“Live up to the time, the creation of non-stop, this article is participating in 2021 year-end summary essay competition”
preface
It has been one and a half years since I left a large Internet company in China in June 2020. Is the year-end summary, in fact, more want to leave this year and a half after their own summary and review.
Before leaving the job card according to, long ugly, do not show his face, the people know who is naturally.
Why you left your job
Just as Jack Ma said, why employees leave their jobs is either the money is not given in place, or the heart is wronged. It all boils down to one thing: not working well. For me, it’s probably more of the latter.
Since graduation, I have been working in a state-owned enterprise. I have a comfortable and stable job and a relatively harmonious office environment. Although I earn less, I am still happy. However, I am not a quiet person after all, and the routine life makes me feel bored. As a young and passionate person, I always think that I am the man who can become the “Pirate King”, so IN 17 years, I resolutely give up my job in a state-owned enterprise and devote myself to the Internet.
In terms of income, it took less than three years for the monthly salary of state-owned enterprises to increase step by step from 6K to nearly 30K.
With the increase of income, the challenge and pressure are also huge. At this time, the normal development of the story might be to strive step by step to get promoted, win white wealth and beauty, and walk on the peak of life.
However, the fact is a little cruel, countless late nights and overtime for the business did not improve, the team almost disbanded. Linger to the end of the fiscal year, also the monkeys scattered tree collapse, most of the team members of the post of the post, quit the resignation, in fact, quite normal.
At that time, I was full of anger, attributing all the responsibility to a bad team and bad leader, and even Posting on pulse.
My choice
In fact, we read this can see, this is not poor ability to resist pressure, but also said so hypocritical.
Yes, I calmed down and re-observed myself and the environment I was in. Maybe I wasn’t really prepared psychologically at that time, plus some bad luck. Although I could obviously feel my growth every year in the past three years, I still couldn’t stand it and decided to quit.
But in this process, I often think about the following questions:
- Why do you work overtime and stay up late into this ghost appearance, business or lost?
- If, on the other hand, I don’t work overtime, don’t stay up late, work hard at work, and leave at the end of the day, will it be possible to make achievements?
- So is it possible to work from 9 to 5, go home, and still get things done, regardless of environmental factors (e.g., if you don’t work overtime, you’re perceived as not working hard, reduce useless meetings, and get rid of functions that are online but not available)?
- If I only focus on the most useful things every day, maximize my efficiency, make my family happy and happy, is it possible to steadily increase my income under the premise of physical and mental health?
- If I’m not that good at working under pressure, am I definitely not worth it?
Elon Musk said in an interview that even the smartest engineers, when faced with a requirement, often think about how to improve on the existing product, rather than whether the requirement is right. If this requirement is wrong, then all the optimizations we’ve done have been wasted. So why is this a problem?
In our past education, if our teachers or parents asked us a stupid question, we had no right to refuse to answer it. We could only learn from them, and we could not question our teachers or parents, because they might be experts in a certain field and the people we respect the most.
Like a programmer in the company, if a business line do not good, may be the lines of business sales made stupid mistakes (of course, can also have our own issues), cause no one at all with our system, so no matter how do you go to the iterative architecture, had killed all the programmers to worship also helpless, but a part of the work as a programmer, I don’t have the right to blame sales.
At this point, I decided to study whether there was a solution to this problem as a subject, to do my own experiments. I believe there is no such thing as work-life balance. But Work is life and life is Work. Serious life, happy work should be pursued.
Project description
In the next few years, I hope I can control my life completely as I wish in an uncluttered environment (at least I feel comfortable), and the quality of life will steadily improve.
Evaluation standard
- The ground rules: Be happy most of the time, spend time with your family, and pursue your own interests.
- Income: I hope it will go up steadily, at least it won’t go down too much.
- Self-improvement: Hope to achieve a milestone in at least one area each year without feeling overwhelmed.
Review after resignation
Work choices
When God closes a door, he opens a window.
When I graduated from college, I felt that I could not find a job, so I took the postgraduate entrance examination. Unexpectedly, due to my academic background, past Internet experience and my relatively young age (less than 35), I successfully passed the interview of the information department of a public institution and lost my income. Once I went back to the time before liberation.
Some would say, well, haven’t you just found a place to lie down? Also said a set of a set of, false very.
In fact, I can’t make a mistake. After all, the first basic principle of my project is to spend most of the time in a happy mood, have time to accompany my family, have time to develop my own interests and hobbies, and have disposable time. Without this, my project can’t go on.
But public institutions are also units of work, and it is impossible for you to do nothing with money. Even many public institutions have a lot of work to do, and many idle people like to plot against each other, and there are many bad things. But the good news is that the path to promotion is opaque and most people don’t have much hope, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t care.
Similarly, if the leader asks a stupid question, I can’t accuse you of being stupid either. Internet technology is still too new for traditional enterprises, and many people cannot accept it (the leader once asked the manufacturer not to use JSON as the interface transmission format, but to use XML, because he could not understand JSON). Therefore, it can be regarded as a bottom-saving solution at present, and I hope to explore a better way in the future, which I still have confidence in.
technology
Arrived the new unit, did not undertake the specific research and development work, actually time will be relatively abundant a few.
Many friends who knew each other in the company would ask each other if Zanzan had time to help with a XX project. In their spare time, they would pick up some orders to do as extra money.
In the past year, I have been in touch with the development of C#, vue, react, blockchainrelated, wechat public account, enterprise wechat and a lot of other things (I used to have meetings, write Java, write SQL, and work as a tool person). Although the depth of technology has not improved, the breadth is far beyond imagination before.
Some people will ask, what is the difference between your work and the company?
No, I can choose the technology I like, the partner I like, depending on the mood. Party A will not spray: no you 325 this year! They’ll only vote for me with or without money.
When I was in Dachang, I took over the system left over by others for many years, and 90% of the functions developed died without opening. Moreover, I worked overtime until I vomited blood. I even sometimes think that the company is not asking me to create value by giving me so much money, but not asking me to create value for competitors, which is also helping the company in another way.
Some of them even bring millions of business flows every month, while others serve tens of thousands of users (though not many). However, I have never worked overtime and worked hard.
I am still half-finished writing open source projects, mortise and Tenon/background rapid development framework, often water, but also not finished, I hope to have the opportunity to complete it in 2022, at least the delivery of 1.0 version, but also to explain to myself.
income
I have the habit of keeping accounts. According to the current records, my income is basically the same as the overall income when I worked in a big factory (my rank is not high), and even a little more than I expected.
life
In June this year, a few days before the anniversary of my departure from Dachang, my little sister was welcomed into my family, which unlocked my new achievements. Before every day busy, no time to accompany big brother, big brother does not like me (T_T). I think I’ll spend more time with them now.
Reading a book
Novel: or as always like detective novels, especially the tolo keigo “silence of the cruise”, “red fingers”, “summer equations”, “the secret”, “new join”, “golden dreams” biography: “buffett biography”, “iron man” in silicon valley, “as a bird to your mountain”, “my 1000 days in country garden” accounting: “The world’s simplest accounting book”, “East Austria fast accounting online CPA- easy pass a (accounting, auditing, tax law)” (if this is also counted as a book, understand the most difficult certificate in the end is saying what) mathematics: “Liu Jia probability theory general Lecture” technology: “Mongodb Advanced and Combat”, “Go Language Combat”, “Algorithm Cheat sheets of Labuladong” (half read, good for brain training) Audit: “Let Numbers Speak” Other courses: I watched the machine learning-related courses of Professor Li Hongyi for a month, but failed to stick to them and gave up. There are other books that are half read and a lot of them, not all of them.
movement
I feel that I have practiced not much, but I have eaten a lot, so I haven’t lost weight.
conclusion
Over the past year, I have constantly reminded myself to be focused and keep a normal mind. I even printed out Zhang Yiming’s microblog a few years ago and read it every once in a while to help my restless heart calm down again and improve my concentration when I need to work. It’s a pity not to go to Bytedance and kiss up to the boss, haha.
It’s meaningless without a painful lesson. For nothing can be gained without sacrificing something. But when you endure and fight through it, you gain a heart unyielding to anything. Yes, a heart of steel.
From July 2020, I will make steady progress in the second stage. I will try my best to do the best I can before the opportunity flashes. But WHAT I want is never to sink into death, but to work happily and live seriously.