His life really began after he resigned.

　　CCTV News:At ten o’clock in the morning, Zhou Jie opened WeChat, skillfully copied a few paragraphs, and posted them in the WeChat group of "Cai Tuan Tuan 1 Group" on the hour. In the message he just sent out, he used several exclamation points to say hello to the group members. A string of WeChat expressions followed by "Today’s Special: Farmer Strolling Chicken" also made the whole message vivid, even though he was still a little sleepy.

　　Zhou Jie graduated from university in 2018, and then he got a job in Beijing, rented a one-bedroom apartment in Daxing District and started a nine-to-five life. Before the Spring Festival this year, Zhou Jie went home on holiday, and soon after returning home, the COVID-19 epidemic broke out.

　　At first, Zhou Jie spent every day in anxiety, not knowing when the epidemic would pass, let alone when he could return to work. Just in this "idle" "house" life, Zhou Jie suddenly came up with a new idea — — He wants to sell vegetables full-time.

　　Online food and meat sales have been Zhou Jie’s part-time job for the past six months. At first, Zhou Jie’s father contacted several local suppliers of vegetables, meat and poultry, and made a simple WeChat applet to sell online. Zhou Jie just laid a hand on it and didn’t care about this part-time job.

　　Although the epidemic has had a great impact on traditional consumption and industry, it also contains potential and opportunities under pressure. "Home economy" is popular, and "no meeting" has become fashionable. New opportunities are in front of Zhou Jie.

　　At the end of January, Zhou Jie took over the online vegetable selling platform from his father, and he wanted to transform this humble WeChat applet. From contacting suppliers, market research, maintaining the background to distribution and after-sales service, he did it himself, and gave this small program a name called "Cuisine Tuantuan", hoping that this easy-to-remember name can be branded locally.

　　During the epidemic period, everyone stayed at home, and playing games became a "standard" every day, and Zhou Jie was no exception. But gradually, it was hard to find Zhou Jie in the game team. When friends invited him, he always said, "Sorry, I want to get ‘ Dish group ’ I can’t play today! " In the WeChat group of Zhou Jie and his friends, there are more and more design schemes for the "Cai Tuan Tuan" applet page. Zhou Jie always asks in the group, "Do you think this looks good?"

　　In order to promote the applet, Zhou Jie also launched a WeChat group called "Caituantuan". In the process of previous research, he found that some local older customers prefer to buy things in the form of "group purchase", and compared with WeChat applet, WeChat group is more in line with their communication habits. As a result, Zhou Jie sends news of buying vegetables and meat and poultry in the group at ten o’clock every morning, and answers customers’ questions in the group at any time.

　　"Boss Zhou" is a new name for Zhou Jie by friends. Several friends in Zhou Jie are still "trapped" at home because of the epidemic. They are full of envy when talking about Zhou Jie’s "new job". In their eyes, it is difficult for college graduates to be associated with "selling vegetables". No one thought of employment choices, but Zhou Jie took a new path.

　　Xiao Lu still remembers playing with Zhou Jie at the end of December last year. The game was suspended by a phone call received by Zhou Jie. After receiving the phone call, Zhou Jie began to handle the business of "Cai Tuantuan" in the background of WeChat applet. Xiao Lu leaned over and saw that the turnover of "Cai Tuantuan" was 59 yuan that day, and when Zhou Jie was asked three months later, the monthly turnover of "Cai Tuantuan" had exceeded 6,000 yuan.

　　In March, Zhou Jie’s company in Beijing told Zhou Jie that if he could not go to work before March 10th, Zhou Jie would be treated as "leave without pay". Zhou Jie didn’t hesitate for a long time, so he resigned from the company.

　　Neither the job in Beijing nor the online sales platform is Zhou Jie’s career ideal. His English is very good, and he wants to take a teacher qualification exam and become an English teacher. While dealing with the "food group" business, he has bought a set of books for preparing for the teacher qualification certificate and is studying. These days, he also interviewed several English-related positions. Fortunately, a company has sent an employment notice for the position of "foreign trade salesman".

　　For Zhou Jie, with one more effort, life will have one more choice button. Which button will he press in the near future?

　　At eleven o’clock in the evening, CC pressed the button to start the live broadcast. Network anchor is a part-time job that CC has been looking for in recent months. Before doing the webcast, CC had just graduated from university for one year, and his job was to sell household products.

　　The Spring Festival holiday should have been the best time for CC’s sales performance. However, due to the epidemic, offline sales stagnated, and CC had to start to establish online contact with customers and start online sales. However, the effect of online sales is not ideal, and there is no big discount, which can’t attract customers’ attention. Invisible and intangible products will also make customers have many doubts. CC has almost no performance.

　　For CC, the outbreak of the epidemic is more like a boost, pushing him to the career of network anchor. At first, CC just felt that this profession was "capable and interested". Moreover, in the absence of sales performance, he needs to find another job that can support his life.

　　Every night at eleven o’clock, CC will start the live broadcast on time. When being an anchor, he should not only keep an active mind at all times, but also actively throw out questions to keep the live broadcast room quiet, and also have clear ideas to solve the problems that the audience keeps asking. CC found that the network anchor is not a brainless job, but a job that needs "strength" very much.

　　The more energy you put into it, the more interested CC is in the career of network anchor. He has made a plan, and will study vocal music and broadcasting first in the future. With more professional skills, he can better support his anchor career. In the future, the anchor will also become his full-time job.

　　Every night from eleven o’clock to one or two o’clock at night, CC will broadcast live on the Internet, and he will still be doing sales work during the day. His day is fully scheduled. He said: "No matter how tired I am, I have to hold on. This is my own choice. I am tired just to live a better life."

　　The new opportunity was in front of us, and CC felt that she had seized it. (Text/Wang Yuxi)

　　(At the request of the interviewee, pseudonyms are used in the articles. )