Why do people find work boring?

Come on, say it with me:

Most jobs are boring and meaningless;

Most jobs are not based on people’s preferences, Distributed by personality;

Most jobs are not arranged according to ability or suitability;

Most people enter the enterprise just to serve as components of a module, ensuring that The normal operation of the module ensures the normal operation of the entire enterprise.

I mean most of them. Don’t think that just because you are looking at the computer and drinking coffee in the office, you are not a component of the module.

Think about whether the job you are doing now is very different from the ideal job you yearned for when you graduated.

1.

If you ask about the jobs that most young people aspire to now, even those of us who are old, what is our favorite job?

We will still say:

We like traveling, photography, screenwriting, interviewing all kinds of awesome people, film and television planning, and everything related to creativity. Work.

But the positions that most companies can provide are either driving screws, doing sales, recording data and making forms, or running couriers to deliver takeaways.

You will say that my vision is too small and I am generalizing.

Actually, I use my words very carefully. I mentioned most companies and most jobs.

Look at the recruitment websites outside second-tier cities across the country and see what the recruitment ratios are for the positions I just listed above and the interesting positions we want to do.

Just search it and you will know.

These meaningless jobs that can earn a little money account for 90% of China’s employed population.

Then you talk about your likes and interests.

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

But the reality tells me that you should 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, if you catch fish when you have money, people will say you love life;

You have no money, go paint and take photos , people will say that you are not doing your job properly and laugh at you: Hey, can that thing be used as food?

Expert, why don’t you come down and take a look? What is the proportion of people in the population who can actually do the work they like.

2.

But having said that, interest is a bit empty.

People don’t know whether you are a hardcore player or a newbie, there’s no telling.

Sometimes when you say you are interested in something, are you saying it as a bystander or consumer, or are you saying it as a performer, participant, or producer? Yes, there is a big difference here.

Some people say that he likes photography, but he has never even touched a SLR. After buying a photography book, he was already daunted by the complicated parameters, unfamiliar terms and functions. .

After taking a lot of photos, the photos are all very low. After two or three months of trying, I decided that taking photos with a mobile phone would be better. I don’t believe you when you say how interested you are in photography.

Maybe you just think taking pictures is interesting, seeing other people take beautiful pictures, and yearning for that kind of life.

Those who truly join this interest as executors, participants, and producers, such as some digital bloggers at Bilibili and Apple fever bloggers on Douyin, can basically make 95% of what we know about Apple By digging out all the functions that are not used on the Internet, the interests of these people are not afraid of being useless.

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

3.

Sometimes we often reverse a certain logic:

That is, we can do well only when we are interested in things.

Edison did well because he loved science;

Messi played well because he loved football;

......

Money can’t buy love, so you must pursue the love in your heart at all costs.

But sometimes we may make a mistake. Could it be that we are interested in something because it is done well? Because we succeed in doing something and make money, we gain confidence and The sense of satisfaction will further generate a strong interest in this matter and want to dig deeper.

In short, it is possible that we do something well not because we are interested in it, but because we can do something well, we have a strong interest in it.

4.

I used to hate sales, even fear. I was particularly afraid of dealing with people.

I once talked to my past boss and asked him if there was a place where I could concentrate on studying a certain issue without talking to anyone. If there was one, I would definitely go there. .

My boss said yes, but it has to be related...

Those who do product development in the group company also need to communicate with others, but they don’t have to communicate with others like sales. frequently. But currently no one in our branch is qualified to do it.

I...

Later, I started to make money by doing my own business, and I began to be less resistant to dealing with people; I sneered at the Q rules, but slowly began to want to use the Q rules and use human nature to make profits for myself.

I don’t know when my preferences changed, but financial incentives are definitely the most important factor.

Because you can make money, you have confidence in yourself to do this thing. Once you have confidence in doing something, it will stimulate your impulse even more, and you want to study it more deeply. Think about how to close the deal with less effort and how to negotiate for more benefits at a lower price.

The same goes for writing. If Zhihu had not given me money, I would definitely not have written as hard as I do now, and I would not have studied the rules of Zhihu and self-media in depth.

5.

My original ideal was to become a university professor in a university. I would have a lot of time every day to engage in my own scientific research and academic research, and would gain fame and status.

Later I found out that to be able to be a counselor in other universities, many people have to return from overseas, and the minimum is a graduate degree.

I have an average academic degree and mediocre qualifications. Looking at a lot of them, I feel that I have given up on this idea.

The older I got and the more things I experienced, the more I felt that my original idea was childish.

Most people in this world work in one job and hate the other. Not many people really love and like their jobs. In addition to the subjective factors of being meaningless, boring, not suitable for them, and not what they are good at, these are subjective factors. , and are also superimposed on objective factors such as possible salary cuts and layoffs at any time, unbridled competition and internal friction among colleagues, leader's PUA, subordinates' dominance, industry depression and other factors.

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

Young people have already seen through everything.

I just don’t want to waste time arguing with you so-called experts about lip color, that’s all.