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“Sorry, your education does not meet our minimum requirements.”
This phrase is like a standardized caliper, coldly measuring every electrical engineer with a diploma from a vocational school. It cannot quantify how standard your drawings are, how exquisite your PLC programs are, nor how many all-nighters you have pulled beside the equipment to troubleshoot failures.
We admit that at the first hurdle of job hunting,we lost to education. This is a race where you see the finish line before it even starts, and the sound of resumes being tossed into the “unqualified” trash bin is crisp and jarring.
But please, come into the workshop and see for yourselves!
See who is sweating profusely in over thirty-degree heat, wiring and debugging; see who is the first to rush in when the equipment suddenly breaks down, judging which servo motor has failed based solely on a faint noise; see who, faced with a manual written in incomprehensible English, struggles with a dictionary to grasp the principles of newly imported equipment.
Here, we have never lost to ability.
Ability is getting dirty while climbing high and digging deep, yet achieving the satisfaction of making the equipment roar back to life; ability is learning skills from experienced workers and integrating them into your own methodology; ability is the determination and tenacity to tackle technical challenges you’ve never encountered before.
Education is just a piece of paper; ability is our true skill for survival.
We do not need sympathy; we only need areal opportunity to compete with our skills. We hope that next time, what measures us will be the multimeter in our hands, not the words on our diplomas.
Brothers, do you feel this way?
You can write thousands of steps of sequential control programs for complex PLC systems, make the S7-1200 and ABB robots work perfectly together, and resolve various bizarre faults like communication interruptions and analog signal jumps. In your hands, even the most unruly equipment must obey.
Yet, you cannot overcome thatinvisible but incredibly hard “threshold of education”.
PLC faults have error codes, manuals to consult, and forums to ask. If the logic is clear and the wiring is correct, the problem is solved.
But the “threshold of education” is a bug with no logic. It does not consider how many faults you have resolved or how much downtime cost you have saved for the company; it simply exists, like an air wall, ruthlessly separating you from your desired position and rightful compensation.
We can repair precision machines, yet we cannot level this artificially set hurdle. This is a profound sense of powerlessness.
But do we just give up? No.
Because we are engineers,the duty of an engineer is to solve problems. We cannot level the threshold, but we can choose to overcome it or make ourselves strong enough to disregard it. Keep learning, keep accumulating, and with impeccable ability, let that threshold become irrelevant before you.
Sorry, our college entrance examination scores were a bit low. So, we missed out on a few prestigious universities and could not make our resumes shine at first glance. This is our original “sin”.
Sorry, we may lack depth in theory. When you are discussing the advanced applications of Maxwell’s equations, we might be tightening the last screw in the distribution cabinet, ensuring the production line starts on time.
Sorry, we lowered the company’s “average education level”. In those dazzling annual reports and recruitment ads, we are the numbers that need to be “averaged” out, the silent foundation beneath the glamorous facade.
However, what we never say sorry for is:
Sorry, we fixed that machine that had been down for three days and no one could solve.
Sorry, we worked several all-nighters to meet project deadlines.
Sorry, we created real value with the tools in our hands and the knowledge in our heads.
This “sorry” is self-deprecating, a form of resistance, and a reminder:the world should not measure everyone with a single standard.
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