Chapter 201 - Ma Yiqun Wears Two Hats (1/2)

Ma Yiqun returned from Boss Pei’s office, feeling less confused than he was before.

When he went back upstairs, he passed by the editors’ department and saw all the young editors vetting and editing manuscripts seriously. These young people seemed to cherish this job opportunity.

As a second-tier city, Jingzhou did not have many tech ventures. There weren’t many internet businesses either. The main source of jobs was in traditional industries. These traditional industries were known for torturing fresh graduates. They were worldly, hierarchical, and boring; most fresh graduates could not adapt to working in traditional industries.

At first, these people lacked direction for their own futures. They could not get recommendations for post-graduate studies, and their academic results did not qualify them either. Yet, they could not find jobs that they were passionate about.

Companies in traditional industries looked down on them, and they looked down on traditional jobs in return. They practically despised each other.

They watched as their own classmates became carefree after securing jobs and post-graduate positions. Some of them had even been offered high starting pays and had become the envy of many.

On the other hand, they did not have a single offer. They faced as many rejections as they did interviews, and they felt like they had already thrown their resumes into the deep sea. One could only imagine the immense pressure they were under.

Initially, some of them were prepared to retake their examinations. Others decided to go back to their hometown. None of them expected the tables to turn!

Coincidentally, a new website was set up. All of them were recruited. What’s more, they landed editing jobs that were slightly related to their majors. Their luck was extremely good!

In the beginning, some of them were unhappy with the job and even despised web novels. However, after interacting with other classmates who were already working, they realized that the job was extremely good!

In Jingzhou, the salaries they were earning were considered high for sure.

In terms of job content, reviewing manuscripts could be dull and tedious at times. However, it was much more interesting than working as an administrative staff in most offices.

On top of this, their boss was young and easy to talk to. The atmosphere in the company was relaxed and harmonious. Everyone very quickly took a liking toward their new job and decided to work hard to transition from being a student to being part of the working class.

When Ma Yiqun entered the office, a small-sized, skinny boy stood up suddenly. “Brother Ma, we have finished reviewing the manuscripts for today.”

Ma Yiqun nodded and said, “Good. Do whatever you want for now. I’ll gather everyone for a meeting later on.”

This boy’s name was Zhu Anxing. He was the liveliest person in the batch of fresh graduates. He was not as autistic as the rest, and he was much smarter as well. He was one of the few editors Ma Yiqun was happy with.

Zhu Anxing’s academic results were horrible. Even when he was about to graduate, he failed three subjects. That was why he proudly delayed graduation.

Considering the difficulty of examinations for humanities majors, he still managed to fail three subjects before graduation. It was obvious how much he hated learning.

Delayed graduation meant that Zhu Anxing would only get his graduation certificate at the end of the year. However, Ma Yiqun did not care too much about this. After all, to him, academic results were not important for determining whether one would be good at editing or not. The correlation was not strong.

This Zhu Anxing read online literature and played games while he was at university. He had a wide variety of interests. That was why he was learning the ropes of this editing job relatively quickly.

Ma Yiqun decided that once Zhu Anxing’s skills were satisfactory, he would promote the latter to become the editor-in-chief of a popular channel. This would take some burden off Ma Yiqun as well.

Ma Yiqun returned to his desk and made some minor arrangements. Then, he invited the good seedlings, who had chances of becoming editors-in-chief, to attend a meeting. There, he briefly explained what Boss Pei had instructed.

In the future, they would ease the criteria for accepting manuscripts. They would also attract authors to write for them with full-time benefits. Their main goal would be to fill the library up.

After that, Ma Yiqun addressed the problem of them not having enough work to do.

People like Zhu Anxing, who were learning quickly about online literature, could start working as editors if they were really needed to. What’s more, since there were very few manuscripts being submitted, they could quickly finish their reviewing work.