I couldn't understand it at first, but I think everything happens for a reason and I can't easily judge that he is a person full of negative energy.
After being familiar with the communication, I learned that he worked in the last company for 16 years, and his position was deputy general manager level.
Because something happened at home, he chose to resign, otherwise he might be old in his last company.
He also told me that it was because I wanted to make a living that I had to choose my current company to be a small administrative Commissioner. Compared with previous years, he is in charge of hundreds of people, with a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan. Now he earns more than 7,000 yuan by doing odd jobs.
After I understand, I can only sigh that it is difficult for middle-aged people in the workplace!
Complained and sighed for a year, and resigned at the beginning of this year.
However, since I resigned, I have been unable to find a job, and my anxiety in daily life is helpless. He also thought about starting his own business, but he gave up in the face of start-up funds, personal connections and entrepreneurial resources.
I can't help but wonder what kind of thinking contemporary people should have in order to change themselves and similar things will happen.
The workplace keywords often mentioned by contemporary people pay attention to IQ, EQ, adversity quotient and financial quotient, but few people pay attention to the matter of "changing quotient".
Living in the rapidly developing Internet era, human beings have entered the information age.
According to American scientists, it took thousands of years for human beings to go from the era of agricultural civilization to the era of artificial civilization, and only 100 years from the era of artificial civilization to the era of information civilization.
Social changes are endless, and many occupations have issued early warnings. For example, scientific design, artificial ai intelligent synthesis mapping has been available in the network era; For example, if you study news reporting, now artificial intelligence can write a news report in ten seconds.
It is true that the world is silent when it abandons you.
Last year, an employee who had worked in a toll booth for 30 years was dismissed, found that he could not find a job, and cried that he had no skills, which aroused a large number of people's anxiety about the future.
Many people worry that their jobs will be replaced by machines and they will lose their jobs in many years.
In fact, people with this type of anxiety lack a kind of thinking called "changing careers".
I have read a story in which the hero is a student who just graduated from college.
As soon as he graduated, he was ready to do something big.
So I met an opportunity to buy used computers at a low price. According to his personal analysis, he will get a lot of money by reselling these used computers.
By my own efforts, I finally earned hundreds of thousands.
However, he earned more than 100,000 yuan, and before he was happy, he received many customers' complaints about returning goods.
There is no way, he can only refund customers one by one.
This first venture not only made him unable to make money, but also made him bankrupt.
He was very sad for several days. When he was wandering in the street, he found many students queuing up at the gate of a university to surf the Internet.
He had a brainwave and thought, since my computer can't be sold, why don't I open an Internet cafe?
From the beginning, he opened an Internet cafe. In his time, computers were scarce, and Internet cafes were even rarer.
After opening the internet cafe, it exploded every day.
In this way, in less than a year, he earned the first million in his life.
But it didn't last long, because some internet cafes had fire accidents.
The government began to clean up and rectify the internet cafe industry, and telecommunications companies also began to vigorously promote everyone to surf the Internet at home.
The business of internet cafes has cooled down in an instant.
He began to frown again.
One day, he cleaned in the Internet cafe. Walking through the internet, he found that many people came to study computer technology online. Because in his time, many people couldn't find jobs because they didn't understand computer technology.
So he had another idea. He wants to open a network technology training school.
Still like that, let's do it. Because he opened an internet cafe and accumulated some loyal customers, all of whom he signed up for.
In a few years, this computer technology training school has brought him tens of millions of income.
This is a successful story of changing thinking and starting a business many times. It tells us that, in fact, the world has not changed. Seeing hope from difficulties and turning disadvantages into advantages are the abilities that people really need to master.
Now, there are too many things that dazzle us every day. For example, you buy a promising rising stock, and the next second, because of the scandal of the company boss or other factors, the stock price plummets from time to time.
Some people say, how to clearly feel the changes of the times, just look at the house price.
Yes, I used to work in a third-tier city. The house price in this city, from the first time I went in, was only 3,000 to 4,000. Later, the house price went directly to 10,000 to 20,000.
In those days, people who bought houses by grasping the changes of the times really collected money while lying down.
Yes, here is the change. Lei Jun said: Standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly. It is not unreasonable.
Back to our lives.
The students who graduated together all met after 10, some were ordinary white-collar workers, some became the chairman of the board of directors after three consecutive jumps in the workplace, or celebrities in a certain industry.
When you talk about your career, you will find that those students who stay in a company until they are old are not sensitive to the changes of the times and have no chance of career promotion.
The road to the workplace is hard to get narrower and narrower.
And the classmate who can always grasp the changes of the times can always seize one opportunity after another and complete the leap of his career.
Look at a lot of awesome people in the workplace. Who are those people who don't "change business" radically?
Ms. Qiao is my former boss.
This year, she suddenly switched from below-the-line company to live e-commerce business.
Because of the epidemic, many people can't go out, and most people will watch the live broadcast at home, which also makes the live broadcast industry a fire this year.
This change in the live broadcast business has revived traditional advertising companies that are on the verge of bankruptcy due to the epidemic.
How many companies can't survive these months? When I visited the company office building this year, there were five closed companies on the same floor.
I asked Ms. Qiao, how did you change? So smooth? This seems impossible in your industry.
Ms. Qiao said that I pay attention to the latest developments of the times every day and pay attention to this live broadcast industry for a long time. I tried to understand myself. I have dealt with some people. So when the epidemic comes, I understand that enterprises must change to survive.
Through constant exploration, she inadvertently prevented a sudden crisis. Now her startup is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of employees has reached several hundred.
There are always people who can seize opportunities in times of crisis.
Take history as an example. It is a good entrepreneurial story that Liu Guan rose from the ground in an era of national disaster and turmoil.
Friedman said in The World is Flat that the acceleration of globalization has made it impossible for the most primitive villages in the world to enjoy the unchanging life. Everyone was taken hostage, as if swept away by the torrent of globalization.
In this process, you can either go with the flow or go forward bravely and become the former army of the times.
Second,
What factors determine that we must have a good "business change"?
1, the environment of the times
As I said before, the background of globalization, a country's policies or trends, such as the current US-China trade friction, all determine our environment, which is full of irregular actions.
2. Personal working environment
20 years old, because I am a graduate, I can stay comfortably in the company for several years; But after 30, if you don't have a sense of crisis, think about it. Isn't it embarrassing to be 30 years old under the leadership of a 20-something?
Besides, just because your previous position is suitable for you doesn't mean that you will always be suitable for yourself.
3. Psychological needs of life
Many people in the workplace will complain that the current job is not fun at all and feel that life has lost its fun.
I feel that even if most people in the workplace live comfortably and the environment has not changed, they can't stop their inner changes.
Sometimes the more comfortable, the more scared.
4, the change of fate
Writer Liu Zhenyun said in his novel A Chicken Feather: "Our life is like this, and we are often caught off guard."
You can't control the sudden situation of fate, just as you can't control the rain tomorrow.
In a word, changes in the world are universal and happen every day. If we blindly guard against it and deal with it according to past experience, it is still impossible to prevent it. Therefore, learning to dance with change and making changes in time is the road to victory.
Third,
So how to improve your "business change"?
My research has summarized the following points:
1 First of all, have a good attitude and don't complain.
In life, most people still like to complain that they have not been promoted in the workplace because they have not met Bole; Complain that you don't make money because you don't have luck like wealth.
Complaining will only make you look like a fly, and others will feel sick when they see it.
Melton said, "Don't be a lazy person who only complains all day."
I am convinced that we should all cheer up. No matter how difficult it is, finding a solution is the final right way.
Keep your mind stable, so that when you think, you won't be disturbed by these distractions.
2. Change your mind and see the change from the unchanging.
We have an old saying: A blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.
Seeing hope in despair is like phoenix nirvana. Powerful people can change their thinking well, mainly because they don't limit their thinking range. Just like when playing chess, some people can always win in another way.
My mother is a great man in this field. She used to run a banana stand and earn some money. The market was rectified. She went to Hainan to grow bananas. Banana market is depressed. Because she had to take care of the children, she went back to her hometown to set up a farm and raised hundreds of pigs. Now my mother asks me if I can do business in my city. Always looking for a new way out, because she never believes in unchanging things.
3. Use your spare time to learn new skills and pay attention to new things.
People need to learn all their lives.
We should all aspire to be "lifelong learners".
Whether you are reading a book or talking to a new generation, you can go out and try to do something meaningful, constantly update your thinking and the world defined in your mind.
Nowadays, new things emerge one after another, and we all need to update ourselves every day.
The more you know, the more ways out.
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