Low salary graduate ashamed to go home for Spring Festival
Low salary graduate ashamed to go home for Spring Festival
13:41, January 12, 2010 
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Recently, a post titled "A confessional letter written by a university graduate to his migrant worker father" evoked a lot of hot comments on the Mop BBS.
The writer, named "I am a little cat," says that he is a university graduate and has worked for over half a year. Now his monthly salary is about 1,000 yuan, less than his migrant worker father's.
He usually lies to his parents, saying he lives quite a good life away from home. The Spring Festival is coming, and he is so poor that he cannot even afford a sweater for his mother. So, he lied to his family again saying he will not go home because he might have to work on the holidays.
Many netizens replied, "You are not alone." Some others claimed, "Go home for the Spring Festival whether you have money or not."
A netizen, "Go home for the Spring Festival whether you have money or not."
After this was posted, it evoked a lot of heated moments among netizens, especially among fresh university graduates.
A netizen replied, "All of us often lie to our parents, telling them we are living a good life. We do not want them to worry about us." Many netizens advised the author, "You should stop the white lies and tell your family your true situation. I am sure they will understand." "As children, going home for the Spring Festival is basic filial piety." "Go home for the Spring Festival whether you have money or not."
Some rational netizens also proposed some questions, "Now, a lot of university graduates cannot find a job. What is the reason? Is it that university graduates are fussy and demanding but inept, or is there something wrong with our education, or does our society have problems?"
Experts' viewpoints
About this issue, the reporter interviewed Ye Xianfa, a professor at the Education School in Hubei University. He said, "There is no need to conceal the situation of your low salary from your parents, because you are not the only one with a low salary.
Now, it is a common phenomenon that fresh university graduates find it hard to live independently in society." It is also meaningless to compare a university graduates' salary with a migrant worker's, because different regions have different salary levels.
At present, university graduates should make more preparation for jobs, because they are not God's favored ones any more, but just a common worker with a little more knowledge. "It is unnecessary to fear going home for the Spring Festival. Once you tell your situation clearly to your parents, they will not blame you," said Ye.
Some experts say that, like the parents of the netizen who posted the article, many parents have high expectations of their children studying in universities, and some of the expectations even deviate from reality.
This is mainly influenced by the job assignment system in the past. Parents still believe that their children will become an official or a rich person as long as they study hard, which increases university students' pressure. Parents also need to upgrade their concept.
By People's Daily Online
The writer, named "I am a little cat," says that he is a university graduate and has worked for over half a year. Now his monthly salary is about 1,000 yuan, less than his migrant worker father's.
He usually lies to his parents, saying he lives quite a good life away from home. The Spring Festival is coming, and he is so poor that he cannot even afford a sweater for his mother. So, he lied to his family again saying he will not go home because he might have to work on the holidays.
Many netizens replied, "You are not alone." Some others claimed, "Go home for the Spring Festival whether you have money or not."
A netizen, "Go home for the Spring Festival whether you have money or not."
After this was posted, it evoked a lot of heated moments among netizens, especially among fresh university graduates.
A netizen replied, "All of us often lie to our parents, telling them we are living a good life. We do not want them to worry about us." Many netizens advised the author, "You should stop the white lies and tell your family your true situation. I am sure they will understand." "As children, going home for the Spring Festival is basic filial piety." "Go home for the Spring Festival whether you have money or not."
Some rational netizens also proposed some questions, "Now, a lot of university graduates cannot find a job. What is the reason? Is it that university graduates are fussy and demanding but inept, or is there something wrong with our education, or does our society have problems?"
Experts' viewpoints
About this issue, the reporter interviewed Ye Xianfa, a professor at the Education School in Hubei University. He said, "There is no need to conceal the situation of your low salary from your parents, because you are not the only one with a low salary.
Now, it is a common phenomenon that fresh university graduates find it hard to live independently in society." It is also meaningless to compare a university graduates' salary with a migrant worker's, because different regions have different salary levels.
At present, university graduates should make more preparation for jobs, because they are not God's favored ones any more, but just a common worker with a little more knowledge. "It is unnecessary to fear going home for the Spring Festival. Once you tell your situation clearly to your parents, they will not blame you," said Ye.
Some experts say that, like the parents of the netizen who posted the article, many parents have high expectations of their children studying in universities, and some of the expectations even deviate from reality.
This is mainly influenced by the job assignment system in the past. Parents still believe that their children will become an official or a rich person as long as they study hard, which increases university students' pressure. Parents also need to upgrade their concept.
By People's Daily Online
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