Breaking employment discrimination, about ＂35-year-old threshold＂
The 2022 "Government Work Report" clearly pointed out that "resolutely prevent and correct employment discrimination such as gender and age, and strive to solve outstanding problems that infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of workers." During the two sessions of the National People’s Congress, the "35-year-old threshold" became a hot topic of discussion among deputies.
Jiang Shengnan, a representative of the National People’s Congress, was quoted as saying: at the age of 35, he is in the prime of his career, and he is also in a difficult stage of his life, with the old and the young. It is neither scientific nor fair to exclude them with only one age limit, and it is a great waste of talents.
Whether you are a young person who has just entered the workplace or a senior migrant worker who has begun to be anxious about age, there are these data that you have to know about the middle-aged crisis of the "35-year-old threshold"-
01. How to deal with the middle-aged crisis in the involution era?
Involution and anxiety have always been symbiotic. Although the average life expectancy is getting longer and longer, Chinese’s anxiety about the middle-aged crisis is getting earlier and earlier. In a survey conducted by China Youth Daily, 71.4% of the respondents claimed that they were anxious about their working age. How to deal with it? 56.9% people said that they should use their expertise to seek a breakthrough, 56.4% people thought that their core competitiveness should be enhanced, and fewer people thought that they should change careers in time to find another way out after losing their age advantage.
02. In some factories, it is too late to be anxious until you are 35.
"35-year-old age anxiety" and "middle-aged crisis in big factories" have come into reality more and more by joking. 35-year-old has indeed become an age watershed in the workplace, especially in Internet companies. Even in some big factories, it is far from enough to start anxiety at 35. According to pulse statistics, as of November 2021, the median age of Didi employees is 33 years old, while Alibaba, Ant Financial and JD.COM are 32 years old, and Baidu and Ape Tutor are even more exaggerated to be 28 years old.
03. Are you anxious about your age under the "social clock"?
Older people often tell young people what to do at what age. Work, marriage, having babies … The world of adults seems to be locked in the established "social clock". Twenty or thirty years old should be the best time in my life, but the questions from netizens in Zhihu are full of anxiety. Is it too late to be married at 26? Can I still take the civil service exam at the age of 29? These problems reveal people’s growing age anxiety.
04. Should everyone follow the social clock?
It’s time to get married, to have children, and to do things at any age. The huge social habit force requires young people to follow the "social clock" to advance their lives. Once you don’t follow the clock, the anxiety of "step by step can’t keep up" will sweep through, and families, parents and themselves will not escape.
05. I feel anxious. I am the most active after learning a new career.
People who are engaged in the preparation of milk tea drinks are called bartenders; Courier and takeaway are collectively referred to as online delivery staff; Taobao anchor is a live salesman, and these "new occupations" are becoming a new choice for the public to choose a job. The nail platform conducted a sample survey on new vocational learning groups, and found that among these people, the post-80s and post-90s are the main force, accounting for 42% and 41% respectively, and their academic qualifications are mainly junior college and undergraduate. Among the respondents, the proportion of post-80s generation who encounter occupational crisis and bottleneck is also the highest.
