Unemployment, anxiety, stress, confusion, insomnia, read but not replied... I believe even middle-aged people are troubled by these words. When you reach a certain stage, they will form a group to come to you. I was reading "Abundance" recently, and it happened to mention the mid-life crisis at the age of 35. What Dr. Wu said was quite pertinent.
The above are some of the posts I intercepted from a certain social software. In the past, everyone in this social software was talking about Versailles, "I have several offers, and the total package is *** million, which one should I choose?" But now this Such voices have been overshadowed by those who have been unsuccessful in seeking employment for a long time. This time, that time.
It may be related to computer-related occupations. This industry has been particularly difficult in recent years. When the industry is developing rapidly, organizations and employees are expanding, and the number of people is expanding rapidly. After growth stalls, many problems are exposed. It is obviously not easy to increase efficiency, but the cost reduction is visible to the naked eye. After optimizing the personnel structure, the profits of many companies are clearly visible. has improved.
Many people in their 30s and above have become the focus of attention. This is the period when there are old people at the top and young at the bottom, and their mortgages have not yet been paid off. Many people suddenly fell from the sunny spring of looking forward to life to the harsh winter. in the ice cave. This situation was only an isolated phenomenon at the beginning, but in recent years it has become more and more common. Small businesses have simply closed their doors. Those so-called "big factories" have also begun to "resign" those in their 30s and rich people in various ways. Old employees who have work experience and are still energetic.
In the IT industry, 30 years old is a hurdle, 35 years old is just another hurdle, and 40 years old is another hurdle. It is the same for people from all walks of life. Usually, if the value an employee creates is greater than the salary and benefits he enjoys, the company hopes he will stay. If a company only has a few old employees whose contributions are less than their salary and benefits, they usually won't take action against them, because the social impact of doing so is not good, and the little salary saved is far from making up for the loss of the company's social image. .
The "big factories" are obviously the direct cause of the midlife crisis in society, but simply blaming them won't solve the problem. To solve the 35-year-old midlife crisis, we need to find out the reasons for this phenomenon from our own perspective.
Its own competitiveness is determined by two factors:
The total amount of knowledge, skills and experience K, they are referred to as "skills"
The unit value of knowledge, skills and experience is V.
Competitiveness is basically equal to the product of these two factors.
Of course, it is assumed that everyone is working conscientiously so that they can be compared. The total amount of skills increases steadily with the increase of working years, but its unit value is declining rapidly. I usually use the following two formulas to approximate skill K, as it grows over time, and unit value, V, as it decays over time:
1. Turn midlife “crisis” into “opportunity”
As can be seen from the previous formula, there are no more than two coping strategies. One is to increase the growth rate of your skills, keep an open mind, and continue to learn.
Another way is to slow down the depreciation of your skills and extend their half-life. Specific technologies can easily become outdated, but relative business knowledge is less likely to change. Those professional skills that have high thresholds and require a long time to master, such as the skills required to engage in medicine, law, or semiconductor design in information technology, are more complex and require long-term professional training and front-line work to master proficiently. Their depreciation is more slow.
There is no skill that does not decay over time, it's just about speed. There is one exception: wisdom does not decay over time. The wisdom that Confucius possessed more than 2,000 years ago is still valid today.
2What should I do if I am already in the game?
Asking on WeChat, there are endless questions about what to do after being unemployed for 35 years, and everyone is trapped in them. I will extract one of the replies and put it here for your reference.
You must have a zeroing mentality. You can start all over again at any job, and the same is true for life stages. At worst, you can start all over again, find out where the lower limit is, and where is the confidence. Complaining blindly cannot solve any problems.
We are already in a crisis, and any career plans are just an afterthought. The top priority is to solve the current problems. Of course, we cannot blindly go to work wherever we can find a salary. This is very irresponsible. The career path of the 35-year-old in the second half of the year is very important. Think clearly, because there will be 40, 45, and 50 in the future, and each bump will be more uncomfortable than being 35.
Even if you are in a crisis, you should not leave behind those things that you should do for a long time. They are important but not urgent things, such as reading, writing and exercising, one to keep the brain alive and the other to keep the body alive.
Go out more and chat with different people to broaden your mind. If you don’t have many friends around you, let someone with more friends take you out to meet more people. It’s true that you have more friends and it’s easier to travel. It is very difficult to take the initiative to apply for a job, but there are still opportunities through referral or doing something together.
Entrepreneurship can be a candidate. Of course, I hope that you have had the experience of participating in entrepreneurship in your previous work, especially if you do not have a GEM mentality, otherwise you will be very uncomfortable starting a business all at once. In turn, you need to experience what an entrepreneur’s mentality is now and prepare for the future.
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