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Fuck this Chinese job market.
Young people are getting absolutely fucked. No real opportunities, shit pay that barely covers rent, and you're expected to grind 996 like a dog. Overtime is mandatory, weekends are optional, and if you complain you get replaced by the next desperate grad.
Everyone's killing each other for scraps. Involution is out of control — 300 people fighting for one mediocre position, then the winner gets paid like shit and worked to death. Graduates with master's degrees delivering food or sitting on their parents' couch.
Companies treat you like disposable labor. No raises, no promotions, just more work and the constant threat of being laid off. The economy's trash, private sector is dying, and the only "stable" path is fighting millions for a government job that might not even exist by the time you get it.
It's a fucking meat grinder. Opportunity? What opportunity. Just endless competition and poverty wages.
Part 2: what happens when you hit 35
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You thought the Chinese job market was bad for young people? Wait till you turn 35.
Fuck. 35 in China is basically a death sentence at work.
Job posts straight up say "under 35." A study of 60 million Chinese job ads found 35 is the single most common age cutoff. Once you cross that line, your resume goes straight in the trash. It's not that you can't do the job. It's that you're expensive, you're tired, you've got a family to feed, and you're harder to squeeze. Young kids will grind 996, take shit pay, and treat themselves like consumables. The second a 35-year-old starts talking about stability, benefits, or not working weekends, the boss writes you off.
Ten years of experience, led teams, burned your whole youth at the company — and suddenly the market doesn't want you. Either you take a pay cut and do intern-level work, or you get "optimized," laid off, or "graduated." Mortgage, kids in school, and now you're unemployed and living off your parents while applications go nowhere.
Then they tell you to take the civil service exam. Today the numbers came out: 3.45 million people approved to fight for 35,700 jobs. 97 people per seat.
"Improve yourself"? Improve my ass. Government jobs are a war zone, and private companies only want cheap, fresh meat.
This isn't a midlife crisis. It's systematic age slaughter. They drain you dry, then throw you out like an expired consumable. Can't go up, can't go down. Youth sold, value zero.
You thought the Chinese job market was bad for young people? Wait till you turn 35.
Fuck. 35 in China is basically a death sentence at work.
Job posts straight up say "under 35." A study of 60 million Chinese job ads found 35 is the single most common age cutoff. Once you cross that line, your resume goes straight in the trash. It's not that you can't do the job. It's that you're expensive, you're tired, you've got a family to feed, and you're harder to squeeze. Young kids will grind 996, take shit pay, and treat themselves like consumables. The second a 35-year-old starts talking about stability, benefits, or not working weekends, the boss writes you off.
Ten years of experience, led teams, burned your whole youth at the company — and suddenly the market doesn't want you. Either you take a pay cut and do intern-level work, or you get "optimized," laid off, or "graduated." Mortgage, kids in school, and now you're unemployed and living off your parents while applications go nowhere.
Then they tell you to take the civil service exam. Today the numbers came out: 3.45 million people approved to fight for 35,700 jobs. 97 people per seat.
"Improve yourself"? Improve my ass. Government jobs are a war zone, and private companies only want cheap, fresh meat.
This isn't a midlife crisis. It's systematic age slaughter. They drain you dry, then throw you out like an expired consumable. Can't go up, can't go down. Youth sold, value zero.
Fuck this Chinese job market.
Young people are getting absolutely fucked. No real opportunities, shit pay that barely covers rent, and you're expected to grind 996 like a dog. Overtime is mandatory, weekends are optional, and if you complain you get replaced by the next desperate grad.
Everyone's killing each other for scraps. Involution is out of control — 300 people fighting for one mediocre position, then the winner gets paid like shit and worked to death. Graduates with master's degrees delivering food or sitting on their parents' couch.
Companies treat you like disposable labor. No raises, no promotions, just more work and the constant threat of being laid off. The economy's trash, private sector is dying, and the only "stable" path is fighting millions for a government job that might not even exist by the time you get it.
It's a fucking meat grinder. Opportunity? What opportunity. Just endless competition and poverty wages.
China's A-shares are a meat grinder for ordinary people.
China's GDP grew 4.5% last quarter. Since May, A-shares have wiped out $2.4 trillion.
Growth went to exports and factories. Retail sales? +1.1%.
They told you AI is the future. Here's the bill:
Unitree: 1,100 → 405. -63%.
Moore Threads, "China's Nvidia": 770 → 380. Halved.
MetaX: 1,033 → 500. Still not profitable.
CATL: 467 → 220. Halved.
The companies cashed out. Early shareholders cashed out. Retail bought the top and got buried.
So people quit. New accounts -35%. Household deposits +2.4 trillion yuan in one month.
The economy's numbers keep going up. People's lives keep going down.
A PhD from one of China’s top universities sent out 100+ applications. Got two interviews. Zero offers. That’s not bad luck. That’s the system.
12.7 million new college grads this year. Over 3 million cleared screening for the national civil service exam, fighting for 35,700 seats. 85 people per seat. Youth unemployment (16-24) at 18%. You think more degrees mean climbing up? Wrong. It’s hiding from the job market. Can’t get a job with a bachelor’s? Do a master’s. Still nothing? PhD. Now the PhDs are out and the line is longer than when they went in.
The smartest people in a country of 1.4 billion are fighting 85-to-1 for a government desk. Not because they love serving the people. Because it’s the only job that won’t fire you at 35. Private sector treats you like disposable labor. The only “stable” path is that iron rice bowl. Young people are burning their best years on exams and escape.
This isn’t ambition. This is fear. Outside you’re grinding yourself to death, inside people are just lying there collecting. Absolute despair.
I don't know who's out there every day claiming China's economy is doing great.
Here's the reality for a Chinese PhD graduate: applied to over 100 companies, only 2 gave interviews, and none hired.
Undergrads have it even worse — almost all of them are either taking the civil service exam or applying to grad school. Unemployment stays high.
Because of how information gets filtered, the rest of the world barely hears any of this.
Weekday breakfast doesn’t get simpler than this: a 6-yuan shaobing stuffed with pork tenderloin, a fried egg, and lettuce, plus a free pour-over coffee from Atour. The oil, the meat, the egg, the coffee — everything hitting at once. Instant energy for the day.
Fuck this income gap. Consumption’s split into two completely different worlds.
One side’s lining up overnight for the iPhone Duo — that stupidly expensive foldable, starting at around 16k RMB, top configs over 20k. Pre-orders hit 3 million on JD alone, sold out in under a minute across platforms, official shipping pushed to January 2027. People sleeping outside Costco two days early, scalpers flipping them for 2-3k markup. Some treat it like a toy, some treat it like status. They don’t even feel the money.
The other side’s just tightening their belts. Retail sales only grew 1.3% in the first half, people got a bit more income but won’t spend it, savings are stacking up. Cars are dead: September passenger vehicle retail was 1.618 million, down 28% year-on-year, cumulative Jan-Sep down over 20%. Home appliances sliding too — limit-above retail down 4.9% Jan-Sep, full-channel numbers even worse. Restaurants are getting slaughtered, over 600,000 stores shut in the first half, first-tier cities lost more than 10,000 each. Housing’s fucked: new home sales area down 13.2%, value down 13.9% Jan-Sep, investment dropped 20.6%. Regular people think twice about anything over 80 yuan per person for a meal, living off group-buy coupons and cheap spots, phone replacement cycles stretched to 30 months.
Some people stay up all night to grab a 10k+ phone for fun. Most people are delaying big purchases and pinching every yuan. Averages look okay, medians are lower. High earners save and invest, everyone else wants to spend but has no money. This isn’t “rational consumption.” It’s a clean split. One side flexing in queues, the other side downgrading just to get by. Absolute bullshit.
不写代码，我给自己做了一个新能源充换电站选址工作台
做充换电站选址，难的往往不是找到一个点，而是面对几千个点时，知道今天先看哪里、哪些值得继续跟。我是某大厂一线做充换电站选址拓展的业务人员，自己不写代码，就让 ChatGPT Codex 帮我把这些需求做成了一个工具：『选址图谱 · 能源区域工作台』。
1、痛点：点越来越多，注意力却很有限
做区域拓展，既要看具体场地，也要看它所在的商圈、周边已有站点，以及下一步该采取什么动作。如果名称、地址、地图和跟进建议各放一处，每次出门前都得重新拼一遍信息。我想解决的，就是把这些信息放回同一张地图，让自己少花些时间找资料。
2、我怎么让 GPT 做：先讲业务，再讲页面
我给 Codex 的需求，不是泛泛地说"做一个选址系统"，而是讲清楚：我看一个点需要哪些信息，出门前怎么筛选，到现场怎么打开导航。把"按区县找点""看看附近已有站""把今天要看的点放到一起"拆成具体动作，工具才有了明确的样子。代码由它来写，我负责判断做出来的东西是否符合业务习惯。
3、工作台的底子：五座城，八千多个候选点
目前覆盖石家庄、保定、邢台、邯郸、衡水五座城市，合计八千多个已定位候选点，可以切换城市查看。地图用高德底图，支持普通图和卫星图切换，点多时会聚合显示；现有公司站点用 品牌标识呈现，也能一键隐藏。资料概览里可以看各城市的数据规模和资料日期，地图也会提醒：影像不是实时的。
4、怎么看：先分清对象，再缩小范围
工作台有候选场地、现有站、业务板块三个视图，业务板块按商圈板块归集，剔除记录和负样本也保留可查。候选点按建议动作分色：优先推进、优先踏勘、正在落地、储备跟进、暂缓、剔除，打开地图能先看出不同点位的处理方向。再按区县、业务板块、建议动作筛选，或搜索名称、地址，需要时一键重置；想集中看信息，就用宽列表和地图联动的清单视图。
5、怎么跑点：筛出来，再按自己的顺序看
打开场地详情，能看到建议动作、名称地址、区县板块、资料日期和定位状态，也能收藏、加入"今日跑点"，或者一键打开高德导航。"今日跑点"按我自己排的顺序列出要看的点，不会自动规划驾车路线。它帮我把当天的目标集中起来，具体先去哪、怎么走，仍由我结合实际安排。
6、设计取舍：让信息有用，也让边界看得见
详情里放了 Esri Wayback 历史影像参考，方便回看场地变化，但影像只能提供线索，不能代替现场核实。候选点的颜色表达的是建议动作，也不能据此认定一个场地已经具备建设条件。资料日期和定位状态看起来不显眼，却能提醒我：哪些信息可以先用，哪些还需要到现场确认。
7、使用方式：方便打开，也说明存在哪里
这个工作台受邀后凭密码访问，可以装到手机或电脑上当 App 使用，也就是 PWA；分享视图链接后，对方仍需要密码。收藏和"今日跑点"只保存在当前设备的本机浏览器里，手机上选好的点，不会自动出现在电脑上。这个边界需要提前讲明白，使用时才不会产生误会。
8、业务人员做 AI 工具，最需要的是把问题讲具体
这次让我感受最深的，是自己虽然不会写代码，但知道哪些信息必须一起看，哪些操作会反复用，也知道现场判断不能省掉。AI 帮我把这些业务需求变成了能打开、能操作的工作台，我则要持续检查它有没有准确表达这些需求。功能不必一开始就堆满，先把筛点、看点、安排跑点这几件事做顺，就有实际价值。
对我来说，AI 做工具最实在的意义，就是把反复整理信息的时间省下来，多留一点给现场和判断。
#AI工作流 #充换电 #一线业务工具
＃新能源
为什么人到中年总感觉时间过得飞快？
主要是因为大脑记东西的方式变了。
小时候几乎每天都有“第一次”：第一次上学、第一次一个人坐车、第一次交朋友……大脑会把这些新鲜体验认真编码成记忆锚点。回头看，一年里密密麻麻全是标记，所以感觉特别长。
到了中年，日子高度重复：同样的路线、同样的人、同样的工作节奏。大脑为了省能量，会把重复的事自动化处理，不再费力记细节。一年真正留下的独特记忆节点变少了，回头看就像被压缩了，十个相似的星期可能只剩几个模糊片段，于是感觉“嗖”就过去了。
另外还有一个比例效应：对5岁的孩子来说，一年是人生的1/5；对50岁的人来说，只是1/50。同样的长度，在整个人生里占比变小，主观上就会觉得更快。
所以不是钟走快了，是生活里可被记住的新事物变少了。
AI 能不能先帮打工人把报销做了？
做换电站选址，经常自驾跑点。回来还得对着一堆高德足迹截图，逐条抄日期、地点、公里数。
我把这套流程做成了 ChatGPT Codex 技能：丢截图和模板，重建行程、按周拆表、合并细碎路段，生成核验后可提交的 Excel，每笔里程还能追回原图。
最有用的 AI，可能就是替你填完那张不想打开的表。
#AI打工人 #Codex #效率工具
1/4 自驾出差，跑现场只是上半场。下半场是打开高德足迹，一张张截图对日期、抄地点、填公里数，再算费用、拆周报销。人都回来了，表还没填完。
2/4 我给 ChatGPT Codex 做了个「出差自驾报销」技能。把截图和 Excel 模板交进去，它就按证据重建行程、分周整理，把能合并的细碎路段合起来，生成报销工作簿。
3/4 关键是能查账：第一页用于提交，后面保留导航明细、合并来源、通行费和核查说明。每笔里程都能追回截图；疑似重复先标记，确认的往返保留，发现断档也不会凭空补公里数。
4/4 最后还要过核查：截图有没有漏、最后一天有没有漏、合并里程能否对上、公式和打印版式是否正常。需要确认的事项单独列出，确认并通过核验后再提交。
AI 帮打工人报销，这种省事很具体。
#AI打工人 #Codex #效率工具
