After leaving the company, what do you have?

The longer I work, the less I seem to be able to imagine what it would be like to be without work. Do you feel this way?

In December 2007, I returned to Xi'an from Nanjing and started looking for a job again. At first, I thought it would be good to take a few months off, so I don't have to worry. But when I arrived in Xi'an, I started to panic after a week's rest! No job, no more income, and no reduction in your expenses!

In September 2014, I left the company I had worked for for 7 years and started my job search again. This time, I think I must plan carefully, make a decision after thinking about it, and take three or five months off. But once I am free, I no longer need to commute to get off work from 9 to 5, and I suddenly feel empty in my heart. Leaving work and seeming to have nothing left! Then, quickly, I started to panic again because I no longer had any income...and later, I had to go to work quickly.
I found myself trapped in the cycle of "work-salary-consumption-work-salary-consumption" and couldn't extricate myself. Our desire thresholds are getting higher and higher, our consumption levels are constantly escalating, and we are increasingly unable to live without work. Realizing this makes one shudder.

So, I began to wonder, what exactly does work give me? If I lose my current job, what am I left with?

Have you thought about such a question?

From the above question, I thought of another question: what else do you have besides work and platform?

In this day and age, companies no longer support people, and they enter a good job. They work for a lifetime, and the era when they can die even if they live every day has come to an end. We may encounter situations such as layoffs, company dissolution, and dismissal at any time. Don't face job hunting again.

When this moment comes quietly, you have to face this question: what am I other than work and platform?

How can we travel through this city of desire with ease and freedom without relying on work?

Maybe calm down and take stock of ourselves, and work hard to accumulate from the following aspects in our work, which can help us gain calm and freedom:

Wealth
Personal Brand
Networking

Hobbies Passive income generating assets


Wealth
What do you think wealth is? Or what is rich?

one million? Ten million? Or a million?

In fact, wealth is not measured by money, but by time.

The so-called wealth refers to how long you can live with your current standard of living when you have no income from work at all.

From this perspective, people with tens of millions are not necessarily richer than those with only 100,000 yuan.

So, let's do the math, how long has it been when you have worked for the past few years, and the money you have saved has been converted into wealth?

When you figure out how long your wealth is, you know how much gap you can afford when changing jobs. One month, three months, or one year, you can easily figure it out.

When you have gap time expectations, it's less of a panic when changing jobs. Setting your job search cycle to be slightly shorter than your wealth cycle (1 to 3 months) is very helpful for you to find a job that suits you with peace of mind.

Therefore, when we are at work, we need to understand our income and expenses, count the total income and expenses of each month, and see what the surplus is after deducting expenses from income. For salaried workers, it is especially important to analyze monthly expenses to see where the money goes, where unnecessary expenses are incurred, and targeted optimization, so that the income can be relatively stable. Get more accumulation. Over time, even if you only accumulate 1,000 yuan per month, you will have nearly 50,000 yuan in four years, which can provide support for simple financial management in the future.




Personal brand
You meticulously complete the tasks assigned by your boss in a company and work conscientiously. When you leave, others will give you the impression that "Zhang San is a software development engineer of company A" or "Zhang San's iOS APP development ability in Beijing" top three"?

There is a very big difference between the two.

The former shows where you belonged and is bound to the company you work for. What others see is the company you have served and see you from the perspective of the company, and your personal attributes are ignored.

The latter means that you have personal attributes that go beyond the company's background. The first thing others see is you, not the company you work for.

Only when you have unique personal attributes, can the people who have interacted with you remember you because of your personal attributes, can think of you often, and can you walk out of your own path and walk calmly. in the workplace.

So, when we work responsibly in a company, we need to think more:

when I leave here, besides the reason why I have worked here, is there anything else that is unique to me that can make others remember me? ?
What I have now, which ones cannot be taken away, and which ones can accompany me to become popular in the world?
When you think like this a lot, you develop a sense of growth, you develop a sense of building your personal brand, you put in extra effort, you find ways to practice yourself at work, and you try to be on the platform of the company, while doing your job well. , tempering their own abilities and resources.

If you want to build a personal brand, I wrote an article on "These 8 Weapons Light Up Your Programmer's Personal Brand" that might help.

If you want to cultivate your own transferability, "you don't have to start from 0 to change careers, 70% of the accumulation can be transferred" may be a reference.

In addition, there is an article "Don't mistake the platform for your ability" is also very worth reading. Networking We


and many colleagues in the company, although we meet every day, often just nod and pull the corners of the mouth, and there is no communication. Therefore, most of the time, colleagues are the strangers we are most familiar with. Colleagues are actually the most important contacts we can accumulate, and they are also the most convenient for development.




When many people start a business, they will look for old and trustworthy colleagues they have worked with before; many people will unconsciously think of those old colleagues who match the opportunity and take the initiative to work with them after they leave the original company for development and encounter suitable opportunities. contact; after some people leave the company, they will have business dealings with the old company for various reasons. At this time, it is often the colleagues who had good relations before who can promote the success of business cooperation; some people will extend the relationship with colleagues to life, Treat colleagues as close friends...

After we work, we spend 5 of the 7 days a week and the most important 8-9 hours of each day with our colleagues. Colleagues are really our neighbors. We should cherish this relationship, maintain it sincerely, and precipitate our personal connections.

If you want to accumulate contacts from your colleagues' relationships, the first point is the one mentioned earlier - owning a personal brand. That is to say, when people think of you, they are not the vague-faced marketing staff of Company A (so that no one will remember you when you leave Company A), but the fresh Zhang San who is good at handling complex customer relationships or the best at developing new Client's Li Si. This makes it easier for others to notice you, communicate with you more easily, and remember you more easily.

Unique personal labels help you gain a place in the minds of others, and win-win thinking makes you popular in your interactions and collaborations with your colleagues—because so few can do that , Most people only think about their own goals, and always ask others to help them complete their own things without thinking about giving them "gifts".

Therefore, if you can give more consideration to the goals of the other party in your interactions and collaborations with people, and think more about what impact it will bring to the other party when you do things, and whether you can help the other party achieve his goals, you will create a more harmonious relationship. relation.

Another point is also very important for precipitation of colleague relationship, that is - to understand your colleagues found their characteristics and preferences. If you know the preferences of your colleagues who work with you every day, such as what information they like, what sports they like, whether they have children, and which celebrities they like, then you can have exchanges outside the work content, and your relationship will naturally develop. deepen. Do you have one or two colleagues around you who make you feel that you can talk to them and make you especially willing to chat with them? You can be such a colleague too.

Personal connections are what you can discover on the company's platform and are your own gains. Even if you leave here, they will still accompany you forward, and even bring you unexpected surprises at a certain life corner. .




Interests and hobbies
Career , family, health, body and mind, these four aspects make up a person's life, so that everyone's life is multi-centered. Only when you truly achieve diversity and achieve a win-win situation for the four elements will you have A full and happy life.

Work is an important means for us to obtain financial resources, and it is also the only way for us to realize our self-worth. It can have an important impact on our minds. However, it is not only work that affects our hearts. We should also find other things to nourish our hearts, at least one thing that allows you to continue to do and continue to benefit our hearts.

This thing should be like this: Even if you have no financial income, you are always willing to do it. That's what you're interested in, what you love.

To live in the world, a person must have something he really likes in order to live an interesting life. This hobby is entirely out of his true temperament, not for some external benefit, such as money, fame and the like. He likes to do it just because he thinks things are beautiful in themselves and he is attracted by the beauty of things.

If a person does something that happens to be his favorite, and can bring in considerable income, to support himself and his family, then he is really lucky!

And most of the time, we are not so lucky, and it is inevitable that we will be pulled by the pressure of earning money to support our family to do things we are unwilling to do, and it is inevitable that we will not be happy. At this time, our mind will inevitably be worn out by work (even if it is a job you like, doing the same thing for a long time will also wear down the mind), we especially need to take care of our body and mind through another thing.

Yes, take care of your body and mind. We are like a machine that needs to be constantly repaired and maintained, otherwise it will be scrapped like a car that is always driven and never maintained.

Doing what you love is taking care of yourself. When you do something like this, being able to fully engage, enjoy the moment, and even experience flow, will allow your mind to relax, nourish, and grow.

I hope we can all have a hobby of our own while working hard. When you can do one thing as devotedly as the little prince tames the roses, your life will be very beautiful.




Passive Income
Being caught in a cycle of "work-pay-consumption-work-pay-consumption" makes us spin like a spinning top and can't stop. Even if you stop occasionally, you will feel panic.

The biggest feature of wage income is that once you stop working, the income is gone. So by salary, you can't really get rid of the above feelings and states. To break out, only create your passive income.

Passive income is the income that you will continue to generate even if you do nothing.

So, what forms of passive income are there? Check out these: Certificates

of Deposit Stocks Funds Houses Royalty Video Courses Advertising Slots Futures Business Partners How to Create Passive Income? In fact, there are many ways, for example: to obtain the equity or stock of the company where they work, many employees like Huawei, Tencent, and Ali have stock dividends, and sometimes the dividends even exceed their own salary; restrain greed and desire, plan income and expenditure reasonably, and guarantee monthly Having a surplus, accumulating capital. Use the accumulated capital to obtain assets such as trusts, stocks, funds, etc., and then obtain passive income; obtain high-quality certificates such as constructors, nutritionists, etc., which can be managed, and have a lot of income every year; buy houses or shops for rent and obtain rent; Write lyrics, scripts, novels, professional books, etc., and obtain copyright income;


















Create personal blogs, personal sites, official accounts, headline accounts, etc., have advertising spaces, and earn advertising income; or make videos, get traffic, and then get advertising income;
summarize your knowledge and experience, form courses, and put them on online education platforms gain long-term sales income;
become a business partner through capital and technology;
there are many, many ways, all of which can help you create passive income, let go of the hidden assumptions in your heart, think more, see more, and think more, you will definitely find Ways to create your own passive income.

When your passive income reaches a certain level, you can live a good life even if you don't work.




Summary
If you can build on your work:

wealth,
personal brand
, connections,
hobbies
, and passive income-generating assets
, you can go your own way. But many things are easier said than done, so the most important thing is to start. Once you have the first step, you will gradually have the second step.

Let us pick a small, small point from the above elements (for example, when you get your salary every month, first transfer 1,000 yuan to an unshakable account, for example, think about what you have today and what you will do tomorrow) , get started.