What seven kinds of crises do people in the workplace have to face before they turn 30?

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About 30 years old is the time to get married and start a career. When I am single, I always shake my head when I hear tens of thousands of house prices, thinking that this is a "distant thing", but once marriage is put on the agenda, buying a house seems to be a natural thing.

As a result, people in the workplace bought houses for decades with loans 30 years ago. However, if you pay 3,000 yuan a month now, it will still be 3,000 yuan in 10 years. From an economic point of view, this transaction is not a loss.

Second, I feel stressed.

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"Stress" has become a mantra. This is especially true for people who often work overtime and travel. Some people say that they can't wait to wake up in the morning and find that they have retired. Some people say that I work too much overtime and don't even have time to consider retirement. Some people who choose to change jobs at the age of 30 are directed at "the pressure is less than the original job". Constellation theory may have some truth in resisting pressure.

Third, interpersonal relationships.

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In the workplace, not only the ability, but also the way of dealing with people: if others smile at me, should I return the smile wholeheartedly; Which is more important, strength or popularity; How to maintain a long-term polite relationship with half-baked people? These are unheard of in school. Only in the workplace did I find that "interpersonal relationship is" a deep knowledge. Besides, the close partnership in the past is different now.

Fourth, health issues.

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People in their twenties always feel that they have enough capital to care less about a healthy lifestyle, so they have developed some bad habits, such as smoking, drinking and playing games. Fatty liver, osteoporosis, hypertension, when you see these words suddenly appear in the annual physical examination report, you almost doubt that you have the wrong report from a 50-year-old man.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) has encountered a bottleneck.

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I can't tell you what it feels like. I just can't find a good working condition for several months. Everything is still running step by step, and there are no difficulties and obstacles at present, but the thinking seems to have dried up, and even a sense of powerlessness is born out of thin air. I don't know what to do.

Sixth, realize that parents are old.

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In the past twenty years, parents have been omnipotent. However, when we spent an evening explaining to our parents how to send short messages by mobile phone, did we realize that we are the people our parents can rely on in the future? When I got on the train with my suitcase, I found my parents' temples were gray. Do you realize that waiting for your return has become their daily life?

Seven, there is no concept of financial management

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Before the age of 30, most people in the workplace honestly get a salary. Except for daily expenses, the rest are either saved or squandered, and basically do not consider financial management. As the saying goes, if you don't manage your money, no one cares.

Seven crises that people in the workplace will face before the age of 30 II.

The first question is about family and responsibility.

Don't think you are still young. Don't think that some problems are far away from you. No matter whether you are decadent or busy, time is passing quickly, and you feel that you are getting older at an accelerated pace. There are some problems, whether you want to face them or not, but your growth stage determines that you must bear the responsibility that matches your age.

Most people, at this age, must consider family problems. If you have a family, you must be soberly aware: how should your career develop to ensure that you can support the burden of the whole family? This includes not only your lover, but also your children and parents (especially when both are only children, you have to bear the support of four old people on both sides). At this stage, your pressure will multiply, but if you can't double your growth in the workplace, or even regress in some form, then your future career development will face even greater pressure. And this kind of pressure, more often, will make you have no spare capacity to seek better development.

When many people change jobs, they often have a big concern: if I jump, if my income is not as high as it is now, will I easily change jobs in my current job? To put it more bluntly: do I dare to move again easily? Do I still have courage and courage? So if you want to act, you must go into battle lightly without family burden. This is your only choice. Never enjoy comfort at this time, otherwise, you will spend the rest of your life in mediocrity forever.

The second question is the matching degree between ability and age.

Why do many enterprises clearly require five years' experience, 10 years' experience and so on when recruiting talents? Because working hours mean the level of ability that matches it. The same job, five years of experience and 10 years of experience, abilities and responsibilities are different. The longer the working hours, the stronger the ability, and there is a positive multiplication relationship between them. But if you violate this relationship, then you won't be recognized by the employer, and then you will lose better career development opportunities.

In many of our customers, a difficult situation is the mismatch between ability and age. Many people who have worked for three to five years, even those who have worked for one year, have little difference in ability, so when they want to make a breakthrough in their careers, they will encounter a lot of resistance. There are two reasons: first, frequent job hopping, no accumulation in one direction, no skills; Second, although it has accumulated in one direction for a long time, it has only increased in the first year, and the remaining years are doing repetitive work and marking time.

So, for those 30-year-old friends, from now on, you must carefully examine one question: how many years have I graduated from work? Do my abilities match my age? If not, then you must establish a sense of crisis as soon as possible, run forward, make up the gap with those prophets, and ensure that you will not be pushed down by others in the competition.

The third problem is the construction and promotion of knowledge structure.

We once served a customer, made sales for five or six years, and accumulated quite rich practical experience. I once jumped ship to apply for the regional marketing manager of a well-known fast-moving enterprise. During the interview, he was able to answer all questions about the specific operational level, but when he rose to the institutional level and strategic level, his mind was blank. I believe that people who have worked in the workplace for five or six years have this feeling: I feel that I can master the specific operational level, whether it is the process or the skill method; But if you look at the problem from a higher level, you often don't know how to start.

In the workplace, people at different job levels do different things, and their horizons and thinking patterns are different. A basic salesman thinks about how to maintain the terminal, which is a tactical matter and his duty; But if a marketing director thinks about how to deal with the terminal boss every day like a salesman, it is his dereliction of duty. The management of every enterprise is composed of strategy and tactics. The grand strategy is subdivided into small strategies, and the small strategies are subdivided into execution tactics, which are put into practice by grassroots personnel. People at different levels are responsible for different heights of work and perform their duties, which is also the significance of teamwork. Similarly, people at different levels have different knowledge structures. The higher the level, the higher your vision and thinking, and the higher your overall knowledge structure level. Otherwise, your ability will always stay at the specific grass-roots operation level, and there will be no great development, let alone the rise of your position.

Before the age of 30: how to lay a good foundation

30 years old is an age that connects the past and the future, and it is also a very important time point. If you have almost no accumulation before the age of 30, it is very difficult to make a breakthrough in your career after the age of 30, and there are many practical problems that cannot be solved. This is a serious injury. Therefore, if you want to make your career after the age of 30 not regret and get through the 30-year-old hurdle smoothly, you need to be responsible for yourself before the age of 30 and plan ahead.

The first thing you should do is to find a goal for which you can strive for 5 years, 10 years or even longer.

This is an ideal state. Because a clear goal can make your career grow around a point and accumulate experience, and this accumulated experience is also your bargaining chip for promotion and salary increase in the future. Although there is no necessary connection between experience and ability, it is basically impossible to improve your ability without the accumulation of experience.

On the issue of objectives and core competitiveness, the so-called core competitiveness must have a core. Around this core, you can build your own competitiveness. And this core is your career goal direction: what kind of person do I want to be? This problem has been solved and the direction is clear. Even if you walk slowly, you can walk faster than those who take detours, because you know your goal, you have been moving towards your goal, and you are walking in a straight line.

What is the shortcut? The shortcut is not to take a detour, but to go straight ahead.

We interviewed a client last year and changed six companies in seven years. According to the usual understanding, people often think that this person's career development is very bad. Actually, it is not. This person's current monthly salary after tax is 6,543,800 yuan, which is a good level. You may wonder: Why does a person who frequently changes jobs have such a level of career development? Some people will think he is lucky, just luckier than others. Actually, it is not. Observing his growth experience, we find that there is only one reason, that is, every time he changes jobs, he never deviates from the established direction. As long as the direction is good, then every step of his action is approaching in this direction, accumulating more chips for future career development. The thickness you accumulate will ultimately determine your future development height. Now that house prices and prices are so high, the survival pressure of many people suddenly increases, which also causes many people to become impetuous and go with the flow under the pressure of survival.

You may have heard the law of 10000 hours: No matter you want to succeed in any field, you must pay at least 10000 hours of training. Marcom Gladwell said that no matter the best athletes, entrepreneurs, musicians or scientists, after investigation, you will find that they have worked hard for at least ten years, not less than three hours a day.

He cited an example: Maxim Vengerov, a 34-year-old world-class violinist, was born in Siberia. He got his first violin at the age of four, and since then he has shown extraordinary talent. However, his talent is directly proportional to his contribution. He practiced for 7 hours every day, gave a recital at the age of 5, and won an international prize at the age of 15. Vingerov said: "My mother comes home at 8 o'clock every night and teaches me the violin until 4 o'clock in the morning after dinner. It was torture for a four-year-old child, but two years later I became a violinist. "

Many people are complaining that there is no chance. Actually, it's not. Frank Freddy, a professor of sociology at Kent University, believes that people who spend a lot of time practicing effectively will naturally have their own luck: "They are almost demanding, and when luck comes, they are ready." This is an old saying of China: "Opportunities only favor those who are prepared." Don't complain if you don't get the chance. The first thing you should reflect on is yourself. What aspects are you not prepared for? According to our experience, only by sticking to one direction for at least five years can you get rewards, which will have a long-term impact on your future career development. At the same time, it is the accumulation of such a long time that makes your foundation very solid and your steps will be more stable.

There are only two things in the workplace: being a man and doing things.

If finding the right goal is to accumulate more core skills and do things better, then learning to be a man is the second important thing to consider in your career development. We even think that being a man is a hundred times more important than being able to do things. Finding a suitable career goal may not be easy for many confused people; But learning to be a man is a professional accomplishment, which can be cultivated by any company at any time. Even if you don't have much breakthrough and growth in your professional skills, good professionalism will increase your chips for your career development from another level. We have also met many incompetent customers, but we have a good attitude and are very positive. They successfully conquered the interviewer with their excellent professionalism and gained good development opportunities. There is a saying, to do things, be a man first. Insufficient ability can be cultivated slowly; But if you can't be a man, in any organization, you will become a street mouse shouted and beaten by everyone.

In the practice of being a man, there are four elements that can have a fatal impact on your future career development:

The first element is your interpersonal skills;

The second element is to establish the ability of continuous learning;

The third element is to establish professionalism;

The fourth element is to have a strong heart.

How to achieve a qualitative breakthrough after the age of 30?

Career development after the age of 30 should no longer be stagnant. If you want to make great progress in your career after the age of 35, you should make good use of the five years from the age of 30 and prepare the following three crucial things:

The first thing is to complete your professional brand building.

How to build your own personal brand? After you reach the age of 30, you must not change jobs frequently. The biggest disadvantage is that your professional knowledge growth will remain at a relatively low level, which will affect your promotion and salary increase. What should I do? What suits me? At this time, I should have a clear and definite orientation and use the remaining five years to accumulate. Otherwise, the "35-year-old phenomenon" will definitely be staged on you.

The second thing is to cultivate yourself into an excellent manager (here refers to the middle manager, which is also your first manager goal).

In addition to people who are very keen on technology, promotion in their posts is essential if they want to gain more space in the workplace. Becoming a manager is a key step in your career development. The future development space is inseparable from this promotion. But not everyone can sit firmly in this seat. Gallup once conducted a survey and found that the reason why basic employees frequently leave their jobs is often not the company, but its boss: the company's middle managers. It is precisely because of poor middle management that the development and growth of subordinate employees are adversely affected, which leads to their professional development not only in their professional ability, but also in their professional quality.

The third thing is to find a growing company and grow with it for a relatively long time.

No matter you are in the "third grade" or on your way to the third grade, please always tell yourself: don't waste your good years, seize all the time you can and accumulate more thickness for your life. When you get old, look back on your life. Do you want to live a happy life or a life of regret?

Finally, I borrow my favorite Steve Jobs quotation as the end of this article.

"People can't do too many things in this life, so everything should be done brilliantly. Your time is limited, don't live for others. Don't be limited by dogma, don't live in other people's thoughts. Don't let other people's opinions affect your inner voice. The most important thing is to follow your heart and intuition bravely. Only your heart and intuition know what you really think, and everything else is secondary. "

When you feel that your income is inferior to others, don't compare with others casually, because you never know what others have paid behind earning income. Similarly, when our life is inferior to others, there is no need to envy, because our quality of life is created by ourselves. If you think your life is not good enough, you are not working hard enough. In fact, it is easy to persist for three days, but it is difficult to persist all the time!