Times are like a veiled opponent
Editor’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “Foreign job search” , author: Aberdeen ago.
Recently, I got a drip when I got off work one day Di, I was picked up by a 50-year-old Master Bao. In a short 20-minute drive, I was gradually understanding some things while talking with Master Bao.
Some information and reasons contained in these things, let In the next few days, I have the motivation to write and share with you. Here, I also share and discuss with my friends in the workplace.
Hopefully, you can also learn from your workplace And reference.
1 In addition to working hard in the workplace Choice and timing
After getting on the bus, my first reaction was to see this Didi driver, Master Bao, with short and clean white hair. Although he was wearing a mask, his eyes revealed that he was full of energy.
Under the discussion, I learned that he was originally from Inner Mongolia and came from Tongliao City, which borders Jilin Province.
Seriously, if it ’s not Master Bao ’s explanation, I really do n’t know the city. Later, speaking of the reasons for his development and settlement in Wuhan, he said:
At that time, I was originally working in the Liaoning Town of Tongliao, Inner Mongolia. I was working in the logging company of the local Agriculture and Forestry Bureau.
But at that time, as the country adjusted its resource-based industries, many resource types that depended on minerals, forestry, animal husbandry and other resources were affected, and gradually became less stable than before, and the benefits were getting worse year after year. .
Looking back, the mostFriends who have gone to the south early can drive a small car home in the New Year.
Master Bao was waiting for a traffic light and turned back to me and said:
“I will work hard at that time, but what can I do if the unit is not profitable? At that time, I was just married, and my family was waiting for me to make a living. The family of their family came to Wuhan together, and this is what it is today. “
Master Bao finished speaking, his face was breezy, but I know that the short five words of “coming to Wuhan” have an endless story, but he didn’t tell it.
Later, I often think of Master Bao ’s sentence “I work hard, but I also have to support my family”, and I have an infinite association in my heart.
Behind the younger working people who dislike the word “effort” more and more, it is the awakening of the consciousness of our generation.
Because many things rely on effort alone, it is difficult to accomplish, such as working in inappropriate places and directions, the probability of success in the end can be imagined.
From the generation of Master Bao to our new generation of professionals, we are faced with more and more diverse choices and conditions.
We have completely different choices for the positioning of development, the city in which we live, the occupation we choose, and even the means of transportation for commuting, compared to more than 20 years ago.
It is this change that makes our efforts seem less fatigued and indifferent.
Take an issue that young professionals often consider:
Do you want to stay in the “North, Guangzhou and Shenzhen”? Or return to second-tier cities with less stress?
Compared to the past, we now have more options.
Leaving is not necessarily due to pressure, it may be “not in line with the temperament of this city”; the reason for staying is not as high as the “dream for the distance” in the imagination;
More importantly, young people ’s choices and considerations for life and career are accommodated in more factors, such as the Internet ’s leveling effect on the socioeconomic gap.
Life is complicated. Everyone makes different choices, but what I want to say is,
Our workplace is no longer the place where you can do things by working hard, because you still have to consider the hidden costs of city, region, time, occupation, etc.
2 For the emergence of new things, Don’t always refuse blindly
Master Bao ’s second deepest feeling to me is that he often takes an open and accepting attitude towards the emergence of new things.
This point is reflected in his early years in the sea. At that time, instead of embracing the golden rice bowl in the system, he chose not to let go, but chose to jump out and make a living, although this choice was not Most people accept and recognize.
In his own words:
In the early years, when I came out of the unit, in addition to being forced, I also wanted to come out and see the world myself. I could never make my wife and children hungry, so I chose to come to Wuhan.
At that time, I did everything, set up stalls, do business, and ran for rent. In recent years, I have been getting a car,
After so many years of living and judging in Wuhan, I think there is indeed a big market for this one. There are many students in Wuhan schools, and it is convenient to go out and play a taxi.
In addition to the rise of the central government in the past few years, many enterprises are stationed in Wuhan, and there are more and more young people returning to Wuhan. Like your office workers, there are many taxis, so considering all aspects, I did it early Didi appeared in this line.
Although now the subsidy is less, but I did it earlier, and the rules of sports car solicitation I eat thoroughly, such as
“Which time period has more passengers?”
“Which place has many taxi riders?”
“How to make users give more praise?”
“Why do you arrive early when you drop off?”
These are all learnings, and likewise require careful thought.
After listening to Master Bao ’s analysis, I opened the Didi driver page, and it turned out that it had ran tens of thousands of orders, and was awarded Didi ’s “5 Star Praise” and “Urban Hero” titles.
In Master Bao ’s body, at least I saw that his judgment of the trend is not because of blindly following the trend, but has his own understanding and thinking. At the same time, the emergence of new things is not like most people with old thinking. Like reject everything.
Think, judge, and act.
The development of Master Bao will undoubtedly give our generation of professionals a new reference template.
In the face of the unknown future of the workplace, none of us will know what the world will look like tomorrow, how many changes we have in the industry, and how much snow is there on the track at the foot?
All we know is that a time of constant change has arrived, and the world is pushing us to respond to changes in various ways.
Someone actively embraces the change and seizes the opportunity, and some people bury their heads in the sand with their eyes closed.
In the past 4 years, I have tried and studied in the workplace myself:
Transfer from construction workers to new media operations;
Signed a contract with the platform and began to cash in on the manuscript fee;
Set up a writing course to pay for knowledge;
Link with partnersCo-found a new workplace project.
All these experiments are not a premeditated result, but the corresponding changes we actively make in the face of changes in the world.
I do n’t know how those people who do n’t change will end up, but I can be sure that they will be eliminated faster.
Sometimes, refusal does not keep the crisis out of the door, and it may also make you the source of the crisis.
For example, refuse to learn, refuse to progress, refuse to accept new things and thinking.
3 Do n’t keep climbing stairs, Learn to build your own stairs
When I get home, I ask Master Bao:
Are you always doing this business of running Didi, or do you simply think it will come quickly when it starts?
After thinking a bit, Master Bao responded to me by saying:
In fact, before running Didi, I always focused on the sports car business.
In the early years, I found that the construction industry in Wuhan had just risen and there were construction sites everywhere. At this time, problems also came. Many construction sites had a lot of construction waste that was not transported by car. Several truck drivers set up a convoy themselves to pick up construction waste at construction sites.
Fortunately, the house prices were also cheap. I made a down payment by running transportation alone. Later, the construction site was standardized and there was a fixed fleet. I then ran the rental, except for the monthly money, I can still offer my children to college.
But I have n’t been idle in the past few years. Running Didi is also an opportunity. In your young people ’s words,
I also caught a tuyere.
Listening to Master Bao ’s story, every time I sigh, the most repeated sentence in my heart is:
That’s OK?
But it ’s really like this. Unlike Master Bao, many people have also been crazy about the tuyere, but most of them just missed the face and few people can really concentrate on themselves. In a familiar field.
Although Master Bao went through the golden age, he did not lose his way. He just cultivated in the “sweet zone” of his thoughts and abilities, instead of throwing his line at the end of his life.
Famous financial writer Wu Xiaobo wrote in an article a few days ago:
There are two types of people in this world.
A class of people are constantly climbing the stairs, climbing to the 5th floor feels that the scenery is almost the same, they continue to climb in another building, theyMany buildings were climbed, but each building only climbed to the 5th or 6th floor.
There is another type of person who climbs only one building, from the first floor to the fifth floor, and then climbs the 10th, 15th, and 50th floors.
I probably belong to the latter category.
When I climbed to the 5th floor, I did n’t know what kind of scenery and difficulties I would see on the 10th floor. On the 10th floor, as well as the 15th and 20th floors in the future, there are some strange and unpredictable scenery.
It is also in this passage that I have seen the backs of many working people lingering and entangled:
Continue when you are happy, and change jobs if you are not happy;
Whose family has a higher salary, I will resign to whom;
I will do whatever work is fun.
In a short period of time, I did get a monthly salary of several thousand bucks, and I really enjoyed myself. In the end, it was just a few years of air consumption.
Compared to constantly changing places to climb stairs, it is better to learn to build your own stairs.
When you are changing the ground, many people have climbed over your head on the same ladder. Many people will advise you not to hang on the same tree, but there are actually many people who have already I climbed to the top of the tree by a ladder and picked the fruit.
Like Master Bao, being able to make a suite by pulling goods from a sports car is not by “doing a line and changing a line”. On the contrary, on his body, we can clearly see the distinctive growth traces of that generation:
Make appropriate judgments and choices at the right time, seize the opportunities and resources given by the times, and focus on your own field to dig deeper and summarize the correct experience.
Also on Master Bao, I saw another development trajectory for people in the workplace,
And such a story deserves to be learned and respected by our generation of young professionals.
At the end:
Teacher Wu Xiaobo, wrote in his article,
The era is like a veiled opponent. It played a card. We can or should not, but we need to play our own card anyway.
Choose a good choice, seize the opportunity, and work hard. I hope you can live up to the times and live up to yourself.
Master Bao ’s second deepest feeling to me is that he often takes an open and accepting attitude towards the emergence of new things.
This point is reflected in his early years in the sea. At that time, instead of embracing the golden rice bowl in the system, he chose not to let go, but chose to jump out and make a living, although this choice was not Most people accept and recognize.
In his own words:
In the early years, when I came out of the unit, in addition to being forced, I also wanted to come out and see the world myself. I could never make my wife and children hungry, so I chose to come to Wuhan.
At that time, I did everything, set up stalls, do business, and ran for rent. In recent years, I have been getting a car,
After so many years of living and judging in Wuhan, I think there is indeed a big market for this one. There are many students in Wuhan schools, and it is convenient to go out and play a taxi.
In addition to the rise of the central government in the past few years, many enterprises are stationed in Wuhan, and there are more and more young people returning to Wuhan. Like your office workers, there are many taxis, so considering all aspects, I did it early Didi appeared in this line.
Although now the subsidy is less, but I did it earlier, and the rules of sports car solicitation I eat thoroughly, such as
“Which time period has more passengers?”
“Which place has many taxi riders?”
“How to make users give more praise?”
“Why do you arrive early when you drop off?”
These are all learnings, and likewise require careful thought.
After listening to Master Bao ’s analysis, I opened the Didi driver page, and it turned out that it had ran tens of thousands of orders, and was awarded Didi ’s “5 Star Praise” and “Urban Hero” titles.
In Master Bao ’s body, at least I saw that his judgment of the trend is not because of blindly following the trend, but has his own understanding and thinking. At the same time, the emergence of new things is not like most people with old thinking. Like reject everything.
Think, judge, and act.
The development of Master Bao will undoubtedly give our generation of professionals a new reference template.
In the face of the unknown future of the workplace, none of us will know what the world will look like tomorrow, how many changes we have in the industry, and how much snow is there on the track at the foot?
All we know is that a time of constant change has arrived, and the world is pushing us to respond to changes in various ways.
Someone actively embraces the change and seizes the opportunity, and some people bury their heads in the sand with their eyes closed.
In the past 4 years, I have tried and studied in the workplace myself:
Transfer from construction workers to new media operations;
Signed a contract with the platform and began to cash in on the manuscript fee;
Set up a writing course to pay for knowledge;
Link with partnersCo-found a new workplace project.
All these experiments are not a premeditated result, but the corresponding changes we actively make in the face of changes in the world.
I do n’t know how those people who do n’t change will end up, but I can be sure that they will be eliminated faster.
Sometimes, refusal does not keep the crisis out of the door, and it may also make you the source of the crisis.
For example, refuse to learn, refuse to progress, refuse to accept new things and thinking.