33-year-old programmer, 30 million annual salary: "Fortunately, I was laid off"!
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My son is temporary, LinkedIn Chinese columnist, Jane excellent book author, were removed from more financial / career platform. Here is an engineering product in the eyes of Wang's money in the world.
Recently some manufacturers terminally ill employee layoffs incident ignited. As office workers, not scared of no one. Near the end, a lot of people and I chatted about the work. He did not expect, "downsizing" has become a keyword, "difficult" has become a career background.
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I found that everyone on the "middle-aged dismissed" This thing is really a lot of misunderstanding.
Recently an article hot text, and talk to a 36-year-old man lost his job to let the family know, he sat for three months at Starbucks. Pretending to go to work every day, busy writing resumes, interviewing, and then change your resume.
In this article reprinted below, the highest praise of two messages, I saw heart some rather bad taste.
Article:
"Down to earth do industrial, technology will not do so, and laid-off are mostly illusory industry, the wind flying pig, downwind face of the ground, in addition to PPT underachievement think about what will not. "
Article II:
"Irreplaceable own is not enough. Real strength of the people are not afraid of being laid off. "
These two messages quite able to represent the mainstream view. The former is "pragmatism", which are "politically correct."
How can I say, a lot of things and not be so across the board. The layoff, not necessarily living in the foam industry, is not necessarily casually can be replaced.
Even techno + irreplaceable 5 stars employee, is still facing a crisis, even after the unemployment dilemma even more embarrassing.
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My former colleague vial, at a large Internet company as engineer configuration management (SCM), this small congregation in a number of positions in the IT jobs.
She was originally a programmer, I intend to switch to process the product of chance to get this Offer. Typically, each job has several "demand" requirements, such as familiar with a number of tools.
But the work vials of something special, is neither required to master too many tools, you do not do the routine work of other SCM.
She mainly to do three things:
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Training to use new support system developed in-house company.
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Use feedback collected, collated product manager for distributed development team.
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Open to user accounts and permissions.
Although vial position is "SCM director," but actually more like trainers + + basic needs of collectors rights profiles 31 mix together personnel.
Four years later, the vial because of health reasons resigned to rest nearly a year. When intend to return to the workplace, they found an unprecedented predicament.
First, she is a typical custom talents. The same is the configuration engineer, she made before the content, with the job requirements in the market are two different things.
Second, the switch also dilemma.
Re a programmer? Vial 4 years did not have to write code, competitiveness deteriorated.
Switch to do a product manager? Although "everyone is a product manager," but you know, everybody can do, can not escape "junior" word, really too far away from her expected salary.
"The original thought of their income can also, how suddenly the feeling of a job? Switch was unprepared ah." Vial smile.
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Mentioned "middle-aged unemployed", there are two words often followed by: a career change.
Often I hear people ask, XX-year-old switch work? In fact, the focus in the wrong, and how old the success of a career change, are they not directly linked.
Ma, Lei Jun, Ding, Hang Zhou and other Internet heavyweights, speaking to varying degrees, are middle-aged to achieve varying degrees of switching the runway.
Let alone Haruki Murakami, 30 years of age or jazz bar owner, next day at Jingu Stadium, inexplicably determined to "write something decent thing."
Switch focus is: do things matching resources.
① match "age of industry."
Many industry are the age of the unspoken rules. This is not discrimination, but an objective reality.
For example, 35-year-old farmer of the code is 100% natural "old", for an architect or a doctor is concerned, it is simply good year party cardamom incident has it?
Although many articles tell you, at any time from the beginning is not too late, but sometimes we did not need it head-on.
② matches personal strengths
Including your experience, knowledge, abilities, contacts and so on.
Recently a reader asked me in the logistics industry, he was 29 years old, know a friend is the annual salary of 600,000 algorithm engineer, ask yourself now switch it possible to write algorithms annual salary of 300,000?
Keke, "annual salary of 600,000 algorithm engineer," This is what you do with it?
Many people over-emphasis on "industry", while ignoring "their own."
You must first understand the personal characteristics and advantages, and then you're going to take the time to understand the industry, rather than fat around the post to ask "okay."
Network to find information, online courses, go "line" to find a large V or paid advice, good to spend some money, with one hour, worth Scrapped a month.
Change jobs, it means time to cross the river. A Mengzi headlong into the river, ominous.
You have to know where to target, in what way can the past, which requires the cost, hands are not enough chips, and then step by step implementation plan to cross the river, before they successfully reach the other side.
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Actually, I think, rather than to "switch" to deal with the crisis better to rely on "transformation." Because any time, "from zero", all with a tough decision comes highlighted exclamation point.
Eyesight, success in changing people have more in common, that is: to understand leveraging. Borrow their existing strength.
Ali Group Strategy Director Yang Shu talent, Masters after graduation, she made a copy editor at the publishing house IT graphic.
The first quit, she chose an IT industry executive search firm. Later, she went to Oracle, the way to grow from internal recruitment to recruitment director, Oracle North Asia, and then later, Ali Group, responsible for recruitment operations center.
Which several are dealing with people's work, every transition, Yang Shu follow the "principle of proximity."
Imagine, you knock on the code today, he said to open a restaurant tomorrow, of course, is not impossible, but:
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Are you familiar with the restaurant industry do?
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What are the advantages you open restaurants do?
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You have verified a small scale it?
If only because of unemployment, I want a way to try to change quickly, which is tantamount to harm than good na.
I know a senior network architect friend, the annual salary of nearly 300,000, was included in the company's "assessment list" (that white is the list of people to be laid off). Frustrated a few days later, he calmly offered to resign.
What did he do it? To training institutions as a lecturer.
He had had experience of in-house training, also record over the net class, even holding a certified trainer of both organizations, so successfully got the corresponding Offer. In the same year, he was named outstanding lecturer.
In terms of income or development of space, far more than in the past.
When the dinner, he chatted about the situation had to be laid off, and what a joyful exultant, he kept saying "Fortunately, at that time to be laid off," dumbfounding.
A crisis, it's that gorgeous turn to the advantage of a good opportunity to rearrange combinations.
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In all fairness, they are laid off, not necessarily your personal questions. Including Google, Amazon, Ali and other domestic and foreign companies, we have experienced financial crises or large layoffs.
But if the long-term can not find a suitable job, perhaps a warning red light.
Yohji Yamamoto, said: "This thing is himself invisible, hit what some other, bounce back, will understand their own."
Particularly reasonable. I have a feeling the past few years, many people wait until the crisis of occupation, before considering career development.
Wait until laid off, unemployed, can not find work, only to find that the force without any defense, shot down by a wave at the beach.
I dig pit of the stomach to tell the child: to spend more to prepare their own two brushes, and more to save a little money, around job sites, as well as HR and leadership even more than chat with friends, doing nothing stronger than 100 times.
As a result, such as Franklin phrase, "capable of when they should. Morning and all day does not shine for future rainy day."
Secondly, the most valuable skills is to understand the value of remodeling. Look around and pay more attention to the moment nothing to something, chances are they are your new battlefield.
Even temporary unemployment, do not be too upset. Mostly farming rain read, take advantage of the opportunity to stop and see the surroundings and the road ahead.
Learn to shake hands with yourself, learn to focus attention once again on the edge.
The movie "Alice in Wonderland", the queen of hearts saying lines: In our place, you have to keep running to stay in place.
Long way to go, please try the journey.
Author: Pro son
Profile: Chinese columnist, Jane excellent book of Economics and Management, ants wealth / CMB / snowball platforms guest author, a rational love of money is the product of engineering Wang!.
Editor: Tao Jialong, Sun Shujuan
Source: Reprinted from the public micro-channel number of the provisional son back garden (ID: hi-lingongzi)