It's been two years since I graduated from my doctor's degree. I want to briefly talk about my feelings from looking at my brothers and sisters looking for jobs at that time to my own employment and the current situation of my brothers and sisters looking for jobs in the past two years. I graduated from a 985, 265, 438+065, 438+0 university in Sichuan with a doctor of business administration, and now I work in a state-owned enterprise in the world's top 500, engaged in data analysis.

For the doctor to find a job, first of all, let me talk about the current situation I have learned. Speaking of doctors, everyone seems to be full of admiration for this degree, especially as a female doctor, which makes everyone look like a "third person" full of curiosity.

While we are in it, we feel that behind this dazzling aura, there are too many unknown hardships, because I always think that in all my reading career, the doctoral period is probably the most painful and stressful learning experience. Most people think that doctors have such an aura when looking for a job. Are they still worried about their jobs? There must be a lot of offer waiting for us to get lucky, but this is not the case.

I graduated on 20 15. Before I graduated, I saw that my brothers and sisters had a smooth job search. Basically, I sent my resume to colleges and universities. As long as they get good grades and express fluently in school, many two colleges and universities still send them olive branches, and the school can provide them with preparation. Because in provincial capital cities, ordinary colleges and universities no longer provide large resettlement fees.

If you are willing to go to the northwest, Guizhou or Guangxi, you can not only provide hundreds of thousands of resettlement fees, but also provide a house, which sounds very good. Therefore, in my cognition at that time, although the treatment of colleges and universities was average, the conditions in all aspects were very good, and it was indeed a good choice to continue to do scientific research during the winter and summer vacations.

A senior in my dormitory at that time was a special case. When she graduated, she chose to go to the bank because she didn't want to do any more research. I was still confused at the time, but now I think it might be a good choice.

In my third year as a doctor, I began to face the problem of employment.

It seems that this is like a kind of thinking inertia. All my resumes have been invested in colleges and universities, and I started my interview journey. In order to find a job, I began to cast a wide net. As long as it is an institution, no matter what school it is, I have submitted my resume. I began to receive interviews from the school one after another, with resumes and full confidence, and began interviews and trials. Fortunately, I have had experience as a lecturer during my postgraduate and doctoral years, so giving lectures is not a problem.

However, after interviews with several schools, it was found that the requirements of the schools have improved. First of all, they prefer male doctors, second, they attach more importance to returnees, and third, they need papers from SSCI or SCI. Women doctors like us don't have many advantages. However, luck is not too bad. A secondary college of two colleges still extended an olive branch to me. But at this time, I met a female doctor of accounting in a key financial college during the interview. It was this meeting that changed many thoughts behind me.

This female doctor of accounting has a beautiful resume, has a background of studying abroad, and has the same master's degree and doctoral degree, which is exactly the accounting major needed by major universities now, with rich scientific research results. At that time, she chatted with me and said that she didn't want to go to college at all. Her family thought it would be good to be a teacher at school without your support. But in her opinion, her brothers and sisters have basically entered banks and financial institutions, and it is really a waste for accounting students to only enter colleges and universities as teachers.

To be more realistic, a few years later, when classmates get together and ask about their income, they all earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while my annual salary is only tens of thousands, so I can't afford to lose this person. Her idea really surprised me. Doesn't everyone think that colleges and universities are very good? Maybe my major is different, but as a business major, no one seems to tell me that enterprises or financial institutions are a good choice.

Later, I chatted with her and learned about my major. She recommended me to send my resume to my current unit for a try. I really submitted my resume with the idea of giving it a try, but I saw that only three people were recruited, and nearly three thousand people did submit their resumes, and I did not hesitate to withdraw my resume the next day. One is that I feel that I am not a related major, and the other is that I really have no confidence to work in such an enterprise, so I simply quit.

But I didn't expect that on the day when my resume was withdrawn, the teacher of the Dong Department of the unit called me to ask about the relevant situation and reasons. I wonder how a doctor submitted his resume and withdrew. The kind teacher knew my concerns and directly asked me to go to the company for an interview.

In this way, after many interviews and a period of internship, I stayed in my present company. And the school that offered me an olive branch, and I finally politely refused. Because I deeply know that although entering this enterprise is not so consistent with my major, it is not necessarily a good thing to start working and studying again for a period of time. More importantly, the unit is close to home, and the income is much higher than that in school.

I didn't know such a unit could come in until I entered the unit. If I choose to give up, I may never have a chance to experience the feeling of working in it. I may go back to school one day, but I may still go to a college without an undergraduate course. So I signed all the employment-related procedures without hesitation.

When I went back to school and told my tutor and classmates all this, they were surprised and asked me why I had such an idea. This enterprise is really good. How did you get in? Does it have anything to do with family? Actually, I was thinking, I just gave myself a chance to try, which has nothing to do with it, and many times your thinking is limited to colleges and universities.

Now that I have graduated from a doctor, most of them prefer to go to universities and research institutes or continue their postdoctoral studies because of limited circumstances. More seems to have formed the inertia of thinking. Being a "green pepper" in colleges and universities is really not as good as I thought.

First, talk about income.

I saw a post these two days, and the research platform "Little Woodworm" introduced a treatment about "the treatment of domestic university teachers is open". Everyone posts or leaves a message in the form of "province where the university is located+school level and nature+my education+professional title+monthly salary+total annual income".

At least dozens of doctors and masters took part in the activity. From the content, the income gap between different regions is still relatively large. The income in coastal areas represented by Shanghai and Beijing will be significantly higher, and the annual income of subtropical high schools can reach 1.5-0.2 million, and some even 400 thousand, which is estimated to be related to majors. But the high housing prices in this area, with an annual income of 200,000, are really a drop in the bucket. In most areas, the annual salary of young teachers in colleges and universities is generally around100000 yuan, or even less. In Sichuan, the annual income of my brothers and sisters working in colleges and universities is usually less than 65438+ 10,000 yuan, so the reward for scientific research projects is another matter. As we all know, not everyone can apply for scientific research projects and national projects. Even if there are projects, reimbursement is a headache.

After graduation, most people are faced with the problem of getting married and having children, so it is even more necessary for female doctors to start thinking about fertility. Faced with such treatment, if the doctor does not go to a university that can provide a large resettlement fee or housing, he will immediately face the primary problem of buying a house. And we just graduated, really poor, and life seems to have really begun. And this kind of income, the annual income is less than 65438+ 10,000, how to achieve it, the only way is to be honest, or delay the major events at home.

Then, talk about the college holidays that everyone envies.

When it comes to teachers, what everyone admires most is "you have two big holidays". Is that really the case? I used to think so, but after graduation, I found that my classmates who stayed in colleges and universities didn't go around smartly during the holidays. On the contrary, they are using this time to write and revise papers, or do research and write projects. Because only holidays have relatively complete time, and the usual class time is fragmented. In fact, I also have a deep understanding of this during my PhD.

After studying for three years, I haven't had any practical operation in a winter vacation. They are all busy writing a manifesto to their boss, because every spring is the time for the national self-taught social science project to submit applications. In fact, the boss was in a hurry, and he kept revising the manifesto throughout the winter vacation, including the Spring Festival, and had no mind to play around at all.

During the summer vacation, I was also doing my boss's job while writing papers, just like many students felt at that time, that is, I was afraid that you didn't have much mood to play, thinking that the invisible pressure brought by the fact that the papers had not been written and published would put out all the passion. That is to say, during the Spring Festival in the first year after graduation, when the whole family went out to travel, it was not so easy to spend the Spring Festival for a long time. It's a bit incredible, and I don't have to check my email repeatedly, and I don't have to worry about my unfinished report.

Therefore, in fact, if there is no examination system in colleges and universities, especially in many colleges and universities now, most green peppers don't have much energy and thoughts to enjoy these two so-called big holidays carefree. And those married green peppers are busy taking care of their children while doing scientific research, because many family members don't understand that you should take care of your children at home when you have a holiday. It will be better if there is a female teacher at home to take care of the children during the holidays. If the male teacher takes care of the children at home, he has to write a topic, and his wife works outside every day. I guess it's another feeling after a long time. My brother around me has a similar situation, complaining constantly, but it is true. Who gave you a holiday? I can only trouble you to cook at home and take care of the children.

Let's talk about the freedom of time.

When many doctors are employed, including me, they also feel that their time in colleges and universities is relatively free, and they can go home and do their own things after class. In the whole study career, we seem to have become accustomed to this process, which is indeed an inertia. Up to now, I still think it's really hard to work from nine to five sometimes, and I envy those college students. But back to that question, have the green peppers really relaxed during these free time? I'm afraid the answer is no.

Under the increasingly fierce competition and pressure in colleges and universities, only those who have a good family and nothing to pursue, as long as they have a job, will have such an idea, and they are really muddling along at school. Most green peppers are busy every day. On the one hand, they prepare lessons, and are busy with all kinds of things arranged by the school. On the other hand, they write papers to declare topics. In the past, when I was studying PhD, the schedule was relatively simple and I really devoted myself to scientific research.

This is not the case when you really get into work. There are too many annoying things to deal with. And the school will arrange too few classes for teachers. If so, the salary will be pitiful. Therefore, when there is no class, green peppers are constantly squeezing their rest time to write papers or prepare lessons. So it seems that it is not a nine-to-five job, just moving the office to home or other places, and often working overtime willingly.

Back to the topic, from the above three points, it seems that entering colleges and universities is not a good strategy, but why do many doctors around me, especially those in the arts, still want to enter colleges and universities?

I think it is the following reasons:

First, I stayed at school for too long.

From undergraduate to doctoral, if you continue to study, it will take at least nine years Some doctoral studies may take five or six years to graduate, and the cumulative time is longer. Long-term lifestyle has made us form this habit. Compared with the complexity of society, the campus is quiet and simple. Therefore, the doctor is willing to choose to stay on campus and continue this life.

Second, it has been divorced from society for too long.

Just mentioned that staying on campus for too long will inevitably leave little time for social exercise. Many of my classmates have never worked part-time in society and have been living in the ivory tower of the university. I don't know how the outside enterprises operate. I feel as if I can't survive in the enterprise, but I am used to the life of scientific research, although it is bitter and tired. In fact, when I entered the enterprise, I found that, especially in large enterprises, foreign enterprises or consulting companies, doctors are still needed, and professional people are needed to do professional things, and the treatment is not cheap. In my opinion, especially the doctoral students majoring in economic management really need to experience in enterprises and society in order to truly understand how the management and economic knowledge we have been learning is applied, instead of sitting in the library or reading documents on the computer.

Third, I don't really know my heart.

Some students around me are really academic maniacs. They are gifted, forget to eat and sleep, and get excellent grades. It is undoubtedly correct for such students to enter colleges and universities. If they continue to work hard on such a platform, even if the salary is average now, they will one day become big cows and stop worrying about their lives, but it also takes a process. And more students, in fact, are not so passionate about academics. At school, because of the pressure from the boss and the promotion of graduation, they have to concentrate on writing several papers in order to graduate and strive for doctoral thesis. Just like many people start to study for a doctorate, few really love it, and most of them come on impulse or for that title. Therefore, such students haven't decided what to do yet. Everyone seems to send resumes to the school, and they are only step by step. Even after entering colleges and universities, they are extremely painful. Because the current assessment system is undoubtedly like reading a more difficult doctorate.

Then why do the majority of doctors choose to concentrate on colleges and universities instead of casting nets or going to enterprises for experience?

I think there are several points.

First, the information is not clear. At present, the society includes civil servants and administrative organs, and the platform provided for doctors is limited. Even if there is such a demand, the relevant information is not clear when recruiting. This makes the majority of doctors facing graduation not know what they can do in such an institution, and they are very confused and afraid to submit resumes;

The second is the lack of publicity effect. I have come into contact with many consulting companies working in enterprises, and they all have a huge scientific research team behind them, including doctors and postdocs involved in the project. However, when recruiting in schools, the publicity of these consulting companies is not enough, which makes many doctors who have been out of society for too long even more ignorant of the situation. Not only do you not know the existence of such enterprises, but you also don't know how important your professional knowledge is and what role it can play;

Third, I don't know how to use a good doctor. An engineering doctor who joined me some time ago left and went to a college. I was shocked at that time. On the one hand, his entry into this enterprise major is completely counterpart, and he has entered relevant scientific research departments. It is reasonable to say that there should be no job-hopping, but I have similar feelings after talking to him. Enterprises need professionals like doctors, but sometimes there are problems of limited leadership and working atmosphere. If they are not allowed to play a real role and realize their due value, they will naturally not be able to retain talents. Just like a joke on the Internet, a leader asked a doctor what your major was, and the doctor said that you majored in materials science, and the leader said that was good. Hurry up and write my meeting materials. It sounds ridiculous, but there is such a problem in reality. The doctor has to go back to college again, and it seems that he has returned to an umbrella and continued his research life day after day.

Therefore, on the one hand, doctors should get used to breaking a fixed thinking habit, know more about society, know a market situation of their own specialty, and evaluate their own situation before making a choice.

If you really love it, there is no doubt that continuing to study abroad or entering universities and research institutes is the best choice.

If you don't know clearly, your family situation is average, especially if you are a male doctor. It seems that you can consider some breakthrough methods to temporarily put down your peace of mind and ease. Colleges and universities are not necessarily the best choice, but perhaps another choice is the new world.