Do young people in this field want to join state-owned enterprises? Don’t middle-aged people want to?
Feng Shui is changing, and the choice of career is also retro
The word "retro-ism" is used very well. N years ago, state-owned enterprises and public institutions were the iron rice bowls in the eyes of our parents' generation, and they were one of the few "serious" jobs that they could appreciate. The stability and security of this type of job took into account the dignity and face that people wanted in that era. Not only was it the best career choice for them, it also strongly encouraged their children to enter the system and become employees in state-owned units and public institutions. a member of.
But when our generation was growing up, state-owned enterprises were in decline. Not only were employees of state-owned enterprises laid off, but the wages they earned were incomparable to those of foreign companies of that era, and even private companies that were gradually growing up. In comparison, it's really a bit overwhelming.
With the subsequent booming development of the Internet industry, major companies represented by Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba have reduced the remuneration of state-owned enterprises to nothing in seconds.
Time flies by, and the young men who were wearing bright clothes and angry horses have become greasy and bald uncles. While earning enough for a down payment or N apartment, they have also experienced the social beatings of "996 for work, ICU for illness" .
Coupled with the various uncertainties brought about by the epidemic environment in the past two years, as well as the impact of layoffs in various large and small factories, they touched their bulging bellies and suddenly discovered that the love of their lives is Qingqing. Huan, for whom you work hard and roll for whom.
Looking back suddenly, the state-owned units that old fathers and mothers strongly praised at the time are more in line with the truth of the world that "the ordinary is the truth". Therefore, whether they jumped ship on their own initiative or graduated passively, they all flocked to state-owned enterprises and institutions regardless of their own safety, setting off what Mr. M calls a retro wave of career choice.
A gentleman does not stand behind a dangerous wall. Putting aside other considerations, from a practical point of view, being able to join the workforce or a state-owned enterprise is definitely a direction worth considering for professionals at a certain stage. . However, after all, there are too many monks and too few people. How should those young and middle-aged people who have no chance to enter state-owned enterprises or enter the workforce deal with themselves in the current environment?
Several cognitions that must be possessed in today’s workplace
1. Young people should enhance their ability to change leaders
The so-called changing of leaders means changing the environment, changing system. The ability to change leadership is actually the ability to adapt to new environments and new systems. Let me first share with you a word that has become popular in recent years, VUCA. This is the abbreviation of four words, representing four states: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous.
Used to describe the current environment faced by people in the workplace, it is also appropriate and just right. In the VUCA era, the important abilities that professionals need to possess are adaptability and resilience. A person's adaptability is divided into two levels, one is the cognitive level, and the other is the behavioral level. If you want to adapt to the environment and compromise with the new environment, you must first have a deep understanding of yourself, including knowing your own advantages and understanding your own strengths. Weaknesses: Understand how to quickly exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses in a new environment, continue to exert your own value, and take a certain amount of initiative.
With a clear inner understanding of oneself, one must be able to transform it into external behavior when responding to changes in the environment, and truly implement the understanding into action, in order to truly realize the complete "transformation" of adaptability. ", find your own position again and reflect your own value. Resilience mainly refers to the ability to withstand pressure and impact, and it must have basic anti-fragile capabilities and qualities. In the VUCA era, there are no standard answers or ready-made solutions to many things.
In addition to adaptability, you must also have the ability to explore and move forward. In this process, it is inevitable to make mistakes or fall into pits. Whether it is called the cost of trial and error or the price paid, how to face setbacks and failures is the measure of how far a person can go in a VUCA state. How long to walk is the key.
In the VUCA era, no matter what you change, the only way to survive is to work hard. Be adaptable to change and be resilient, and there is no shame in all your efforts.
2. If you don't have to "lie down", please actively lie down
Confucius said: If you have the way, you will appear; if you don't have the way, you will hide. When the general environment does not allow for trouble, it may not be a wise choice to "hide" first.
The hiddenness mentioned here does not mean lying flat and doing nothing at all. If it is difficult to develop customers, I will not develop it at all. If no one cares about polishing the product carefully, I will no longer pay attention to the improvement of the product. Rather, it means that even if you lie down, you should actively "lie down".
If it is difficult to develop customers, you should carefully analyze whether the user portrait is inaccurate or whether your own products are not marketable. You may not blindly increase investment in product marketing, but you will never stop researching and improving new customer acquisition ideas. and customer acquisition channels; similarly, the fact that few people are interested in a carefully polished product does not mean that we have to give up our ingenuity. We can tear it down and start over without rushing to make a big splash or invest a lot of money, but we cannot stop studying the functional characteristics of the product and whether it can really work. Exactly meet the needs of users and solve their pain points and problems.
These are all positive efforts without any effort or blind investment.
3. Talents are all left over
The more uncertain the period, the more insecure everyone becomes and the more they want to make more comprehensive plans for themselves. Brother K has heard several friends talk about re-planning the battlefield and track in the past month. New opportunities and trends do require the discerning judgment of those who are willing to take the lead. When some people in the workplace reach a certain stage, they really need a comprehensive reorganization and a cautious new start.
But this does not mean that because the objective environment is not optimistic, everyone should throw away what they have and fight to the death for an imaginary outlet. For many people, persistence may be the best option. After all the yellow sand has been blown away, gold will finally come. Most of the mainstays in every industry have experienced many baptisms and faced transition and hope with scars all over their bodies. At that time, the scars on their bodies also turned into shining medals.
I have a friend who has been doing research and development work on artificial intelligence in the field of new energy vehicles, but his company collapsed some time ago. Before this friend could react, a headhunter had already come to his door. A certain smart home company was willing to offer him a high salary plus options model to poach him. However, the friend ultimately did not accept the offer and instead chose another home furnishing company with lower salary and benefits. car companies. He said that he knows where his greatest value lies and where the most valuable industry in the future will be, and his choice is the persistence and perseverance he should have.
It is also a beautiful thing in life to move forward steadily and miss the sweat and struggle you have had in the future, *** encourage you!