Young people on their first jobs
July 20, 2012, Friday
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THOUGH society has many doubts about the character, abilities and persistence of the younger generation, many of them appear to be fitting in very well on the job.
Icey Yang, born in 1990, graduated from Shanghai Normal University Tianhua's College in June with a major in communications engineering. However, she had interned in human resources jobs and has been working as an HR assistant since late May. She likes it.
No signs of post-1990s problems or impatience.
Yang is the company's youngest employee and gets along well with colleagues in her small department and her supervisor.
They go to lunch and hang out together, she says.
"The pressure is not too much, and we seldom work overtime," Yang says. "Even if we do, we do it together."
She's not in a hurry to move on or change. "If I'm still in the HR field in two or three years, I may consider getting a related graduate degree while working at the same time," Yang says.
Yang Xiaojun is a 22-year-old database administrator at a company where he interned since last October. He officially joined recently with a degree from Shanghai Normal University in electronic commerce.
On weekdays he usually works from 9am to 6pm, but since he lives far away, he usually leaves home at 7am and returns around 8pm.
So far, everything is going well, but he finds that with a full-time job there isn't much freedom.
"Basically you don't have any time besides the weekends," Yang says.
He occasionally works overtime, two days a week at most, but sometimes he has to work overnight. When the company was shorthanded, there was a lot to do. There was some pressure. That doesn't appear to be a problem.
He liked easygoing campus life, but doesn't plan to go back.
"My coworkers have a lot more experience," Yang says.
"But many things you can't learn in classrooms."
Icey Yang, born in 1990, graduated from Shanghai Normal University Tianhua's College in June with a major in communications engineering. However, she had interned in human resources jobs and has been working as an HR assistant since late May. She likes it.
No signs of post-1990s problems or impatience.
Yang is the company's youngest employee and gets along well with colleagues in her small department and her supervisor.
They go to lunch and hang out together, she says.
"The pressure is not too much, and we seldom work overtime," Yang says. "Even if we do, we do it together."
She's not in a hurry to move on or change. "If I'm still in the HR field in two or three years, I may consider getting a related graduate degree while working at the same time," Yang says.
Yang Xiaojun is a 22-year-old database administrator at a company where he interned since last October. He officially joined recently with a degree from Shanghai Normal University in electronic commerce.
On weekdays he usually works from 9am to 6pm, but since he lives far away, he usually leaves home at 7am and returns around 8pm.
So far, everything is going well, but he finds that with a full-time job there isn't much freedom.
"Basically you don't have any time besides the weekends," Yang says.
He occasionally works overtime, two days a week at most, but sometimes he has to work overnight. When the company was shorthanded, there was a lot to do. There was some pressure. That doesn't appear to be a problem.
He liked easygoing campus life, but doesn't plan to go back.
"My coworkers have a lot more experience," Yang says.
"But many things you can't learn in classrooms."
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