In the post-pandemic era, I am surrounded by fears that I will lose my job

Last night, I got a call from a friend. Like me, she changed her master's degree from a minor language major to another major. However, she studied business and I studied journalism.

We are currently in the second stage of research. To be precise, there is still nearly a year and a half to graduate. But neither she nor I were surrounded by the fear of being unemployed after graduation.

She mentioned her friends in her hometown on the phone. They had just been employed and faced the risk of being laid off due to the impact of the epidemic, or had already been laid off. The reason given by the company is, "You are still young, you still have many opportunities." The lambs who just entered the society were "slaughtered" like this.

She said with a bit of tears, she thought the epidemic was far away from us, as long as we didn't get sick. But this time, she felt that the impact of the epidemic was so close to her.

A friend of mine, who works for a training facility, has been months behind on wages. She really wanted to go on strike, but thinking about the salary that she had not yet received, the salary that needed to subsidize the rent loan, forced her to continue to work hard.

The original intention of transferring from a master's degree to a major is to escape from the narrow circle of small languages, but it seems to be entering another predicament where there is more than enough. When we seek to land in the vast ocean of job hunting, we find that the grades and scholarships we have been striving for may be worthless in front of HR. What they value is your relevant experience, and what they value is your practical experience. And when our little practical experience can't convince ourselves, how can we convince others.

Initial jobless claims were 4.4 million in the week ended April 18, down 810,000 from the previous week, the Department of Labor said on Thursday. The figure fell short of the 4.5 million economists had expected and was the third straight weekly decline in applications, suggesting layoffs may have peaked.

According to another RFI report, the French newspaper Les Echos pointed out in a report published on April 20 that it is difficult to know the exact number of unemployed people in China. According to China's unemployment data, about 3 million people lost their jobs from December last year to March this year.

From the relevant data, it can be seen that the number of college graduates has an average steady growth of 200,000 to 300,000 people every year. According to an estimate by a Zhihu user, the number of fresh graduates in 2021 is estimated to be at least 9 million. The employment market of 9 million people has become increasingly scarce due to the impact of the epidemic. The employment situation of the 2021 class can be imagined.

Of course, all this is not purely to complain. Let yourself understand the current situation of employment clearly, perhaps to a certain extent, you can push yourself to improve yourself, and then bravely join the battle of Qiu Zhao to fight monsters.