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Do this before 30 and your life will be great!

After graduating from school and working until the age of 30, I need to use the resources of the company to discover what I want to do and what work mode suits me, and constantly refine myself.

By An angel with broken wingsPublished 3 years ago 10 min read

After graduating from college, a young man went to work for JUSCO supermarket. After nine months, he left and went to work at his father's small county business. At 35, instead of continuing to sell men's Clothing, the specialty of his father's company, he opened the city's first casual Clothing store, Unique Clothing Warehouse. The name of the clothing store is simply UNIQLO, and the young man is Tadashi Yanai, Japan's richest man.

After graduating from school and working until the age of 30, I need to use the resources of the company to discover what I want to do and what work mode suits me, and constantly refine myself. In other words, this period is the "8 years of professional skills training" for business people. If you can master this, you will be able to cultivate your own business capital, which will be useful for your whole life.

Complete the basics by age 30

Thirty can be called "the first and last year". Educational institutions guide you in career planning

First, in terms of self-refinement, it's done by 30. No, it has to be done. If you don't want to live in insecurity for a long time, you should finish training your professional skills before the age of 30.

Thirty is "the last year of tempering yourself" and "the first year of connecting with others." To put it another way, a real career begins at age 30. After the age of 30, it is the time for Me to step into social activities and transform from Me to We.

Keep working hard and keep working hard until you are 30. Isn't that what 30 to 35 years of age is all about honing yourself to the point where you can actually feel the results while slowly testing how high you can climb?

The eight years of refining yourself until the age of 30 can frankly be rather tedious and not at all "fun". Because it is a time to develop professional skills, and the effort is far more than the results, some people may feel that it is "too long to bear." However, life is long. In most cases, everyone's life should be much longer than eight years. Wouldn't it be worth it to endure for eight years and enjoy 30 years of life in the future?

For those who are just starting to exercise their professional skills, they may feel that this period of time is very long and huge. In order to eliminate such anxiety and anxiety, this paper introduces the blueprint for each age of the workplace.

First, the first year of the workplace, to start from sunset industry

Here's some advice for those fresh out of college or in their 30s who want to change jobs. High-tech industries that are rapidly growing have the greatest added value for large and small companies. In today's world, IT, finance or investment banking are the only places where you can expect to be paid well beyond your means.

However, you are not allowed to enter these industries until you are 30! Sales training is also a learning experience for your growth.

Before the age of 30, people earn more than their friends, but when they are in their 30s, they cannot afford to lower their living standards.

When hot industries are in their initial stage, they have not yet formed a complete enterprise model, and they lack professional education knowledge and management wisdom. How can they learn anything in such industries?

What's more, fast-growing companies sometimes hire in large numbers at a time, so even taking a test isn't a validation of your worth. In other words, in many cases, the company doesn't really need you, it just wants to hire one of the 100 first, so it lets you in.

If you want to work in a cutting-edge industry, you are advised to choose a time when the number of employees is relatively small. If you join a company when there are less than 10 employees, you will have an opportunity to be active in the front line of the company when it grows rapidly. You may even be given stock in the company. In contrast, the most advanced industries such as Google have long been mature, and it is very difficult to get a front-line job unless you have outstanding skills.

After identifying the pros, cons, and risks of choosing a cutting-edge industry, try to figure out which industry to choose for your job.

The advice: Choose sunset industries. Companies on the verge of bankruptcy accumulate a lot of business wisdom. The so-called sunset, on behalf of the history of light and heat, so it can tilt west.

In chain businesses, good store managers are often assigned to the opening of new stores or the closing of loss-making ones. There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the experience of closing stores. Chain executives should also know that having both a beginning and an end can be useful in the future.

Company failures can be a valuable opportunity to learn how a company works from an operator's perspective. What was the fatal mistake that led to a company's demise? Is it money? Is there any error in the operator's judgment? What is the response when mistakes are made? You can also learn the psychology of people who are cornered.

Once-great companies have announced their own dissolution, and many of those who have left are talented. They know finance and companies well and have seen companies go up and down, so they certainly excel. They also have a sense of crisis and know that the company will fail one day.

Companies that fail spectacularly are lucky. If you really want to practice your professional skills, you are advised to make such a decision and work in sunset industries.

Ii. In the first three years of my career, I will do my best to contribute to the company

The first three years of a career, from graduating from school and entering a company to the age of 25, is the time to devote all of your energy to the workplace. In the first three years after entering the company, I had to give up my ego for the first job.

Many people get where they are today because there was a period in the past when they were engrossed in their work. From a strategic point of view, it is after entering the second company. Once you start working, stop thinking about it and decide to be a slave to the company for three years.

If the boss says right, he dare not go left; If you say left, you dare not go right. Even if you are extremely smart, the boss's practice and you are used to the practice of a comparison, the high success rate will obviously be the boss's practice. It is not too late to do what you are told, to master the "pattern of successful execution", and then to learn your own way. If you stick to your habitual practices from the very beginning, you will not only fail to follow them, but also develop strange habits that keep you within your own little framework.

Let s use the sensibility of youth! The less experienced part, rely on creativity to win!" Such thinking can be said to be hopelessly wrong. There are only a few geniuses who can bring out the unique creativity of young people. 99% of people at this age need an open heart and an industrious body. The structure of business transactions is, to put it bluntly, to make money by providing those who lack what they have in abundance. All the new guy has is time and energy. Giving your time to a busy, time-starved superior or senior employee is arguably the only trade a new recruit can make.

Three, into the workplace 5 years, to establish their own representative work

Do something that everyone can clearly see as a "credit to you." This is the time to seriously hit a career home run.

At this stage, people entering the company at the same time are divided into promising types and non-promising types. The dividing line is whether or not the company thinks, "This guy's got it!" In addition, you should write down your achievements and make your own contributions, no matter how small.

And it's important to get the boss on your side, so the boss will want to "try and give the job to him." The first step is to give credit to your boss. Help your boss succeed with your own skills. With this in mind, do your best to work for your boss.

This way, you'll be given the opportunity to hit a career home run by being assigned to handle important tasks. In this process, you will gradually understand your strengths. Success is not something that can be achieved overnight. Success is like a multiples game, and those who have a successful experience invest in their own experience to achieve greater success.

Age 29 is the annual turning point

At the beginning of graduation, there is no big difference in salary for new employees. After that, raises will be adjusted according to the rules set by the company. According to the company's policy, the salary will increase. If you're in venture capital, making $1 million a year at age 29 is not a dream. Some companies, by contrast, won't adjust their pay, no matter how much they urge them. This leads to overpay and underpay.

It is important to note that the salary has nothing to do with the market value, it is only the company's internal evaluation.

When most people at large companies look to change jobs, they think, "Based on your skills and the amount of work you're doing, you should be able to make roughly what you're making now." In other words, they think that their high salary is equal to their value. However, companies willing to pay the same amount are hard to find, and when you go to an employment agency to discuss it, the response will be, "You don't have the qualifications to negotiate that kind of salary."

On the other hand, if you are offered a low salary that is completely out of line with your ability, you will ask for a low salary when you go to a new company and even make the interviewer think, "Gee, is that enough?" In other words, a person with qualifications who would make $500,000 a year at market value would think he was worth $300,000 at his previous employer.

"The company's evaluation is not equal to the market value," please understand. Turning 30 is the time to be aware of the difference. If you know only one company and think its evaluation is absolutely correct, you will be at a loss when the company goes bankrupt, and you may sell yourself to the company cheaply for the rest of your life.

Changing jobs can be a great learning opportunity if you want to understand the difficulty of evaluating your true self.

Expand your horizons beyond the company by the time you are 30

The two years before the age of 30 are a time to see the world. Whether you're part of an organization, a freelancer, or a business owner, you can't get anywhere if you focus only on your own company.

Regardless of which model you choose, first try to get to know the industry as a whole, especially by building strong relationships with vendors that may include future customers or partners. Even if you are a business owner or freelancer, if you can relate to each other, these people can be a good reference when deciding how to work in the future.

If you're new to a company, you can't even find a topic to talk about at a networking party, which is meaningless. But by this age, you can build a network of people who will be closely related to you in the future.

It is also a good idea to change jobs and look at other companies. The ideal situation is to hit a career home run in the industry, not just a career home run in the company. As a result, you will be noticed by other companies and may be poached. Networks form naturally as people flock to them.

Master leadership from the age of 31

At the age of 30, vocational training ends, but there is an additional year for learning important things until the age of 31. The most important thing to learn this year is management.

What you've accomplished by age 30 is only one person's accomplishment. There is a limit to how much you can accomplish. It is enough to hit a solo home run before the age of 30, but from now on, it is important to be able to use team power. To what extent can play, the key lies in personal accomplishment.

How large an organization you want to lead and whether you have the ability to lead, the answers to the above two questions can determine whether you are suitable for being a manager or a freelance worker. In this year, even if you are an employee of an organization, you should be able to figure out what kind of company and position is right for you.

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