I have an interesting observation about my work and life. Most foreign companies are white-collar workers aged 25-35, and there are few employees over 40. Employees in foreign companies in their twenties and thirties are in high spirits, while managers in foreign companies in their forties are embarrassed. Most of the 40-year-old managers I contacted in foreign companies jumped ship, and most of them finally jumped to private enterprises, such as Tang Jun. The success of employees in foreign companies is largely the success of the company, not the success of individuals. Siemens is indeed bigger than Gome, but it doesn't mean that the manager of Siemens China is better than Gome's boss, or even worse. But people who enter foreign companies often can't understand this very early, and their success is 90% due to their own ability. In fact, replacing the general manager of a foreign company in China will not have any significant impact on its performance. Well, the problem is that when these managers are over 40, their salary requirements become very high, and their talents are actually not so outstanding. As the boss of a foreign company, how would you choose? Some are smart and energetic young people who want to get ahead as long as their salary is not high, and some are, why do they need you? From the above example, we can actually see our work trajectory. When I was in my twenties and thirties, my life pressure was relatively small and my health was relatively good. The parents above are healthy and there are no children below. No mortgage payments, no kids going to college. Being a small white-collar worker in a foreign company is still very glamorous, and earning a little is enough. However, people will eventually get married and have children, and they will eventually get old. 40 years old, parents are old, they need to see a doctor and take medicine, they need someone to take care of them, they need to pay off their mortgage, they need to live a basically decent life, and they need to raise their children ... What matters at that time is how much money they need to earn. Therefore, when we look at work, we should take a long-term view. It doesn't matter who is tall and who is low at the moment. From this point of view, I don't agree to pay too much attention to the salary of the first job, and there is no need to compare the salary of the first job, which is very common among students who have just left campus. Normal people have to work for about 35 years, which is like a marathon. Different from the real marathon, there are no professionals in this competition, and everyone has only one chance. You know, there are a lot of people who can't even reach the finish line, most of them finally reach the finish line, and only a few people have crossed the finish line, so it doesn't make much sense to grab the leading position from the beginning. When I first entered the society, if I entered the top 500 companies, I would probably get a salary of 3k -6k/ month. Some people with special skills might get 8k/ month, but the question is, how much will I get after five years? It is estimated that 5k- 10k is very powerful. Although the starting point is high, the increase is limited, and the young people behind are under increasing pressure to catch up. I asked one of my salesmen two days ago, and you learned this in two years, but the salary demanded by the newcomers is only half of yours. So what would you do? A career is like a sports competition, including a preliminary contest, a semi-final contest and a final contest. In the preliminary round, everyone just entered the society, and most of them were people with average strength. At this time, hard work and seriousness will soon make people stand out, so some people became managers in their twenties, and some people finally won the preliminary competition and became managers in their thirties. Then it's the semifinals. Anyone who can take part in the semi-finals won the preliminary round. Everyone has some abilities, and intelligence is not a problem. At this time, it is not so easy to win. It is not enough to rely on a little effort and seriousness. You must have strong perseverance, know how to rely on the strength of the team, know how to convince people, and have a long-term vision ... It seems that it is not easy to win the semi-final, but it is not that difficult. Because the law of this world is that while people are complacent, people who have just won the preliminary round often don't know that they have won only the preliminary round. With a little achievement, most people will become complacent and think they know everything and don't need to study hard anymore. They will think it's not their fault that they can't walk. Although they are still difficult to deal with, they have no patience, tolerance and clear long-term vision. Just like an angry bullfight, although fierce, it will eventually lose, while the winner of the rematch is as unhurried as a matador, following his own beat and slowly exhausting his opponent's patience and physical strength. After winning the semi-final, he has become a great professional manager, becoming the general manager of small and medium-sized companies and the deputy general manager of large companies, in charge of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of businesses every year. The final finals are coming. To tell the truth, I haven't won the final myself, so the decisive factor for the final can only rely on my own guess. At this time, winning or losing may be like what is written in martial arts novels. Everyone is an expert and can only wait for each other to make mistakes. It is impossible to beat your opponent easily. Besides doing my best, it takes a little luck and time. The laws of the world are still at work. Those who won the semi-finals are not just complacent. They often go their own way and don't listen to others. Some people become grumpy, impetuous and in poor health. Their biggest enemy is themselves. What they have to do in the final is not to be defeated by themselves, waiting for others to be defeated by themselves. This is the same as a sports competition. The competition among the top players ultimately depends on who makes fewer mistakes and who can win the final. Second, the root cause Are you happy at work? Is your job good? Do you feel unhappy at work after working for a period of time? Do you feel that you are in the wrong business? Do you think you didn't get the treatment you deserved? Do you feel like a mess at work? Going to work every day is a pain? Do you really want to change jobs? Do you feel that the current company is not as good as you thought? Do you think this job was originally found because of the pressure of survival, and it is really not suitable for you? Did you get what you wanted from your job? Are you happy every day? There are many angry people on the horizon. Have you ever wondered why you are unhappy? Why are you angry? In fact, the root of your unhappiness is that you don't know what you want! You don't know what you want, so you don't know what to pursue, so you get nothing. I have always felt that the first thing I should pay attention to in my career is myself. What do I want? Most people probably haven't thought about this question. The only thought is-I want a job, I want a good salary, and I know everyone's desire for salary, but do you want to start the job search process again every few years? Do you want to spend every year in this anxiety about work and salary? If you don't want to, think about it. Drink poison to quench thirst, and you can't drink poison desperately because you are thirsty. The more anxious you are, the more you feel you need to work, the more hungry you are, the more confused you are, and the more likely you are to fail. Your experience is getting worse and worse, and people in your next job will frown when they look at your resume. So the more you drink, the more thirsty you are, and the more thirsty you drink, and you fall into a vicious circle. Finally, I can only sigh that things are unfair or untimely, and I can only vent on the horizon and seek a little psychological balance in the resonance of losers. Most people have survival pressure, and so do I. If there is survival pressure, there will be a lot of anxiety. Positive people will get motivation from anxiety, and negative people will lose their way because of anxiety. Everyone has to make choices under pressure. This is the world, whether you like it or not. Generally, the things we deal with are divided into important things and urgent things. If we don't do important things, we will often do urgent things. For example, it is important to exercise and keep healthy, but it is urgent to see a doctor. If you don't exercise to stay healthy, you will always worry about getting sick. For example, fire prevention is an important matter, while fire fighting is an urgent matter. If you don't pay attention to fire prevention, you should always put out the fire. The same is true for finding a job. It's important to figure out what you really want, and it's urgent to find a job. If you don't want to get better, you will have to look for a job often. Often urgent things give people a lot of pressure, forcing people to do it quickly. Relatively speaking, important things are not so stressful. Most people do things under pressure. Under pressure, they always feel that they should do urgent things first, and the result is to put out fires everywhere forever and never stop. Many people's work is as busy and painful as a fire brigade, and it is also because they have not done important things well in their work. Those friends who say that they live in dire straits and don't care so much about their own survival, the difficulty in finding a job today is that you didn't do something important at the beginning, but the result is not the reason. If you are still in a hurry to find a job today and don't think about it, then maybe you will continue to bear the consequences of finding a job in the future. I always feel that the topic I want to talk about is a bit heavy and needs a lot of thinking, which is far more boring than the topic of Tang Xiao Armed Police. However, there is no easy success in the world, and success comes at a price. Please forget all the pressure of survival and think about what you want most in this life. Therefore, the most important thing is to think about what you want. Third, what is a good job? At the beginning, Microsoft had a Tang Jun. Many college students feel that this is their yearning career. The posts I posted on Tsinghua bbs were dismissed by these students. At that time, my classmates just wanted to go abroad or go to a foreign company. Now it seems that I am right. Tang Jun went to Shanda, a private company founded by Chen Tianqiao. It is the dream of many young people that a highly educated returnee gets a high salary in a top 500 company. The problem is that every year college graduates are dreaming, but there are only 500 good jobs. People are proud and like to compare, even at work, whether they want it or not. Everyone thinks that foreign companies are very good, but what are their advantages? Ok, they are in a better office building. Is this what you want? They stayed in a better hotel on business. Is this what you want? Others will envy working in a foreign company. Is this what you want? That's all for others to see. Why do you have to live so hard to show others? On the other hand, their salary and benefits are average, but they are not particularly significant. They have fewer opportunities for promotion and it is difficult for them to be very senior supervisors. Although they hate working overtime often, they dare not stop working overtime because "if you don't do something, someone will do it". In most cases, they will look for people from Taiwan Province Province, Hongkong and Singapore to take care of you. These people often have a sense of superiority. Have you thought about it? Will the top 500 be good? What do you want or what others want to see when looking for a job? Most of my college classmates have gone to the United States, even after graduation for so many years, and some have recently gone abroad. Is it really that good to go abroad? Most of my college classmates are still fighting for doctors, postdocs and visiting scholars. So far, only one of them has obtained a formal teaching position in an American university. Is it difficult for domestic professors? Several of my cousins have also gone abroad. Their parents are alone in China and nobody takes care of them. A few times, no one knew that someone at home had fainted. Is it really that glorious to go abroad? As someone said, "Many things are like watching porn. People who look at it feel great, but people who do it are not necessarily. " People always want to find the best, but what is the best? Do you think it is the best, because you really know it, or because others say it is the best? Even if he is the best for others, will he be the best for you? For what you want, you should know best, and the opinions of others are not that important. Many people are always influenced by the opinions of others, such as relatives, friends and colleagues ... The question is, whose life do you want to live? A person's life is not the sequel of his parents' life, nor the prequel of his children's life, nor the external story of his friends' life. Only you are responsible for your own life, and others can't and can't afford it. The decision I made, at least in the end, I have nothing to regret. For most people with normal intelligence, there is no big right or wrong decision. No matter what choice you make, you can try. For example, if you didn't get into the school you went to and enter the current industry, you won't be able to live in this life? Will it fail? Not exactly. I think a good job should be one that suits you. Specifically, it should be a job that can bring you what you want. Maybe you should use this to measure your work, not the size of the company, the size of foreign companies or state-owned enterprises, whether they are famous or not, and whether there are listed companies. A small company is not necessarily a good company, and a job with more money is not necessarily a good job. You still have to figure out what you want first. If you don't know what you want, you will never find a good job, because you will always see what you can't get and what you get is unwanted. Perhaps, the best is around you, but you haven't learned to cherish it. People always stare at what they can't get and ignore what they have got.