A Chinese professor’s self-deprecating resume which jokingly downplays his many achievements has trended on mainland social media. Photo: SCMP composite
A Chinese professor’s self-deprecating resume which jokingly downplays his many achievements has trended on mainland social media. Photo: SCMP composite

‘Couldn’t find a real job’: Chinese professor’s self-deprecating and humorous resume a social media hit

  • The academic jokes that he ‘recently found it’s easier to muddle through astrophysics than muddling through nuclear physics’ in his resume
  • He is not the only nonconformist, another professor in the same university says: ‘He should not be able to win the Nobel Prize, so he only studies what he is interested in’

A Chinese professor’s self-deprecating resume which jokingly downplays his many achievements has trended on mainland social media. Photo: SCMP composite
A Chinese professor’s self-deprecating resume which jokingly downplays his many achievements has trended on mainland social media. Photo: SCMP composite
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