The workplace is so cruel, there is no qualitative leap in the previous decade, and it is destined to be surpassed by the younger generation.

Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Lie language beauty” (ID: crystal_words)< /a>, author Zhao Xiaoli.

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The variety show “Actors in Place”, which was screened by various trailers before the broadcast, was finally aired a few days ago.

In the recent issue, there has been no bubbling of Ming Dao for a long time, and many viewers are delighted.

In the first actor battle, Ming Dao and Chen Ruoxuan starred in a fragment of “The Icebreaking Action”, Ming Dao Lin Can, Chen Ruoxuan played Li Fei, and the two men hijacked the other father’s confrontation.

Surprisingly, compared with Chen Ruoxuan, who has been debuting for 15 years and debuting for 5 years, there is no significant advantage in acting. It can even be said to be “eight pounds to eight two.”

Especially in terms of body language, Mingdao clearly revealed the side of “unprofessional”: Lin Can, who should have pointed a gun at Zhao Jialiang, was moved away from Zhao Jialiang by Ming Dao, and did not pay attention to whether Zhao Jialiang Will run away, once escaping, this awkward posture is too late to aim at the shot.

15 years of debut in the road: Li Shaohong's words, broke the truth of the middle-aged crisis in the workplace

(Mingdao Guns~)

When Li Shaohong commented on it, he also pointed out the unprofessional language of Mingdao.

15 years of debut in the debut: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth about the mid-life crisis in the workplace

(李少红评论~)

Some people say that it’s probably more of an idol drama, which led to Ming’s not being able to control this kind of smoky character; but in any case, as a professional actor who debuted for 15 years, the acting is not professional. It was a hard injury.

It’s even more so in the workplace.

In my opinion, the so-called “middle-age crisis” is precisely because you lack a corresponding age.The ability, when the age bonus subsides, you gradually disappeared from the market.

Tips: All the consultation cases appearing in the article are subject to the consent of the parties beforehand, and the literary processing and processing of the privacy information; one is because the consultants protect the privacy of the parties, and the second is because of everyone’s The conditions are not the same, and there is no universality. Therefore, the article can only make a general narrative and analysis of the problem. It is inconvenient for the parties to disclose the situation later. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

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In the workplace, the most embarrassing group of people is the middle-aged people between the ages of 34 and 40.

People in this age group have made a qualitative breakthrough in their careers. At the same time, the pinch of family, life and work makes middle-aged people unable to work with physical strength, energy and creativity. However, if this time, TA’s professional is not refined, the ability to stay in the low-level stage, it is “high-risk people in the workplace”, it is easy to be included in the company’s “return list” when the change comes.

The visitor Xiaoxia (a pseudonym) has not been upset recently.

The 15 years of debut in the debut: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth about the mid-life crisis in the workplace

After graduating from Xiaoxia University, he went to a state-owned enterprise to work as a procurement specialist. After several years of work, he came to a private enterprise because he was slow to raise his salary.

However, private enterprises have not been able to satisfy her desire to make money. In a few years, Xiaoxia once again retired.

This time I changed jobs, Xiaoxia is also a variety of suggestions for people around me. Someone told her that if she wants to make money, she must choose a good development industry, so she collected a lot of information and felt that the e-commerce is in line with The future development trend.

At that time, Xiaoxia was almost 30 years old. She was asked to apply for an e-commerce platform to start a business position.

But things are not as simple as she imagined.

The 15 years of debut in the debut: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth about the mid-life crisis in the workplace

According to Xiaoxia’s description, the e-commerce operations are particularly complicated. They not only need to analyze various data, but also respond quickly, and have high requirements for various comprehensive capabilities.

For example, you need to extract the product keyword as a selling point, but also chooseTake a good picture, come up with creative headlines to attract customers to place orders, and more.

Every time you promote a holiday, it is the time when Xiaoxia is busy. It is normal to work overtime.

Xiaoxia spent more than a year to gradually adapt to the rhythm of this job. Because of the performance and performance linkage, if you want to get a satisfactory salary, you must reach the corresponding sales, which makes Xiaoxia stretch every day. Tight nerves, do not dare to slack off.

The 15th year of Mingdao's defeat: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth of the middle-aged crisis in the workplace

In this way, working under high pressure for a year or two, Xiaoxia, like many women, came to the age of marriage.

Considering that the high-pressure working condition is not suitable for pregnancy, Xiaoxia, who is married, resigned from the work of e-commerce operations and was relieved at home.

This is two years.

When Xiaoxia plans to return to the workplace, he has encountered unprecedented embarrassment.

Go to the e-commerce platform to continue to operate, after all, the industry experience is limited, the interval between them is two years, and the age of 35 means the decline of energy and physical strength, while the previous workplace experience and ability There is no significant improvement, so many companies have not hired Xiaoxia.

This Xiaoxia is completely panicked. Do you really encounter the legendary “professional crisis”?

The 15 years of debut in the debut: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth about the mid-life crisis in the workplace

To understand the truth of the “professional crisis”, you have to start from the level of competence.

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In 1955, the famous American management scholar Robert Katz published the article “Three Skills for Efficient Managers” in the Harvard Business Review. In this article, it is pointed out that effective managers should have three basics. Skills: Technical skills, interpersonal skills and conceptual skills.

These three skills can also be used to analyze the level of competence that each of us has.

1, technical skills;

This skill refers to the ability to perform organizational tasks using relevant work processes, techniques, and knowledge in a particular area of ​​expertise.

For example, engineers, accountants,Technician, etc.

2, interpersonal skills;

This skill refers to skills related to interpersonal relationships, such as interpersonal relationships, within and outside the organization.

3, conceptual skills;

The ability to gain insight into the complexities of business and environmental interactions, and to analyze, judge, abstract, generalize, and quickly make decisions.

Specific include: systemic, holistic, recognizable, innovative, abstract thinking, and more.

The 15th year of the debut: 15 years of Li Shaohong's words, broke the truth of the middle-aged crisis in the workplace

Take the financial position as an example.

For example, basic accounting staff only needs accounting expertise and skills, and will do accounting, tax filing, etc.

But if you want to improve again, you need to work hard on interpersonal skills, such as communication with colleagues and leaders, communication with the tax bureau, industry and commerce bureau, etc. If this skill is good, combine Technical skills, to achieve supervisor level is not a problem;

If you pull up a little higher, the financial officer can pre-judgize the business direction according to the policy, and give the management some decision-making suggestions. At the same time, he can also fully plan the taxation of the enterprise. Set up a unique experience, and so on, such people can often go up to the Director level.

According to this idea, we can easily find that Xiaoxia has experienced career switching from purchasing to e-commerce operation in her past career. The experience and accumulation in operation are not rich, plus the occupation of marriage and childbirth. Breaking down, no matter experience or knowledge is inevitable.

15 years of debut in the debut: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth about the mid-life crisis in the workplace

The most important thing is that Xiaoxia’s ability is far from meeting the requirements of the 34-year-old working people in the society. That is, it is best to have three skills: technical, interpersonal and conceptual. When solving problems, you can take the lead and think and practice with a higher level of thinking and concepts.

Only by meeting this requirement can we offset the shortcomings and embarrassment caused by age, physical strength and energy.

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Xiaoxia’s embarrassment of “employment difficulties” at the age of 34 is as follows:

1, the new field is late, and the accumulation time is not long enough;

According to it, Xiaoxia entered the business at the age of 30, but in the one or two years of entry, no matter how effective it is, the efficiency of learning or the effect of doing things has not been greatly improved.

Therefore, there will be situations in which it feels that work is difficult and stress is unbearable.

So she will retreat after getting married, but escaping does not solve any problems.

2, did not master the core technical capabilities;

For example, in e-commerce operations, Xiaoxia is always tired of coping, and does not really master the core key skills.

For example, driving through is a very critical capability for e-commerce operations.

Unfortunately, Xiaoxia did not conduct in-depth research on this complicated and intensive work. After two years, it did not form enough professional sensitivity, resulting in a flat performance and no place for color.

The 15th year of Mingdao’s defeat: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth about the mid-life crisis in the workplace

3, lack of middle and high level skills;

At Xiaoxia, her interpersonal skills are general. No matter whether it is the previous purchase or the later operation, there is no network of people. At the same time, the conceptual skills are impossible to talk about and do not form their own work for this job. Practical experience, not to mention the concepts and ideas in the extraction of the post.

With such background and premise, Xiaoxia wants to come back to the workplace, which is a lot of resistance.

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From my consulting experience, the root cause of many middle-aged crises in the workplace is due to the lack of these three capabilities.

If a professional skill is strong, over time, TA becomes more proficient in this profession or field, even reaching the level of “expert”, unemployment is usually the same thing. Will not happen to such people;

If a person’s interpersonal skills is strong, good at integrationResources, even if the professional skills are weak, you can use the ready-made resources, join some professionals to do something, and there is no way to go;

If a person’s conceptual skills are strong, doing things with their own set of ideas and methods, you can make a book and even open a school to become an industry leader, how can you be afraid Unemployed?

The 15th year of Mingdao's defeat: a few words by Li Shaohong, breaking the truth about the mid-life crisis in the workplace

Return to Mingdao, the actor.

After 15 years of debut, I don’t rule out that I hope to expand some of my play by participating in this program. Especially when he chooses Chen Kaige as a mentor, he may want to break through his acting skills. After all, he also knows his own. The “overbearing president” has set him up, but to a certain extent it has restricted his development on the professional road.

But what he didn’t think was that after 15 years, because he didn’t make a breakthrough in acting, he didn’t make a qualitative leap, and the newcomer PK who has been in the business for five years lost, because young is more than just Fresh, more market, plasticity, learning, potential…

However, as the actor’s Mingdao’s exploration and transformation on the professional road has not been fulfilled, he started his own studio, invested in filming, signing artists, and being his own boss, so even on the professional road. The attempt failed, and nothing for him, he can continue to be his boss.

And you and me in the workplace?

“Don’t blame the world for owing you a good life, the world owes you nothing, it’s ahead of you. – Mark Twain

The 15th year of Mingdao's defeat: a few words of Li Shaohong, broke the truth of the middle-aged crisis in the workplace

Author: Zhao glass, senior career planners, the state counselors, career writer. The best-selling book in the workplace, “Stop blind efforts: your life needs to be redesigned”, has become one of the few practical practical and personal development practical books in the field of career planning.