First, students should be clear about the following three points when choosing a major: 1. Accurately estimate your own strength; 2. Identify your interests and specialties; If you don't know what you like, you must know what you don't like. Second, parents' cooperation: information collection, including college entrance examination policies, enrollment brochures of target colleges, school teachers, professional courses and other information. On the last winter vacation of high school, we can finally bid farewell to the hurried life of senior three and return to a warm and happy home. During this short break, students can have the opportunity to communicate with their parents, relatives and friends, review the past and look forward to the future. In this leisurely time, will you consider your life ambition and plan the blueprint for the future? Let's compare our predecessors, know ourselves and define the future. Taking stock of 2007, we will find that the times are changing rapidly: housing prices and pork prices are soaring together, people have to kneel down to learn crazy English collectively, and the promulgation of the new Labor Law has made the employment of college students worse this year ... The increasing cost of living and education, the invisible pressure of entering the college entrance examination, the annual enrollment of college students and the declining employment rate all seem to imply that the train of the times is advancing rapidly, and everyone is trying to catch up with it in order to catch up with the times. At the same time, it is also suffering from the sequela of rapid development-impetuous consequences: colleges and universities have changed their faces and changed their packaging. When I went in, I found that they were just "embroidered pillows"; Today, this normal college runs real estate, and tomorrow that agricultural university will open international finance. As a result, when it comes to employment, it is these "hasty regulations" that are most likely to be "rejected" by the unit; So-and-so major is a hot topic of "strange goods living", and everyone is flocking to it. Four years later, this major has become a thing of the past ... and so on, it is difficult to know which direction the wind is blowing. But if you "don't listen to things outside the window, just read sage books", you can't guarantee smooth sailing in the future. There is also the problem of educational input and output. It is often heard that many college students either complain that their books are "losing money" or complain that they have not chosen "investment" projects. Many students just want to study, not seek a way out. In fact, we should take good care of our stomach and brain, survive and develop, think more about our future, and don't be tempted by false reputation or high profile. Do you choose the one with good employment prospects or the one with great development space? Often you can't have your cake and eat it. Of course, this is an adventure-in addition to personal intelligence and acquired efforts, the so-called "opportunity" is often hidden in our choices. Choose a story Junfeng Gao: Personality can't decide everything. "Everyone has his own unique personality, which is difficult to change, but can be repaired." Junfeng Gao recalled the choice of volunteering for the college entrance examination that year, and was very moved. From a child born in the countryside to the senior manager of Shenzhen China Bank, Junfeng Gao is an example for many students who want to jump out of the agricultural gate. Junfeng Gao in middle school was a very introverted person. He is not good at communicating with classmates, and even blushes when talking to girls. In his inner world, only literature is his spiritual food. "Children from poor families are good at reading, and half of them are born with a strong desire to change their destiny; The other half is helpless, because other entertainment can't afford it, only reading. " Junfeng Gao said, "When I was in middle school, I read many world classics, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, and I was determined to be admitted to the Chinese Department of Renmin University." Junfeng Gao's parents are both native farmers, and they don't understand their son's lofty aspirations. How to fill in the volunteers is up to Junfeng Gao. The day before submitting the volunteer form, my uncle who lives in a coastal city suddenly called and put forward another opinion-studying finance. "My uncle left home early to work in the coastal areas. He is well-informed and has always given people a sense of dignity in our hometown. Our family respects my uncle's opinion. " Junfeng Gao, who has been growing up in rural Sichuan, listened to his uncle's advice and was admitted to the Finance Department of Wuhan University. "Later proved that uncle's opinion is right. The finance major really suits me and helps me find a satisfactory job. If I have been reading literature, maybe I am more likely to fall into a state of self-isolation. " Junfeng Gao said. "Finance is an export-oriented applied discipline. While learning math and economics well, I need to have fluent foreign language skills and fluent communication skills. This major is a great challenge for me to be honest and dull. It is the requirement of this major that forces me to make up for my personality defects. " There is a very important course in finance, which is to conduct simulated investment debate in class. At first, Gao Junfeng stood on the podium, his face flushed, his legs weak and incoherent. But the teachers and classmates didn't give him up, and gave him an extra stove. Several students took turns to listen to his investment simulation speech until he learned to be "straight-tongued" and looked calm. "It is good to try a few times more. Without the enthusiastic help of teachers and classmates, I can't express myself fluently today. " After four years in college, Junfeng Gao gradually overcame his inferiority and cowardice, changed from an introverted rural child to a lively quasi-urban youth, and later worked in a bank. With his honesty, simplicity and progress, he became a bank executive. Junfeng Gao has another view on "Character decides fate": "Now, voluntary psychological testing and orientation are very popular. Of course, it is good for some students with vague positioning, but I don't think it is necessary to define myself accurately in a narrow circle too early. People's potential is infinite, and some choices that don't seem to fit your personality may stimulate your potential and fighting spirit and make up for your shortcomings. " Choose two stories: You can't eat hot tofu if you are impatient. If we say that we met a "benefactor" in a rural area with blocked information, then in 1999, Zhang fell into the trap of "information explosion" when filling in his volunteers. At that time, it was catching up with the upsurge of university enrollment expansion, and various popular and emerging majors blossomed everywhere. Zhang looked up some catalogues of emerging majors on the Internet, and according to his usual achievements, he chose two emerging majors. "At that time, I was really speculative in volunteering. I think so. Emerging majors have just started. If I can enter the society as the first batch of graduates, it will be very popular. " When Zhang saw the emerging major of "Information Resource Management", he realized that the development prospect of this major was very good, so he applied for this major in two batches. Facts have proved that this major is really good, but because the first choice is not online, it is the second choice-Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College (which has been merged by Southwest University). Zhang was a little disheartened on his first day in college. After all, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College sounds a bit unpleasant, not to mention the school is in Rongchang County, Chongqing, a remote place. As an agricultural college, offering this major is a trial stage. The resources of teaching and employment are relatively weak, and the relatively remote campus limits students' ability to broaden their horizons and accept cutting-edge knowledge, which is not conducive to employment. During his four years in college, Zhang mainly studied three aspects of knowledge: economy, management and computer. In short, he uses computer technology to manage, classify and summarize information, and applies it to the operation and management of enterprises and governments. Zhang complained to reporters about the shortcomings of this interdisciplinary emerging discipline: "For example, economic management, the competition is not comparable to graduates majoring in economic management; In terms of information, students who may not compete with computers belong to a' saint'. This is not the biggest flaw. The biggest drawback is the lack of professional support. In some powerful universities, such as China Renmin University, this major is biased towards information systems, knowledge management, information, books and archives management, while universities such as Southwestern University of Finance and Economics and Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics are biased towards e-commerce. They have their own academic background and can implement this major. Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College lacks these valuable resources, so students in this major have the feeling of' hanging'. " "But prosperity and adversity are relative. No matter what path you choose, it is useless to complain about your choice, only to take every step. " Zhang is still grateful for the quiet life at school after getting rid of impetuousness. After seeing the difficulty of his classmates looking for jobs everywhere, he settled down to take advantage of the last year of senior three to take the postgraduate entrance examination and try again like the college entrance examination that year. Today, Zhang has graduated from Yunnan University with a master's degree and is engaged in information management in Chongqing Commission for Discipline Inspection. His undergraduate students, after experiencing the test of difficult employment, have also got a good development space. Because this major has the specialty of management, economy and computer, it is increasingly recognized by the society. It is a major that is difficult to enter the industry but has sufficient stamina. Some of my classmates are engaged in information management in government agencies and information centers. Some are doing computer data analysis of research missiles in the Second Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army; Others enter foreign companies and engage in market data analysis. Choose Story 3: Yuan Yuan: Choose a farsighted major. In 2006, when "My name is Saint Jin Shun" was popular, Yuan Yuan, who graduated from Sichuan Cuisine College, found the same job as Saint Jin Shun-a western pastry chef. When it comes to this job, Yuan Yuan's face is full of smiles. "In those days when I was looking for a job, I looked at St. Jin Shun at night, thinking about how to make her a West Point, and she happily went to St. Jin Shun during the day and showed her talents in several cake shops. Finally, these cake shops all threw an olive branch at me. Hehe, I had a feeling at that time that the golden age of the Western pastry chef profession had arrived. " Looking back on this road of studying and applying for a job, Yuan Yuan is glad of his choice. "When I was in the third year of high school, my grades were not good. Later, when my classmates mentioned the names of key universities, I made a detour. The conditions at home are not good, so there is no way for me to repeat my studies, and there is no way for me to go abroad for gold plating at my own expense, so I chose higher vocational education. It turns out that this choice suits me very well. " In fact, when choosing a school and major, Yuan Yuan's family also had an argument. Mom and dad advocate that Yuan Yuan study secretarial major, and be a clerk with books and points in the future, so that he can keep his income through drought and flood and not worry about finding a job. Yuan Yuan himself has always dreamed of opening a cake shop. Every time she passes by the cake shop, she will watch the western pastry chef "magic" on the cake. In Yuan Yuan's words: "The fragrance of dessert makes me happy." Finally, Yuan Yuan persuaded his parents to write down solemnly in the column of volunteers: Sichuan Advanced Cuisine College, West Point Production Technology. "When I got the acceptance letter, I imagined the scenery of being a Western pastry chef. In the sweet taste, my croissants, cheesecake, caramel pudding and apple pie were filled in the exquisite white enamel porcelain plate ... but I didn't know until I entered school that there were too many things to learn, not as simple as giving me countless cakes at the beginning to decorate flowers freely. We should learn the concept and understand the development history of West Point. Learn materials and know about leavening agents, emulsifiers and dough improvers; Learn to calculate and know the application of baking percentage, flour coefficient and dough temperature. Finally, we began to be arrogant westerners and learned to make all kinds of bread, cakes and snacks. " It is not easy to learn the production technology of West Point, but the satisfaction after learning makes Yuan Yuan not regret his choice. Now, she keeps the record of earning more than 2,000 yuan a month, immersing herself in her favorite fragrance every day and experiencing a happy life like San Jin Shun. When it comes to the choice of majors in higher vocational colleges, what Yuan Yuan wants to share with you is that you must have a vision when choosing majors, and don't follow the trend to learn those too popular majors. Because in these majors, you may not be comparable to undergraduates and graduate students, but in those majors with outstanding characteristics and high technical requirements, you may not be comparable. As long as you come up with the rules of "Tian Ji Horse Racing" and use your own advantages to challenge others' disadvantages, you are the trendsetter in the employment wave.