Lulu University majored in advertising planning, but after graduation, because it was difficult to find a counterpart job, she had to work as a copywriter assistant in a real estate company, majoring in word processing. Her writing skills are quite good, and she is quite handy in this job.
However, this job is not in line with her own major, and quiet, boring and rigid word processing is not what Lulu likes. However, considering that many recruitment positions require work experience, it is easier to do a job first, even if it is to accumulate experience, and then jump ship.
Now, Lulu has been working for nearly a year and a half, and she is ready to jump ship. But everything is not as smooth as she imagined. Because Lulu has a cheerful personality and likes some challenging and creative jobs, she really wants to work in an advertising company and do advertising planning, which not only satisfies her wishes, but also conforms to her major.
However, the salary of these positions in the announcement company is generally low because she has no specific planning experience. On the other hand, the salary offered by those positions that recruit related clerical jobs is more attractive, which is half higher than the salary of the current job. Although this is not Lulu's favorite job, the salary conditions are attractive after all, which may be beyond her reach within a year or two after she changes careers. Facing the ideal and reality, what choice should we make? Lulu is very confused.
Future and money are not necessarily the best of both worlds.
I'm afraid there are not a few people who encounter problems like Lulu, that is, the conflict between career goals and reality. Many people choose to change jobs because they are tired of their current jobs and want to change careers. But we all know that "interlacing is like a mountain." If you want to cross this "gap", you must pay a certain price. Salary is the reward for your work and the embodiment of your own value, but the measurement standard of this value is not uniform, so it is easy to produce differences between enterprises and individuals. Like Lulu, in her view, a professional diploma in advertising planning and one and a half years' work experience are the capital for job-hopping. However, in the eyes of enterprises, the experience of copywriting and planning work are not completely matched, and there is no special advantage for candidates. This disagreement led to the conflict between her career goals and salary requirements.
Do you want long-term investment or short-term income?
This conflict is actually the relationship between long-term investment and short-term income. So many career counselors will advise us to pay attention to career orientation and career planning. Only by determining your career goals and planning your future career development can you stimulate your greatest potential, constantly improve your ability and enhance your value. But it takes a certain process. At the beginning, your immediate interests will have an impact, but it can pave a suitable career path for you and gradually increase your income. On the contrary, if you only focus on the immediate interests and give up your real goals, what will you get after a while?
Only by "adapting to local conditions" can we achieve good sustainable development.
Therefore, when faced with the choice of "future" and "money way", we must be clear about our real goals. Taking Lulu as an example, judging from her outgoing and receptive personality, planning work is more suitable for her, and boring copywriting work has bored her. If she continues to do it, resistance will affect her career development. And if she is engaged in planning, although her income is not ideal at first, with the improvement of her own ability, she will definitely improve, and it will be conducive to further development in the future.
More importantly, you should have a correct understanding of your situation and your own shortcomings, so as to enrich your strength. What Lulu lacks most is planning experience, which should be strengthened.
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