The history of blood and tears I experienced when I re-selected the track

After graduation, I have been working in one industry and one company. I have experienced the downturn and prosperity of the industry, experienced the company's glory and also experienced difficult times. I have also spent my youthful blood, rolled up my sleeves and worked hard. I have always seemed busy, and I was envied by other students, but after the illusion of busyness has passed, I will become a mess. From the beginning to the end, I have not made any plans for my career. One day, these missing things will be replaced by Other ways come to you.

Do you have a clear career plan?

After I started working, I actually took the initiative to find the direction I wanted to pursue, and I also learned some solid things in those years. However, in the following years, I followed the trend and took it one step at a time without really thinking about it. What is your future? In fact, I have been faced with several opportunities, but they all turned a deaf ear.

I don’t know if you have a clear career plan, know your own strengths and the development path of your career in the next few years, and then move forward step by step in that direction.

What I went through when I re-choose a track

The current predicament is caused by the choices I made in the past. Obviously, I am faced with the challenge of either continuing a career that I can see the end of. Career, or start over on a different track? From the birth of the idea, through the ideological struggle, the torture of reality and the tenacious response, the experience of re-choosing the track is really a history of blood and tears.

The struggle and awakening period: Is jumping still a jump?

Ever since I first came up with the idea of ??changing careers, I have been accompanied by anxiety. The current job-hunting environment is not friendly enough to age, especially whether women are married or have children. I was struck by this reality from the beginning. Either way, maybe it was just my own thoughts that frightened me. The voice in my heart, "Can I still jump out?" made me shake.

Later I read some articles about the views within the system and outside the system; I also exchanged more ideas about work with my friends. My friend said that when changing jobs, you need to learn to settle accounts. If you are outside the system It's not a good deal if your income doesn't reach that much. It added another layer of hurdle for me between what is the best deal.

What also makes me struggle the most is that my niche is too limited in my city. The well-developed and concentrated areas are almost all outside the province and relatively remote, so I really can’t get there. Determining to go to a remote place may also mean settling there later. Due to the limitations of my field, my options were very limited, which made me hesitate to take action.

But there is a firm voice in my heart: If I don’t step out, I may rarely have better opportunities and efforts. I didn't want to waste my whole life like this, so I woke up driven by "not wanting to".

Testing and exploratory period: determine your own direction

The testing period must start with making a resume. Since my choices are limited, I will write a few more resumes and try different ones. industry, for example, should I take this opportunity to realize my dream of being a teacher? When I think about it this way, I feel that I have many choices.

The first interview call I received was from the semiconductor industry, which is my favorite. It was the first round of interviews with human resources. The communication was quite satisfactory, especially after understanding the general background of the company. I was interested. In the second round, the leader in charge of the business also did an online interview due to a business trip. Although it was cross-industry and did not match the other party’s needs, I was very grateful that the other party gave me more than an hour to chat. Some ideas in cross-industry fields allowed me to get some information as a fledgling.

I have also considered the education industry, and I still have a dream of becoming a teacher. The first problem I faced was to obtain a teacher qualification certificate first, but the opportunity I also faced was the expansion of many schools and the large number of teachers. Teachers' needs and recruitment information are constant; the other is to realize their wishes through the teaching and training industry, but the first step is to reserve professional knowledge. After all, it still takes some time to pick up the textbook knowledge that has been forgotten after so many years of graduation. I evaluated that this path would take a long time, and the time left for me was very limited. After all, schools within the system still have strict age restrictions. Unexpectedly, there would be great changes in the education industry, so I gave up this path.

I am actually very confused at this stage. In the process of repositioning, I am grateful to see Teacher Bodhi once a week. Through communication with him, I have expanded my ideas and sorted out my existing resources and connections. , opportunities, and analyze my strengths and weaknesses through SWOT. This stage is to determine my direction through subtraction and elimination. I am especially grateful to Teacher Bodhi for his great support.

Full-fire period: Confidence and obstacles intertwined, embrace any opportunity

At the beginning, my resume was in vain, with only sparse communication and few interview opportunities. It brought me back to the first stage. I am grateful that an admired leader gave me support at this time, helped me analyze the current situation I am facing, and shared how he chose and what he thought when faced with difficulties. No matter what the result, they also particularly supported and encouraged me, which strengthened my confidence.

After a period of silence, interviews have reached a peak, and sometimes 2-3 interviews are arranged a day, basically consisting of the first round of human telephone interviews, the second round of professional video interviews, and the third round of on-site interviews. carried out in the form. I was a little worried at first, but after a few times I have accumulated some experience, and I am constantly iterating on some of my ideas, and I am getting better and better at it. It's just that there has been no news from peer listed companies that I was looking forward to, which is a bit frustrating. I have also experienced the fierce competition of choosing 1 out of 12 in a certain research institute, writing competitive product reports, conducting on-site examinations, and competing for recruitment defense PK. After a long wait, it is a pity that I still have not competed with that suitable and professional girl.

I still remember that on a hot day I went to a leading company in the automotive industry for an interview. It took nearly half an hour to walk from the gate to the factory. It was really big, and it was constantly being expanded. It was also a new energy company. It is a good era for the development of the industry. The future and prospects can give people hope, so it is a good choice. I successfully passed the department's professional interview and also passed the factory director's approval. I felt a lot more at ease with the pass in hand. I finally saw a response to my hard work these days. I even looked forward to the scenes and scenes of working here in the future. However, I later considered it comprehensively and decided not to do so. Not my best choice, but gave me initial confidence.

What made me happy was that several branches of the listed company I was looking forward to sent invitations for interviews at the same time. At that time, I happened to go to Chongqing and met a classmate I hadn’t seen for many years. I chatted with him for a long time during the professional interview session on the university campus where I worked, about my understanding of the profession, my thoughts on leading a team, my personal strengths, my views on the industry, my views on this company, future opportunities and challenges, etc. We had a great time chatting and successfully entered the third round of vice president interview. What made me sad was that I was not hired. Later, I heard some other internal news that there are some unwritten rules, and I happened to be among them. I would rather Do you believe that you are not good enough, or do you believe that the workplace is indeed not friendly enough for women of a certain age group? Although the geographical location of another branch was not ideal, while I was waiting for the third round of interviews, the business leader talked to me about some of the directions I wanted to take in the future and recognized me. Such recognition made me think again. Blessed with some energy. Having such an experience gave me a better understanding of big companies. In fact, it is not as difficult as you think. I found that the more powerful the company, the more tolerant and respectful it is to the interviewers. The interview process actually made me happy. A broader thinking also allows me to understand myself from more aspects and enhance my confidence in myself.

This process is the intertwining of confidence and obstacles. On the one hand, you can see your shortcomings, on the other hand, you can also see your good sides, embrace any opportunity, and overall make yourself more confident, and It's not as difficult as I imagined in my mind at the first stage. Many times what we want to do is not stumped by the thing itself, but by our own fears.

The decision stage: the reality is to give or take

If you are faced with 2.5 times the salary of your peers in other places and starting over in another industry locally, what choice will you make?

After going through rounds of preparations and interviews, I got a job opportunity that matched me perfectly. The job opportunity and remuneration were good, and it also met my expectations for a listed company. I went to inspect it myself. The company's atmosphere, professionalism, response speed and planning, I feel the company's culture and full sincerity, as well as the people I contacted in the process, from the janitors, human resources, supervisors and senior management, all felt very good, and the company The scale is very large, and it is now in the initial stage of this section, which fully meets all my expectations. However, the only shortcoming is that in other provinces and non-provincial capital cities, the urban environment and development are not as good as those of current cities.

Thinking about me reestablishing roots in a new city alone, and staying there for at least 3 years, away from my family, giving up the circle around me and those close friends, I still feel extremely reluctant to leave, but After some struggle and decision-making, I decided to go. After all, I was now in dire straits and needed an opportunity like this to revive my confidence and expectations for the future. I even made plans to stay there in the future, if things went well. , I am grateful to my parents for giving me unconditional trust and support when I was making difficult decisions. Sometimes I think that no matter how well a city develops, if my personal life is not good, what does it have to do with which city I stay in?

At this time, I got an offer from my current employer. Although I was faced with giving up all the accumulation I had made since working for such a long time and starting over when I wanted to move across industries, the positioning and development prospects were also good, and the salary was better than It turns out that I have improved a lot, and I don’t have to give up everything I care about now, so I made this decision.

Thanks to my life supporters

This process is actually quite difficult. I am grateful to the help and support of so many partners around me. During the career planning stage, Teacher Bodhi helped me sort it out; in the process of changing careers, I had the professional help of Brother Zhao and LN; when I was about to collapse emotionally, Lele gave me emotional value. I still remember that day on the subway, feeling that the life was so gloomy and gray. I was so sad that I received Lele’s care and understanding at this moment. I wanted to cry at that moment, and then I felt strong again. When I was fighting for the opportunity of a certain research institute, I was grateful to Lele for providing me with the people around me. The resources helped me optimize relevant information from a professional perspective; the friends in the Thanksgiving Chuanchuan group helped me analyze and accompany me over several meals when I didn’t know what to choose; Qianru Qianru suggested that I keep a gratitude diary. I supported myself from within; I am grateful to all my life supporters for giving me the strength to face the whole process, bravely taking the first step and stepping out of my comfort zone.

A few months later, I am more determined about my original choice. I am also grateful that my old employer gave me a platform to train and grow, the support and recognition given by my leaders, the help my master gave me, and the friendly interactions and cooperation among colleagues. All the previous accumulation can still be used no matter where I am. It is precisely because of my previous experience that I can better adapt and do well in the present.

Although the process of re-selecting the track is a history of blood and tears, I have cried, been scared, and struggled; it is also a history of fighting with myself and the unknown fear. I have worked hard and gained a lot. The warm help fulfilled the flag I set in 2021 and finally broke through. If you are the same and are going through some difficulties right now, you have to believe like me that you can do it. No matter what the process is, as long as you move forward boldly, you will eventually achieve it.