In today's fierce competitive environment, "not liking work" can be regarded as a dangerous signal.
Compared with other professions, accounting work is a business of "getting more popular as you get older". But because Lao Zhang didn't like it and didn't concentrate on learning new accounting professional knowledge, he showed burnout at work and eventually resigned, which had to wake me up.
It's been seven years since I graduated from sales, but I have lost a lot of passion when I was young. In the face of complicated colleague relationship and saturated market environment, I began to shrink back, and naturally I couldn't like it.
There is a saying on the Internet: "If you don't like your present job, you should either quit or shut up."
Most people want to quit, but how many people make a move?
Shut up and don't say anything. Compromise will only make you dislike it more and more. So what should we do next?
How to face a career you don't like is a very important issue that needs long-term consideration. In the struggle, I found my friend Wen Bin, a "slick" in the workplace, and asked him for advice.
Wen Bin has worked in a Fortune 500 company for many years and has rich experience. He didn't give me specific advice, but he taught me how to think deeply about problems and find ways to solve my own problems by combining other people's experience.
1, facing the choice, the first thing you have to do is to know yourself again.
When I told Wen Bin about the difficulties I faced in my career, he suggested that I should know myself first and clarify the relationship between myself and my work.
Our career is wonderful because of so many choices, and people have their own strengths and achieve each other; Also confused by too many choices, people look around and kill time.
Finding the right path is a compulsory course for each of us. How to get out of confusion and move towards a wonderful life, let's first look at the story of a cow.
Maureen Hickey is a former global CEO of Chanel, and she also had a confused period of career choice.
When they graduated from college, Maureen Hickey's classmates planned their career paths in advance. Some people enter the field of financial investment, some do management consulting, and some devote themselves to profitable industries such as law or medicine, but Maureen Hickey still has no clue.
Maureen Hickey's father is a top lawyer, and she followed the crowd and took the entrance examination for law school. However, halfway through the exam, she withdrew from the examination room. Because she knows that this road is not what she wants to go.
Later, Maureen Hickey gradually realized that what she really wanted was to "live in Paris".
Besides, she knows that she likes to cooperate with others. Recognizing this feature, Maureen Hickey started with marketing and embarked on the career path of art design step by step.
When Maureen Hickey is faced with a career choice, she should first find out what she doesn't want, and then choose what she wants. This is a good suggestion for us.
Einstein said, "If I have an hour to solve the problem, I will spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem itself and 5 minutes thinking about the solution."
So, if we don't like our careers, we might as well ask ourselves a few more questions first:
Do we really dislike it, or are we forced to dislike it? Do we dislike the working environment or the work itself?
Sometimes, we like one job very much, but we have to choose another job because of the pressure of survival. Sometimes, we may just dislike the company culture or working atmosphere, but we recognize the job itself.
How to choose, everyone has his own answer. Only when you really know yourself can you find that answer.
2. Try to like your job.
Most people have more career choices when they are young or when they graduate from college. Once we are rooted in a certain field, it is difficult to change our career direction. After all, the success of every industry is inseparable from years of hard work.
If you give up the accumulated knowledge, experience and network resources and enter a brand-new field, you may need to make more efforts to catch up. We must consider the risks.
In the face of risk and "dislike", these two rights are less harmful. If the risk is too great, it may be our best choice to take the initiative to like our work.
I don't like it anymore. Can we still make ourselves "like" this job?
Yes, I can!
There was once a young man who didn't like his job very much, but later he became a "business saint" in Japan.
The former young man was called kazuo inamori. After he founded two Fortune 500 companies, he accepted the request of the Japanese government at the age of 80 and successfully saved JAL from bankruptcy.
When he graduated from college, kazuo inamori couldn't find a job. After being introduced by a kind teacher, I entered a ceramic products company to work.
But kazuo inamori studied organic chemistry in university, and now he is engaged in ceramic industry, but he is engaged in inorganic chemistry. Most importantly, he is not interested in the ceramic industry, let alone like it. What's more, the company he works for often fails to pay wages, which makes kazuo inamori even more dissatisfied.
Faced with many "dislikes", kazuo inamori didn't complain, and he began to take the initiative to "like" his job.
Kazuo inamori devoted himself to research. In order to save more time, he moved all the pots and pans into the laboratory. In order to keep up with the most advanced ceramic research in the world, he eagerly read professional magazines and books to make up for the lack of professional knowledge.
Since then, kazuo inamori has slowly walked out of continuous suffering and setbacks, and his career has gradually become brilliant.
Dong Qing said: "When you really want to achieve something, the whole universe will unite to help you." After learning the story of kazuo inamori, I am convinced of this sentence of Dong Qing.
In a limited life, instead of working with negative emotions, it is better to change your mind and try to like your job.
"Like" is an action here, which requires us to find a breakthrough in ordinary, boring and even tired work. As long as you devote yourself wholeheartedly and work as hard as others, you will certainly find the beauty of your work. Followed by a sense of accomplishment and happiness.
At this time, "like" will become a feeling.
When the time is ripe, let it be.
After hard work, it is a blessing to like your job. However, things have changed, who can guarantee that he will not jump ship all his life? If you face another career choice, what can you do to avoid detours?
As the saying goes: "If there are old people in the family, there are treasures." When we are faced with confusion, asking experienced elders or professionals may help us solve the mystery.
Many people know the story of Grandma Moses, and her life is simply a legend. Grandma Moses began painting at the age of 77, held an exhibition at the age of 80, and published an autobiography at the age of 87. Until she died at the age of 10 1, her story was still talked about by people.
She published a book "Life is only once, do what you like" before her death. The story in the book and Grandma Moses's attitude towards life inspired and inspired many people.
Grandma Moses once sent a postcard in reply to a letter from a young man who was facing career confusion. The message on the postcard is: "Do what you like, and God will help you open the door to success, even if you are 80 years old now."
The young man who wrote the letter is called Junichi Watanabe. At this time, he has obtained a doctorate in medicine and served as the medical section chief of a medical college. However, due to the disappointment of medical treatment, Junichi Watanabe began his literary exploration. Encouraged by Grandma Moses, he rediscovered the direction of life and eventually became a famous contemporary Japanese novelist.
It is important to have experts to lead the way, but it is more important to know for yourself.
Everyone has his own solution to the occupation he doesn't like.
Junichi Watanabe gave up medicine and devoted himself to literature because the time was ripe. He had no economic pressure at that time, and had a good literary foundation, and published many academic papers and works.
Kazuo inamori's way of facing the job he doesn't like is not to escape, but to actively embrace the job;
Maureen Hickey did not choose her father's career as a lawyer or any other path with a brighter future. Because she knows exactly what she has and wants.
Knowing other people's stories, I fell into deep thinking. In this world, there is no fixed law, how to find the one that suits you?
First, Wen Bin helped me to analyze problems and get to know myself and my work again. He told me that under normal circumstances, we should all go all out and try our best to like our jobs. Deepening your understanding of yourself and the world in your efforts is more conducive to your future career choice.
If you are new to the workplace, you'd better choose what you should do according to your own characteristics. Pragmatic working attitude and improving ability are more important than "talking about liking".
If you have made small achievements in your field, but you see people who have made higher achievements in this field, you know in your heart that this is not what you want. Then properly accumulate strength, and one day, you will set sail for your dream again.
If your career choice involves happiness, value, meaning of life and other topics, then the best way is to listen to your inner voice, which will take you where you should go!