Part-time jobs are more important for students' harvest and accumulation, and cheap labor is definitely not in the reference range. But when I started my sophomore year, I actually saw a boy with excellent grades in my class riding an electric car to deliver takeout! We are not familiar with each other, so this question has always existed in my heart. It was not until later that I accidentally became a teammate with him in the school mathematical modeling competition that I finally found an opportunity to ask him why.
It turned out that he was not simply "delivering takeout" at all, but "transforming" takeout.
The take-away service of the university town restaurant is contracted by a special company, and the delivery time is long. Students often have to wait an hour to get their meals, so they are widely criticized. He also found low distribution efficiency. After consideration, he joined a takeaway company as a "takeaway brother" and gradually explored the management system.
Based on the data obtained in the company and his own personal experience, he established a model with the relevant knowledge in operational research. After two months of calculation and improvement, he sorted out a complete plan and handed it over to the company. After small-scale experiments, the efficiency of food delivery has indeed improved significantly. If the top management of the company got the treasure, they wanted to keep him, but he politely refused. The company had to buy his model and scheme at a high price with regret.
I can understand why he didn't stay in that company. His strength and dream wings need a wider world. He said modestly that the company didn't have much optimization, so he took a fancy to his plan. In fact, the model still has a lot to improve. This is just an attempt to combine what he has learned with practice.
I woke up from my dream trembling. Future employment is a real battle, and mistakes are not allowed, let alone uncertain attempts. A part-time job that you can give up at any time is different. Similarly, on the social platform, mistakes can be repeated, and failure is also a valuable experience.
That day, I went back to my dormitory full of worries and saw my roommate playing Excel. She works as a part-time clerk in a company. In fact, I have never been optimistic about my roommate's work in the office. After all, the requirements of statistics are different from those of civilian personnel, and such fine office skills are not needed.
But once again, the facts turned my mind upside down. In the second semester of sophomore year, many people took the office advanced operation certificate, but most of them just crossed the line. My roommate got a high score of 94 points, which fully proved her skillful operation skills. The advantages of this skill are vividly displayed in various activities: her PPT is the neatest and clearest of all the defenses; She can organize and edit the plan book of the student union overnight, in good order; For the homework assigned by the professional teacher, we have to program the book with software to calculate the result, and she can work it out clearly with Excel.
Of course, because of her excellent work, she got the attention of her superiors and got the opportunity to show her professional skills. Statistics is a data analyst. Her company runs a travel website and needs such talents urgently. By analyzing the documents that are usually sorted out, she summarizes the current traffic trend of the website and makes the refined suggestions into clear and beautiful documents. Soon she was promoted by the company with this stepping stone and became the only part-time employee in the R&D department. Whether she will stay in this company in the future will be a bright color on her resume.
Now my view on part-time job has completely changed. Not wanting to lag behind, I also participated in the management of an official WeChat account. In the process of sorting out various background data every day, I found a huge difference between theory and practice. If there is no first feeling, I believe the cost of realizing this after work is much higher.
Indeed, many people around me waste their youth and precious time just to earn some snacks and accumulate some experience in Weibo, but this does not mean that part-time job is a loss-making behavior that pays more than returns. The employment situation of college students is getting more and more severe. Enterprises no longer need a false reputation and have no energy to train young people. They are eager for employees who can create value as soon as they enter the company. It's extravagant to consume valuable workplace resources to improve yourself after graduation. Instead of this, it is better to start from the experimental field of part-time, have a clear goal, apply what you have learned, and stand out from the majority of fresh graduates with skilled skills in future interviews.