The new skills also help them change careers. They cross majors to realize their college dreams. Why does Chongming's "sister" major in home economics? turn out to be
“Housekeeping service and management majors not only teach us to do some cleaning work, but also teach us how to get along with others and our families, how to make our small homes warm and make our work smoother.” The eldest sister who said this is 49 years old. She comes from Fukang Village, Xianghua Town, Chongming, Shanghai. She is a driver of Johnson & Johnson Taxi Company and the monitor of Shanghai Open University’s 2021 autumn domestic service and management college class - Shi Jianxiang.
During this year's graduation season, she not only fulfilled her long-cherished dream of going to college, but also obtained two certificates: Senior Housework Attendant and Maternal and Infant Caregiver Certificate. On the 26th, she and other new and old students from the Chongming Class of Home Economics walked into the Minsheng College of Shanghai Open University. This special group of home economics students are not actually housekeepers, but a group of brothers and sisters. They are the Chongming taxi drivers most familiar to Shanghainese.
Compared with the new graduates of Shi Jianxiang, his colleague Huang Fengbo was the monitor of the first Chongming Housekeeping Service College class in the fall of 2014. When she entered school ten years ago, she was just a "big sister" at the Shibei branch of Volkswagen Taxi. According to the "on and off" shift, the bus will leave on time at 6 o'clock every day and will be collected around 1 o'clock in the morning the next day. The working time is nearly 19 hours.
"Because of this high-intensity work, I don't have time to spend with my family, so I want to find a job that works nine to five, has two weekends off, and has a good salary." Huang Fengbo said frankly that working day after day is very tiring. , but still try to find time to study the courses offered by Shanghai University and strive to improve themselves.
God pays off, and after graduating from college, the company happened to be hiring internally among its driver team. Huang Fengbo applied for the job of team captain of Shibei Branch. In the end, his comprehensive ability was outstanding in the interview and he stood out from many applicants. In October 2016, she was exceptionally hired by the customer service center of Volkswagen Taxi Branch and remained as customer service supervisor. After several years of hard work, he now serves as the after-sales customer service manager of the Quality Management Department of Volkswagen Taxi Branch.
A reporter from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News learned that in the ten years since Shanghai Open University, Chongming District Federation of Trade Unions and Chongming District Women's Federation jointly launched the first domestic service college class, a total of 230 Chongming students like Huang Fengbo have come to the city one after another. Study at Kaida University while working, grow and improve, and achieve success in your studies.
"Finally, I lived the life I originally wanted, even better than I originally imagined." Huang Fengbo remembered that in May 2004, when he first came to Shanghai from Chongming to drive a rental car, he was faced with the unfamiliar environment, intricate roads, and all kinds of people. of passengers leave themselves bewildered. So, when she learned that the Chongming District Migrant Workers Service Station was recruiting domestic service college students, she quickly signed up, hoping to master one more skill and expand her employment field. In her opinion, the most important thing is that the learning content of domestic service is closely related to life and can improve comprehensive abilities. "If you have the opportunity to work in the domestic service industry, you can balance family and career, and have time to accompany your children as they grow up."
After enrolling in school, Huang Fengbo found that the learning content was very rich and close to reality. For example, the household affairs management course taught her how to handle tedious housework in an orderly manner; the communication and etiquette course taught her how to communicate politely with passengers; the legal practice course taught her how to better protect passengers and their own rights... With these studies With results as the cornerstone, she has become more competent in her position. She has been rated as the company's advanced driver many times and has also become a glorious Communist Party member.
In fact, if you acquire new skills across majors, you can successfully change careers. After graduating from Kaida University in 2017, Huang Juan, a student in the class of 2017, grew from a supermarket salesperson to a foreman of the cleaning department of an urban public hospital with her excellent professional skills and professionalism; Xu Songyou, a student in the class of 2015, continued to study at school and wrote entrepreneurial stories. Today, He built a "forest track fish breeding base" in Chongming that integrates ecology, landscape, and leisure and recreation functions.
Teachers and students at Shanghai Open University Minsheng College.
There are 42 students in the first Chongming Housekeeping Service College class, with an average age of 35. Ninety percent are employed in the taxi field, and 100% are on the job. Most of my classmates are married and have families. They work hard for themselves and their families. They work and study at the same time. Life, work, and study cannot be left behind.
In the process of serving as monitor of a junior college class, Huang Fengbo accumulated a certain amount of management experience, and the course study gave her confidence and confidence. This hard-won experience laid the foundation for her to apply for a management position in a taxi company. "Opportunities in life are hard to come by, and once you encounter them, you must seize them firmly." She said, "It is precisely because of the knowledge accumulated during those years of studying at Kaida University and the experience of class management that I can firmly grasp them." opportunity." So, in September 2017, she signed up for the administrative management undergraduate program at Kaida University to study and improve her work more professionally, and gradually became a better manager.
In the blink of an eye, in more than a year, Huang Fengbo will retire. She told her younger students, "Graduating from a junior college is only the starting point for you, not the end. Only by continuous learning can you strive for a better life." According to statistics, since the opening of the Shanghai Open University's home economics major, it has trained 3,315 home economics professionals, including modern There are 3,068 students with associate degrees in domestic service and management, and 247 students with undergraduate degrees in home economics.
"As we all know, Chongming is the hometown of longevity, and the permanent residents on the island are mainly elderly people." Interestingly, Shi Jianxiang has always had an idea in his mind, that is, to return to Chongming Island after retirement, open a housekeeping company, and combine theoretical knowledge with practical operations , serve more fellow villagers, take care of their diet and daily life, so that their quality of life can be improved to a higher level, and they can spend a healthier, happier and better old age.
