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Fengming from Phoenix City: Entering the society ignorantly

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Fengming from Phoenix City: Entering the society ignorantly After finishing four years of study and life in a technical vocational school, he walked out of school and stepped into the society ignorantly. Four classmates and I...

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Fengming of Phoenix City: Entering the society ignorantly. After four years of studying and living in a technical vocational school, I walked out of school and entered the society ignorantly. Four classmates and I were assigned to the Human Resources Department of the Provincial Machinery Department to be assigned. That day, I went to report with my classmates. One of the classmates took a letter of introduction. I just went with him intentionally or unintentionally. I had no special requirements for where I was assigned to work. I had the idea of ​​obeying the assignment and the work would be the same wherever I went. I did not take into account the complexity and hardship in society. The Provincial Machinery Department is located on the bank of Daming Lake. Walking through the streets and alleys, you come to the south bank of Daming Lake with open water. On the left is the Provincial Library, and on the right is the Provincial Machinery Department where I want to report. The Provincial Machinery Department faces south, facing the north bank of Daming Lake. Standing in front of the agency door and looking south, you can see a very open lake. Lixia Pavilion stands tall and graceful in the middle of the lake. It is really a good environment for working and living. A group of five of us took our letters of introduction to the Human Resources Department. Director Zhao of the Human Resources Department personally received us and told us the principle of obeying the distribution. We might target the subordinate machinery factories in the three districts of Dezhou, Huimin, and Liaocheng, and asked us to go back and wait for news. At that time, I stated that I would obey the assignment and work anywhere. I only proposed to visit relatives in the army while waiting for the assignment, and the director agreed to my request. I went home and told my father, "I may be going to another county to work. While I'm waiting for news, the director agreed that I should visit my relatives first and report to work when I get back." My father prepared a beautiful suitcase for me. What I never expected was that during my half-month visit to relatives, four classmates were assigned to work in the county agricultural machinery repair factory. When I returned from visiting relatives and went to the Human Resources Department of the Provincial Department, Director Zhao told me: "You have been left to work in the Agricultural Machinery Repair Department of the Machinery Department. I will take you to the repair department to meet your Director Liu." I couldn't believe my ears. How could there be such a good result? Was it because I said I obeyed the assignment? Or because I am a military family member (my husband joined the army on the eve of graduation), this is a result beyond 10,000 possibilities. Director Zhao and I have never met each other. At that time, we did not know how to rely on relationships and go through the back door. Even after going to work, I did not come to thank you. Soon after, I heard that Director Zhao signed up to support the construction of Tibet and led his family on the journey to Tibet. He is the most admirable leader I have encountered since I started working. On my first day at work, I had no idea about the department or bureau. I heard it was the "Agricultural Machinery Repair Department," and I thought it was just a place to repair agricultural machinery. I wore the overalls I wore during my internship at the factory to work. The director and colleagues all laughed when they saw my attire, and I was even more embarrassed. The director first talked to me about the work and explained the work content of the Agricultural Machinery Repair and Repair Department, which is in charge of the work of agricultural machinery factories and agricultural machinery maintenance stations across the province. Sometimes it goes down to grassroots agricultural machinery factories and maintenance stations to guide work and solve problems. Only then did I understand my work tasks. I was in charge of agricultural machinery maintenance work in agricultural machinery repair factories and agricultural machinery maintenance stations in nine regions, five county-level cities, and 107 counties in the province at that time. We have phone calls every ten days, write ten-day work reports, and report them to the Agricultural Machinery Department of the Eighth Machinery Department of the Central Committee. Some colleagues only contact work on the phone and have not seen them for several years. This kind of cool and boring job is really a kind of torture for me, a young man in his early twenties who is very ambitious and wants to go to a factory to do design work, but I don't know how to change the current situation. In China, 1961 was one of the three years of natural disasters. The only advantage of being assigned to work in the Machinery Department was that you did not have to leave home, and the agency could often distribute some agricultural products (tributes sent to superior supervisors by subordinate companies), which just made up for the shortage of food in the famine years. The family escaped. My parents were very happy because I could have such a good and decent job. I didn't have to leave home to work in other places, and I could take care of my elderly parents at home. My brothers and sisters were all married and single, so I became the only child staying at home. It was also my responsibility to take care of my elderly parents. Young people in the 1960s did not understand human affairs. With the blessing of God, I entered society ignorantly and began my eight years of work and life as a provincial cadre. To use the current fashionable terminology, I am a national civil servant.

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