What kind of work is interesting and meaningful?

Most of the work is boring and meaningless;

Most jobs are not assigned according to people's preferences and personalities;

Most of the work is not arranged according to ability or suitability;

Most people enter the enterprise only as a component of a module to ensure the normal operation of the module, thus ensuring the normal operation of the whole enterprise.

I mean, most of them. Just because you watch the computer and drink coffee in the office doesn't mean that you are not a module.

Think about the difference between the job you are doing now and the ideal job you want after graduation.

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If you ask the job that most young people yearn for now, even us old bones, what do you like?

We will still say:

We like traveling, photography, scriptwriting, interviewing all kinds of awesome people, film and television planning and all creative work.

But most companies can provide jobs, either screwing screws, selling things, recording data and making forms, or running express delivery.

You will say that my vision is too small to generalize.

Actually, I choose my words very carefully. I said most enterprises, most jobs.

Look at the recruitment websites outside the second-tier cities in China. What is the ratio of the above positions I just listed to the positions we want to do?

Go and search.

These meaningless jobs that earn a little money have digested 90% of the employed population in China.

Then you put it here to talk about likes and interests.

What I like, what I am interested in and what I want to do have not changed since childhood.

But the reality tells me that you get the money first, and then think about what you like, what you are interested in and what you want to do.

I thought about it. When you get the money and catch a fish, people will say that you love life.

You have no money. Draw a picture and take a picture. People will say that you didn't do a good job and laugh at you: hey, can that thing be eaten as a meal?

Expert, why don't you come down and have a look? What percentage of people in the crowd can really do what they like?

2、

But then again, interest is a bit empty.

People don't know whether you are a hardcore player or a novice. You can't say for sure about this matter.

Sometimes you say that you are interested in something, whether you are a bystander or a consumer or an executor, participant or producer, there is a big difference.

Some people say that he likes photography, but he has never even touched a SLR. Buying a book on photography, complicated parameters, and unfamiliar terms and functions have discouraged him.

Shooting everywhere, the photos are particularly low. After two or three months of tossing, it is better to shoot with a mobile phone. I don't believe you when you say how interested you are in photography.

Maybe you just think it's interesting to take photos, and you yearn for that kind of life when you see other people take beautiful photos.

Those who really join this interest as executors, participants and producers, such as some digital bloggers and Apple fanatics in Tik Tok, can dig out 95% of Apple's functions that we basically don't use. These people's interests are not afraid of uselessness.

Without exception, these producers and executors can continue to play, and there is one thing behind them, that is, Qian Qian money.

3、

Sometimes we often reverse some logic:

That is, what we are interested in, we can do well.

Edison did well because he loved science;

Messi plays well because he loves football;

......

A thousand dollars can't buy love. Go all out to find what you love.

But sometimes we may make mistakes. Is it because something is done well that we are interested? Because we have successfully done something and made money, we have confidence and satisfaction, and we will have a strong interest in this matter and want to dig deeper.

In short, it is possible that we can do something well not because we are interested, but because we can do something well and we are interested in it.

4、

I used to hate sales very much, even afraid. I'm particularly afraid of dealing with people.

I once told my former leader that I asked him if there was a place where I could concentrate on a problem without talking to others. If there is, I will definitely go.

My leader said yes, but it must be related. ......

Those who do product development in group companies also need to communicate with people, but not as frequently as sales. But at present, no one in our branch is qualified to do it.

I ......

Later, when I made money from my own business, I began to be less resistant to dealing with people.

I used to scoff at all kinds of Q rules, and gradually began to want to use Q rules and use human nature to make profits for myself.

I don't know when my preferences changed, but the incentive of money is definitely the most important factor.

Because you can earn money, you have the confidence to do it yourself. Once you have confidence in doing something, you will be more impulsive. You want to study and think more deeply, how to get a deal with twice the result with half the effort, and how to negotiate at a lower price to get more benefits.

Including writing. If Zhihu hadn't given me the money, I certainly wouldn't have worked so hard and studied the rules of Zhihu and the media.

5、

My initial dream was to be a university professor in colleges and universities, and I could have a lot of time to do my own scientific research and academic research every day, so that I could be famous and have a position.

Later, when asked, I could be a counselor in someone else's university. Many of them have to go back to China, at least with a postgraduate degree.

I have two ordinary degrees, and my education is also average. I looked around and caught a lot, and I felt dead.

Later, the older I got, the more things I experienced, and the more naive I felt.

Most people in this world hate their jobs, but not many people really love and like their jobs. These subjective factors are meaningless, boring, not suitable for oneself and not good at it, but also superimposed with objective factors such as possible salary reduction, layoffs, unscrupulous competition and internal friction among colleagues, pua of the leader, Shang Ling of the subordinate, and industry recession.

Then why do you have to work? You must work.

Young people have seen through everything.

I just don't want to waste my breath arguing with you so-called experts, that's all.