Everyone is his own boss

After the Spring Festival, it’s the job hunting season again. Combined with the chats with friends during the festival, I suddenly have something to say about the workplace. After all, I have been in the workplace for decades. Maybe I can provide young friends. Another thought.

Capabilities are commodities, and everyone is his own boss

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In the current situation, more than 80% of the market may be small private companies; Every job seeker can enter a desirable and enviable large company or a state-owned enterprise with high profits.

Even if you enter a Fortune 500 company, there are doubts about how long you can survive there and whether you can retire. There are famous leading companies where employees must be let go after they reach a certain age. You leave. Last year, some companies claimed to eliminate ordinary white rabbit employees, which shows that in fact, companies that appear to be prosperous only want your fresh and tender flesh. When they are squeezed dry, you will be the bones they will spit out. .

As an individual employee, everyone has good and bad times. When you contribute your best status to the company, you may face the risk of redundancy. You must know that no one can guarantee that you will always have energy. Be abundant and understand clearly that this is the most basic state of the workplace.

This is true for large enterprises, and even more so for more than 80% of small and medium-sized enterprises. Their own living environment is far inferior to that of large enterprises. How can you ask these bosses to do better than large enterprises? What's more important to know is that among the 80% of private small and medium-sized enterprises, those that can survive 5 years and live to 10 years only account for 20% of them at most, which means that the vast majority of such enterprises will not survive 5 years. The year is about to die.

Husbands and wives may not stay together for a lifetime, and the company must be responsible for your life. In the past, it was called a state-owned enterprise or in the current business establishment. No wonder everyone is rushing to take the civil service exam, but you know this ratio.

Most people may just keep changing jobs in these short-lived companies, looking for a career and salary to make a living. Therefore, how do young people entering the workplace keep their eyes open and find a job? For a relatively reliable company, it is especially important to understand the unspoken rules in the workplace and avoid putting yourself in a difficult situation.

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Understand yourself, plan yourself, and be your own boss.

Your experience, education, way of doing things, and problem-solving abilities are your wealth. Your first step into the workplace is to value these inherent potentials. All companies you cooperate with are just interested in you or not. And agreeing with your pricing is no different from selling vegetables in the wet market. There is no situation where he gives you alms or you compromise. Under normal market conditions, you can negotiate if you can. Many young people lower their requirements for a job and do it. Within a few days, he would feel regretful and dissatisfied, or he would start looking for a horse again, harming others and not benefiting himself.

There are many companies on the market that lower their remuneration standards. Such companies are often not bad but stupid. Frequent entry and exit of personnel is not beneficial to the company, and people hired with low salaries often cannot accomplish what the company imagined. Work that should be done.

According to Maslow's theory, when people complete their basic survival needs, they will definitely look for a higher level of self-satisfaction. This is absolutely correct. A person cannot always be satisfied with food and clothing, so he has many skills. Not being overwhelmed, mastering a variety of skills has always been a stepping stone for an ordinary person to move to a higher level. It should become an instinct to never stop learning. If a company can provide you with a salary that is enough to make a living, and also allows you to learn and grow on the job, this is a good company.

I once met an employee, let’s call him Little L. His hometown is Shiwandashan in Guangxi. He went to college in Chengdu. After he came out, he worked in a small company in Shanghai to do architectural design. He said it was design. In fact, he just drew CAD drawings. At the time of the real estate downturn, the small company he worked for could no longer survive.

In addition to CAD, Xiao L also likes to draw some cartoons and then put them on the website to solicit some private work. It happened that another small company was engaged in media operations and needed someone to draw some workplace cartoons, so Xiao L took the initiative I interviewed the person in charge of the other party and asked to work in the other party's company, completing a successful job-hopping.

While working in media operations, Xiao L taught himself post-production video editing and sent the demos he made to a company specializing in TV variety shows. The company was also looking for suitable candidates for this position and successfully entered the position. He joined this variety show production company and dealt with various TV stations in the process. Finally, he joined a southern TV station and had an enviable job.

Xiao L’s experience tells us that as long as you cultivate yourself well, it is only a matter of time before opportunities come, and a good company will prevent you from sinking, will not overdraw you, and will only allow you to grow quickly.

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Never treat your boss as a relative, and also try to avoid working in a relative's company. The boss is the boss, and the employees are employees. Everyone has different divisions of labor, and everyone should do their job well. It is the greatest help to the company.

Some bosses will often call some important employees "brothers and brothers" to show their intimacy. Believe me, he just needs you. When this period of time passes or when a situation that is more favorable to the boss arises, he will sell you in minutes. For you, charlatanism is not suitable in the workplace. Similarly, don't think that employees are submissive because they are submissive. Maybe they are thinking about how to sell you behind your back.

I have a painful experience myself. There was a project in Chongqing that my company was cooperating with, and someone needed to lead a team to work in Chongqing. The boss found me in the Shanghai company and asked me to take on this role. The second young man was also moved by the sincerity of his boss. I left Shanghai and came to Chongqing to work for the company for 6 years. My boss often flew to Chongqing to visit me, and then we drank together at night and had heart-to-heart conversations. I remember once ignoring the passers-by on the streets of Jiefangbei. Looking at each other, holding my hand and saying that we would never be separated, it felt as if we were going to kneel down and kowtow in the street to make a sworn vows. At that time, the feeling of a soldier dying for his bosom friend suddenly arose in my heart.

A few years later, when I returned to Shanghai, I had a disagreement with Party A over a project. The other party went to my company to complain for no reason. I stopped listening, and the group of people who used to be friendly with me because of my boss’s expression also dispersed and even gossiped in a weird way. This incident suddenly made my workplace experience jump by several points, and I never believed it again. Those words that the boss said while holding hands, the road leads back to the road and the bridge leads back to the bridge. We need to negotiate the conditions for things to be done.

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Don’t trust the HR in the company or the headhunters in the market. I have always wondered why these positions appeared. In the past, it was the labor and management department. They were only responsible for calculating attendance, Supervision system, their greatest ability is to deal with all kinds of things with the Social Security Bureau, asking them to be responsible for recruiting people, it is actually a kind of nonsense, most of them only know how to extract various management systems from the Internet, and do not understand their own company main business.

If you go to a company to apply for a more important position or a more professional position, and if the HR of the other party negotiates with you, congratulations, you will most likely get the job. As for headhunters, they They will only make crazy calls to trick you into changing jobs. Whether it is a job or a scam depends on your luck.

The company can be new and small, but the company’s goals must be clear, and it must have a plan for at least the past three years. Some companies adjust their direction every day, so it is estimated that such companies will continue to The boss himself doesn't know what he is doing, so the result is that the positions and company structure are vague, and you fill in the gaps when you get there, so company employees have to take care of themselves.

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Don’t be blinded by the company’s booming business. You must clearly identify whether the company has any illegal business. If so, please get out of it as soon as possible. Those who sell P2P and health care products Although the business of your company is booming, everyone who does business is glamorous. If something goes wrong, not many people can escape. You have made a lot of money, but you have been blamed for it, and you will regret it for the rest of your life.

If possible, try not to be an intermediary or insurance salesperson. The core of these jobs is to deceive others.

Why are insurance companies always recruiting salespeople? It’s because they are not recruiting employees but businesses. When you get in, the manager will definitely let you buy first, and will also say that you don’t even take the initiative to do business. There will be business. In fact, you are increasing performance for him. After you and your family have finished buying, they will start to ask you to dig out your relatives and friends. After all the digging is done, you will leave without any performance. The hard-earned commissions you earned are not as good as Buying your own insurance costs too much, and in the end, people around you will dislike you and you won’t even have friends.

Don’t believe that if you make a big deal and become a celebrity in the company’s performance, unless you have a strong background, the probability is about the same as sports lottery.

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The problem with some small companies is that although the company is small, it already has the problems of large companies. The boss has become a habit of pretending. Believe me, this type of company is over. If the boss gets his business purely through personal connections and he does it day by day, the boss will not think you are important.

The company needs to have its own core technology, and when you enter such a company, you need to be close to mastering such technology. Whether you have a voice in the company is the key to whether you are important or not, and it is also an important factor for your future growth. .

Only when the company has a good atmosphere will you feel loyal. Loyalty itself is two-way. It will either stun you with money or train you to become a big boss in the industry or company. Those who put aside the prerequisites The boss who talks about loyalty is either a liar or a hooligan, and he is also a low-class kind. The big brothers in the underworld know that they want their subordinates to be loyal. They usually serve them with good food and drinks. How can they be beaten and let the subordinates rush? All the women who eat and drink are kept. For your elder brother, you will be exposed to the wilderness early. Of course, no matter how good you are to your younger brothers, you will still feed unfamiliar wolves. We will talk about this in the next article.

Working overtime is always a matter of friendship, not status. You must know that a company will inevitably have to work overtime temporarily. As long as everyone is in a comfortable mood, it is okay to help out by working overtime or even several shifts. But make overtime work a normal thing. Sorry, you have to pay me or give me time off. The contract you signed is for an eight-hour working day, and you don’t have to give face for one extra minute.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that a boss who forces his employees to pay 996 and says that they can get divorced if their family is in trouble will be slapped. If you give such an inhumane boss 24 hours a day, I don't think it's too much. This is his character. He has no spirit of contract. People who treat employees like this will not be much kind to customers. If you don't believe it, just try their products and you will know. Why? The job of the company is to burn yourself and light up others. Those who do not want to be ashes must be cautious.

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Some bosses will talk to their employees about the hardships of starting a business. These are all facts, but they have little to do with you. It’s hard for them to start a business, isn’t it hard for you to work? Don’t you also have to pay the room and water bills? So these are all meaningless nonsense. Does his success in starting a business have anything to do with you? The best support for him is that he pays you the most appropriate salary, and then you give him value for money in return for his work.

Some bosses will ask employees to think about things from the boss's point of view. It seems to work in theory, but just listen to it. In fact, he is just talking casually. What he means is whether you can think from the boss's point of view. You take less and work more, that's all. When you really talk to him about work as a boss, he will answer you, is your boss or my boss?

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Don’t believe what some bosses say about preferring people with good tempers and incompetence to those with abilities and bad tempers. This is simply a false proposition. As long as the money is in place or the job is When you feel comfortable, people with strong abilities will also have a good temper. If the company cannot do anything but still has a good temper, then it must be those who are not competitive enough and will endure the humiliation. When the competitiveness increases, the temper will become stronger, so ability is It’s your capital that determines whether you can lose your temper.

Most people are unlikely to make money lying down in this life, but they should not kneel down to make money. Young people should stand upright and make money. When you go to the store to buy things or eat in restaurants, everyone is equal. The same is true for transactions between you and the company. He pays for your services, and you need to constantly improve your abilities and give the best return within the scope of your work.

The boss will not raise an obedient but incompetent person. Ability is a commodity. Be your own boss and discuss cooperation with bosses who need these abilities. This is a common rule in normal business society, so that everyone can do their best. Peace is like a sunny day.