Recently, "Exciting Offer 5" guest Zhang Yaqi recorded her "5 hours after working overtime": eating and having meetings after returning home, editing videos while making video calls with her parents, stretching while learning Cantonese, etc. Some netizens commented, "I have to ta

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Recently, "Exciting Offer 5" guest Zhang Yaqi recorded her "5 hours after working overtime": eating and having meetings after returning home, editing videos while making video calls with her parents, stretching while learning Cantonese, etc. Some netizens commented, "I have to take a day off the next day after doing all this" and "I have to do this work for a month." Zhang Yaqi told Jiupai News that everything she does after get off work is based on interests.

After the show, although Zhang Yaqi did not get an offer from a law firm, she accidentally joined a Hong Kong listed company as a legal officer and worked part-time as a short video blogger. Jiupai News found that the update frequency of Zhang Yaqi’s account is once a day or every two days.

talked about "Why did you fail to pass the law exam if you are so self-disciplined?" She said that she had failed the law exam twice in 2019 and 2020, and now has no plans to continue the law exam. "Compared with what everyone thinks I should do, , I think the more important thing is to know what you want to do and move towards the goal.”

Zhang Yaqi. Picture/Photo courtesy of interviewee

[1] Do things based on your own ideas rather than parents’ requirements

Jiupai News: What are your arrangements after get off work?

Zhang Yaqi: My daily schedule is not fixed. Sometimes I go to the gym after get off work, meet and chat with friends, read, watch online classes, shoot videos, edit videos, learn Cantonese, etc. Everything is based on your own interests, which makes it easier to concentrate.

For example, in online courses, I will choose fields that interest me and are related to career planning. Now I read more online courses and books about business, and I prefer Charlie Munger. I don't think I'm a very disciplined person, I just do what I like. The videos posted by the

account do not show my entire life. I really hope to expand my social circle and have in-depth exchanges with people from different industries. Reading also helps me understand different perspectives and understand a more diverse world.

Jiupai News: Can you share some time management methods?

Zhang Yaqi: Stanford professor's efficient work and rest method inspired me a lot. To put it simply, you record and score what you do at different times of the day. The scoring criteria are the happiness and profitability of doing it. Review it after a period of time to distinguish whether it is an immediate pleasure or a long-term pleasure. .

For example, when I play with my mobile phone and watch short videos, I am relatively happy in the first 15 minutes, but after a long time, I feel like I am just watching videos mechanically, which is not real happiness. Then you can give 7 points for the first 15 minutes and 3 points for the last 15 minutes. When reviewing, tell yourself that you can only watch short videos for 15 minutes in the future.

But I never control how long I "play" with my phone. Most of the time, my phone is just a tool for me. When I watch short videos, I will think from the perspective of the creator, what is good about the videos posted by others, and how can I Improvements etc.

Jiupai News: What things easily make you feel tired?

Zhang Yaqi: I quite like my current job, but when writing contracts every day, I have to be cautious, avoid risks, and be highly focused, which can make me feel exhausted. However, I have always been a restless person since I was a child. Even if I am very tired, I want to do other things after taking a break and keep trying new things.

Jiupai News: What was your parents’ education method, and what impact did it have on you?

Zhang Yaqi: My parents are free-spirited, maybe because they see me studying too hard. My mother often tells me not to put too much pressure on myself. It is good to maintain average grades. But most of the things I do are based on my own ideas rather than my parents’ requirements. I can’t help but put more energy into the things I want to do.

[2] I haven’t passed the law exam, but I will stick to self-media

Jiupai News: Why did you choose to major in law?

Zhang Yaqi: There are two reasons for . One is that there are fewer majors to choose from in liberal arts, while law is more professional. The second reason is family reasons. My mother and grandfather both work in the court. When I was in elementary school, I would occasionally go to the court to pick my mother up from get off work.Once I saw a small piece of paper on my mother's desk, which said: "Can the judge not let my parents separate?" At that time, I felt that my mother's profession was very sacred, and it also paved the way for me to choose law. A seed was planted.

Jiupai News: What is the main content of the work?

Zhang Yaqi: I am currently the legal affairs clerk of a listed company in Hong Kong, which also involves finance. The work content includes acquisitions and mergers. I need to learn how to understand the company's business system more quickly, and think about issues from the company's perspective. I quite like this job, because what I have learned now can help me in the future, and I can also get a sense of accomplishment from this career.

Zhang Yaqi is in the office. Picture/Video Screenshot

Jiupai News: It is said online that you have failed the National Unified Legal Professional Qualification Examination (hereinafter referred to as the "Legal Examination"). Is this true?

Zhang Yaqi: I took the exam once in 2019 and 2020. This was the first time because I was preparing to go abroad, so I didn’t prepare much for the law exam. In 2020, I took the test for the second time after undergoing ligament surgery and recovering. Because of the injury, my mental state was not good at the time and I didn't review much. After passing the first round of objective questions, I fell short by five or six points in the second round of subjective questions. Later, I had no chance to take it again because I went abroad.

If you want to become a lawyer in the Mainland, the law exam is of course essential. But I have no career plan in this area for the time being. Even if I obtain the legal professional qualification certificate, it will hardly play any more role in my future career path. Rather than what everyone thinks I should do, I think it is more important to know what I want to do and move towards my goal.

Jiupai News: I learned that you have more than 20 hobbies. Which hobbies are you still continuing?

Zhang Yaqi: My hobbies that I still persist in are making videos and doing self-media. After all, time is limited, so I will try my best to allocate my time to things that I love and should do. Doing self-media is what I love, and going to work well is what I should do. As for other hobbies, I will only do them when I have free time.

[3] So far, I have not made a video with one million likes.

Jiupai News: Why did you start making short videos in the first place?

Zhang Yaqi: I started trying to post videos in 2019. At first, I posted long horizontal videos. In 2020, due to a torn ligament, the rehabilitation was too painful, so I started to post short videos. After watching the content taken by others, I started filming my daily life with the mentality of recording life. At that time, some family members did not understand my behavior.

Jiupai News: When did you start to have the idea of managing your account well and updating it regularly?

Zhang Yaqi: should be when I was in the United States, I often had to cut a 2-hour video to only 1 minute. I didn’t understand anything at the time. It took a long time to cut a video, and no one watched it after I sent it out. So at that time I often cried and shouted that I would never make videos again, but I would continue to make videos the next day.

I think self-media is very similar to starting a business. No one will ask you to do anything, such as what content to post on your account, what topics to choose, etc. You can only rely on your own initiative for everything. So far, I have not made a video with one million likes. This is my future goal. I am still trying new video content and slowly figuring out how to run an account.

Jiupai News: Your self-media account has millions of fans. Have you ever thought about becoming a full-time short video blogger?

Zhang Yaqi: has not yet had this idea, but the future is uncertain. Self-media is very important to me, but at the same time I hope to have another career that I want to pursue. But I very much admire those bloggers who are full-time self-media. After all, it is not easy for creators.

Jiupai News: During the video creation process, do you feel that you are running out of inspiration?

Zhang Yaqi: Of course there will be . I am in a bottleneck period now and the content I create is not unique enough. Because I still have my main business, I have less time to do self-media, and I can’t make videos that require a lot of production costs.If I have the opportunity in the future, I would like to try it.

Jiupai News: Have you ever heard some not-so-good sounds?

Zhang Yaqi: There will be . To do self-media, you need to face the public. When there is more attention, you will definitely hear bad voices. This is normal and something I should face. When "'s heart-warming offer5" was broadcast, all kinds of positive and negative voices came. My mentality was not very good at that time, and it took me a while to adjust.

【4】Choose to try bravely when you encounter something you are not good at

Jiupai News: In the self-introduction of "Exciting Offer 5", you called yourself a "grassroots student studying abroad in Sheniu". From the last minute, I came to China Southern Airlines as an undergraduate and received a national scholarship. Then I went to Boston University to study for graduate school and obtained a certification in international trade law. Can you talk about this experience?

Zhang Yaqi: I studied in elementary school in a county town in Hunan. When I first entered the urban junior high school, I ranked last in my class for the first midterm exam. At that time, I was not very good at studying, and I didn’t know how to study. Knowledge was in my mind. Unable to form a system, I can only memorize knowledge points by rote. In the three years of junior high school, I went from being in the 50s to being in the 40s. I stayed in the 30s for a long time before reaching the 20s. After a little hard work, I finally entered a better class in high school.

But when I got to high school, I became more than 40 people in the class and started working hard in a cycle. When I was a sophomore in high school, my class teacher asked me to be the monitor. I was very surprised, because in my impression, only students with good academic performance can be the monitor. I was afraid that I would be ashamed of this position, so I started to work harder. Later I found out that the class teacher chose me as class monitor because he wanted me to inspire my classmates to study hard together.

Jiupai News: Do you feel tired?

Zhang Yaqi: I was quite tired during my senior year of high school. After I became a student with a dance specialty, I would take the bus to learn to dance at 6pm almost every day. At 8:30 in the evening, I would have to rush back to school for evening self-study, and finally got the dance specialty. The first among students, he entered Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Looking back, in fact, many things will be very tiring before success, and tiredness is often an upward feeling. I also feel tired now, but I know that I am improving and moving forward, and I feel that everything is worth it.

Jiupai News: What about after going to college?

Zhang Yaqi: When I was in college, I received a national scholarship and obtained postgraduate qualifications. I chose to go abroad mainly because I wanted to see the outside world. Before I went abroad, I didn’t know what kind of environment I would face, but I always wanted to go out and see people, get to know people in different places, and experience different cultures and lives.

I was actually quite uncomfortable when I first arrived in the United States. I still remember the first time I met my classmates. We all eat and chat together. Because my spoken English is not very good and everyone chats at a fast pace, I am worried that I speak English too slowly and rarely speak to my classmates, so that they think I am "shy" . But actually, I really want to communicate with them and I am very outgoing. Later, I began to take the initiative to invite teachers and classmates to drink coffee and chat with each other to improve my speaking skills, and then slowly opened myself up.

This experience inspired me. Now if I encounter something that I am not good at, more often I will choose to face it directly and try bravely, so that things become familiar from unfamiliar, and it also has a positive influence on my current work. Very helpful.