My New Year's Holidays Time Off? You Got To Be Joking!

Spring Festival Chinese New Year has is the longest holiday time off for the holidays in China.  Legally (or Publically) , we have 7 days off.  This period starts on the Eve to the sixth day.   , from the day before Chinese New Year to the Sixth Day of the New Year. As for students, it can be more  may be long than a month. However, I have no such luxury.  to me, it's not that long.

Today is the fourth day of Chinese the New Year (大年初四).   there comes the noise of firecrackers, and the shine of the fireworks On can still hear the sound of firecrackers and watch the brilliance of the fireworks. Others may be sitting around their family table, or ; watching TV on the comfortable couch , or playing having a gay old time with their close friends. However, I have been working for two days, and now I am now sitting in the doctor's office, on a my grave shift. Being a doctor means you are no longer a free man. You can never have your own time; , never have your right to enjoy your holidays, and even never have your Sundays off. Just have your Same old daytime and night shifts over and over again. The only time of your own is the residuary half day when you off from the grave shift: night shift. However, Whatever free time I have... Who are able to can have fun after a grave shift?

My hometown is a small village in Baoding, 150 kilometers northwest of Beijing. If I To go back to my hometown, first, I have to take a train from Shenyang to Beijing.  , and Then a transfer to a coach to Baoding, and then transfer to taking a bus to my hometown. It takes me nearly Takes almost an entire day to get home.  This means , and two days for a round trip , which can ruin any long is not practical at all for any short holidays. And also it is really a terrible thing to join the Chinese New Year Traffic, the biggest migration all over the world, it's hard to get a ticket, and it's hard to get a seat on the train. I don't have enough time to risk it, and what's more, I am a doctor, and never have a seven-day's holiday. Not only that, think of all the traffic mess.  During Chinese New Year, it is the largest migration of people in the world.  Tickets are hard to get by and being a doctor, I have no such luxury such as a week's off.

I haven't gone back home at Spring Festival for two years. For two years, I have not been back during the New Year.  I miss my hometown. I hope that one day I can be lead a normal life enjoying the holidays like everyone else. people with his right to enjoy all of his holidays and Sundays.

Perhaps you are at the lowest pecking order or that you are still in residency, you can change your life.  Why live in Beijing?  I am sure people do get sick in your hometown!  Perhaps your area is so specialized that you can't find a job there?  Whatever the case is, there is an English saying, "When gotten a lemon, make lemonade!".  Use your down time and improve your English.  Write, write and write.  I certainly believe that mastering this language will get you out of the rut you have!  You may even come to the US to teach traditional Chinese medicine.  Those can't even speak English!  So either arm yourself with what I suggested or pursue higher levels in your field and escape.