After graduating, Nana encountered setbacks in the job market in big cities. He naively thought that returning to his hometown to take the teacher's exam would bring him a stable life. However, he repeatedly failed the civil service exam. While waiting to take the exam again, he worked as a substitute teacher and gradually realized that "lying down" was harder than working hard. Intergenerational conflicts became his reason for venting. When the job market became a competitive environment, seeking stability became a collective anxiety for a generation. He finally shed his self-justification and admitted that there was no way out after repeated failures. The following year, he became a teacher through a talent introduction program. He found that his colleagues were also there for "stability". The so-called "getting a job" was just another way of being tempered in reality.