you have become the top three salesmen of this big company in a place where people are unfamiliar. This is really a remarkable achievement.This achievement is the sublimation of the essence of life, the essence of historical development, and the glorious voice of the Chinese nation on the long road to prosperity of the people and national strength.Your annual income is more than 200,000 RMB.You also have more than 200,000 savings.This property status, anyone of the same age in the United States will be envious and jealous.Everyone says that the United States is good, but the savings are relatively small!You use your savings and actual income to solve a mystery of going abroad: in China, you can not only sing the ode of joy in career, but also sing the song of economic harvest.

And your career has only just begun.The company you serve, like all private and foreign companies in China, is full of vitality.Since you can leap from 50,000 to 200,000 in three years, you can change from 200,000 to 300,000 to 400,000, or even more in the next three years!why not?Why can't the Chinese shorten the wealth gap between us and developed countries by dozens of times at a rate many times higher than that of other countries?After three years, your income can definitely reach more than 300,000 RMB.Although this level can make Americans very envious and want to come to China to work illegally every day, it is definitely not a number to show off for an outstanding Chinese young man like you.Hurrah!

Whoever said that money is not the only measure of success I am in a hurry with!Individuals and nations must have a little spirit.But during the Cultural Revolution, the days when the national economy declined year after year and the spirit of ignorance rose day by day, I don't want it to happen again in my motherland!If someone tries to use "big red flower" instead of "big flower red" to make you continue to work hard for him, you tell him that you naturally like green and not red, and if he wants to reward your contribution and motivate you Spirit, tell him not to come to the red ones, but to some green ones, and express his love for you with green money!

Your love, green and oily... This is one of the characteristics of the times you and I live in, and it is a new measurement standard for talents to succeed and succeed.In this case, how do you arrange your dream of going abroad, and how to solve the contradiction between capturing real benefits and investing in the future?I think this is the thought I am writing to you again to confirm: I think that although you have achieved initial success in your career, you have not established that unbreakable foundation after all, and you have not yet acquired your core competitiveness in the job market.While I am cheering for you, I see that your success is actually bubbly.The basis for saying it has a bubble is: if you leave this company now, can you find a job of 200,000 RMB in the same industry in Beijing?If not, it means that your professional foundation is not solid enough, and it is worth continuing to strengthen this foundation.

After all, you've only been working for three years!Three years can make a person a mature professional, but to become a management person with core competitiveness, I think it still takes some more time.When you become a big name in the company and become an industry expert that your peers are vying for, you will have the freedom to choose employment in the same industry and the freedom to choose not to be employed.At that time, going abroad will take a new qualitative leap for you: the company will be willing to pay for your going abroad. The purpose of the funding is to return here to take up a higher-level position after you complete your studies.You can also choose not to be sponsored by the company and give yourself a free hand.After graduation, you can choose any profession you are familiar with and love, and become a top figure in the talent market!

Therefore, from the perspective of seeking to maximize the benefits of studying abroad, I strongly recommend that you work in the company for another year, two years or three years, so that you can make another leap in career development and leap to a new platform. Studying abroad, you will realize the life effect of a goldfish jumping over the dragon's gate - becoming an industry leader in the future Chinese market. My proposal for your timetable for studying abroad is based on the three realms of studying abroad theory I put forward in "Tuqiong Dialogue". The first realm is to gain employment competitiveness through studying abroad. You have completed this mission through your own work; The second is to gain industry leadership through studying abroad. You have not yet reached this level when you go abroad, so you need to continue to accumulate industry experience; the third level is to gain social impetus through studying abroad. Become the industry leader, but the higher-level successful people who lack international vision and world thinking are waiting to take off through studying abroad. Now, let me address another reason why you should hold off on going abroad—your success in love.Love is the highest state of life. "I would like to give up my property and go with her to shepherd sheep", which is what I mean.But you must not abandon love, just to study abroad.You have a happy and perfect love, which is very good, and this is a more precious life gain than career and career!Although if the career fails, love will often wither, it is the same for both men and women.You are riding the whirlwind of your skyrocketing career and plugged in the golden wings of this beautiful love when your career is successful.So, while I bless you, I also want to remind you that you must cherish it! Because of the maturity and beauty of this love, I am even more opposed to your eagerness to go abroad. Since the 1980s, how many people bid farewell to their dear ones and went to the United States for their so-called dreams.There is a promise of love, and the ocean is ruthless. In the end, the degree was brought back, but the dear one has already left him (her).The fate is broken, the love ends, love Yoyo, hate Yoyo, I only hate that I stayed in school back then, there will be a time, a river of spring water will flow eastward! Don't conduct destructive experiments on your love life just to satisfy your urge to go abroad!But for the sake of love, carefully arrange your life schedule.Studying abroad is what I want, and love is also what I want. I must choose one of the two, and I will give up studying abroad to keep love.Because if you lose love, you will never regain it; if you give up the United States, you will not be annexed by Iraq for the time being.In this way, your life will be perfect.When to go abroad again, listen to his opinion and see what he means. The two of them spent time together discussing in whispers, so that their longing for the future will become a cup of coffee that can never be drunk in a happy life... At the age of 25, you have successfully established love and career, the two most important pillars of your life building, but after all, they are not deep-rooted, and you must not be complacent and use the way of going abroad to destroy them.There are many ways to destroy our happy life, but going abroad blindly and unconsciously is often the most irreversible and the most cautious behavior. I'm glad you took my advice and continued to take your work in stride, your love in stride, and your life in stride.In this way, you will have more leisure and financial strength than anyone who studies abroad, and you will realize countless dreams in life——with your "best girlfriend in college" at the "Champs Elysees"—or Florence, Fontainebleau , Yinmeng Lake, Sanlitun, Xintiandi, Zhongguancun, and New Oriental—sitting in open-air cafes in Paris—as well as Rome, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, and Haidian—tasting the rich aroma together.” .Moreover, it is your current boyfriend who will later become your husband... The year before last, today in this mountain, the face of peach blossoms is red, and the face is still Mr. Xu, and the peach blossoms have turned into jelly--jelly is the crystallization of sweet youth and career.I believe that next time we meet, you will bring even more beautiful results to report to me the news of your overwhelming victory in the Chinese job market, reveal your happy nocturne on the avenue of love full of moonlight, and announce to me that you will go abroad The collective unconscious and the degree collective unconscious are going bankrupt!With your current momentum, I know this is inevitable. At that time, do you still need to go abroad?certainly!The pace of Chinese learning from the West should never stop, and everyone should study abroad once.But the way, method and time of studying abroad can vary as much as possible.The purpose of studying abroad is career. If the career is booming, then managing or hiring a few foreign students to work for you and realize your unfinished dream of "studying abroad for career" is also a kind of satisfaction.When you are on the road of career and love, you can consciously reserve the right and freedom to choose to study abroad anytime and anywhere, but for the exciting career and love in China, you can consciously and proudly choose not to go abroad—of course, every year Three long vacations to Paris, Rome or the Emerald for coffee are another matter. I want to continue chasing your success and intoxicating your happiness, so I look forward to seeing you next time, we don't have to make an appointment for another three years.I think... about two years.When we met at that time, your life must be more beautiful and more brilliant! The old place, the new Oriental, be there or be square. Xu Xiaoping