You're fired.

I believe many people like their present jobs very much, because they are stable and comfortable and have a fixed salary. But if you were informed by your boss at the age of 49 that you were fired, what would your mood be like if this happened? Feeling depressed because you like this job, or returning to old age? The older you get, the more dependent you are on your job, waving your hand or feeling that you are no longer suitable for having ideals or dreams. If so, does it mean that you are a walking corpse after 50 years old?

On this day, 49-year-old Bernie? As usual, Marcus took his beloved briefcase to work in the company. In his career of more than 20 years, he was diligent and conscientious, and he only sat in the position of professional manager today, which was full of hardships and difficulties. As long as he works like this again 1 1 year, he can receive a pension safely. However, he never imagined that this day would be his last day in the company. "You're fired." "Why? What did I do wrong? " He asked coldly and incredulously. "No, you are not wrong. The company's development is sluggish, and the board of directors decided to lay off employees, that's all. " Yes, that's all. He changed from a respected company manager to an unemployed man wandering the streets overnight.

Like all unemployed people, heavy family expenses forced Bernie? Marcus must find a source of livelihood. In those days, he often went to the street coffee shop in Los Angeles and sat for hours to relieve his inner pain, confusion and great mental stress. One day, he met his old friend Arthur, who was the same manager as him, and now he was fired? Blank. Two people comfort each other and seek a solution together. "Why don't we start our own company?" This kind of reading is like a flame, in Bernie? Marcus had a flash of inspiration, which ignited his pent-up passion and dream. So, two people in this coffee shop plan to set up a new home storage company. Two unemployed managers made a development plan and a winning concept of "having the lowest price, the best choice and the best service" for the enterprise, and made a set of management system, so that this excellent concept could be successfully practiced in the development of the enterprise, and then began to establish the enterprise. It was in the spring of 1978. This is the world-famous American home storage company. It took them 20 years to develop a little-known company into a Fortune 500 company with 775 stores, 65.438+0.5 million employees and annual sales of 30 billion US dollars. Become a miracle in the history of global retail development.

The miracle began with a sentence 20 years ago: You are fired! Yes, that sentence "You're fired"-the last thing we want to hear in our life journey-changed Bernie? Marcus and Arthur. The fate of blank's two lives. If they hadn't been fired, they wouldn't have thought of starting an American home storage company anyway; If they are not fired, they will not enter the world's top 500 in any case; If they hadn't been fired, the two of them are now just old people living on a monthly pension.

People's creative ability is far greater than your imagination, perhaps because our inertial thinking tells us that the older we get, the less choices we have. In fact, the bottom rebound may not be limited by age. The body will age, but the mind must always keep up with the trend. When God closes a door for you, he will leave you a window.