Posted by "Fight with anxiety"
1Despair
The falling incident of Mr. Ou, a ZTE employee, is still fermenting.After reading many articles, I found that everyone has forgotten the concatenation of several details.
Mr. Ou, who fell from the building, was 42 years old and joined ZTE at the age of 36. He was previously an employee of Huawei.
And just at the beginning of this year, there was a widespread news on the Internet that "employees over the age of 35 were ousted", targeting communications giants such as ZTE and Huawei.Those of us outside the siege finally know,Wolf culture turned out to be so cruel to his own people.
It has not been optimized by Huawei, and has entered a new platform and reached a new level. How did the 35-year-old Mr. Ou survive the mid-life crisis?
He went to Nankai University to study for a master's degree and made himself better.
It is such a person who has extremely demanding requirements for himself and his career. At the age of 42, he still cannot escape the fate of being "optimized."
I suddenly remembered that brain teaser:
There was a man who had been blind since he was a child and had travelled a long way to see a famous doctor.On the return trip, I took the train and walked out of the tunnel to find that this man committed suicide.
why?
Because the moment the train entered the dark tunnel, he felt blind again.
It's really desperate.
When he jumped, Mr. Ou might be the blind person in his heart.
2, Change of mindset: is forty-year-old is the second half of the ninth round?No, at most it counts as an intermission
A peculiar noun in the baseball game calledNinth inning.
This is the last half of the game.
Generally speaking, a baseball game is over after nine innings. If you need to play another half inning, it means the home team is behind. This is also the time for the home team to recover the situation and fight back.
I think that Mr. Ou graduated from Nankai with a postgraduate degree. It was probably this kind of psychology in the second half of the ninth inning. When he entered ZTE from Huawei, he might think that life and death is over.
However, when I was 42 years old, I suddenly discovered that it turned out to be just a short intermission.After the last battle, the next battle... the mentality collapsed.
Many people face the mid-life crisis with this mentality in the second half of the ninth round: after winning the last battle, there will be a future.In fact, our lives are also true,After a tough battle in middle age, it's almost time to retire.
Therefore, do not criticize this middle-aged man with glass heart, and do not criticize him for not knowing money management, lacking professional development awareness and so on.In fact, Mr. Ou's continuous pursuit of progress and surpassing himself is already beyond ordinary human excellence and hard work.How many people reach the age of 35, with a high salary, will force themselves to study for a master's degree?
In fact, we are not prepared.
With the advent of the era of technical unemployment, no one is spared by the big wave. The communications industry has only moved two steps faster and was shot on the shore by the big wave in advance.
3, Good fortune and misfortune are interdependent: irreversible technical unemployment
Technical unemployment refers to the unemployment caused by the mismatch of labor skills due to technological advancement and advanced equipment replacing manual labor, while technological development puts forward new demands on laborers.
Science and technology change lives, and the rapid development speed has brought the world to a fast-track high-speed train, and it is almost impossible to see the scenery outside the window.
Take the communications industry as an example,1992年中國進入2G時代，到2009年進入3G時代，2G到3G走了16年；2013年進入4G時代，3G到4G只用了5年。
In the past, we have walked for more than ten years, but now we have finished it in a few years or even months.
The same can’t go back, there are"Experience realization"Working mode.
For a long time, our career development has been like an online game: killing monsters, leveling up, getting experience, buying equipment, fighting monsters, upgrading... With more experience and fluent operation, skilled workers are more popular than novices.This is also the reason why many old comrades are re-employed by the unit. We simply call this model "experience monetization."
But the technological age is different.The technological explosion brought about irreversible technical unemployment.
In 2010, with the rise of the mobile Internet, the PC market was slowly eroded, and so many engineers in the hardware age were unemployed overnight.As market demand shrinks, we will not go back to the PC era.Some types of jobs have disappeared directly, and this kind of technical unemployment is basically unsolvable.
The great changes of the times are cruel to everyone:
The track has changed?No, the track is simply gone.
4, Don't despair
Middle-aged people are so tired, difficult, and desperate.
I won't lie to you saying take it easy~, it's too fake.In fact, it is not just middle-aged people. Under the great changes of the times, everyone is equal. This is a fate that everyone cannot escape.
Accepting changes at the right time and taking the initiative is the only optimal solution; besides, I feel that middle-aged people have the greatest chance of winning.
Elon Musk was the founder of Alipay in the United States. He later made the electric car Tesla and the aviation project Space X-the cross-border distance is about the same as the South Pole to the North Pole.
He was outspoken in the interview, and his Internet entrepreneurial experience gave him the ability to directly understand the essence of things.So when he was working on the space X project, he was able to reduce the cost of rockets by less than 10% in one fell swoop.
You see, the experience of years of shaping can be a kind of precious wealth. When studying the situation, one has more in-depth thinking and more careful observation than others, and can be closer to the essential things.At the same time, the accumulation of many years also makes it easier for middle-aged people to enter new fields with a suitable attitude.
5, Relax and fight hard
In recent years, the concept of "slash" is very popular.It refers to a group of people who are no longer satisfied with the "single occupation" and choose to have multiple occupations and identities.This just represents a very precious ability nowadays:Enter new industries quickly, learn new knowledge quickly, and acquire new skills quickly.
In addition to continuous improvement, there are more and more uncertain factors, and it also requires everyone to continueEnhance your ability to resist risks.
I once meditated late at night, trying to restore the mentality of Mr. Ou before he jumped.To get rid of the arrogance of a senior expert title for many years, he needs the courage to enter a new field and the courage to rebirth... The last thing that crushes him may be the heavy loan, the helplessness of his family, and the lack of life. Can resist the fear of unknown risks: diseases, accidents, new failures, etc.
Simply put, you just can't afford to lose.
I sometimes wonder whether insurance can become a kind of confidence to "afford to lose"?
In this age of turmoil, every day is shocking and disturbing. We must learn to reconcile our anxiety after all.Whether young or middle-aged, it is inevitable to fight like a young man, constantly changing the track and not letting himself stop.Letting go of your vision and knowing more about a few new things will be the strength and courage when fighting; buy some insurance to consolidate the basic protection of your family, and let insurance become the confidence when fighting.
In this cold winter, don't despair middle-aged people and young people. Drink a glass of rice wine to warm your stomach and buy a few taels of insurance to warm your heart.
Hold on, we can win.
