Chapter 35 Part 5: Ten thousand years is too long to compete

Dear Teacher Xu: Hello! I am a senior student, majoring in transportation management. Originally, I set the goal of going abroad when I was in college, and I worked hard for it for a year. It can be said that I always believed that my choice was right.However, all this has changed since you came to Hangzhou in October of this year (2002) to give a lecture on the goal of studying abroad.I listened to your lectures and felt as if I had been hit hard with a sledgehammer.I immediately bought your "Tuqiong Dialogue" that day and read it over and over again. After reading it the first time, I felt very painful; the second time, it was even more painful; and the third time, I found that my heart was full of emptiness and powerlessness.I asked myself, I was not at all clear about the purpose of studying abroad, and the previous passionate motivation to study abroad disappeared all of a sudden.After thinking hard for a week, I decided to adjust my life path.

From then on, I decided to aim to gain work experience in China first.I was lucky to be hired by Southeast Airlines, one of the largest airlines in China.The path I have arranged for myself is: first obtain one to three years of work experience, then apply to study abroad for a master's degree, and then work in a foreign company.If possible, go to a major airline in the United States to be a representative of the Chinese region. However, my decision was opposed by my parents, who strongly urged me to study abroad immediately.For this reason, I argued with them several times, but no one could convince anyone.So, I thought of Teacher Xu, and I hope you can give me some advice.Am I right?What do you think about my future plans?My parents and I would love to hear from you.

Hope to get your reply as soon as possible.Thanks! Fu Cong Dear Fu Cong: I basically agree with the planning design you have done for yourself.My basis is: whether you are studying abroad now or in the future is nothing more than a time difference of two or three years.In the past two or three years, not only is there no harm to your application for studying abroad, but it is actually more beneficial-when foreign practical schools (professional schools) admit students, they prefer to recruit applicants with several years of work experience!Especially management schools sometimes take work experience as one of the basic conditions for admission.More importantly, the work experience accumulated during this period will become a decisive competitive advantage when you apply for a job after obtaining a degree abroad in the future - because you have experience.This is the employment rule of Western companies—in fact, including Chinese companies that employ people according to the law of talents.

In the end, it's only after working that you know if you really want to dedicate your life to an industry.All industries, with specific positions and functions, require different types of talent.After working, you discover that you are the best at something. At the same time, you will also discover the defects and deficiencies in the industry. These defects and deficiencies are actually opportunities for talents to emerge suddenly and win by surprise.There are talents from generation to generation, where do they come from?from working practice. At that time, it is the best opportunity to consider studying abroad for further study.

Why are people so impetuous now?Including your parents.Postponing going abroad for two or three years, what you gain in China is only experience and foundation; what you lose in your life is impetuousness and blankness; for you to apply for studying abroad, there are only advantages and no disadvantages; and for your employment prospects after studying abroad, it is also decisive. competitive advantage; it is the only shortcut for you to find the career destination of life for yourself. Why don't you listen to me? The only explanation is that the collective unconsciousness of going abroad is at work.The symptom of this attack is to regard studying abroad as the goal, rather than the real goal - career and career outlet as the pursuit goal.Those who regard studying abroad as their goal, instead of taking employment after graduation and studying abroad as the highest pursuit, have no guarantee for their future.

Not long ago, I met a distinguished lawyer in the United States.He graduated from the Department of Physics of Peking University. Immediately after graduation, he went to the United States to study for a Ph.D. in physics.After graduating with a Ph.D., he couldn't find a job. He went fishing in the icy seas of Alaska to catch deep-sea fish oil. After a few winters and summers, he made some money. With this money, he studied for a law degree and finally became a lawyer. I asked him: If you knew that lawyers don't need to fish, fishing is just for fun, would you still study for a Ph.D. in physics?

He said: no.But who knew back then?If I had known that it would be much easier to engage in relevant work in China after graduation, and then go abroad to study law directly than later! This story makes you smile. I strongly support the path you have chosen for yourself.The only thing you should pay attention to is not to have too many illusions about traditional state-owned enterprises, and don't be disappointed by them-because most of the names of traditional state-owned enterprises are disappointments!Take the ills of state-owned enterprises as the subject of your future study of air transportation management, so that after you go abroad and graduate, you will know how to compete with such enterprises—or transform them!

China's reform is deepening.Many areas that no one dared to enter in the past, such as private investment in airports, are now emerging.When you finish your studies and return to China, who dares to say that Chinese people cannot own private airlines?When you go abroad with experience, go abroad with industry questions, study with problems, read with confusion, and then return to China to apply what you have learned, your future will be very, very brilliant! Ten thousand years is a lot, not two years. congratulations! Xu Xiaoping