I began to see through all kinds of struggles in the workplace. "This is empty talk, but it is actually business." I don't take work as everything, but I don't allow the bad work to spread a fire in my heart. I just smooth the edges and corners a little to better protect myself.
A ten-year career can be divided into four stages: confusion period, burnout period, exploration period and balance period.
1, warm-blooded period (1-3 years): the period of confusion and pulling.
As a project assistant, I decided on the first day that I couldn't confine myself to project scheduling, so I seized every opportunity to improve my professional skills. I am eager to establish contact with the core personnel of the project. I archive the fragmented information according to the main process by means of "hearing/consulting documents-investigation-archiving-consulting-re-archiving". The process is specific to the post, time, template and operating system, and almost every rule and domain logic is carefully considered. This process seems complicated to others, but it seems to me that it is with relish. I regard it as solving a case. Every time I straighten out a process or learn a new logic, I feel a great sense of accomplishment.
However, like every fledgling student, I also have periods of confusion. I don't know what I want to do, what is the value of what I am doing now, and what I can do without this post.
In the first three years of employment, I often fall into a state of pulling, from one extreme to the other, depressed the day before, excited the day after, and so on.
2. Burnout period (4-5 years): Ask more why.
In the fifth year of my work, I had the idea of resigning, because my department was reorganized three times in the past two years, with an average of 1 month to report on my work and 2 months to explore the road. I was very anxious because I couldn't see my career path clearly. A friend who is doing HR said faintly: "What is the truth? Isn't organizational change the norm? " . I've thought about it for a long time: first, department changes may be the norm, even if it is changed, it will not happen; Second, organizational change, I am not the only influencer, or even the direct influencer, whether your anxiety has been amplified. For several reasons, my mind has stabilized a lot, and my work efficiency has improved a lot. I am glad that there is a small climax in my career.
The work can't be finished and the problem can't be solved. Nowadays, when something goes wrong, I feel tired and even want to resign. I will skillfully implement the "three steps" to evaluate specific problems, whether problems are inevitable, and the impact on my work at hand, simplifying complex things and decomposing them one by one.
What bad things have I encountered now?
(2) If we leave here, these worries will disappear?
(3) What are the real effects of these bad things on you?
3. Exploration period (6-8 years): Find the points of interest and accumulate them continuously to make them valuable.
Dig out your interests, find the content that you are relatively interested in at work, dig deep in this field, gradually cultivate your core competitiveness, and make your working days more and more interesting.
(1) coincidence
In the sixth year of my work, the company started a large-scale information project, which has little to do with us. The only time I participated, a group of data consultants checked everything wrong and corrected it for me. Because I know the business better, I found the problem after three or two times.
It is this accidental data error correction that makes me find that data can expose many process problems, whether it is process analysis or data analysis, it is as interesting as solving a case. I was stimulated to give full play to the spirit of breaking the casserole and learning more business details on my own initiative.
(2) Accumulate over time
In the early days, I used excel to do data analysis and actively studied various formulas. With the increase of data, I began to teach myself SQL. Because you have a goal, you learn with relish.
Of course, in about 1 year, the knowledge I actively explored was useless. But I firmly believe that the reserve of details determines the depth of the work. Even if you can't directly reflect the value in front of the leader, the knowledge you have gained and the way of thinking you have cultivated are your own wealth.
(3) achieve small things.
Fortunately, I didn't wait long. In the seventh year, I undertook the second phase of a data-based project. All the knowledge in the early stage was not wasted at all, and I even felt that I didn't know enough. In the eighth year, he undertook another process optimization project; And when the company leaders randomly asked for details, they helped themselves many times and helped the department to save the day.
With the successful completion of the two projects, I ushered in a small climax of my career, and 1.5 years has been promoted to two levels.
(4) suddenly begin to understand
What needs to be singled out is that this small climax is not entirely due to professional knowledge, but also includes good relations with leaders. This year, I suddenly began to understand that I was an idiot who devoted himself to my work. I never take the initiative to report to the leader, or even talk back to the leader face to face. The leader has always been very tolerant and patient with himself, and won me several raises according to the highest range. After an epiphany, I took the initiative to report my work to the leader, completed the work he arranged quickly and well, and soon became what he called an "expert" who knew everything at once.