What if my parents strongly object to my job as a barista? Should you stick to a career that your parents don't agree with?

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The hottest topic about baristas is "what's the experience of being a barista?" The answers from netizens in the comment area are a stark indication of the living situation of the vast majority of baristas in China.

In addition to the issue of salary, it is more likely that there is no support from the family. Many friends said that their parents were in favor of taking a part-time job in a coffee shop when they were studying.

But when he continued to be a barista after graduation, what he got was opposition. " I don't pay for you to go to college to be a waitress "/" if I had known about this job, I wouldn't have gone to college ". To put it simply, parents think that this career has no future.

As for the opposition of our parents, whether we should listen to our parents or stick to ourselves has become a worry for many friends. For such a question, our first consideration is: why do you want to be a barista? What do you want to do in the future?

Before becoming a barista, many people fantasize that this job is as easy as a movie, and then when they see that coffee shops are willing to accept inexperience when they need to recruit, they will apply vigorously and want to learn how to pull flowers and make coffee. when you go to work in other coffee shops in the future, you will have better wages and better development opportunities.

However, the value of baristas does not lie in technology. Whether a profession can get a high salary and have more development opportunities depends largely on the parties' ability to create corresponding practical value. Good technology is important, but the technical content and difficulty are not necessarily proportional to the income, but the creation of value and income are often proportional.

To develop in the coffee industry, we must first establish a degree of professionalism and let go of our obsession with production technology. Only by letting go of the obsession with hedging coffee can we see more possibilities.

We can think about whether our major of study can bring us new ideas on the coffee road; what we have seen and learned in the past work / experience can support us to create a new path; we can also carefully observe the development and consumption trends of the entire coffee industry, and create more things that mass consumers are interested in.

Most of the time, parents object because they see that many baristas just live in the bar day after day and have no room for other progress. If it is really only because the job of a barista looks easy, so you choose the partner of this profession, please think twice. All the standing still will not allow yourself to make any progress, and a lot of precious time will be wasted.

But if your goal is not just to work at the bar, you might as well sit down with your parents, tell them your choices and reasons and your future plans rationally, and then listen to your parents, which may give us more reference.

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