A few days ago, a child who had missed the year asked me to chat about changing jobs. The young man has worked in the consulting industry for several years after returning from studying abroad, and he has encountered bottlenecks in terms of salary and growth. He is a very smart young man. He first checked the industries that can be done in China, and judged that foreign-funded enterprises will become more and more marginal, real estate cannot be engaged, and the mobile Internet will become a public affairs platform. There are only two areas where ZZ is correct and has certain growth potential: new energy vehicles and domestic chips.
"So, what do you think about me going to companies in these two fields to engage in corporate strategic planning?"
A sip of coffee nearly spit out. I smiled and insisted that he listen to my story first.
Many people like to hear success stories in the workplace, hoping to find inspiration in the footsteps of successful people. If you ask me who I have seen so many people think can be regarded as a successful person in the workplace, the first thing that comes to my mind is my little sister S.
When we first met more than a decade ago, she was a sunny little salesperson with a laptop in her handbag and driving fast to get more things done in a hurry. For a while, she was working on a project she wanted to win, and she wanted to ask our boss to come out and report. The boss looked at the schedule and could only see her when she was walking the dog at 5 in the morning. At that time, she was pregnant with a big belly. She bought soy milk fritters at 4:30 in the morning and waited near the boss's residence.
It's really hard to do sales. Have you read Carnegie's "The Weakness of Humanity"? Many of the stories in it are about salesmen. I called her once. She was at the police station, helping clients deal with traffic violations... I don't think this is simply obedience and flattery. Maybe that's the case. She understands human nature and society better, so it's easier to make correct judgments. In this way, she soon became a star salesperson in the industry and jumped to a more promising company with a team of handsome men and women.
After working in the new company for five or six years, she is very familiar with her work, and she has more money and less to do close to home. The company's IPO, she got tens of millions in return. As a result, she discussed with me and felt that she had to change the track. Although auto parts have certainty in the wave of new energy outbreaks, they are subject to upstream supply. She is going upstream.
In the past, when the company was away from home for half an hour, the business trip was to accompany customers to eat and drink two drinks; now the work place is more than 400 kilometers away from home, and on weekends, I accompany my baby. arrived. Everywhere you go on business is barren. She called me once and the signal was erratic. I asked her where she was. She was driving in the vast Gobi Desert in Xinjiang, accompanying the mine owner to watch the mine. Occasionally, she also complained to me that work was too brain-burning, and there was a lot to learn, but every time I saw her, I felt that I had met a brand new her, gained a lot of new insights, and delved into knowledge that others don’t understand.
Soon she was promoted by her boss and became the investment director of the energy company. With huge sums of money in hand, all they make are nine-figure decisions.
I have also seen many successful people, why only tell the story of S? It is true that many people catch up with the trend, and their salary doubles when they jump to another job; some people have good opportunities, they have the opportunity to get the No. 1 position in a new company, and they can IPO if they do it well... But success is not a point, but a with time coordinates. Yesterday's success does not mean today's success, and today's success may be lost tomorrow. Markets and opportunities change, and temporary success proves nothing. If a person works at the age of 25 and retires at the age of 65, even at the age of 40, there is still more than half of his career ahead, how can you guarantee "success to the end"?
In my opinion, S is the kind of professional person who can "always succeed and be happy". Of course she has many advantages: she is beautiful and has a high double quotient, but I think her biggest advantage is "landing". That is a kind of hard work and courage to run to the front line, squat down, and get your hands and feet dirty in order to do one thing well. The sweat and mud in it eventually formed the foundation of her success.
And a second story to tell:
In the real world, I buy from a new car. Back then, the company was difficult, and we had high requirements for people, so we couldn’t invite people from outside. In the end, the boss formed a team within the company: some people were engaged in product production, some were involved in supplier quality, some were from finance, and some were coders who wrote code... This group of "unprofessional purchasers" "How can you work?
There was a time when the reasonable cost of a certain process was calculated, and the procurement was estimated based on experience. As a result, the quality-oriented brother stood up and said: This thing should be calculated according to the "man-machine-material law". The number of direct production line employees, the amortization of equipment according to the output and yield rate, the effective output and consumption costs of materials, and the periodic amortization cost of plant construction or rental cycle cost in the environment, should be calculated according to the standard load... This is probably This is the first time we understand the cost structure of this process. He has been on the front line of the factory for many years, making him an undisputed procurement expert.
When discussing software development costs, the brothers who wrote the code rushed to the front and pointed out the unreasonable costs in the other party's quotation;
Those who are engaged in products memorize the chip parameters, which avoids the excessively high cost caused by over-design; those who are engaged in finance find new cooperation sweets from the capital turnover, and win the initiative in the negotiation... All this is brought about by down-to-earth basic work. The fruits depend on day-to-day accumulation and hard work. This is the harvest that young people can only get by getting their hands and feet dirty in the soil.
(Dog works)
After telling the story, I want to tell all the young people before this article, if you want to have a long-term career, there are three big taboos when choosing a job:
The first is to choose a job "just look at the money".
The second is to choose a job "to be leisurely".
The third is to choose the job "image reputation".
When I was young, I didn’t have accumulation, and a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan was 20% more than 2,000 yuan. Is it worth switching jobs for this? I don't think it's worth it. More than 2,000 yuan a month will not substantially change your life. Especially if the time is extended, you are 40 years old, and the salary increase of 2,000 yuan that year means nothing to you. We have an unwritten rule that we don't want employees who have recently come out of "HD" cars - after all, people who have already exposed systemic risks in "HD", and who have switched jobs to "HD" have made extremely wrong lives because of money. Judgment, this judgment, may also appear in his judgment on the business.
The second point is easy to explain, the career is very long, and the workplace is so convoluted today that full devotion can’t guarantee victory, and a moment of “leisure” may lead to detours in continuous growth.
The most worthy of attention is the third article. This is a "tiankeng" where many professionals are buried. There is a job that sounds lofty, but it is actually unrealistic, and there is no chance and I can't sink my heart to contact the front line. Two or three years after graduation, can you do "corporate strategic planning"? I don't even understand how a company works, and I haven't done the most basic, front-line, dirty and tiring jobs.
Before Zhuge Liang's long-term confrontation, he also traveled to the Central Plains, went into exile in Jingzhou, and worked in Nanyang. It was because he understood the wrath of the Yellow Turbans, Dong Zhuo's violence, Cao Wei's traitor, Liu Biao's weakness, and Sun Quan's partiality, that he planned the overall situation of the world.
In a field that did not land, young people asked me: "What is a chip and why is there a shortage?" Asking such a question, she also hopes to be a partner who helps us formulate supply strategies. I just ask her, Baidu, Zhihu one time. Just like the kindergarten children who broke into the postgraduate research group, it is not because of our poor attitude, because you have never been on the front line, you have no foundation and no learning attitude, you are not qualified to study with us.
In a field that does not land, young people do not participate in the most difficult and tiring mainline business, cannot make progress, and delay their youth for a few years. When they came out, they were far from their peers and could not compete on the same stage. Are the leaders of this team trying to make money?
The people who rushed to the forefront of the industry had dirt and dust on their faces, and the tide patted them, soaking their clothes. Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet, this is the pain and joy of frontline soldiers. They know by hard work. In this industry, there is a big tide, and they are proud of the tide.
The so-called foresight, how to do it?
Those hard-working days and nights, those day and night discussions, those crawling and rolling, those blood, sweat and tears, the soil on the hands... Time collects all of these and casts them into an unparalleled high platform, standing in the clouds, steel bars Iron bones.
You climbed up and smiled, looking at it for ten years, standing higher and looking farther.
Young man, this is the way forward for you.
