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# Luo Yonghao's Job Application Letter from Years Ago: Being Awesome Is a Habit

> Lao Luo, who always talks about ideals, has faced many setbacks and failures in his career, drifting between career changes, yet this did not stop him from becoming an excellent teacher and entrepreneur. Here is his job application letter, shared for those who are hesitating.

Lao Luo, who always talks about ideals, has faced many setbacks and failures in his career, drifting between career changes, yet this did not stop him from becoming an excellent teacher and entrepreneur. Here is his job application letter, shared for those who are hesitating.

President Yu, hello:

Let me first compare with New Oriental's latest recruitment requirements:

## 1. **Strong English proficiency, standard English pronunciation**
My English is decent, and my pronunciation is very standard, though I admit it's slightly worse than Teacher Wang Qiang's. Many people with terrible pronunciation (like Song Hao, Chen Shengyuan) can still be brand teachers at New Oriental, so I don't know why this requirement exists, even though I don't have this problem.

## 2. **Bachelor's degree or above, English majors preferred**
I really dislike such snobbish conditions; this should be the requirement of schools like Shili or Mali.

## 3. **Experience in taking TOEFL and GRE**
I took the GRE twice.

## 4. **Teaching experience, especially in the above subjects, preferred**
I taught a pyramid scheme course that was later banned by the state, for half a year.

## 5. **Articulate, strong Chinese expression, standard Mandarin**
Not just articulate, but sharp. My Mandarin is very standard, except I don't pay much attention to retroflex consonants (if I did, I'd make mistakes on flat consonants, so I choose the lesser of two evils).

## 6. **Strong sense of humor, lively and engaging in class**
I'll make them happy.

## 7. **Strong knowledge of life and science, able to cite extensively in class**
Except for Chen Shengyuan, the teachers I had at New Oriental (Zhang Xu, Wang Yifeng, Wang Kunsong) were almost illiterate, though they are still young. In the end, Chen Shengyuan's entire knowledge is just to hide his lack of knowledge.

## 8. **Modern thinking and motivational ability, able to guide students to strive for their future**
New Oriental students are the most cooperative and easily motivated because their main purpose in attending classes is to be motivated. No problem there.

## 9. **Under 40 years old**
I'm 28.

Below is my resume (self-narration):

**Luo Yonghao, male, born in 1972 in Longmen Commune, Helong County, Jilin Province.**

When I was in junior high in Yanji City, Jilin, due to my stubborn nature, I gave up some main subjects I disliked at the time, such as algebra, chemistry, and English. Later, I had to rely on connections to get into the best high school in the area, which is a rare stain in my thirty years of integrity. Because I was incompatible with China's education system and refused to compromise, I dropped out in the second year of high school in 1989. Sometimes I think I yearned for higher education far more than those who muddled through from primary school to master's or doctoral degrees. We all know that Qian Zhongshu scored zero in math when he entered Tsinghua (later confirmed to be 15 points), Lu Jiye also scored zero in math when he entered Southeast University, and Zang Kejia had a similar situation when he went to National Qingdao University in Shandong. Do today's university presidents have such broad-mindedness? Of course, it was years later that I discovered my writing wasn't as good as Qian Zhongshu's, but at least I found out.

After dropping out, I basically educated myself (though my self-education started long before), mainly through books. Because my family was relatively well-off, I was able to read for a few years at a leisurely pace, "alone in communion with heaven and earth."

Based on the belief that "intellectuals need some money to live with dignity" (mainly because book prices were rising), from 1990 to 1994, I sifted sand, ran a second-hand book stall, acted as an agent for wholesale market recruitment, smuggled cars, traded futures, and even went to South Korea on a short-term tourist visa to sell Chinese aphrodisiacs and other supplements. Embarrassingly, none of these made me "a bit of money"; in fact, compared to most friends who struggled alongside me, I was lucky not to have lost money.

**I gradually realized that perhaps I wasn't suited for business, which isn't hard to accept for someone who considers himself an intellectual, unless it also means I'm destined for poverty.**

In the summer of 1994, I found a job at a Sino-Korean joint venture in Tianjin and was sent to South Korea to learn stainless steel spot welding technology. When I returned in the summer of 1995, unfortunately, my sister had also transferred to this Tianjin company and become deputy general manager. To avoid nepotism, I had to find another path.

From August 1995 to early 1996, at the strong invitation of an old classmate who ran a pyramid scheme company (Shanghai Yating), I taught pyramid scheme courses for about half a year, and was deeply loved by the students. Unfortunately, the state chose to ban rather than regulate this controversial business form, so seeing the writing on the wall, we voluntarily ended the business before the mandatory order came down. Because I had fallen in love with Western music (all forms except classical) and had collected about a thousand English records, I started learning English, which I had once detested, while teaching the pyramid scheme courses. I took a three-month basic English course at a local third-rate private language school, but later, because they used various excuses to refuse to pay the bonus they had promised (I sued them, but the court refused to accept the case on technicalities), I had to self-study again.

Not knowing what to do in a small place, I settled in Tianjin in the summer of 1996 (I liked Beijing, but housing prices there were insane), supporting myself by sending computer parts to friends in the northeast and later translating English technical articles on machinery. Due to my lazy nature, I've drifted until now. I want to thank that inexplicable prophecy book "The Centuries" (Nostradamus). Although I'm not superstitious, last May Day, when I saw the famous prophecy "In July 1999, the great king of terror will descend from the sky...", I hesitated. I seriously considered what unfulfilled wishes I might have in my possibly ending life, and found only one: losing weight.

For as long as I can remember, I've been a miserable fat person. Because of my weight, I even had to hide the sensitive and melancholic side of my personality, because fat people are subconsciously expected to be jovial, cheerful, and like Xu Xiaoping. The upper limit of tolerance for a nonconformist fat person's personality is seriousness; anything more, like melancholy, is unacceptable. Although they can't articulate this precisely, when they see a melancholic fat person, they intuitively feel something is wrong. The essence of their intuition is: "You're fat, why are you melancholy? What more do you want? You're already fat." So it's rare to see a fat poet with wide influence, because the public can't accept it, no matter how melancholic his poetry is. Of course, the suffering of fat people is never worthy of sympathy (unless due to pathology or genetics), because they are usually fat due to lack of strong willpower (except perhaps Churchill).

I'm a typical case; my obesity is entirely due to my aversion to exercise. I've had over a dozen failed weight loss attempts, trying dieting, exercise, qigong, and almost all popular drugs, including fenfluramine, which is strictly prescription-only in the West. I suspect my being less cheerful than in childhood is due to misusing fenfluramine. Its weight loss mechanism is actually to reduce appetite by making you depressed; in fact, it wasn't developed for weight loss at all, but to stabilize the mood of patients with mild manic psychosis. I am a serious victim of China's backward drug testing system.

After last May Day, I made a strict plan: eat only vegetables, tofu, whole wheat bread, fish, orange juice, skim milk, and Centrum; run 10 kilometers (25 laps on a standard track) for an hour every day. I'm proud to say I lost 48 jin (24 kg) in just 58 days, almost a jin a day, excluding rest days. **Then I calmly welcomed July, in which nothing happened. After this, I realized I actually have strong willpower. But I don't know what to use it for. The apocalypse didn't come, but the new century did, and 30 was approaching—that's truly unsettling.**

Later, I considered immigrating to Canada, so while researching, I attended a night oral English class at Tianjin University. There were about 20 students and a foreign teacher (often a foreign student) with whom we chatted about everything except politics. After four sessions, my oral English was decent, though still at a basic conversational level; I still needed subtitles for English movies, despite having watched about 600 English films during my four years in Tianjin. **After New Year's, a young friend asked me over dinner why I didn't go teach at New Oriental, saying I'd be a good fit. I said I liked teaching, but what future did a private school teacher have? He said if a job paying around a million yuan a year wasn't a future, then he had nothing to say. I have to admit I was shocked.**

Anyway, I carefully reviewed all the materials about New Oriental I could find, and I felt this job suited me well, especially when I saw Teacher Yang Ji's words on the website: "To be a free and dedicated person is my dream, and New Oriental is a good place to realize it." In my thirty years of lazy but thoughtful existence, this seemed to be the first time I saw a job that suited me and that I was interested in. Yang Ji also quoted Schiller: "Be loyal to the dreams of your youth." I haven't read Schiller; I only know there are two Schillers who could write, and I don't know which one said it, but I'd rather take it as the spirit of New Oriental. I heard that teaching TOEFL and GRE pay similarly, but GRE study is much harder.

**After thinking it over, I chose GRE, after all, TOEFL is for non-English-speaking students, so the satisfaction of teaching is less.**

Of course, I know some young teachers will sneer, "Teaching GRE? That's not scholarship." Well, so be it.

**I probably look like a monster: high school graduate, afraid to take math, yet wanting to be a teacher. But I'm not applying to New Oriental to be a teacher; I'm applying to be an excellent teacher, so don't judge me by common standards. Even if New Oriental's reputation and pay mean it never lacks teachers, I know excellent teachers are never too many. If New Oriental never lacks excellent teachers, then I know even better teachers are always urgently needed.**

**Gong Zizhen urged the Heavenly Lord to "send talents without restriction." If the result of "without restriction" is sending a talent with severely unbalanced development, not comprehensive but very excellent, who will urge New Oriental to "use talents without restriction"?** Think of Teacher Wang Qiang's experience, so I'm here to try to convince you. We all know that American old man thought he was absurd, but he still gave Wang Qiang a chance to meet him, a chance to convince him. So I think all I need is such a chance. Give me a chance for an interview or a trial lecture, and I'll be New Oriental's best teacher, or at worst, "one of" the best.

Source: Zhaopin Recruitment

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