Any position is worth learning, even the most basic position. Opportunities are everywhere, as long as you take every job seriously, take the initiative to learn and improve yourself ...

The classic representative of success from a low starting point may be Wu Shihong, the "Queen of South China University of Technology" who was all-powerful many years ago. From the employees who make tea and pour water to the general manager of Microsoft China, the managing director and vice president of TCL, such urban legends are most popular with the public, which can inspire people and satisfy all kinds of curiosity and imagination with relish.

But more often, those who stand at a low starting point in the workplace will not get attention and encouragement. Because people generally believe that the workplace is like a battlefield, once you lose at the starting line, it is difficult to go up again. The so-called legend is only a miracle of a few people after all.

However, there is such a group of people. Although their first job was a humble grass-roots post, they continued to expand their workplace space step by step. Their achievements are not great and dazzling, but the stories of these ordinary people's workplace struggles are obviously more inspirational and educational: as long as they work hard, they can also succeed from a low starting point.

Worthy of any position.

Xia Yan bid farewell to Shanghai as a "job-hunting loser". From the first day he went to college in Shanghai, his parents had high hopes for him, urging him to study hard and work hard in Shanghai in the future to be a well-paid white-collar worker. This is the life that aspiring people want. Xia Yan's major is also a popular computer major. Everything he did was to prepare for leaving a small city and joining a big city.

Xia Yan didn't expect it to be so difficult to find a job after graduation. Because of its popularity, in recent years, various schools have opened computer majors. At the job fair, there are many graduates with resumes of computer majors, and Xia Yan's weakness is so obvious-junior college students in second-rate schools are obviously weaker than others when submitting resumes. When I met a snobbish admissions officer, I glanced at the name of the school in Xia Yan and smiled. "Put the material down." . Some companies don't even give the opportunity to submit resumes, either explicitly or implicitly: "Oh, we usually only recruit J big F big."

In the final stage of making a decision, Xia Yan had little choice: programmers of several small computer companies in Shanghai earned about 2,500 yuan a month; Programmers in my hometown valve factory earn a little more than 2000 yuan a month.

My dormitory friend suggested Xia Yan stay in Shanghai: "There are many opportunities in big cities. Look for it slowly and jump slowly. In a few years, you may be able to make a monthly salary of five or six thousand. What kind of valve factories and workers can you expect when you go back to second-tier cities? "

Xia Yan thought for a long time, but finally he chose the valve factory in his hometown. He has an account in his heart, so it is not easy to live in big Shanghai. With that little monthly salary, it is impossible not to "live on one's laurels" in the first three to five years. A similar monthly salary can still save three or five hundred yuan a month in his hometown with lower living costs. Xia Yan's family is not rich. He doesn't want to burden his parents any more. After graduation, the first step is to stand on your own feet.

Before leaving, the students patted Xia Yan on the shoulder to comfort them. Life in a small city is comfortable, which is nothing. Xia Yan can hear the regret behind the comfort: the employees of small factories in small cities, with a monthly salary of two or three thousand yuan, live a small life with no worries about food and clothing, and so will their lives.

Xia Yan thinks that life is more than that. But what will happen in the end, he doesn't know, just think that the first thing is to do a good job.

The work in the valve factory is not difficult, and the master is also very enthusiastic. Xia Yan followed the master for several months and soon got the hang of it. After a year, the master went to Shenzhen to look for a job, and all the stalls in his hand were handed over to Xia Yan. Young people are diligent and eager to learn. Xia Yan found problems, solved problems and accumulated experience in his work, which quickly provoked the heavy responsibility of computer system management in the valve factory.

After the third year, Xia Yan began to feel a little dissatisfied. Everything is step by step at work, and I have learned almost everything I can. Moreover, the benefit of the factory is average, and the salary has increased slightly but the range is limited.

At this time, he was tempted by an opportunity. A new four-star hotel is recruiting IT staff. The leaders in the factory kept him, preferring to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix. You are at least a small leader here, and an ordinary maintenance worker there, which is not worth it. However, Xia Yan took a fancy to the brand of this hotel chain, and felt that he could learn something from the big group, and his career development prospects were broad.

Because of his working experience in the valve factory and accumulated some management experience, Xia Yan successfully entered the IT department of the hotel and successfully raised his salary to 4,000 yuan.

Frankly speaking, the work of the hotel IT department is really like a maintenance worker. Whenever something goes wrong, it goes to "put out the fire", but Xia Yan is like a duck to water. Although the work is trivial and complicated, the hotel intelligent system involves all aspects: communication, management, closed-circuit television, monitoring, access control and so on. For Xia Yan, a newcomer to the industry, every job is an opportunity to learn new knowledge.

Working overtime to learn new technology, she was "ashamed to ask questions" behind the supervisor and colleagues. Xia Yan remembered that in the first year or two after entering the hotel, she seemed to have returned to the university stage, working hard all day, coming earlier than others and leaving later than others. But because of this, Xia Yan, a junior college student, finally surpassed the famous college students in the same department in a relatively short time and became the best one in technology.

In the fifth year of the hotel's opening, Xia Yan has become the head of the IT department, and all the work is on the right track, and his salary has doubled compared with the original one. Xia Yan's excellence has attracted the attention of hotel executives. Before long, the group headquarters extended an olive branch to him. The position this time is the system manager of the East China Region of the Group, and the work place is Shanghai.

Xia Yan, who returned to Shanghai again, is the envy of his old classmates and friends. No one expected that factory workers in second-tier cities would turn over the salted fish one day. Everyone patted him on the shoulder and praised him for doing well.

"In fact, every position, even the most basic position, has something to learn. Opportunities are everywhere, as long as you take every job seriously, take the initiative to learn and take the initiative to improve yourself. " Xia Yan doesn't feel how successful he is in "mixing". He knows that he is down-to-earth step by step and has never failed any post.

All efforts will not be in vain.

When Cao Rui graduated from university, he suddenly made an important decision in his life: to leave the small town where he lived for more than 20 years and go to Shanghai to look for a job. Parents heard that shock broke into the workplace? No need! It is the right way for a little girl who has been living with her parents to find a stable job, get married and have children after graduation. Teachers and classmates also think that Cao Rui is too high-spirited. Help her analyze the pros and cons: She graduated from a local ordinary university and majored in foreign trade, but she only has a CET-6 certificate and a little Japanese fur. You, it's not easy to find a good job locally. Why go to that place in Shanghai?

But Cao Rui insisted on going. After living in a small town for so many years, every corner is familiar and enough. If she works here, she can almost see the days after twenty or thirty years, unchanged, as comfortable and as dull as now. A three-hour drive from the metropolis, various legendary stories are staged every day, arousing the infinite yearning of little girls. Take a rest while you are young, and don't regret it in the future. Cao Rui resolutely got on the train with a thick stack of resumes on his back.

Although psychologically prepared, the difficulty of finding a job is beyond Cao Rui's expectation. It is said that there are many opportunities in metropolis, but more job seekers go to Shanghai from all over the country and even the world every year. After the graduates from top overseas universities and famous domestic universities swept the top 500 and well-known domestic enterprises, the domestic key university graduates of the second echelon immediately jumped on them. After layers of sweeping, the fourth and fifth steps left to Cao Rui are mostly chicken ribs that many people despise.

Cao Rui finally got an offer from a small trading company, with a probation period of 3 months and a salary of 1600 yuan, and a monthly salary of 2,500 yuan after becoming a full member. Such treatment, not to mention in Shanghai, is low in my hometown of Cao Rui. None of her classmates who go to banks and schools has a higher salary than her. But Cao Rui thought, since we are all here, we can't give up so easily. The hardest part is actually in the beginning Find a job and settle down first, and then look for opportunities slowly.

Life was really hard at first. Cao Rui and two girls shared a husband's room near the company, each with a small room of seven or eight square meters, with an average monthly rent of 450 yuan. The remaining salary does not include meals, communication fees, etc. There is not much left. "It is a standard' ant family'." Cao Rui laughed at himself.

Life is not easy and psychological pressure is great. I met an old classmate on QQ, Cao Rui, who was swollen and fat, and said that he worked in Xujiahui Foreign Trade Company with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan. "That's not too high, especially in Shanghai." Someone in the cave said. "Hey, this is just the beginning. Take your time. No hurry. " As soon as Cao Rui finished this sentence, tears came down.

But she will tell herself repeatedly that you are an ordinary undergraduate from other places and have no experience at all. Why do people give you a high salary? So in her spare time, Cao Rui insisted on going to a Japanese training class to learn Japanese. She has seen the fierce competition in the job market, and if she wants to get higher opportunities, she must first lay a good foundation.

Cao Rui's trading company is small in scale and its work is relatively simple. Nothing more than contacting a few regular customers, sending and receiving emails and faxes. Cao Rui was careful and soon got used to it. In this way, after more than a year's work and study, she got a first-class certificate in Japanese, added the title of "Assistant to the General Manager of XX Trading Company" to her resume, and then moved to a slightly larger foreign trade company.

In fact, wages have not risen sharply. Even if we barely squeeze into the ranks of "white-collar workers", in Shanghai, where the cost of living is high, Cao Rui also belongs to the bottom row of "white-collar workers". What attracts her is that this foreign trade company has a more formal and practical foreign trade business, so that the knowledge she has learned can also come in handy. Of course, this working environment also puts higher demands on Cao Rui's foreign trade knowledge and language ability, and his life of studying while working continues. Cao Rui's enthusiasm for learning is even higher than before. She knows that the more solid the foundation, the higher she can jump in the future.

Opportunities sometimes come quietly without warning.

Soon after Cao Rui entered the company, a senior couldn't wait to make a customer for her. "Japan's little old man, with a strong Japanese northeast accent, is very demanding and stingy. As a newcomer, you should accompany him to temper yourself first. If you can handle him, you can start your career. " The old man said with a smile. Cao Rui agreed without hesitation. She is worried that there will be no customers and ready-made delivery, no matter how hard it is.

The little old man is really difficult. He has one idea today, one demand tomorrow, and he likes bargaining. Fortunately, Cao Rui is careful and patient, and has the humility and courtesy of newcomers in the workplace. After a few rounds, both sides will take their positions. After a long time, Cao Rui developed a Japanese accent with a northeast accent, which made her more studious and quick-thinking. Every time she came to China, she was asked to be a "royal translator".

The client is engaged in the jewelry industry and recently visited all the crystal processing plants. He said with emotion that business is difficult, and the traditional jewelry market is shrinking, but the fashion jewelry market for young women is booming. Unfortunately, he is located in a small town in the northeast of Japan, with few customers and limited spending power.

Cao Rui was dazzled by piles of glittering and translucent jade, and it was beautiful to glance at the samples in the hands of customers. It suddenly occurred to me that with the cost and quality of domestic crystals and the design level of Japan, why not open a DIY studio for crystal ornaments in Shanghai, where consumption is booming? As soon as this idea was put forward, customers applauded and praised Cao Rui's keen sense of touch.

After the customer returned to Japan, he sent a large number of jewelry DIY materials, and Cao Rui began to study hard. During this year, she spent almost all her time with her customers wandering around various processing plants and got a thorough understanding of the crystal market. With young women's unique sensitivity to fashion, Cao Rui believes that the plan to open a new market for crystal ornaments with high-level design is completely feasible.

An epiphany led to a start-up. At the beginning of this year, a DIY studio for crystal ornaments invested by Japanese customers opened in a business building in Pudong, and Cao Rui became the "general manager of the studio".

The studio business is progressing smoothly and the market response is close to expectations. An old classmate in QQ said enviously, Cao Rui, you are so lucky.

Cao Rui smiled and didn't reply. She remembered the days when she hurried to the training class with a loaf of bread after work, and the "ant life" of eating instant noodles and looking up information in the shack rented by 450 yuan every month. Cao Rui felt the luckiest thing was that she persisted in those hardships.

Heaven rewards diligence, and all efforts have not been in vain.