四十年前的中专生 I Became a Technical Secondary School Student Forty Years Ago

Perhaps due to my old age, I woke up very early in the morning and sometimes I browsed through posts on Baidu. A post was about technical secondary school students in the 1980s and 1990s, and I suddenly thought of myself. I was admitted to a technical secondary school in 1985, and it has been exactly forty years since then.

In 1984, I graduated from junior high school and failed the preliminary selection at the commune level by only 0.7 points. At that time, my family was particularly poor. My father worked in a coal mine, so my family wanted me to become a worker in the mine to relieve the pressure on our family life. Unfortunately, in September of that year, I was still three months away from the legal minimum working age of 16 and was not hired. My father was also a bit troubled, so I had to go back to school again. In 1985, I successfully passed the entrance examination for a technical secondary school. At that time, the rate of being admitted to technical secondary schools was about 1-2%, and the difficulty could be imagined.

I chose a textile school and was assigned to a large state-owned cotton textile enterprise in my hometown after graduation. A vocational diploma was very popular at that time. Gradually, with the changes in the international and domestic situation, the replacement of industries, and the development of technology, the textile industry has suffered unprecedented impacts. The economic benefits of the enterprise declined significantly, and salaries were not paid on time, ultimately leading to the bankruptcy of the company where I worked in 2008.

Even after entering the workforce, I never gave up on my pursuit, nor did I just pass by with my vocational school diploma. I persisted in self-learning English and obtained diplomas and bachelor's degrees from self-study exams. I know that my knowledge will soon become outdated, and even college students majoring in textiles have no advantage today.

In 2002, I made up my mind to leave that textile company and, acutually, I was forced to leave. Looking back now, fortunately I left a few years earlier. Otherwise, if I had stayed in that company for a long time and by the time it went bankrupt in 2008, when I was already 40 years old, would there have been a place for me to enter? I am even a little scared and grateful to those people and things who forced me to leave back then.

The ending of the post is well written. Every era will make some people achieve success, but at the same time, it will also eliminate some people. This is the trend that cannot be changed. The key is that as long as you have worked hard and have not left any regrets, you can feel at ease.

Continuously striving and advancing is the eternal truth.

许是年龄大的缘故，早上醒的特别早，我便浏览着百度上的帖子。一篇帖子在讲述着上世纪八九十年代中专生的事情，我忽地想到了自己，1985年考上了中专，迄今，不也整整四十年了吗？

1984年，我初中毕业，仅以0.7分之差没有通过公社一级的预选。那时家里特别的穷，父亲在煤矿工作，家里人便想让我到矿上当一名工人，以此来减轻家里的压力。可惜，那年的9月份，我距法定最低工作年龄16周岁还差3个月，没有被录用。父亲也有点为难，我只好回到学校里再复读了一年，1985年便顺利考上了中专。那时，能考上中专的比率大概也就是1-2%，其难度可想而知。

我选择的是一家纺织学校，毕业后被分配到了家乡一家大型国营棉纺织企业，中专文凭在当时很是很吃香的。可渐渐地，随着国际国内形势的变化、产业的更替、技术的发展，纺织行业遭受了前所未有的冲击。企业经济效益大幅下滑，工资也不按时发放，最终2008年企业破产了。

即使参加工作以后，我也没有放弃自己的追求，更没有抱着自己的中专文凭得过且过，一直坚持自学英语，拿到了自学考试的专科、本科毕业证书和学士学位。我知道，自己的那点知识很快就会过时的，就算是纺织专业的大学生放到今天来说，也没有丝毫的优势了。

2002年，我下决心走出了那家纺织企业，可以说是被逼上梁山。现在想来，幸亏我走的早几年，否则，如果我一直呆在那家企业，到2008年企业倒闭我已经40岁的时候，我再走出来，会有地方要我吗？我甚至有点后怕，甚至要感谢当年逼我走的那些人和事。

帖子的最后写的很好，每个时代都会成就一些人，同时也会淘汰一些人，这是大势所趋，无力改变的。关键是，只要自己努力过，未曾留下任何的遗憾，就能够心安理得了。

不断努力，不断进取，这才是永恒的道理。

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