Sun, born in 1980, gave up his high-paying job in a foreign company and started his own pig raising business after graduating from Tsinghua University with an MBA. I was so angry that my father cried. For my family and many people, a student who graduated from Tsinghua is a very distinguished status. Moreover, after graduation, I feel that I have wasted so many years of hard work on raising pigs. I don't understand it at all.
What made him break through the secular obstacles and resolutely return to his hometown to start a pig business? This has to be thought-provoking ..........
A student who just graduated from a famous university, with ideals and infinite expectations, works in a foreign-funded enterprise in a first-tier city with a high salary. But many people think this is his logical and inevitable choice. However, after working for a period of time, why did Sun choose to resign and return to his hometown to start a business?
The enterprise working in Tsinghua University must be a first-class excellent enterprise, and in such an enterprise, there are excellent employees who are equal to this enterprise. It can be said that there are many talents. For an excellent enterprise, from start-up to start, from growth to maturity, from maturity to fame. It has experienced too many innovations and changes. It must have experienced its golden age. This is a mature platform, and its Excellence also reflects that its rising space is far smaller and more difficult than we thought.
Those big coffees and bosses who work on this platform are not only familiar with the professional knowledge of the industry and the company's operation mode, but also grow and progress with the company's entrepreneurship. More importantly, they hold important positions in the company and have been through many battles. Have unparalleled innate qualifications and experience in getting along with new employees. They have become the core strength of the enterprise.
New employees are on such a mature platform, and the rising space of such a platform has narrowed. Overtaking in a corner is more difficult than climbing into the sky, unless you have a very unique advantage. However, in such a talented group. What more unique advantages can there be?
First-tier cities not only have high-paying jobs, but also have much higher housing prices than high-paying jobs. Needless to say, the housing prices in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Not a migrant worker who can start after working for a few years. Even if you work hard, it will take a long time to accumulate. Open source and reduce expenditure. You have to borrow money to buy it, and the pressure can be imagined. For a young graduate, I want to settle down in such a first-tier city. It takes a lot of time and bears great economic pressure.
For a young man, it means that without the help of his parents, it will take at least ten years, or even more time, to complete a stable life in such a city. This is not a small investment.
However, what makes us cry is that all these years of hard study in the cold window have been in vain? Sun's father cried because of this. Here, I have to quote a sentence in economics: "Sunken cost is not cost".
What is sunk cost? It is the cost that happened in the past, but it has nothing to do with the current decision. This is a cost that can't be controlled by existing decisions. In this sense, sunk costs should be excluded when making investment decisions.
Life is full of such examples. For example, I have worked in this company for eight years and paid too much. It is too expensive to give up now. I have been in love with TA for five years, and I have paid time, money and emotion. Breaking up now is too expensive for us. We have invested 30 people in this project for a year, and it is too expensive to give it up now. These are sunk costs.
In fact, the sunk cost must be put aside when making decisions now. We can't let the stock interfere with the increment. However, this is usually difficult to achieve. On the one hand, the past investment will bind you, and you can't let go, which is deeply regrettable; On the other hand, psychologically, giving up the sunk cost seems to be a complete denial of the past.
However, the sunk cost has occurred and cannot be changed. What we can do is not to cry over the spilled bottle.
The most important thing is to focus on the decision to be made now.
Returning to his hometown to start a business and raise pigs, Sun's industry choice is undoubtedly surprising. Raising pigs is an industry chosen by farmers in the eyes of many people. But after careful analysis, it is not difficult to understand if science and technology are combined with raising pigs. Scientific pig raising is completely different from traditional pig raising. Moreover, from a certain point of view, this is completely an industrial innovation. Its development space and the innovation and change it brings to the industry are enormous and unprecedented. Even subverted the development of the industry. This is a valuable and meaningful adventure.
Going back to my hometown to stay with my parents is a good choice of living environment. When we leave our hometown and go out to work, we will inevitably miss our families. Everyone has a special attachment and homesickness to the place where he grew up and lived. Confucius once said: parents are here, don't travel far. Back home, I can take care of and accompany my parents. It's good to start a business at the same time.
Everyone has his own ideals and beliefs, and also has the right to choose the life he wants. There is no distinction between good and bad. As long as there is passion and self-worth, career choice is worthy of respect. As long as you have a dream and are willing to fight for it. I think it will come true eventually.