I have lived in the north for five years and have been choosing between distance and salary. What should I look for when looking for a job?

For young people who go to first-tier cities to work hard, in addition to the high cost of living, many people actually don't know where to start employment and how to find a job correctly.

While visiting a question-and-answer platform, I saw a blogger of Beipiao asking such a question:

"I have worked hard in Beijing for five years, and now I am looking for a job. There are two jobs in front of me at present. There is a job far from where I live, but the salary is high. Another job is closer to where I live, but the salary is average. How to choose? "

The blogger added: "I feel that in the past few years, when changing jobs and looking for a job, I have made a choice between distance and salary, and it is getting harder and harder to find a job. I feel that apart from these two factors, I don't think much about others. Although there is a wide range of job choices, I really don't know how to choose. "

Because the blogger raised a wide range of questions, it caused a lot of discussion among netizens at once. Everyone analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of these two kinds of work from various aspects. Indeed, for young people working and living in Beijing, the issue of working distance and working salary is a multiple-choice question that puzzles many people.

For some people, time is money, and they don't want to spend another minute on their way to work, but for many people, they prefer to exchange time for money, because the cost of rent accounts for nearly 30% or even more of their income, and many people prefer to increase their commute time by one hour to help them save 1000 yuan in rent every month to maintain their lives.

For most northern drifters, it is a very realistic problem to choose between low salary and high salary in the distance. Even many people who have worked in Beijing for five years or even 10 years are still struggling with this problem. In order to save rent, they wasted their time on the road and paid twice the rent. Although the commuting time is short, the work itself may not be much better. Is it worth it? These two questions are believed to be difficult choices in many people's minds.

Xiuwen, a college classmate, works in a first-tier city in Beijing. She just got married two years ago and got pregnant last year. Persuaded by her husband and mother-in-law, she went back to her hometown to rest for a whole year. After the baby is born, she intends to let her parents and mother-in-law take care of her. This year, she wants to go back to Beijing to continue her career. After returning to Beijing, Xiuwen shared a house with others, monthly 1500 yuan.

After several rounds of resume interviews, Xiuwen got an offer from two companies, with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan, but the commute time from the place of residence is close to 1.5 hours, and the salary is 3,500 yuan, but only 20 minutes from the place of residence.

When everyone was chatting in the group, Xiuwen asked everyone in the group, how should I choose these two jobs?

The group is quiet because everyone doesn't know how to help her make a decision. When looking for a job, everyone's focus will be different.

Some people talk about heroes by their salary, while others pay more attention to the future development space of their profession and industry. Others care about the time spent with their families after work. It's always your career needs that can help you make a choice between work and job hunting. What do you need, you choose? People are animals that seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Choosing what you need and what is beneficial to you is a correct career choice to a great extent, at least to get through it.

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What are your values? What are the values of job hunting?

The post-90 s interview, which was hotly discussed before, doesn't care about salary, but only about whether the company has a gym and afternoon tea, which is the embodiment of professional values. Although surprising, it also tells us more or less what young people pay attention to in job hunting, the working environment they pay attention to, whether the working atmosphere is relaxed and humanized, whether the related infrastructure for leisure and entertainment activities after work is perfect, and whether they pay more attention to self-management and life enjoyment.

Of course, everyone has their own professional values. Although many times we will be forced by the pressure of life to choose some jobs that deviate from our professional values in terms of salary, working environment, working atmosphere, etc., it will happen if you work for a long time. The job choice under the pressure of survival will not make you have long-term patience with a job, which is one of the reasons why the post-90 s will change jobs every seven months on average, and the job that will keep you going will always be in line with your professional values.

Values can't be seen or touched, but compared with the external factors that can be changed, once they are formed, they are difficult to change.

Doing a job that does not meet your own values and needs will lead to dissatisfaction with the status quo and yourself, and it is easy to have the idea of quitting and jumping ship. I don't know what I want, what my advantages are, and I don't know my position.

What are values? Simply put, it is our inner expectation for career development.

For most people, the common professional values are as follows:

High salary, good working environment, free personal time after work, close to home, large promotion space, good industry development prospects, high social status, being able to do what you like, easy work and so on.

By writing out our professional needs and expectations and ranking their importance, we can clearly know what our professional needs are. When choosing a job, we can choose according to our professional values and professional needs.

Now let's analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the above two jobs.

Job 1: The monthly salary is 5,000 weekends, and the commuting time is 1.5 hours.

Although this job has an advantage in salary, it is only higher than the second job 1500 yuan. In fact, in terms of salary, it is not much higher. In a city like Beijing, the wage gap of 1500 is not big.

There is also the problem of rest time. This job is a double break, which means that you will have some rest and your own time after work, and you will have relative time to do things you don't have time to do, want to do and like to do.

On the other hand, commuting to work is too long, and it takes 1.5 hours, which means you need to get up and get ready two hours in advance, depending on the situation. If you live in a third-and fourth-tier city, the urban transportation track is not so developed. In fact, an hour and a half of commuting time is already very long. If you are in a city with relatively complete transportation facilities such as the first and second lines, the commuting time of one and a half hours is actually within a reasonable range. If you choose the subway and other means of transportation, the cost on the way to work will be greatly reduced.

Job 2: Monthly salary 3500, single room holiday, 20 minutes commute.

The advantage of this kind of work lies in commuting time, and the time spent on the way to work is less, but the disadvantage is that the salary is lower, the rest time is less, and there is not much spare time left for yourself, so let yourself do something.

In fact, the two jobs have their own advantages and disadvantages. As for the choice, it depends on your own professional values. In your work value balance system, do you pay more attention to the length of commuting time, personal leisure time or your monthly salary? You will make different choices with different concerns.

The choice of work should not only be clear about one's professional values, but also focus on career development goals.

Any job choice is inseparable from personal goals, as well as the growth of work ability and experience, and the ultimate goal is to achieve your career goals.

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Does the job choice meet the career goals?

Career goals, simply put, are what kind of changes you want in your job, or what kind of results you want to produce in a certain period of time.

Career goals are divided into short-term, medium-term and long-term, which may be goals for one month, one quarter or three to five years. They are big or small, far or near, and all the short-term goals are to serve your ultimate goals and settings.

As for the choice of job, you should know whether the job you choose can achieve your short-term goal or even your ultimate goal.

Just like the above two jobs, a job with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan far from home, although it takes you a lot of time on the way to work, can provide you with resources and advantages to achieve your career goals: you can meet better people, you can get in touch with more elite talents in different industries, you can have more learning and training opportunities, and so on. These are all indispensable resources and advantages to help you achieve your short-term goals.

So, in the final analysis, the first thing we need to consider is whether this job can provide me with the resources to achieve my career goals. If not, am I going to find a resource platform that can help me achieve my career goals?

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Does this job meet your interests?

Interest is your first teacher. Do what you like, and you will have the motivation to stick to it. If you are not a job you like and are interested in, you may be tempted by external conditions in a short time, but after a long time, you are likely to have the idea of leaving your job.

From the perspective of long-term career development, even if the material conditions are attractive, you will lose the intuitive initiative of your work over time, and you will have an idea of working for your own sake, which is not good for your self-growth and is still a waste of time.

If a job that is close to 3,500 yuan away from home can give you a strong sense of work achievement, and you feel that you like this job more and more, it is also worth a try. After all, no one knows what the future will be like. Making money is already very unhappy, but why do you have to do a job you don't like to make money?

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Does the job have its own advantages?

There is a saying that if a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first For a job, it is inevitable that he has professional skills. If he doesn't have this advantage, with the progress of the times and the refinement of social division of labor, it means that work chooses you, not you.

Choosing a job that you are good at and have advantages is good for your career development. Simply put, it is your choice of work. Compared with others' choice of the same job, what advantages will you have over others in controlling and being competent for this job, which is also the embodiment of your core competitiveness in finding a job.

Whether my knowledge and skills are enough to support me to complete my work or meet the standards of my work.

If you can't achieve it, can you achieve it through study?

Therefore, whether a job can use personal knowledge and skills is very important, and it is also the key to whether an individual can be competent for the job and the core of creating performance.

Finally, I want to sum up a few words for you:

Be clear about your professional values, understand your professional needs and work priorities, find a job with goals and objectives, find a job that you have the ability or even the advantage to control, and think about whether you can really realize your ultimate professional goal for this job in the short, medium and long term.

If you have a hard time choosing a job, you might as well ask yourself these questions.