China's youths are ditching white-collar jobs for 'no-brainer' work

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Young people in China are giving up high-paying jobs to become baristas and waiters, and they're talking about it online

states that she lives in Guangdong province and that she previously worked at ByteDance, the China-based parent company of TikTok. Insider was not able to verify her claim.

In the post's comments, she explains that she earns an average of $140 a day at her one-man restaurant."I gave up my high-paying consulting job, escaped endless emails, interviews, and PPTs, and started from scratch as a barista with a monthly salary of only a fraction at that time,"The author, who said she holds a graduate degree, went on to say she couldn't derive a sense of fulfillment from her white-collar job.

 

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