Eight commandments of workplace survival

This paper tells about various experiences in the workplace and draws a summary from the author's experience. Welcome to read the following eight commandments for survival in the workplace for your reference.

1, the opportunity for growth is always more important than the immediate salary-doing important things is more important than getting more money.

I know that the worklife version on Shui Mu BBS every day is to compare your first quotation. If the bid is not high, I am embarrassed to come out and meet people. Every time I see a similar post about Sun Offer, I feel as if I have returned to the campus more than ten years ago.

Regarding the quotation of graduates, especially the quotation of Mianba, I just want to say that the high quotation given by famous enterprises to graduates, first, far exceeds the actual value of this graduate; Second, the rare high quotation of such famous enterprises often plays the role of public relations or publicity; Third, many famous enterprises, especially the foreign enterprises I reflected on some time ago, are graduates with high Offer, just doing very simple supporting work. Therefore, the current high salary does not necessarily correspond to high growth opportunities.

I tell two stories about growing up. The first one is an old colleague of Motorola. He told us that it was not his classmates who made great achievements in foreign enterprises in the end, nor did he strut abroad, but a fourth-tier city. Because he went to an old TV manufacturer that no one wanted to go to. After I went, I worked hard. Finally, he became the vice president of this large state-owned enterprise very early. There is a simple reason. At that time, no student from a famous university was willing to go to a fourth-tier city and work in a state-owned enterprise, so he got a very good opportunity.

The other happened to my classmate. Around 2002, when she was in graduate school, our classmates got together. She said that she was an intern in an entrepreneurial Internet company, and no one knew the name of the company at that time. I just went to Motorola at that time, and she later chose another foreign company. The name of this unknown Internet company at that time was "Baidu". I don't need to tell the following story, because the early front desk of this company has also become a legend.

No one can be your mentor all your life, but you have to keep looking for a mentor all your life.

In fact, mature enterprises will have a tutorial system, that is, once you enter the company, you will be familiar with the company culture and rules and regulations and help you adapt to the company's "old people." This is the master and apprentice in ancient times, and the exquisite craftsmanship in our history has been passed down in this way.

What I want to say here is that in addition to the mentor appointed by the company for 3-6 months, you should constantly look for your own mentor. Mentors are not always better than you, and it is difficult for you to strike up a conversation with such people. If your most important abilities and knowledge are flawed, you have to find "awesome people" who are good at these aspects.

There may be no need to treat teachers like this. You just need to create opportunities in your work and life to get close to Ta, observe Ta, try to ask Ta in person, and even create opportunities to work with TA.

As soon as I enter the new environment, I will find someone who can be my mentor. Then use the skill of "chatting up" mentioned before to get close to Ta, and be noticed by Ta, so as to get the opportunity to learn.

This search needs a radar, your inner radar. To build this radar, you need an open mind first. Only with an open mind can we constantly find awesome people. Secondly, you need to be able to objectively and calmly analyze your strengths and weaknesses. Know what you lack, what you can attract others, and communicate with others.

3. If you can't find better people around you, then change places.

It is understandable that many people quit their jobs in order to get better treatment. However, if you trace the reason of the "result" with the income result, you find that you need another reason to quit.

As mentioned in the first article, the importance of growth. How to grow? The first is that it depends on the platform of this company. Just like the rise and fall of a nation in history, the strength of an individual is very small in the face of the general trend. The rise of the national situation has benefited all people. The country is in decline and the people are in trouble. So is the company.

The second thing to grow up is to come from the awesome people around you. I've always been like this from school to company. Once there are awesome classmates or things around me, I am sure I can make great progress. Maybe I can't keep up with the rhythm of scalpers at first, which is a bit embarrassing. But once you have such a goal around you, it's hard not to improve your level.

So for me, if an environment can't make me grow up, I should leave decisively. A place with no one around and no goals for you to learn is a place where you can't grow up.

4, financial management, starting from getting the first month's salary.

Recently, in order to see history, I saw some people in our history, such as Hu Shi, whose evening scenery was bleak. When he was old, he worked in the library of Columbia University for several years in America. He doesn't have much income Although he was beautiful when he was young, he had little savings. So when he met young people, he said to them, "Money is a man's courage. Pay attention to saving more money when you are young! "

I believe that most fans who "change themselves" are not rich second generation and official second generation. Therefore, from the first salary after graduation, it will be of great help to develop the habit of saving money and managing money.

In my first speech to Members, I particularly talked about financial management. It is important that everyone should learn to manage money from the first income and gradually develop the habit of managing money.

The essence of financial management is not many a mickle makes a mickle-it is frugality and simple addition. Is to realize compound interest over time. Einstein said: "Compound interest is the greatest invention of mankind" and "Compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe". The final result of compound interest is related to the length of your financial management, because our life span is fixed, so the sooner you start financial management, the more confident you will be in your life!

Want to leave everything behind to wander, travel around the world with your beloved and start a business? Let's manage our finances from now on. Entrepreneurial success is a probability, and only a few people can do it in the end. But financial management, everyone can do it, all you need is learning+self-discipline.

Why did you try hard but not get better?

To be an expert in the workplace, you don't have to burn the midnight oil like the person in the picture above. On the contrary, paying attention to the following points will make you take fewer detours.

Don't always stare at your own shortcomings, but discover and enlarge your own advantages.

I have been puzzled for many years about the choice of "fostering strengths and avoiding weaknesses" and "fostering strengths and complementing each other". Later, I gradually realized that the so-called "long" and "short", if they are still "long" or "short" after several years, may not have changed fundamentally, but are your inherent and constantly strengthening personal fundamental attributes.

Don't believe it? Look up at your parents, some teachers and professors in front of you, and your leaders. See the features you like and dislike? Which time is not long?

Later, when I became a manager, during the recruitment process, I found that what we were looking for was no longer a "perfect" person, but a suitable person, one whose advantages you value very much and whose shortcomings you can accept, and whose abilities match the job requirements. I finally understand that what we need to do for ourselves is to "foster strengths and avoid weaknesses".

What about the barrel effect? This is more effective for the organization. But even for organizations, don't you find that every good company in NB has obvious advantages and disadvantages? You are handy when doing things that match your DNA. Be clumsy in doing things that you are not good at.

Life is short, spend more time to amplify your advantages. A person with obvious advantages can accomplish things. A seemingly flawless person may be a very mediocre person.

If you just work hard, you will become cynical.

I have met many people who have been working hard for so many years, and they also complain a lot. Complain that you are not talented, complain that the leader is not Bole, and complain that the promotion mechanism of the company is out of order. ...

Why do hard-working people end up being cynical? I didn't know until later No one is a person who doesn't ask for anything in return, but some people are obviously coquettish and some people are showy. Hard-working people belong to this "man show", and I used to belong to a man show and enjoy myself.

People who work hard become cynical because their efforts are not recognized. In fact, he doesn't know, not that others don't recognize him, but that he doesn't know what he is doing, and he doesn't know what he is thinking, what his specialties and whimsy are.

Some hard-working people may be perfectionists, but leaders have no time to explore everyone's concrete progress. Colleagues also have no obligation to spy on everyone around them like Bole. You may really want to show everyone your perfect side and perfect result. But people around you often wait for "no progress".

In this case, your reliability index is 0, who will give you the chance?

How to communicate, how to become less "hard", in fact, many times without rhetoric. You can often discuss some progress and specific issues with colleagues and leaders. You can demonstrate the progress of the work in stages in everyone's demo, and you can also get very effective and positive feedback. Only by comparing your stage achievements with everyone at the same table can you know your specific position. It can be adjusted in time.

From today on, raise your head and be a happy person.

7. Vision is higher than ability, and ability is greater than income. This is the right track.

I have said this sentence several times, and I want to emphasize it again, because this rule still holds true for me.

No one really loves you in any profit-making organization, whether it is a big company or a startup. What they value is your ability, and the cost is salary and time!

In the working environment, in a large and profitable enterprise, the chain of value creation is cut into several interrelated links, and most grass-roots employees will be confined to a certain link, unable to directly contact customers, let alone understand the details of the value chain. In this case, there is a skill to share. To sum up, "vision is higher than ability, and ability is greater than income."

Vision refers to vision, that is, although you may be a grass-roots engineer, you still have to have lofty ideals, understand the company's vision, and it is best to find a suitable combination point. On the premise of doing your job well, keep studying for more than 8 hours, improve your level, and communicate this experience with your boss in time. People who can often communicate with their bosses from a certain height will get more opportunities than people who are unknown all day. This is the so-called "vision is higher than ability", which gives you many practical opportunities to improve your ability.

Ability is greater than income, which means that if your monthly salary is 7 thousand, then 6 thousand may be a better figure. Because all performance appraisals are subjective judgments, one of the most important ones is horizontal comparison. The same person contributes 7,000 yuan, one person gets 8,000 yuan and one person gets 6,000 yuan. If you were a leader, who would you give a raise to? And if this person with lower price works very hard outside 8 hours and often shows better potential, what will be the result? As a leader, should we always consider giving this colleague with high cost performance, better potential and harder work more promotion opportunities? If you work hard enough to keep your vision above your ability and your ability above your income, then the continuous upward channel is just around the corner. As an individual employee, it is often easy to exert the greatest potential in this state, thus forming positive feedback and accelerating promotion. Therefore, students in large enterprises should pay special attention to this point.

8. Keep studying, even at the lowest ebb.

To this day, I still think that when I interviewed at Motorola, I was the first in the same group to get a second chance because I was still immersed in reading a C++ book before and after the written test. So "love learning" is my first impression of the first leader. Later, at Motorola, I kept introducing books to my colleagues. So the book gave me a lot of opportunities and a lot of work impressions.

My personal life has also fallen into a trough. At that time, I read many books, such as "The Road Few People Walk", "Falling in Love with Two People" and so on, which inspired me. When I fell into anxiety last year, the healing of mental anxiety and self-help instinct gave me quiet strength. So, at the bottom of my life, books are like my lifeboats. The words of friends give me comfort, and books give me the torch of darkness and dawn.

The wisdom of our life is nothing more than the ability to look forward and backward. The former, you can read some books on trends, such as Out of Control and Singularity Approaching. The latter, you can see a similar "Great History of China". These books have enhanced my vision and reflective ability.

We are getting older every day, and only reading can make you no longer afraid.

To sum up, if life is a game, congratulations on graduating from "training mode" and entering independent combat mode. The final result of the game is to see where you put your limited life resources: time, money and attention. Concentrate on firepower and make sure to invest in the right things!

Don't fight alone. From the first day of the battle, you must find your own "comrades-in-arms". Where are the comrades? Comrade is in line with your goal, excellent. Every day, remind yourself to be closer and closer to these excellent people. ...