I can come to work now. There's a dilemma outside, I've just barely adapted to this environment, and now I have to leave again.
Let's analyze the agricultural life status of one person over the past month.
The work is mainly in two aspects, server room network management and company network maintenance. I was trained in the mother company for about ten days or so. Every day, I would just hang out in the office, where I met four others from my batch: Skinny, Wah Choi, Ah Hui, Wang Mengjie, and Manager Shi. Later, I also got to know Engineer Liu Yi, salespeople Mei and Qian, and from the service department, Xiao Sha Zhu. In fact, there were even smaller board members than Skinny, like Super Fat Girl Old Star. I only had a brief encounter with Director Yuan Shu in the meeting room during training. I saw Shi and Super Fat Girl bowing and scraping to him, and only then did I realize he was a major member of the mother company's board of directors.
Super Skinny is quite funny. Waiting can also be a kind of pain. He walks like a little panda that has lost its tail, according to the legend of private servers. In earlier times, people wouldn't dare hit any animals, including tailless pandas. I learned one thing: never joke around behind someone else’s backside, or you might get knocked out by a smelly fart.
Now let's talk about the farming work. As a network administrator in the server room, every day my ID was checked, and they kept checking me twice, making me feel like an ocean smuggler. In the server room, I met three people: Da Han, Da Wu, and Brother Zhi Wei. When I first heard the name Zhi Wei, I was really confused for half a day – how did this small star end up being a network administrator in our server room? The tasks in the server room were endless – it was all about restarting, changing software, installing systems, and setting up hardware. After about ten days at the Xiguan IDC server room, I was summoned back to the mother company branch, thus experiencing my second office relocation.
Back at the company, I started doing my current job, which is company network maintenance. It mainly involves customer-facing technical support. I joked with Fat Girl, saying this is almost like super customer service. This "super customer service" consists of remote connections, pinging, telnetting, restarting, and recording. That's pretty much all the work.
Oh, I almost forgot one person - alluring backend operator Yu Fen. One day, when I went looking for Manager Shi, he wasn’t there. So Yu Fen gave me instructions and made me fill out part-time forms. She was the one who interviewed me and also the one who greeted me on my first day. Even the dragging of luggage, I hear, was taken care of by her. I feel quite connected to her. When I resigned, I found out that another employee in the company was also from Meizhou, and she was younger but already married. Is it true that young women in Meizhou marry early? I don’t plan to think too much about those things; I’m pretty go-with-the-flow.
Let's summarize some life events. Not long after I arrived in this place, my computer broke down, and the whole graphics card had to be replaced. I realized the hardships and helplessness of life. My expensive salary isn’t enough to cover my living expenses, so I had to borrow money. I really didn't want to borrow money from my brother since he just started his own business and needs funds everywhere. But eventually, I still had to ask him for money to fix my computer. Actually, I shouldn’t have bought so many unnecessary things without thinking about the future. I feel uncertain about the future. I used to never use an umbrella when it rained, but then I bought one. Still, I caught a cold after eating Hunanese food and getting drenched in the rain. Shortly after arriving, I also got mouth ulcers, which troubled me greatly. Combined with the computer issues, I was really unlucky for a while. Sometimes, I do miss going home, seeing the abandoned fields, the little mountain by my door, the neighboring kids, and my parents. It feels like a very long time since I graduated from university. Childhood friends have already married early and their kids are running errands. Someone said it well – I'm not young anymore.
I don't know if last month during the Dragon Boat Festival we had a real vacation. If we did, I should go home for a visit. I want to see the big cat left by my grandfather that doesn't catch mice.
Every time I come to a new place, I meet many new people. I believe in human nature being inherently good. Don't calculate personal gains and losses too much. For every gain, there is a loss. Also, pay attention to how you speak – don’t be unreasonable and unyielding. Where forgiveness is possible, forgive. To achieve great things, one must be free-spirited and have principles, even though I personally detest rules. Skills can be learned, and time can be managed. Don't spend your days stealing vegetables online. If your graphics card can't play games, then don't play them. This is probably the most valuable part of my experience over the past month.