China Gen-Zs Are Choosing Blue-Collar Jobs Over White-Collar Work. Why? | Money Mind | Gen Z

China Gen-Zs Are Choosing Blue-Collar Jobs Over White-Collar Work. Why? | Money Mind | Gen Z - Bilingual Subtitles

This civil engineer in China is choosing to work as a cleaner.

When 23-year-old Zhang Wei-Bou graduated from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, he got a job managing construction projects.

But after a few months,

months on the job, several factors pushed him to make the switch from a white-collar job to blue-collar work.

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In September 2023, we board joined a house cleaning company in the eastern Chinese city of Yangtou.

We a number of young people in China who are leaving their office jobs for blue-collar occupations.

What color it means, you have to follow the routines and follow the original career development, and you have to follow your boss.

And those older principles in the routines, the younger generation hate dislike those kind of normal and ordinary lives.

Over 400 million people in China have blue collar jobs and with high use unemployment in a tough job market,

some of the newest blue collar workers are young graduates from China's universities.

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The income gap between blue collar and white collar workers has narrowed over the past decade.

Ten years ago, white collar workers earned, on average, 2.4 times more than blue collar workers.

That has dropped to 1.4.

Four-way bore, the switch to blue collar work, is paying off.

He now earns up to 8,000 Renminbi per month.

It's 1.6 times more than his previous white collar salary of 5,000 Renminbi.

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while the gaps have narrowed, social stigma around traditional blue-collar jobs remains.

We are all in their 20s, and 7 of them are university graduates.

The company's founder, 20, Soon, graduated from Yangtou University with a degree in Computer Science.

and then I just started to do the same thing, and it was the same company.

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The Chinese government has following approach the Chinese government.

Yet the Chinese government has been following approach.

And high These young men have been in the cleaning industry for less than a year,

while they're still learning on the job what they've found at work is a great deal of fulfilment.

As I my Korean well a The team wants to continue building their brand and take it to new heights.

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