Whatever job you choose, be prepared to leave at any time

Zhang Sihong, the former vice president of Amazon China, was father an intellectual in a military factory.

Since he was a child, his father told him that he would study hard in the future and be admitted to university, and after graduation, he would be assigned a good unit and serve an iron rice bowl, so he would not have to worry about it in his life.

But when Zhang Sihong graduated from university, the distribution system had been canceled, and he could only take his resume to interview and look for a job.

After suffering from the blank eyes and neglect, he finally squeezed into a factory, and after working for less than half a year, he was fired.

After five years in the workplace and several jobs, Zhang Sihong gradually realized a truth:

In this day and age, there is no longer a stable job, and from the day you step into the company, be ready to leave at any time.

Many people may wonder, what exactly does “preparation” mean here?

After reading the following stories, you may find the answer.

01

Konosuke Matsushita, a Japanese entrepreneur, once recruited a young man.

This young man is the most diligent and hard-working among the people who joined the company in the same period.

He worked overtime until 11 p.m. every day, and sometimes even spent the night at the company.

On weekends, if there is no personal matter to deal with, he also works overtime at the company.

On several occasions, Konosuke Matsushita persuaded him to go back to rest, and although the young man smiled and agreed, his body never left the company.

Many colleagues laughed at him behind his back, everyone got the same salary, so why did he work hard?

The young man became a “fool” for three years in obscurity and became a supervisor.

Later, the young man moved to another company as a consultant, and before leaving, Konosuke Matsushita gave him a lot of sincere advice.

Konosuke Matsushita also took this opportunity to warn many people:

“Don’t laugh at those who work harder than you, and don’t pay attention to those who laugh at you for working so hard. You have to believe that your efforts will be meaningful. ”

No matter what industry you are in, diligence is an essential prerequisite if you want to make a dazzling achievement.

Shakespeare once said that I would rather reuse a hard-working little bee than a lazy giant.

Developing a good habit of diligence is your confidence to change jobs, and with this effort, you can be competent in any company.

02

When I first graduated and joined the workforce, a tutor said something like this to me:

“No matter what industry you are, if you don’t have professional ability, you won’t be able to do it for a long time.”

In the final analysis, the most important core competency in a person is professional ability.

Wang Bao, a well-known headhunting consultant, told a story.

There was an Internet company that encountered a technical problem, and all the programmers got together to discuss a solution.

A week has passed, and there has still been no substantive progress.

The boss of the company found Wang Bao and asked him to help introduce a capable person, and offered a lot of commission.

Wang Bao recommended to him a technical boss from a large factory, and the big guy solved the problem after staying up for two nights.

Afterwards, the company threw an olive branch to the big guy and asked him to be the technical director.

The big guy refused, because he had been staying in Dachang since graduation and had feelings for Dachang.

At the end of last year, the big guy took the initiative to find Wang Bao and asked him if there was still a chance for the position of technical director of the previous company.

The reason was that several colleagues in the department were laid off, and the work that was originally done by six or seven people fell on three or four people, who were too tired to do it.

Finally, under the recommendation of Wang Bao, he served as the technical director of that company, and his treatment was almost the same as that of a large factory.

People must maintain the ability to leave at any time in order to live a dignified life.

Ability is the wings you fly, and people with hard wings have the right to decide their own lives.

When you dive in and take a skill to the top of the industry, it will be in demand wherever you go.

03

Su Yu said in the book “Connections are Money”:

“Networking is also a form of productivity, and the more popularity you borrow, the more you gain.”

Really good people will attract high-quality contacts like magnets.

famous blogger worked in the marketing department of a company and came into contact with many big customers.

At that time, he knew very well that these customers would play a vital role in him.

So, every time he goes to visit a client, he always carries his business card with him.

In the process of communicating with customers, he can always stand in the position of the other party, and strive for the greatest interests of the other party on the premise of ensuring the interests of the company.

At the end of each project, he would take the initiative to invite the other client to a meal or a cup of coffee.

In the past two years, he has accumulated a lot of contacts in the industry and has a good reputation.

Later, Ding Ding wanted to jump to another large company, and many people in this company squeezed their heads to get in.

Through the customers he had worked with before, Ding Ding got the opportunity to be referred, and he was easily hired.

As we get older, there will be more and more restrictions on people in the workplace, and there will be fewer and fewer choices.

You have to learn to precipitate your own network and make friends with those who are capable and valuable.

In this era, you can get as much help as you can connect with as many people as you can.

04

Some people divide doing things reliably into three levels:

Level 1: Done; The second layer: do a good job; Level 3: Be the best.

I used to have a female colleague with mediocre qualifications, and she was not taken seriously by the leader at first.

But she has an advantage, she works carefully and meticulously, and she is reliable.

When she first joined the company, she was arranged by the leader to do some very trivial work, such as answering the phone, making application materials, printing notices, etc.

She didn’t have any resistance, and she seriously put everything into practice and did it to the extreme.

When docking materials with other departments, she will list all kinds of detailed items at a glance.

Every time she sorted out the materials, she would check them many times, not a single punctuation mark or typo.

As long as it is a project that she is involved in or responsible for, the results are satisfactory.

Because she is reliable, her leadership has involved her in many major projects.

Later, she jumped to another company and became an assistant to the president, receiving an annual salary of 500,000 yuan.

Reliable is a person’s credit wealth.

People with bankrupt credit are unable to move an inch in the workplace;

People with good credit assets can be like fish in water in the workplace.

05

CCTV once reported the story of Sun Ling, a girl on the assembly line in Hunan.

After Sun Ling failed the college entrance examination, she was introduced by relatives to work in an electronics factory in Shenzhen.

Faced with a boring job day after day, she used the money she saved to enroll in a computer class at a training institution, wanting to learn some skills and jump out of the predicament in front of her.

While working part-time, she worked hard to learn programming.

After completing her studies, Sun Ling successfully entered an Internet company and became a white-collar worker.

She then went on to learn English at an English training institute and also enrolled in distance education at Xi’an Jiaotong University.

After getting her diploma, she gave up her high-paying job on the Internet at the time and went abroad to study.

After finishing her studies, she received an offer from EPAM Systems to work for Google, based in Google’s office building, with an annual salary of $120,000 before taxes.

Sun Ling said: If you don’t have funds and a good family background, your learning ability is your only weapon and your most powerful weapon.

From an assembly line worker to a high-paid white-collar worker on the Internet, and then to work for the world’s top companies, Sun Ling relies on her strong learning ability.

Management guru Peter Drucker said: A person’s learning ability is his core competitiveness.

In these rapidly changing times, more important than the ability to hold now is the ability to learn for life.

06

I believe that many people have such an experience in their lives:

I don’t like or am not suitable for a job, but I don’t dare to leave it easily.

Because your pockets are empty, if you can’t find a suitable job, you won’t be able to get your mortgage and living expenses for the next month.

Lack of savings can make a person look forward when choosing a job.

Writer Ah Xiu said that his two job changes were because he had savings and was confident.

The first time was because I came across a better job opportunity.

At that time, he took the unit’s Beijing settlement index, and if he wanted to resign, he had to pay 200,000 yuan in liquidated damages.

At that time, his monthly salary was only 4,900 yuan.

But because he saved 100,000 yuan from his side business, plus the money he saved at work, he made up enough for 200,000 yuan.

From the time he confirmed his resignation to the time he transferred 200,000 yuan to the unit’s finance, it took less than a week to complete all kinds of procedures.

The second time was because when he had more than 300,000 yuan in savings, he decided to start a business.

Because even if he has no income at all, the 300,000 yuan in savings is enough for him to toss in Beijing for a year.

After starting his business, he and his team actively carried out many business attempts, and the team grew larger and larger, and the income also increased several times.

Ah Xiu said that the more you save, the stronger your ability and willingness to explore the world. The more positive and calm your attitude towards the world will be, and the stronger your ability to realize your self-worth.

In a sense, the money you save is your resources, and resources are your ability to break the game.

In this world, there is no industry that will rise forever, let alone a job that can be done for a lifetime.

No matter how good your job is, you should be ready to leave at any time.

There is no road in vain in life, and every ability you cultivate now is the confidence for you to encounter changes in the future.