I am a dog with a master's degree in electronic information engineering, and I think it is okay to graduate from a 985 college. When I just graduated, I went to a Fortune 500 company. When the school recruited and signed the contract, it only said that it was a "technical position" and did not specify a specific position. While waiting for graduation, I was full of endless expectations for the new company and new position, thinking that my major and what I had learned could finally be used.
1. When he first came out of society, he was brutally beaten
After graduation, I officially joined this company, a Fortune 500 company. I was assigned to a factory, and the master who took me was a high school graduate. In view of the limitations of my own thinking when I just graduated at that time, I suffered multiple blows during the initial period of joining the company.
Strike 1: The master who brought me told me that it was a waste for you to come here after graduating from graduate school;
Strike 2: I thought that anyone who graduated from high school could do this job, so why would the company recruit a graduate student?
Strike 3: The master taught us all the work content of this position in two days. I was able to figure out my work content and job responsibilities within one week after joining the job, and I was very proficient after two weeks.
The next step is to repeat this thing every day. Monotonous repetition, boring and boring, every day is still very relaxed, I feel that I am going to be useless. I feel that this position has no technical content. The company is also a very traditional machinery industry.
Many friends around me went to learn chip design , and later got a good salary. So I also decided to change jobs, looking for a technical position with "technical content". Regardless of the size of the company, as long as it is a technical position, it is fine if you can learn "technical" and the salary is low. (Thinking misunderstanding: I think that just after graduation, I must learn a technology and go to a company in an emerging industry)
2. Decided to change jobs and gained a lot
Every job-hopping is a huge change in my thinking and a growth.
Sure enough, with the only aura of fresh graduates - the so-called "graduate degree", I was lucky to find a so-called "technical position" in a small private company in a new industry. I thought to myself, if I can learn "technology", I don't care how much it pays. In the first few months of research and development, I was quite excited. I studied something every day, and felt like I was back in my student days. After a long time, I found that the so-called R&D positions are also repetitive tasks every day, and it is also very boring to do experiments back and forth non-stop. It was also in this small company that I made a huge change in my thinking, overturned my seriousness in school, and broke the "student thinking".
**1: In any job position, the daily work is actually repetitive work. **There is very little innovation at all. Your task is basically to complete your own work and the tasks assigned by the leader.
**Second: For most private enterprises, especially small-scale enterprises, there is actually no technological innovation at all. **The so-called research and development is actually based on the existing technology in the current market, investing manpower to test repeatedly, constantly testing, and testing again, without theoretical innovation and breakthrough. Most of the high-end technologies are still in the hands of the state and universities.
**Three: For enterprises, recruiting you is not for you to learn, but for you to create value. **Even if the boss knows that the research and development may be difficult and the investment is relatively large, he will still let the employees work hard and work overtime to make the thing out. Even if it is really made out, the technology does not belong to you personally, but to the company. It belongs to the boss, but the boss turns a blind eye to your efforts and only looks at the result, not the process.
The boss knows you're tired, but he won't hire extra people. At the same time, as far as enterprises are concerned, many positions are set up not because you have learned this major, but because the position is created because of the demand of the enterprise. Every position is a link in the operation of the enterprise, and anyone is a screw in the enterprise. No one is irreplaceable, and the company will never allow the situation that the company cannot operate without anyone. (Later, a mold expert with 20 years of work experience was laid off)
Four: Money is more important to you than the so-called "professional or technical". Don't attach inexplicable moral superiority and value evaluation to making money, and don't even have too many negative emotions. Making money is just a "job", and thinking about how to do things well and earn money is the right way the most important.
Five: Just graduated, if you can go to a big company, don't go to a small company. Comparing this small private company with the previous Fortune 500 company and later foreign companies, I deeply feel the limitations of the small company's excellent resources. These resources include: excellent colleagues, excellent company reputation, excellent company contacts, excellent training and Development opportunities. (Currently in the current foreign company, the company organizes a lot of training and learning opportunities every year.) At the same time, good management systems and processes in large companies are also worth learning. This is also my experience after leaving the first company. Small companies have no rules at all. System, the boss speaks loudly. In addition to skills, excellent management systems and processes are also worth learning.
3. Clear goals and continuous learning
After a period of time, the idea of job hopping came up. This job-hopping is not a blind job-hopping. I know what I really need, and I am very cautious. Goal: Must go to Shanghai, must find a big company, preferably a foreign company.
Later, I was lucky enough to join a Fortune 500 foreign company, and my salary doubled. In this company, I really settled myself down, started again, and relearned. There are many people in the company, and I am also very small. I am a small screw in the company. In this company, I have relatively more time, and I have also developed my own side business, which is currently on the rise, and I want to take it as the direction of my career development in the future.
The process of doing a side job is the fastest growing process since I graduated, and I have come into contact with many people from all walks of life other than the company's resources.
4. Suggestions for graduates
Many fresh graduates often have questions like this: What major do I want to study? What technology should I learn? What kind of certificate should I take? I want to find an industry that matches my major? I want to find a position that matches my major? Which major is more popular?
For most fresh graduates or former graduates who have just graduated, you must not stubbornly think that the major you studied in school is the industry and field you must engage in in your life. If you have this thought, you have closed your mind and turned your more infinite possibilities into limited possibilities. Not everyone can become a master at the level of Qian Xuesen. Perhaps Qian Lao did not expect that he would have such remarkable achievements in aerospace when he graduated. More often, the work experience you have accumulated in this major only needs to be viewed from a different way of thinking, viewed from a different angle, or explored from the surrounding related industries, which will bring you unexpected benefits. For taking a test for a certificate or learning a certain technology, it is a no-brainer to study without a clear direction.
We are currently in an era of knowledge explosion, with high and new technologies emerging one after another. It can be said that the rapid changes in the past ten years have exceeded everyone's imagination. You can never finish learning technology. For you outside the system, there is no technology that can keep you working until you grow old. School book knowledge mainly talks about theory, but avoids almost all practical problems, and uses the thinking inside the system to train students inside the system, but pushes them outside the system on the day of graduation, competing with other capitalism. Social universities are universities that truly cultivate talents. Action is greater than knowledge, and a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
When engaging in a job, some young people will consider their own personality and hobbies at the very beginning, and feel that they should do what they like and what their majors match, so that they can do better and be happy, but currently The current social reality tells us that this idea is usually immature, and most people will choose a job that has nothing to do with hobbies or majors because of economic pressure and personal opportunities after working for a few years. That is to say, combine the future with the money, put aside the hobby, let alone the ideal. This is more realistic and actionable.
If you have a stable job and plenty of spare time, develop a sideline business if you have time, and strive to have your own second source of income. Don't ask for more, first achieve a breakthrough from 0 to 1. Anyone in the company is replaceable. You don't know when you will be laid off, and you don't know when the company will go bankrupt. Don't build your sense of security on any platform and create your own skills and abilities. . After staying in a big company for a long time, many people don't want to change, and they tend to boil toads in warm water. The job is stable, but the mentality and thinking cannot be old, and new things that appear in the society must continue to learn.
Don't be complacent just because you work on a big platform; don't be downcast just because you work on a small platform. Don't be complacent because of your high education; don't be downcast because of your low education. The important thing is that you want to understand what ability you have to keep yourself alive and what value you can provide.
China's economy must continue to upgrade its industrial structure. In the future, there will be more and more highly educated talents in all walks of life. Especially for highly educated people, there is no need to deliberately pursue the so-called "big data", "artificial intelligence", "new energy" and other emerging industries. You may not get crabs when you enter, but eat A mouthful of chicken feathers. Now how many new energy companies have closed down, and many companies in traditional industries have left their jobs after receiving high salaries for a few months. Don't think that building rockets, engaging in artificial intelligence, and doing cloud computing are high-level, while delivering boxed meals, delivering express delivery, and doing housekeeping are low-level. More people can sink into the big market that we often overlook. There are many entrepreneurial opportunities here, and the Chinese market is big enough. The competition will inevitably become more intense, and those who learn quickly and adapt well will definitely be more popular.
Do not envy anyone, and do not compare with anyone, it is futile. Do your own thing well, step by step, and take every step steadily.
The last thing I want to say is that for most ordinary people, any platform or company is unreliable. The only reliable platform is yourself, relying on your own ability to survive, make money, and compete in society. Try not to turn yourself into a screw. Although most of us are destined to be a small screw, we should also make a U disk-style screw.