When I left the ivory tower for the first time and bid farewell to campus life, I was inevitably confused and uneasy when I chose my first job. On the one hand, it is ideal, and on the other hand, it is reality. No matter which one you choose, the reluctance to give up "another possibility of success" will follow.
Choosing cities, industries, companies and jobs seems to set the tone of life in the next few decades.
How to face this anxiety calmly and how to make the most loyal choice? We chatted with some classmates.
Confused about employment? Why don't you choose a big platform first, Danny? 1997, I worked as an intern in Tik Tok.
Baby face, curved eyes, silent San Xiao, clear and shallow dimples on her cheeks, Dandan is the kind of little girl who seems to have no sense of distance.
At the end of last year, "Little Star Gesture Dance" was popular in Tik Tok, and in less than three months, it was played 2.47 billion times.
"You, my little star, hung up and shone on that day ..." When I saw the lyrics, I made up the melody. This song "Little Star" is the hottest background music in 2065 438+08 Tik Tok, and the behind-the-scenes pusher of "Little Star Gesture Dance" is our interviewee, Dan Dan, an intern in Tik Tok operation.
It's hard to pick out a great song in a vast music library. Dandan explained her logic of "pushing songs" like this:
"Little star was on fire when I was in junior high school. Sweet style and catchy melody. In addition, the gesture dance with this song has only six steps, which is very easy to learn. I thought "Little Star" might become popular in Tik Tok, but the heat was unexpected. "
Speaking of work content, Danny's eyes lit up and the whole person became active.
"I think this success is an inspiration to me. Seeing primary school students in Tibet dancing with Xiaoxing's music on the playground, they laughed happily and felt that they had passed on their happiness to hundreds of millions of people. This sense of accomplishment has never been experienced before. "
When asked what word he most wanted to use to describe his original choice, Dandan gave a two-word answer seriously: lucky.
"I don't like my college major. I'm confused. I worked as an intern with my classmates in my senior year. I chose this position because the job content is more interesting. As a result, I found true love by mistake and liked it more and more. Now every once in a while, I feel how delicious I used to be! In the months since my internship, my introspection speed has hardly kept up with my growth speed. "
Famous enterprises with high salaries in hot industries are the choice of many graduates. A big platform means more opportunities, which means that your ability has more room to display, and your work results may be seen by more people. For many young people in the confused stage, choosing a big platform from the crowd may not be the right option.
In the chat, I learned that Dandan's job is not easy. The excitement of making an explosion is only a small part of her job. What she deals with most every day is trivial things, such as labeling videos, such as classifying them one by one. Danny will feel a little tired after a day's work.
Although the work is hard, she is still willing to stick to it. Because she knows that this job can create value. In the busy life, open Tik Tok and spend fifteen seconds to change her mood. She wants more people to know that happiness is so within reach. And she is one of the happy messengers, and that happiness is self-evident
When I was sent to Africa, I chose to see the other side of the world,1Ajie who traveled all over three continents in 994.
Tik Tok International Content Community Management
Ajie is 25 years old. When she was in college, she had short-term exchanges in the United States and Australia, but after work, she had a soft spot for that land in Africa.
"I was born in a small town. When I was a child, the educational resources were not good. I always feel sorry that I didn't get into a prestigious school. Later, I went to college and studied English hard. In winter, I practice my spoken English in the corridor. Passing classmates will pay more attention to me. "
Ajie wants to see the world. He thinks that the radius of language is the radius of the world. When watching English documentaries, Ajie knew that there was more than one life. "Trees grow into different shapes in winds in different directions, and rivers are influenced by geostrophic forces and gather in different oceans. That's a life I never knew. "
The opportunity came quite suddenly. Ajie, who supports English content operation in TopBuzz, was called to the conference room by the leader one day. "International business needs to form a local team. If you are interested in going abroad, you can choose one of these overseas cities. "
Ajie felt a stream of blood rushing to his head at that time. He quickly browsed the list containing the names of more than 20 countries and cities. Without thinking, he chose the farthest one, Casablanca, Morocco, Africa.
"I always feel that the word' wandering' is written in my blood when I am pursuing a bigger, farther and more tense homesickness." Ajie smiled brightly. "I have climbed mountains, seen the sea, counted stars and smoked haze, but I have never seen what the desert looks like."
"So ... what's the desert like?"
"As expected, but ... very different. When it comes to Africa, people will think of endless yellow sand and turbulent life. Primitive',' poverty' and even' barbarism', I know these words must keep popping up in your mind. But when you really arrive in Casablanca, you will find that everything here is lovely, fresh and pure, and even the challenges are full of fun. "
Ajie told us that when he first arrived in Africa, he found only two colleagues from China and an "empty" office. In addition to completing daily business, he has to set up a local team, take charge of management, recruit people by himself, post job advertisements by himself, call candidates for interviews by himself, and also do, connect satellites and deploy VPN. In short, everything depends on yourself. He experienced the expansion of the team from a few people to dozens of people, from the work content framework, communication process to logo usage specifications, all of which were sorted out by several people.
In front of him, the dark-skinned young man smiled and told his story, fantasizing about satisfying all his dream life of "poetry and distance". He has solid land under his feet and a vast desert behind him. The realistic choice has been made, and the ideal is ahead.
I choose to be someone else's guardian, master in Tsinghua, and AI lab in ByteDance.
Brother Kay looked gentle and shy, and his two fingers kept drawing circles on his pants. It is hard to imagine that this young man is a great god who has been a "suicide model" for more than a year.
I graduated from the best software institute in China and worked as an intern in foreign companies, Internet companies and research institutes. His outstanding personal conditions are enough to support him to pursue any kind of dream.
"High-risk video classification modeling" is a practical application of artificial intelligence in Internet audit. By tagging videos, accumulating raw data, and then improving modeling, Internet information can be purified.
"Users may upload videos of pornography, violence and suicide to the platform for some reason. Our job is to find these videos in the first time to prevent the video from being released and causing adverse effects. "
2065438+In March 2008, the new employee Kaige was exposed to the first suicide video. In the picture, a young girl is cutting her wrist, and her blood keeps flowing downwards. He just looked through the screen and could do nothing.
"It is difficult to describe the specific feeling in specific words, but I vomited several times before my mood gradually calmed down."
Watching a young life pass by, but unable to change such a tragic ending, the powerful visual impact brought by blood punched Kaige hard in the heart and made him decide to become stronger after his heart was broken.
"Not every enterprise is willing to give young people opportunities, and not every job can give me this sense of accomplishment. And this sense of accomplishment lies in the fact that the model you made really affected hundreds of millions of users. "
"If I do more, the harm of vulgar violent videos will be less. If I work harder, maybe there will be one less self-mutilation child next time. To ensure safety, the hardships of behind-the-scenes work are often difficult to be humane to the outside world, but someone has to bear this hardship. This role is not as good as mine. "
The establishment of a model can affect thousands of people, who are scattered in different corners of the world. They may not know who is the guardian of network security, but it is the existence of these network security guardians that will see beautiful things.
Fast-paced life vs slow-paced creation, I write poems in the crowd, Xiangzi, ByteDance brand department, poet.
This is the third year that Xiangzi wrote poems in Zhongguancun. This year, he wrote sixteen poems, several of which were published in famous literary magazines.
Time is like water in a sponge. Xiangzi used the time desperately squeezed out from his busy life to write. On weekdays from Monday to Friday, he gets up at 7: 00 in the morning, writes until 9: 00, goes to work in the company, goes home at 9: 00 in the evening to deal with chores, reads books for a while, and 12 goes to bed. There are three hours a day on average, reading and writing.
One weekend every month, he will take the subway twice to the National Library. When the weather is bad, he will take a taxi. He is always punctual, just like going to an appointment. In the National Library, he reads or writes from 10 in the morning to 5 pm.
The company's internal system clearly records his bimonthly goals, and there are more than a dozen items, all of which are completed as planned.
After busy work, what supported him to write poems for three years? In the traditional impression, internet companies are pragmatic and pay attention to efficiency, which seems to be not a good place to write poems. Why did he choose to show his enthusiasm here? We found the answers to these questions in his official WeChat account.
"Work is very tired, study is very bitter, and life is full of fun. Why write poetry? I've been thinking about it for a long time. What is work and study for? In order to create better. I think I must create something valuable and leave my mark on the wall of the world like a cat scratch before I die. Only in this way can I feel at ease. This is my answer. " The creator's sense of mission drove Xiangzi to write all the time.
The source of writing is life. In order to make a living, he chose a stable job. Xiangzi borrowed the poet Zhang Zao's point of view: As a poet, the most ideal state is to blend in with the crowd and keep alert inside.
Xiangzi at work, chasing the hottest hot spots and thinking about the biggest creativity, returned to writing and silently wrote poems in the crowd.
The eyes are the windows to see the world, and the heart is the pen to record life. Xiangzi chose to be a faithful recorder who is not divorced from life. He has no obsession with success, but he has a desire for French windows. There is no conflict between the two. Just live your life seriously.
What do you think of this choice?
"In any case, we all chose the one that suits us best. We are looking for our own narrow door on the road of life. "
I heard a sentence more than once: "Life is a process of constantly making multiple-choice questions, and every choice has no retreat."
We walked carefully step by step, but with each step, we soon began to doubt whether we had chosen the right answer and taken the right path. We envy ourselves in that parallel time and space, but forget that "choice" is very important but not terrible in the process of growing up.
More and more young people choose to join ByteDance for different reasons, perhaps because of the wrong luck, perhaps to pursue the distance in their hearts. Some people yearn to write poems in the crowd, while others are willing to be a wall to protect others.
Youth is capital, and the opportunity cost of trial and error at this stage is very low; Exploration is instinct, and every step you take will reverberate in the future. I want both poetry and distance, so now I just need to take the step of being loyal to my heart.