We are all the same in the pursuit of our dreams

Chapter 3 Perseverance has invisible wings (2)
Chef's blood boiled all of a sudden, he clenched his fists and knocked on the table, pointed to Knight Yi and said to everyone: "Don't make a sound when you are burnt, continue peeling potatoes, this is the real chef." Then he said to Knight Yi, "Junior At this stage, there are very few people who can peel potatoes like this. The potatoes are all the same size and have seven sides. Excellent!"

Even though the burnt part of his hand was red and painful, and even though there were still scars on his hand, these words encouraged Qi Yiyi.Nothing makes a new student happier than validation and recognition!
Now, Chivalry has been in Paris for half a year and has gradually adapted to life here.

Although the work here is always slow, when they go to the local OFII to apply for legal residence, they can always delay for a long time when they make up the time to issue a house.They are leisurely and leisurely, and sometimes they can't finish a thing in two or three months, and complaints are useless.Chivalry comforted himself: wait slowly, don't rush.

When she was homesick, she would go to the Dazhonghua Supermarket and meet the "goddess" Laoganma; she would stand in line for more than half an hour in the cold wind, just to eat Zhuge grilled fish; she would post her father on Moments Save the scenery photos of Suzhou and appreciate the changing seasons of my hometown.

But what she has always said to her parents and friends is: "Everything is fine with me, don't keep thinking about me if you have nothing to do."

Chevalier experienced a life alone in Paris: her father would never be there when it was windy and rainy. Finish peeling the potatoes.

Living alone inspired her independence, and she arranged a free trip to Taiwan for her mother.In the past, it was her mother who took her on a trip, but now she is taking her mother on a trip, so she doesn't have to worry about everything.

In the past, what she said to her parents was a joke, but now she has more and more right to speak in front of her parents.

Although she is only a 22-year-old girl, she already has a clear plan for the future: she applies to be a teaching assistant at the school while studying, and then plans to apply for an internship in a restaurant to give herself a chance to practice.While practicing cooking skills, experience the ability to live alone.Stay in Paris for two or three years, and then return to China to open a wonderful pastry shop, with delicious pastries, exquisite Western food, aromatic coffee, and rows of good books.

I am very relieved that my knight Yi has really grown up.

Knight Yi has grown into a cook, from a tomboy who loves to wear T-shirts and jeans to a feminine beauty who loves to wear skirts, from a confused girl who can't see the future clearly to a woman with firm goals and a clear life plan independent women.

Although she has not been in Paris for a long time, some things are quietly changing.Perhaps it is called growth, and growth is saying goodbye to the past self and becoming a better self.

If you want to shoot, you have to qualify

Many people like to dream awesome dreams, but when your ability cannot keep up with your dreams, you must learn to lower the threshold appropriately.If you want to shoot, you must first be eligible to enter the field.Only when you enter the football field can you have a chance to play and have a chance to shoot.

One day at noon, I had dinner and chatted with my colleagues. I said, "I haven't exercised much this year, but I lost ten catties." The implication is that I have achieved the effect of automatic weight loss due to busy work.

"Why don't you exercise? You circle our workstation more than twenty times every day."

As soon as the voice of complaining about Zheng finished, everyone laughed.

One day, Zheng asked, "Where did the bibliography on my desk go?"

I said: "I took it home. The bibliography shows the results of my year's work. I sleep on it every day."

Tucao Zheng: "Then you should take a few more books home and put them under your head, it's good for your cervical spine."

I:"……"

For a while, the publishing house that we cooperated with refused to use the title of the book with the word "beauty", and Ding Mo's "Beauty as Stuffing" faced the risk of changing its name.I asked my colleagues if the title of the book was good.

Tucao Zheng took the lead in speaking: "How come there is a sense of sight of Xiaolongbao?"

Everyone automatically imagined Michelle Chen's version of Little Dragon Girl, and the group burst into laughter.

The executive explained in the company group that he will have a physical examination in the morning, and his colleague Jiang said: "I am most afraid of the weight part."

Tucao Zheng said: "The scale will be much lighter on one leg, try it."

A colleague asked Zheng Tucao: "Why are you still not married?"

Tucao Zheng replied: "I'm used to wandering."

I think Tucao Zheng looks like Wang Dahammer in "Unexpectedly".He climbed along the pole, "Yes, he is my long-lost brother."

A female colleague who was obsessed with Wang Dachui deliberately refuted him: "You are not as good-looking as Wang Dachui."

Tucao Zheng smiled and said: "He is not as wretched as I am."

Zheng, who knows how to complain and dares to criticize himself, is the designer of our company. Many of the book covers of great authors are made by him, and almost every book cover has won unanimous praise from readers.Tucao Zheng is very proud of this. When designing each cover, he strives to make unique and different ideas, so that readers will be attracted by the exquisite cover before enjoying the wonderful content of the book.

Being a great book god is naturally stressful, and when complaining about Zheng, sometimes he would say madly: "Who is free now, please push me downstairs." However, no matter how great the pressure and how tight the time is, he always Can withstand the pressure to design a high-quality cover with a score of 90 or more.Therefore, I praised him: "You are really the most resilient designer."

He shook his head, "You forgot to mention the most crucial point."

I wondered, "What's the key?" Could it be that I'm not exaggerating enough?

"I should be the designer with the highest rate of turning heads on the road!" He said confidently.

Tucao Zheng is arrogant again.However, in the publishing circle where Yin is flourishing and Yang is declining, he is indeed a handsome guy.

Working in a job I like, earning a high salary, becoming the designer of the great author, and traveling to places I yearn for every holiday, the life of Tucao Zheng seems to be quite nourishing.

However, he also has a little-known bitter past.

In 2010, Tucao Zheng was 30 years old.It is said that "you stand at thirty", but at the age of 30, his world is a mess.

At that time, he was not a cover designer, but a children's book illustrator.Due to the low price of children's books and the low royalties for illustrators, he can barely support himself with the money he earns.However, his girlfriend at the time had six times his monthly salary, and the two often quarreled because of the huge economic gap.

In order to increase his income and close the gap between him and his girlfriend, at the beginning of 2009, he listened to a friend and resigned to plan children's books with that friend at home.But that friend ran away at the end of the year, and the year-end bonus promised to him in the original contract was in vain.He had almost zero income this year, which intensified the conflict between him and his girlfriend.The girlfriend broke up and asked him to move out of their once loving hut as soon as possible.

After falling out of love, Tucao Zheng found a job in a book company specializing in children's books, with a basic salary of [-] yuan.However, he was fired by the company within a week of joining the job.What made him dumbfounded was the reason for being fired, which was: "You are too old to be a children's book."

He is thirty, and the ancients said, "Thirty is the time to stand." He has lost his relationship, lost his job, and has little money on hand. He is wandering in Beijing alone. What can he do to make a living?
It's not that I'm not sad, but after being sad, it's more introspection.

Is he suitable for children's books?Is there any way out if I continue to mess around in the children's book publishing circle?If he looks for a job again, in which direction will he develop?

The post of typesetting may not be important to the boss of the children's book company, so he was fired so happily by the boss.What else can he do if he doesn't do typesetting or a children's book illustrator?How can he find a job that others think is important and avoid being fired later?
These questions bothered him. Although he couldn't get a clear answer for a while, he felt that it was time for him to conduct a deep analysis of himself.

The same goes for development in Beijing, why is it that some people are so successful, but he is still struggling on the poverty line?Did he go in the wrong direction at the beginning, or did he not try hard enough?
As he pondered, he searched for a new job.

He didn't have much money and couldn't afford a house in the urban area, so he had to go to Tongzhou to rent a house with a monthly rent of [-] yuan.

When he was so poor that he couldn't eat his last meal, a design studio finally offered him an olive branch.This design studio needed a design assistant. Since he had no relevant work experience before, the other party offered him a basic salary of 1000 yuan per month.

Such a salary is not much different from his college internship salary, and it cannot afford his basic living in Beijing.

Are you going or not?

After a little hesitation, he still chose to go.

In the past, it was all about finding a job for money and making a living. This time, he went all out.He decided not to work just for money, but to do one thing well.

He has never been exposed to designer related work before, and if he becomes a designer, he must be a very important person, and a very important person will never be fired.

Holding this belief, Tucao Zheng entered this design studio.

He is eager to learn and motivated, and has a certain foundation in art, and two covers have been recognized by customers.However, when he had a cover that was not approved by the boss of the studio and the client after repeated revisions, the boss lost confidence in him.

That day, the boss called him into the office and said to him earnestly: "It's been two months since the probationary period, and your ability still can't meet the requirements of our studio. I suggest you change careers as soon as you get out. You are not suitable for design. This line."

It was a bolt from the blue!This time, he just wanted to do a good job as a design assistant. He even thought that as long as he could work in the studio for a longer period of time, he would learn more and make progress, so as to get closer to a real designer.However, the boss easily destroyed his dream with a single sentence.

The boss is a senior designer in the publishing industry, his words hit Zheng Tucao very hard.

Moreover, he was fired from two jobs in succession, making complaints about Zheng doubting whether his life was too much of a failure.

The leak in the room coincided with Lian Yeyu. Not long after he lost his job again, his grandmother who was closest to him since childhood wanted to see him before she died.Grandma is in her hometown of Wuhan, and he can't wait to fly back to see grandma for the last time, but he doesn't have enough money to buy a plane ticket back to Wuhan!

The saddest thing in the world is when a loved one passes away, but you can't rush to her side at the first time to say goodbye to her.

He is a person who refuses to admit defeat, and is also a person who does not want to be outdone. When he was poor, he never asked his friends to borrow a penny.

He believes in "Heaven helps those who help themselves", and feels that other people's help is like charity, and he does not need others' charity.

That was the most difficult and lonely moment in his 30 years. No one could help him, so he could only grit his teeth and bear it.I go to the supermarket to buy two steamed buns every day, and I just eat seaweed soup dumplings, pickled mustard, or boil a bowl of instant noodles, and I can cope with three meals a day.At that time, he ate too much and too often, so that now he feels sick whenever he smells seaweed soup and instant noodles.

That period of time was not short, not long, but it was only a few months, but in Tucao Zheng's view, it felt extraordinarily long.

When people are in a trough and have nowhere to go, they always feel that time passes very slowly.

It was that period of time when he couldn't even eat a good meal, which made Tucao Zheng lose weight.Now he always proudly tells others: "I just can eat, and I just have a physique that can't get fat." But who would know that as a foodie, eating was just for him to satisfy his hunger?
He hadn't found the next job yet, and the rent was about to be paid again. When he had no choice but to ask his brother for help.The younger brother lent him 1000 yuan and said to him: "Brother, you really have to find a way to work hard. I will not save the poor!"

When his father learned about his recent situation, he said to him: "I really can't hang out outside, so come back."

He didn't want to retreat, he didn't want to return home like a loser, he didn't want to surrender to Beijing like this.He just wanted to make a name for himself in Beijing.

Tucao Zheng decided to cheer up, jump out of himself rationally, and analyze himself.

Could it be that if the boss of the design studio says he is not suitable for design, is he really not suitable for being a designer?
Is his future told by others?

He calmly analyzes his strengths and weaknesses.The advantage is that he studied fine arts in college and worked as an illustrator for six years, so he has a certain aesthetic talent.The disadvantage is that he lacks work experience and lacks design skills.

He feels that design needs talent and feeling, and he has a natural feeling for design, which is a good foundation and cannot be learned no matter how hard you work the day after tomorrow, but experience and skills make perfect through practice.

First of all, he firmly believes that he can be a designer, and he will continue to work hard on this road; second, due to his current lack of experience and limited ability, he can only lower the threshold for finding a job.Well-known design studios and well-known book companies must have no chance with him, because companies with high thresholds have high requirements.He is not capable enough, so he can only try to find a book company that does not have such high requirements for cover design.

So, he found a book company on Douban.com that designed covers for traditional publishing houses.Compared with book companies with strong market-oriented operations, some traditional publishing houses have less demanding requirements for cover design.

He sent the book company a few covers that he had made in the design studio before, and unexpectedly, the other party fell in love with him immediately.

Maybe it was because the dawn came too late after the darkness, he couldn't believe it.

Later, whenever someone complained that he had a dream but it was difficult to realize, Zheng would say to him: "If you want to shoot, you must be qualified to enter the field. You can only have a chance to shoot if you enter the field to play football. .”

This is definitely his own mental journey. It is precisely because he officially entered the circle of book cover design through this book company that he has the opportunity to make book covers and work hard for the dream of a designer.

Tucao Zheng has worked in this book company for a year, not only has a high rate of cover drafts, but also has been praised by the company leaders and editors of the publishing house.

Amidst the praises, he was not complacent. He calmly analyzed: They praised me because they didn't have high requirements for the cover.

He said to himself: If a person is complacent in a third-rate environment, then he will also become a third-rate person.Because the environment determines the vision and level.

After a year of experience, Tucao Zheng feels that his design skills are becoming more and more mature, and he is fully capable of entering a large book publishing company with a higher threshold and better market operation.

His philosophy is - "either don't do it, or do it best".

It was also a coincidence that a publishing company specializing in social science books happened to be recruiting a cover designer at that time, and Zheng complained about the success of the interview.

In fact, the salary is not much higher than that of the previous book company, but the requirements are much higher, and the working place is far away from the place he rents.Every morning, he has to get up at five o'clock, and it takes two and a half hours to go from home to work.

However, at that time, he was no longer changing jobs for money and making a living. He was doing it for his dreams and to prove his worth.

He told himself: If you want to make money, don't just think about making money.If you want to do one thing well, you will naturally make money if you are capable.

The new company has high standards and requirements for covers. He made 1 cover drafts in the first year, with a pass rate of 3/2, and his pass rate in the second year was 3/[-].

He was making progress and growing, but he suddenly stopped and thought again.

Perhaps the experience of previous failures gave him the habit of being good at analyzing himself.

At every stage, he will jump out of himself and analyze rationally.

If he stayed here, it would be good only from the perspective of work. He has adapted to the environment and rhythm of a large company, with a high rate of draft approval and a good salary.

But if he continues to stay, it will be bad for his personal development.His design level will not be improved, because the cover design of social science books is relatively extensive, without details, and it can be summed up in four words as "big words and bright colors".

(End of this chapter)