Do More With Less

A good man builds a strong foundation wherever he goes, so he goes higher and higher.

There was a monthly salary of three thousand yuan sister, compile the manuscript full of loopholes, I angrily beat the table, she was back to the sentence: "a month three thousand yuan salary, how do you want!"

I thought her words were funny, like when we bought a cheap product and it went bad in two days, so we comforted ourselves: What more do you want for something that costs so much money?

Of course, her subtext was, you give me eight grand, I'll do fine. But the problem is, the boss pays the salary is also a penny for goods, you have to take 3,000 yuan salary, first reflect the value of 8,000 yuan, the boss is willing to pay.

When I first joined the company, my salary was also 3,000 yuan, but the next month, it was raised to 8,000 yuan. Because every time the boss asked for a copy, I not only wrote it in place but also presented more than two versions for him to choose from: one was written according to his requirements, and the other was my proposal.

I didn't think about the trick at the time, just because I liked writing, I thought about how to write better; And because I cherish my own words, I feel that all the words in my hand are related to my brand, so I am very careful.

In my opinion, this is a matter of course, but after teaching more than 20 Chinese graduate students, I find this kind of attitude is scarce. Those who have studied Chinese for seven years longer than the average person are even unwilling to take a second look at what they have written. Their mistakes in words, punctuation, and grammar are shocking, and they know nothing about the relevant knowledge background, let alone whether the layout is beautiful or the pictures are beautiful.

They care about working overtime, and people who want to do good paperwork don't think about that. Because of the effort of polishing the text, there is no end in sight -- otherwise, Cao Xueqin would not have worked overtime for ten years to finish writing a Honglou. What job is it not to do well? A person who evaluates a job by "whether to work overtime" is not the talent needed by the enterprise, because his attitude towards the work is "do it" rather than "do it well".

For example, in front of the McDonald's near my company, there is an old woman who watches bicycles. In summer, she would cover all the cars with plastic sheeting she brought with her. When the customer picks up the car to leave, she will smile and twist a damp cloth to help you wipe the seat cushion and cool down.

She never asked, but many people offered to give her an extra dollar and thanked her. The difference between dama and other car watchers is the "done" and "done" gap -- in money, the gap is double; In terms of achievement, the gap is immeasurable.

I know exactly what some new people are thinking: Why work so hard if you don't want to hang out with yourself for long? In fact, who stays at one company for life? Less than 10 percent of companies in China can survive more than three years. It is a journey for each of us to move towards a better company and a better job. The difference is that excellent people will lay a solid foundation wherever they go, so they go higher and higher.

To be the CEO of the world's top 500 should be the aspiration of every working person, but for newcomers, small companies also have their advantages. The big company is like CAI Jing's kitchen, the post is subdivided to cut the scallion to have a full-time kitchen Niang, you may not even have a chance to cut the meat for a long time, let alone learn to do a whole steamed stuffed bun. In small companies, human resources are tight, and you can't just cut scallions on a $3,000 salary, so you have to learn how to make baozi very quickly, and you have to be able to make many kinds of baozi -- if you're willing to learn, of course.

If you land your first job at a big company, celebrate and remind yourself that the company is only looking at your glamorous school days. You're still a zero in the workplace, which can turn positive or negative. Many people mistake the strength of their organizations for the strength of their abilities -- which is why some of the anchors who left CCTV were soon forgotten. Bai Yansong once said that if a dog appeared on CCTV every day, it would become a famous dog. But you know, without the CCTV stage, it won't be long before it's back to being a local dog.

"Everything can not go, only with industry." This "occupation" can be interpreted as one the skill to do well, and one is the attitude to do well. With this "occupation", there is no shortage of stages. But this "industry" does not come in vain -- when you earn 3,000 yuan a month, you will do things like 8,000 yuan a month, and the 5,000 yuan that you did not get is the tuition for practicing this "industry".