When I was learning to write news stories for lifestyle section, my tutor gave us a topic about dream job.

After 15 minutes’ group discussion, we concluded the dream job as good-paid, of personal interest, with development and personal time. But the real thing is that a job usually processes only one of those four criteria.

Here is the problem: which one is your priority?

When people explained the reason for their choice, they either say “with this one, the other three follow” or “that’s the origin of happiness in life”.

Two months ago, when I went to report a campus recruiting lecture by Morgan Stanley, I found the big hall crowded with students from all majors and all colleges in Uni-town desiring for the extreme job as a finance worker.

As a matter of fact, despite all the articles bragging about how stressful extreme jobs are and to what extent they ruin your life, who dare to say no in the face of their extremely high pays? Though people follow their interests when deciding major, few still stick to so when deciding career.

So who are the few people?

An experienced journalist for a local English newspaper came to give us a lecture last semester. She graduated from finance major of Wesleyan College with full scholarship. A few weeks before she graduated from Wesleyan, she got the offer letter of $6000 per month from investment bank in US, but she gave it up and came back to China. “Cause I don’t like numbers and mathmetics.” she said. One month later, she became an English journalist focusing on pubs, writing ten thousand words everyday.

Another brave guy I know was my ex-supervisor. Holding the two incomparable certificates of ACCA and CFA, he got the offer letter of 10k from an international investment bank upon graduation, but he gave it up with the reason “I prefer interaction with people.” He is doing another extreme job involving interaction with people.

When I asked my friend who majors in finance in a world famous university, she told me her dream job was housewife, so I can foresee myself being a friend of a housewife with world famous degree in finance.

Crazy guys you might say.

I would say happy guys doing their dream jobs.

Here’s my conclusion: only when one is strong enough to get an extreme job, do they obtain the right to give them up------ for dream jobs.

     I just got my feedback for Journalism Writing, high marks on writing skills and language, but low ones for obeying the criteria.

     Instead of feeling frustrated, I am pissed off. In a world where innovation and creativity is highly cherished, why must we strive to survive by following the vague criteria imposed by others all the time?

If you look at the history of journalism, you will find none of the serious broadsheets with strict rules of editing has ever become the top seller. It is always those sensitive cute columns and cartoons that catch people’s eyes. After a whole day’s boring work, who else would care for the even more boring politics stand point or the thousand word arguments about human rights?

We are not living in the world of highly-educated scholars or low-educated fools. We are living in the world of medium-educated and exhausted people who desires for some spices for life. We have our moral and principles, but in an already pathetic realistic world, who else care for the regional conflictions created by those narrow leaders?

What we are striving for everyday exactly is to live a free and happy life in a not that free and happy world.

That’s why I decided to change my blog, from LOTUS WORLD to WORLD OF HIGH BITS. First I wanna live a high life, at least spiritually; second I wanna some where to practice writing to become a columnist, which is my private own choice for my career.

     Yes, I wanna be a columnist. I love cute columns and I come up with stunning points all the time. Last week, when I was laughing to choke by the “wit” column on Bund Picture, my boyfriend asked me, why not write one yourself?

     Yes, why not? When my parents, my teacher, my major and my CV is telling me what career I should follow in future, when my boss read the rules and regulations across the meeting table, I forgot my talent of being innovative and unique, like most youngsters born in 1980s.

     As I realize of so right now, my high life starts right now.

好好的一个聚会因为我过分简单的决定而被搅黄了。

真的很对不起大家，我想是时间好好检讨一下了。大家在一起，即使熟，很多事情也还是要经过大脑思考的。

没轻没重实在是我不好。

对不起。。。我真的是无心的，一定改掉这个口无遮拦的毛病。。。

我真的知道错了，对不起。。。

终于回到市区了，滴汗中。。。

这个周末，被实习的consulting 公司拖去outing了。发现这个老板真是high阿！

刚看日程表的时候，觉得应该还是蛮耗体能，也很好玩的样子。结果发现，貌似超越了我老胳膊老腿的承受能力了。

地点：杭州 山沟沟旅游区

说是旅游区，其实就是在山上砸了石阶的山区。那里还有“农家乐旅游协会”，很多人家都造了小楼做游客住宿的生意。

第一天：

我们7：30赶到了高家农庄，晚饭应该是蛮丰盛的，用农家的铁锅炒的菜有一种特殊的香味。加上土鸡蛋、土鸡汤，觉得特别地香~但是9个人吃7道菜怎么都觉得少了一点。就多吃点饭吧~

饭后老板宣布，8：30出发去爬山。晚上的8：30！

没办法，老板兴致很好的样子。我就9个人6个手电筒踏上了漆黑一片的山路。结果发现，他们去年同样的时间，也是晚上，已经来爬过这个山路了。（他竟然有这么变态的爱好！）我们排成单列，由老板熟门熟路地带着上山。其间有很多地方很窄，往边上看就是低低的溪流，手电筒一个没照到就很可能摔下去。后来回去了才知道，其实我们底下每个人心里都怕怕的：黑灯瞎火的，万一跌下去今天晚上估计是爬不上来了。

在两个小时，我们停息地做了300米的功后，终于爬到了山顶。这时候，左手边有一块牌子画着禁止攀爬。老板好像把它理解为某种挑衅，继续带领我们手脚并用往没有路的山上爬。直到他自己都爬不了了，才停下来，决定撤。

然后呢，回到能踩时的地方开始在黑暗中拍集体照。拍照的时候手电筒都是关掉的，所以我们不知道自己拍到的会是什么，结果，我们就在黑暗中乱拍一气。碰运气吧。。。

值得一提的是，有一条黄狗从我们出农家开始就一直跟着我们上山，然后下山回旅馆。又乖又听话。我们都觉得它是来引路的，怕我们迷了路。后来走的时候真舍不得，好想把它带回家阿~

11：30我们回到了旅馆，解散睡觉。

第二天：

8：00起床吃早餐。

这天上午和下午八小时，我们9个人每人轮流做关于business soft skill 的presentation，大家之前都有很认真地准备过，所以还是很有收获。不过不是很正式，我们边吃零食边听，所以觉得时间还是很快就过去了。

中午的时候我们去了另一个小镇上买米酒和年糕。我不是很懂酒，那里的米酒卖5元/500毫升，貌似还是很贵的。至于年糕就好玩了。我们在年糕的作坊里拿刚成型还没固定的热年糕吃，好糯好Q，真的好好吃哦~~~~~~

就是为了这些年糕再让我爬300米觉得也值！这个愿望在第三天就被满足了。。。

除了酒作坊、豆腐作坊、年糕作坊，还有新四军被服厂的旧址，最搞笑的是新四军的标志是“N4A”-----“New Four Army”。。。。真是无语啊~~~~~~~

另外呢就是沿途的风景很美，都是竹林。这里的竹子太多了，当地人如果不是做旅游的生意就砍竹子做扫帚卖。长长的一根竹竿要20~30斤重，他们竟然能一次扛4根稳稳当当地走在山路上。

晚上6:30 开始“玩游戏”。

先玩一个球类游戏，需要大家集思广益并且密切配合的，为了达到team building的目的，这个游戏玩了两个半小时。其间我们蹲着、趴着、坐在地上，什么古怪的姿势都做过了。才算完了。

然后，再晚上快10点的时候，他竟然要求我们每个人跳绳4分钟！！！！基本上跳完一轮通通趴倒。

修饰10分钟之后，又玩了飞镖比赛和下腰比赛才算完。

晚上11：00解散回房。

第三天：

7：00（！！！）起床。

吃完早饭后8点前就出发了。

去爬山。。。

来的时候我们是7个人做老板的车，2个人做火车的。但是，去爬山的时候我们连带路的老板娘一共10个人挤一辆奥德赛。真是奇迹啊~~~~~~我估计自己的臀围都被挤小了一圈。

光是去山脚的路就已经很扭曲了。陡得一塌糊涂不说，连续的S型的弯道就有15多个，动不动还来一个180度的转弯。我是觉得老板的车真是可怜啊~~~~明明载6~7人的车，载了十个人加上50斤的年糕、冬笋、米酒，还要爬海拔600米高的山路，这还让不让车活了！

老板的兴致好得一塌糊涂。途中还停下来，专门去爬一堆叠石——就是莫名其妙叠在竹林高处的一堆石头（不是人造的）。然后要我们9个人统统爬到大石顶上去。那里完全原生态，既没护栏也没告示，如果一个不小心跌下去，轻则骨折、重则脑震荡。就在这种情况下，老板若无其事地给我们拍了集体照。。。

这天爬的山是没有被开发过的，也就是说——没有路！结果我们就手脚并用地爬了400米的山。山上的土很松，因为有牛bi的当地人，住在山里，把山上的土都翻过一遍，用来种茶。结果，经过3个大跌脚和1个小时，我爬到了900米高的“山顶”。就在我做出胜利的姿势打算拍照的时候，老板娘说我们连山脚都没到。说完，往山的对面一指，说那才是我们计划爬的1900米高的山。。。除了老板，我们全体昏倒~~~~~~ 最后，由于有一片灌木林挡住了路，计划终于流产了。

回旅馆吃完午饭后，我们打道回府了。

在这段时间里，还有一件很好玩的事就是我发现这里的公鸡都很懒。每天10点以后才打鸣，还有下午2点打鸣的。这让我联想到传说中的“闻鸡起舞”好像也不算很勤奋。。。

其实总的来说，这次outing的high是达到了我的期望值，很过瘾啊~~~

虽然不希望经常这么折腾，但是过一段时间折腾一次还是很有益身心健康哒~

教训就是：大家找工作的时候，如果不想被unexpected outing搞得太惨，可以事先了解一下你们未来老板的爱好，免得。。。。。。