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08.2020 Story

To youth and middle age

Oriental Petrochemical (Shanghai) Corporation / Liu Xianjia
        Born in 85 years, I am also a middle-aged man about to be a senior in the twinkling of an eye

        I was born in a small village in Fushun, Northeast China. With a simple rural flavor, I often catch fish and swim in the river with my friends. At that time, our parents were busy working. When we were young, we went to the riverside farmland to pick some vegetables to eat, and when we were thirsty, we drank freely in the river, and we had a carefree life every day.

        In 1996, because of my parents' job transfer, I bid farewell to the mountains and rivers when I was a child and transferred to school in the city. At first, I didn't adapt to it. I had never seen the video games in the hands of my friends in the city. Before, I only saw football, basketball and table tennis in school physical education in textbooks. Suddenly, I felt out of place when I was not ready for these new things. I feel inferior and ignorant, and I am not tall. I can only speak with my fists with my strength. Sometimes black and blue back home, the family asked, prevaricate said accidentally fell. At that time, there were not many friends, and only two students who were on the edge like me came closer, but I was not unhappy because I could do what I wanted to do every day.

        Slowly, television into our lives, full of temptation of the new world is incomparably yearning for. At that time, I had been studying in primary school for two years in the city. I was about to enter junior high school. I began to make new friends, and made more friends by playing football. I still follow the rural route, and my academic performance is regular. I am neither a top student in the first echelon of the school, nor a naughty and mischievous backward element. However, I gradually begin to be confident in my heart.

        In 2000, Hong Kong culture entered the mainland. When I watched Jackie Chan's "drunken fist" with my father, there was no generation gap at all. After puberty, self-consciousness expands, and the most frequently contacted movies are those of the old fogs. Many high school students follow the lines in the movies, and the small group of more than ten people gradually grows into a large group with class as the unit. Things like seizing the court and fighting happen from time to time. Sometimes hitting people, sometimes being beaten, being injured in the hospital and being criticized by the school are common 。 Although against the wishes of my parents, I used to talk about the loyalty and freedom of my brothers. Now I can't help laughing. As we gradually stepped into the society, the big brother at that time also became the warm man who recommended drugs in the drugstore. At the classmate party, we laughed at ourselves that "heroes don't mention the courage of that year", laughing at our youth.

        Shortly after China's accession to the WTO, economic globalization and the Internet have gradually entered our life, and China is also in an era of gradual opening up. When I was admitted to university in 2004, I could often see the Russians in the school. The whole world was full of temptations. People with self-control would focus on their studies, while others were addicted to the virtual game world for the sake of tribes and alliances. Therefore, the number of students who failed in their freshman year was the largest.

        In the environment of advocating freedom and openness, I graduated successfully. With a simple heart and a dream, I came to Shanghai in 2010 and entered Oriental Petrochemical (Taiwan). The interview scene is still fresh in my memory. My HR colleague asked me, "why did you apply for the chemical industry when you majored in electronic information engineering?"? "I said," I want to stay in Shanghai. The interviewer continued to ask, "what if your major does not meet the requirements of our recruitment?"? "Just out of the campus, I was brave enough to answer," I can learn, I believe I have this ability. On the first day when I entered the factory, Dong section chief took me to the scene for a walk. At that time, he thought that the automation level of the enterprise was really high. He also gave me a very thick disk control material. I spent a day reading it. Although I didn't remember too much, I was full of desire for new knowledge, so I read it over and over again. Section chief Guo asked me to translate the English version of RPF materials. At that time, I only translated according to the literal meaning, and later learned to verify it through practice. In this way, I started from the operator and learned PID. By looking up dictionaries and reading materials, I gradually mastered the professional knowledge in the chemical field. Under the guidance of my predecessors, I learned to draw PID, confirm pipelines on site, and read SOP.

        In the twinkling of an eye, I have been in Oriental Petrochemical (Taiwan) for ten years. Although I am not a veteran employee of the factory, I have devoted my ten years of youth in Shanghai to Oriental Petrochemical (Taiwan). From the Oriental Petrochemical (Taiwan) culture, I gradually improved myself, became more confident, more powerful and went further.  

        I have been addicted, restrained, and learned to persist. Facing all kinds of life for the first time, learned to be brave. Everyone's experience, understanding, personality and positioning are different, wrong and right, good and bad, although tortuous, but as long as the direction of the heart, even if there is pain, can maintain calm.

        After sorting out the memory fragments along the way, I suddenly found that I was not far away from the middle-aged crisis in the separated population. After many years of "Youth", maybe I will "respect middle age" with confidence.

        
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