Young people: Don’t let age become your only advantage

A young man is better than a blue man. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. A new generation replaces the old.

I have also heard that "it is better to bully a white-headed man than a poor young man." These words all mean that young people are more powerful than the older generation. They have infinite possibilities and surpass their ancestors.

But this is not the case. Nowadays, many people take advantage of their youth and waste their time wantonly. But time is always the most real. If you ignore it and ignore it, it will eventually ignore you and ignore you. It's straightforward, no mercy, and priceless.

This is true in life, true in love, true in friendship, and true in the workplace, impartial.

Liu Jia has just entered the workplace, but she is very popular among her supervisors and colleagues because of her cheerful personality and lively thinking. However, she has a fatal flaw - taking things for granted.

When he first entered the department, his supervisor had high hopes for him and planned to focus on cultivating him, so he often assigned him additional tasks. Extra tasks, coupled with your own work, will inevitably be more difficult, especially some temporary tasks that are urgent. In order to ensure that normal work is completed, you can only work overtime.

In the early days, he thought that he was a newcomer and might need to do more work, but he still managed to accept it without complaining. But as other newcomers joined, they became familiar with the old colleagues in the company. After asking, they found that none of the other colleagues were in this situation. He felt that he was at a disadvantage because he did more work than others with the same salary. He was quite resentful about this and believed that his supervisor was bullying newcomers.

There are good things without reason in the world, but there is never bad things without reason, so there is no such thing as making things difficult and bullying without reason; sometimes I turn around and think about it, is it bullying or training? Is it to kill with a stick or to praise?

Due to multiple high-intensity trainings, his KPI completion is better than that of older employees. The supervisor also specifically praised him during the meeting, for which he was even more complacent and a little carried away. I thought to myself: "How can so many old employees do better than me, a newbie who has just graduated? No, I am not a rookie, I have high talent. They are really old, but they are not smart..." < /p>

Because of the fixed thinking of many old employees in the department, supervisors will consult Liu Jia for opinions on many creative tasks. Many old employees have also praised him, saying that he is a formidable young man who is young and promising and will surely achieve great achievements in the future. Most of the time, people's compliments are just to make their work easier, but most people will be blown away by such social compliments, and Liu Jia is no exception, and becomes elated about it.

What people fear most is not pride, but pride without knowing it; the most tragic thing for people is not blind confidence, but self-deception without knowing it.

When others are praising you one after another, the most important thing you need to do is not listen, and then calm down and reflect on your behavior. Should you be praised or exaggerated? It's a pity that many people can't do it, and the author is not immune, but I am learning.

When the company releases new products, each department is required to find a few people with active thinking and articulate skills to help record videos on a voluntary basis. The supervisor called everyone to a meeting to solicit opinions. Everyone said they could consider it, but he firmly refused. The supervisor was actually quite surprised, because she was most optimistic about Liu Jia.

She thought something had happened to Liu Jia, so she deliberately left him to talk and asked questions. Unexpectedly, Liu Jia said: "I am not interested in this, my focus is not here..." He wrote a long article, which can be described as the ultimate bragging. Although the supervisor felt it was a pity, there was nothing he could do about it. However, another new employee F, who usually performed mediocrely but had a good attitude, volunteered.

F has been taking care of his children at home before going to work, so he can’t keep up with the rhythm. He always makes jokes and makes small mistakes. But because my attitude has always been good and I haven't made any big mistakes, I don't have any special impression in the eyes of my supervisor. The supervisor was a little embarrassed, but he still let her go, thinking that she had no hope, and it would be nice not to be criticized.

Liu Jia also teased F about this, saying that she was stupid and that she had been tricked many times. I thought to myself that I was lucky because I was young, my brain worked quickly, and I learned to be smart early. I thought that she was too rigid-minded and so stupid that she might as well go home and continue taking care of the children. Although F did not receive praise this time, it left an impression on the supervisor.

Another time, the company released a new product. This time, everyone was asked to write a few sentences of copywriting or product promotion based on the characteristics of the new product and the company's philosophy.

Let customers associate the picture of the product's use through text description, thereby generating a desire to buy, and can also identify with the company's philosophy and enhance the company's image.

In layman’s terms, the language is vivid, pictorial and contagious, making you want to chop your hands at the first glance, want to chop your hands again after the second glance, and want to continue to chop chop after the third glance. And stay loyal, keep repurchasing and never stop.

As soon as Liu Jia saw the request, she complained non-stop: "We are not copywriters, how can we write that kind of thing? The company is really difficult. We not only want to save money on hiring good copywriters, but also want to sell the goods." Well, they will only come to squeeze us..." The people around him agreed, and their resentment suddenly surged.

In fact, many companies do this now. This is not purely to save money, but more of an opportunity, a sign of improvement, and a dawn of attention. I believe everyone has participated in team building. Every time the team building coach opens his speech, he cannot do without the following sentences. Although they are like chicken soup, they are more real and useful.

The reasonable requirement is training, which improves the ability to be independent; the unreasonable requirement is tempering, and elites are forged from the fire. The prelude to leapfrogging is a run-up. If you persist, you will have a chance to win, and your efforts will eventually be rewarded.

Because of his resistance, he did not take it seriously, but dealt with it hastily. If you work half-heartedly, your job will not be kind to you, and your supervisor will be even more disappointed with him. What made the supervisor happy was F. In fact, the supervisor did not want to hire her at first because of F's age, but the facts proved that she was right not to do that.

F was a stay-at-home mother who came to work after her children entered kindergarten. This is also the reason why her performance has been mediocre since she first joined the company, and she is still in the adaptation stage. After a few months of preparation, she started to get started. Although she was not born in liberal arts, she usually likes to read books and write some articles. Therefore, she got a good ranking in this copywriting competition, which also subverted the supervisor's prejudice against her.

Although she has been away from work for many years and has been taking care of her children at home, she has not given up studying. She also likes to arrange flowers and cook delicious food, which she often writes in her articles because she is positive and optimistic and loves life. Under her influence, words and deeds, the children are also very cheerful and lively, and are loved by teachers and classmates.

Since the last copywriting competition, the supervisor often arranges some temporary tasks for her. But she didn't feel wronged, impatient, or bullied. Instead, she told her family to pick up the children, and she quietly worked overtime to balance the relationship between work and family. She believes that everything in the world is not without reason. Why is it you and not others? There is always a reason, do you seize the opportunity or let it slip away?

She knows that compared with other colleagues, she has no special advantages, but her age is a big disadvantage. Being older sometimes means that your thinking is fixed, because after experiencing a lot of other people's things, you will always have an inertial thinking. This is the disadvantage of being older. And it is precisely this kind of fixed thinking that she needs to overcome in order to compete with young people and turn her disadvantages into advantages.

So she became more actively involved in the company's additional tasks. Although she may not always achieve good results, it exposed her to many new things. Just like a newly admitted student, he tirelessly absorbs new knowledge and then transforms it into something of his own. The supervisor also gradually began to focus on training her, and even let her take charge of some tasks independently, and she also completed it very well.

Positive, not picky, serious and responsible, and because he is older and has taken care of children, he is more careful than young people. What was once her weakness turned out to be her strength, allowing her to quickly stand out. When the deputy head of the department was seconded, she was promoted to this position and has lived a real white-collar life ever since.

At this time, Liu Jia had not yet awakened. He thought, I will definitely be better than her at that age. But they don’t know that if a tall building rises from the ground without laying a good foundation, how can there be a tall building? Being young is both an advantage and a disadvantage. Being young means you have more time to work hard and make progress, but if you waste it, time is like a butcher's knife, which urges people to grow old without mercy.

In the last few months of the year-end evaluation, Liu Jia failed the evaluation because of slacking off at work and was fired. But in the past year, he has not worked hard or even studied part-time. He has been rejected many times when looking for jobs with high technical content, and he is still unwilling to work at the grassroots level.

After searching for several months but still not finding a job, he finally woke up from a dream and found that he had no other advantages except age. But there are so many people graduating every year, and they are so young that this advantage doesn't seem to be very useful.

Young man, you have such a good advantage, don’t waste it, and don’t let youth become your only advantage.

In this world, there is never a shortage of young people, what is lacking is just the heart that is unwilling to be mediocre and will always be young!

I like a sentence very much: "I never grow up, but I never stop growing"! ——Arthur C. Clark’s epitaph

My best wishes!