How to choose a major if you have no interest?

Recently, I found that many people in the background asked me about finding a job. Basically, they were questions like this:

How about working in real estate and engineering consulting? What about law?

For a male majoring in business, how about taking the CPA exam and doing auditing at one of the Big Four accounting firms?

I am engaged in the engineering plastics industry and provide plastic pellets to auto parts factories. The company is a trading company. Is there any way to make money?

If these questions were placed 20 years ago, they might be worth analyzing and answering. It makes no sense now.

01 Before 2004, the wages of Chinese white-collar workers had a strong advantage over housing prices. To put it bluntly, work could be done as a career, and the purchasing power of wages was indeed very strong.

I remember that in 2003, when I was a junior in college, I went to observe the campus job fair of Arthur Andersen Accounting Firm, one of the former "Big Five" (Andersen Accounting Firm because of the United States) out of curiosity. Enron was implicated in the audit fraud incident and was merged by PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm). After that, there were no "Big Five" in the world, only the "Big Four"

At that time, I was a country boy and met people from foreign companies for the first time. I was instantly conquered by their foreign style, confidence and temperament. What also impressed me was the salary package offered by foreign companies.

Andersen’s campus recruiter is a man who looks a bit like Yu Shiwei. He proudly told us that Andersen’s monthly salary is 5,000, with 14 payouts a year, and a business trip allowance of 150 per day. . At that time, the average house price in Chongqing was 2,300 yuan. The house price in Beijing is 10,000 yuan.

Later, as everyone can feel, I felt a strong sense of disillusionment and distrust in my career.

I may not be able to write this article "You can't win this game if you only know how to fight monsters and upgrade."

House prices are rising, competition is becoming fierce, and companies have become extremely smart. Many companies can do without increasing salaries for many years, or even increase them slightly.

So, as of today, I won’t talk about any career choice issues.

It’s a job with high salary, awesome job, and a prestigious position. Not to mention that losers can’t get into it. Many students from Tsinghua University and Peking University can’t get into it.

Most of the other jobs, in my opinion, are nothing more than a living security.

So when you ask me how I am doing and whether I have a future, I only reply, it is just a living security. After asking again and again, I simply replied, "There is no future, so don't ask."

Work is just a job. This word cannot give most people hope.

The reason behind this is that China is developing too fast. Economically, it took less than forty years to complete the path that others took hundreds of years to complete.

In the past, white collar was a lofty term, specifically referring to employees of foreign-funded enterprises. In the English speaking class at the university, the teacher asked us what our future aspirations were. Many students said that they wanted to be a white collar with a monthly income of 5,000 (5,000 was the maximum salary we could imagine at that time, a salary that could only be offered by first-class foreign companies).

Now white-collar workers have become the main force fleeing Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

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However, there are many people who are willing to provide career predictions. There is a type of career forecasting, which I call a career decision-maker, also known as forcibly taking sides.

For example, "Almost half of the CEOs have a background in finance or sales", or "Half of the domestic billionaires do not have a high degree of education."

I used to like to use this kind of induction method to compare with success. People look for similarities in the hope that they can be as successful as the other person.

In fact, they are just lying to themselves.

I have worked in sales, Jack Ma also worked in sales at the beginning, and Xu Jiayin also worked in sales. I have not even achieved one millionth of their achievements.

Ren Zhengfei and I (Ren Zhengfei used to study at Chongqing Construction Institute, which was later merged into Chongqing University) are alumni of Chongqing University. What does this mean?

"They can succeed, regardless of luck. ***The same point: they are all pioneers, doing things that no one did or dared to do at the time. Rather than looking for someone to predict whether this thing can be done become.

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Everyone talks about Wang Shi and Wang Jianlin’s background in the military compound, but there were hundreds of thousands of people in the military compound at the same time as them. Why are they the only two who accomplished such a big thing? Where have the rest gone?

Or is it because they are pioneers, crossing the river by feeling for stones, groping for their own way?

If you are Alibaba or Huawei. Employees, if you ask me, do you have a future in these companies? Who can say clearly? Your job is created by others. Whether you have a future is not up to me, an outsider. It is your boss and the boss’s boss. It has the final say.

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So for us ordinary people, asking others to predict the most promising industries for you is a waste of time and of no use.

The safest and lowest-cost option for ordinary people to survive in this society is to find a job.

My father is retired and can still find an income of 2,000 yuan a month. Even if you include the retirement salary, you are not lazy in a small city.

As long as you are willing to work, there is a job that can support you in third- and fourth-tier cities.

It’s easy to find a job.

“But it’s hard to get rich. Getting rich is naturally associated with taking risks, taking risks and pressure, and is incompatible with the word security. He made money because he took risks and paid. ”

It seems easy for a businessman to make money, but he must have paid a lot of tuition before. Why should he pay tuition and take risks? Business is faced with uncertainties. An advertisement costs a lot of money. Who knows how many customers it can convert? It costs a lot to decorate a restaurant. Who knows whether anyone will come to eat there? Every step is uncertain and requires money, energy and time to test. Do experiments to verify whether your business ideas are right.

There is a quality in businessmen that many people do not have, which is the courage to challenge unknown things.

And work is actually about it. The same is true for doing things that are known, things with a defined scope and framework, including sales work that is known for its flexibility. Even if you are in a startup company, the work you do is broken down by the boss, and it is something that can be determined, quantified, and qualitatively. . This is true for jobs within the system and outside the system.

So, whether the career you choose has a future depends on whether you prefer the known or the unknown. If you like to challenge the unknown, start a business. , If you like to be known and stable, choose to work hard in the workplace.

Be honest with yourself. This is more effective than listening to 10,000 industry analyzes by others.

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