In fact, what Jiang Baige said to editor Zhou Zhou were not all lies.

Entering her third year of graduate school, she did have to make some important decisions, especially career-related, because she did not plan to continue her doctoral studies for the time being.

In fact, she actually considered pursuing a doctorate.

In her previous life, she gave up on this not because of her poor grades, but because she naively believed that she should leave the ivory tower and go out into the society to work hard so that her novels could have more "soul".

It’s a pity that she fell so hard that she never got up until her death.

In this life, not only has her mental state matured a lot (after all, she is 35 years old), she also has a certain amount of savings and has made some achievements in writing. It is natural for her to put "continue studying" into consideration again.

Just like Lin Xingran, during the creative process, she also had moments when she felt very lacking and wanted to continue reading to enrich and develop herself.

But there was another thing that "stopped" her, forcing her to put the idea of ​​studying on hold for the time being -

She will graduate in 2019, and six months later, the epidemic that will last for three years will sweep the world.

It was just online classes, and it was even inconvenient to go to the library or go in and out of the school... Was this really what she wanted to do? Moreover, if she wanted to do a doctorate, she might apply to a foreign school.

Therefore, a better option for her is to find a stable job that can even allow her to work from home and prepare to buy a house.

There has always been a lot of debate in society about whether to "buy a house".

Everyone has their own opinions, but ultimately, these decisions must be based on the individual's actual situation.

With the outbreak of the epidemic and the inevitable economic recession, it is the best time for "just-in-time needs" to enter the housing market. Even Anjing, where housing prices have remained high for decades, will usher in an unprecedented wave of price cuts.

For Jiang Baige, she has figured out that a house of her own is the basis for her to write full-time.

And in the past few years, the increasing numbers on her bank card have given her the confidence to seek this... another confidence.

But before all that happens, she has to face the busy graduation season.

The third year of graduate school was busier than she had imagined, and the daily routine of writing and studying was already overwhelming.

Although she has completed all the credits, she wants to take some courses in this life that she did not choose in her previous life. However, if she does not choose the courses, she is afraid that she will not have enough willpower to attend the classes.

In addition, you also need to prepare the proposal for your graduation thesis.

Of course she could take shortcuts and write about the same topics she had written in her previous life, but she was obviously not that kind of person.

Faced with a new supervisor and his research direction, she has more interesting topics, so she will not miss this opportunity.

At the same time, the pressure of finding a job also comes.

After a relatively relaxing summer vacation, September came and it was time for the autumn recruitment. The school’s recruitment fairs were held one after another. When I chatted with my classmates, we all talked about finding jobs and internships.

Jiang Baige also had to start writing her resume, submitting it, and preparing for written tests and interviews.

Her plans for the future are clear: writing is the main theme, and she will never give up, but at the same time, she will not easily put herself in danger of starving to death like in her previous life, so work is also necessary.

Besides, there are many restrictions on buying a house in Anjing, and a "proper" job is a must.

However, she will no longer have the delusion of reaching the value of life through work.

So this time, when choosing a job, she first gave up the state-owned enterprise that had tortured her half to death before.

She originally thought that if she stepped out of the civil service, she would no longer be "within the system", but she was still naive: she just wanted to continuously improve her business and achieve some results, but others always used her as a tool of struggle. Her good work would be taken credit for, and her failure would be blamed for no reason. Just because she did not participate and worked hard, she became the best target.

All this made her doubt herself and she no longer had the energy to write.

It’s not that I don’t write, it’s just that when I write it, it feels more like an emotional release, but there’s no real core that I want to express.

On the contrary, the stories she really wanted to write in this life were actually the ones she slowly figured out after she quit her job and became a full-time writer in her previous life.

So the path she is walking now is nothing more than the one that she did not continue on because of the sudden arrival of death.

As for the wrong one, she would not choose it again.

However, private companies are not her target either, because those companies are very busy even though they do not have internal consumption.

Being busy means getting paid well, which is good, but “meaningful overtime” is still overtime and will take up her time.

If you can't write, you're putting the cart before the horse.

She turned her attention to foreign companies...

When she was choosing a company to work for after graduation, another opportunity came into her sight: a film and television company in Anjing was recruiting interns.

She saw this message on her WeChat Moments. The poster was Han Li, but she was not the recruiter. She was forwarding it on behalf of a friend.

Considering looking for a job, it is of course best to have some internship experience.

Moreover, Jiang Baige has not yet fully considered her future career direction: she only knows what she doesn't want to do and where she doesn't want to go.

If there was such an internship opportunity now, it would allow her to truly enter this industry and make a judgment, which would be a good opportunity - after all, the industries she does not plan to choose again in this life are all those she failed in her previous life.

She asked Han Li about the company called "Buwan Entertainment" and learned that it had in-depth cooperation with Zhao Bi's Blue Entertainment.

Han Li understood the meaning of Jiang Baige's words and was supportive.

Because even if Jiang Baige doesn't work in this industry in the future, isn't the ultimate goal of her writing to sell film and television copyrights? So it would be good to understand some of the operations involved and even make some connections.

Although I'm just an intern, I can learn more than blindly following the crew.

Moreover, Han Li also specifically mentioned that the boss who is not in the entertainment industry is also a woman with great vision.

These words touched Jiang Baige.

Because when Jiang Baige was writing this article about the entertainment industry, she felt the lack of material. If she could enter this circle and meet more women who hold the right to speak, it might give her more inspiration.

After chatting with Han Li, she quickly wrote her resume according to the other party's recruitment requirements and submitted it.

On the other hand, she also made a decision about Nanlin.com: she would renew her contract, but it would still be a short-term contract.

Perhaps because of the possibility of "non-renewal" before as a precaution, the editor was quite satisfied with this result.

Moreover, Zhou Zhou made it clear that in the next five years, as long as Jiang Baige maintains her previous updating speed and status, she will definitely make Jiang Baige's works appear on every list that meets the requirements and is recommended by editors.

Because she hopes that when the next contract expires, Jiang Baige can sign a resident writer.

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