Why would I be poor if I didn’t become a programmer?

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You are dawdling now

Be careful that the future will mess with you

At the beginning of this year, I returned to Wuhan from Shenzhen.

My workplace is a bit far from home, so I often make appointments with Didi Express to go to work. One time, a master who was about the same age as my grandfather came to pick me up. I was half-joking when I got on the bus. He said:

Master, you are almost retiring at this age, why are you still soliciting customers in a sports car?

The old master seemed very indifferent and started chatting with me while driving:

Despite my age, I have been soliciting customers in sports cars for most of my life.

When I was young, I drove in the company’s fleet. I wouldn’t go anywhere that others thought was too far, too many things to do, or too little money. I took over all the work by myself and did all the work that they didn’t want to do. As a result, I was one of the few survivors after the company reform. It was simply because the factory director thought I was diligent in my work.

In the early 1980s, the country was engaged in economic reform and opening up to the outside world. At that time, the treatment in the factory was the best. Although the salary was not much, it was always comfortable and leisurely. But I chose to go to Shenzhen to sell goods. At that time, factories were built everywhere in Shenzhen. I could earn tens of thousands of yuan in a month by driving, which was more than I could earn in a year by drinking tea in a factory.

Finally, after listening to what the master said, I accidentally said: "I envy you, you are really a winner in life."

The master smiled at me, shook his head and said:

Who doesn’t know that dawdling is the most comfortable life, but I always feel that life is not for dawdling, so I did all the work they didn’t want to do, and took all the risks they didn’t dare to take, and they didn’t want to I have endured all the hardships.

Look at those people who were hanging around in the factory, what became of them later? Either they were laid off because they couldn't pay their wages, or they were unwilling to make trouble in the factory every day. I choose to use the time that others spend dawdling to work for my own future, because you never know what will happen tomorrow.

After getting off the bus, the old master’s words were still lingering in my mind. He was right. Those who used to go around and didn’t make plans for the future were eventually ruined. Mixed up.

On May 16, 2018, Liu Qiangdong responded when delivering a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Second World Intelligence Conference:

If you use software and hardware With artificial intelligence, the work being done today actually only requires about 80,000 employees.

It will become increasingly difficult for people to hang around in the future. With the development and application of various technologies such as drones, autonomous driving, and smart toll stations, there will be considerable A large number of employees will face layoffs, because they will eventually be replaced by robots that never complain, have extremely high accuracy, and are on call 24 hours a day.

Whether you are starting your own business or working for a company, please remember:

You are not working for others; If you work for yourself, do more projects, make more PPTs, and make more friends, you can learn something, and these things will be your wealth in the future, and you can contribute to them no matter when and where you are. You add value.

Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 60, once published an article titled "For those who are still dawdling in the company". In the article, he wrote: "You are just dawdling. If you mess with you, the final loser will be yourself."

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The comfort you crave

will eventually make you paralyzed and stagnant

#At the beginning of this year, a distant relative came to visit my home.

During the chat, this relative expressed envy for his father's achievements many times. Later, after my father sent him away, I asked my father:

Is there anything in between? Is there anything I don't know?

My father did not shy away and told the story about this relative.

In the early years, the two of them joined the construction team as apprentices to the old master. The uncle would sit and chat with people every day when he went to work. As long as the master was away, he would go to the construction site canteen to watch others playing mahjong. , so at the end of the year, I left with half-learned skills.

I haven’t gained much in my career over the years, because my cooking and gambling skills have been largely neglected. I’m used to living a comfortable life but don’t want to endure hardships outside. Even now, when I’m nearly fifty, I’m still worried about my children’s school fees. .

Whenever my father mentioned this uncle, he could not stop sighing and said: "The comfortable days in youth have gone too long, and those sad days have to be made up for in old age."

Only those who dare to escape from their comfort zone can become winners in life.

I was chatting with a friend in Shenzhen some time ago. She said that she is now starting an independent business, running a knowledge platform monetization project, with a fixed profit of 20K a month.

I used to work for others in a small company. Maybe a day would pass by just checking Weibo and scrolling through Moments. Every night, I would feel guilty. She said:

Nowadays, society is developing and changing so fast, and I am still so young. I really don’t want to be eliminated from the workplace and abandoned by the times one day.

British actor Gary Oldman played former British Prime Minister Churchill in the movie "Darkest Hour", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Although he has appeared in many movies before, Gary Oldman still rolls up his sleeves and prepares carefully every time he prepares for a new role.

When filming "Darkest Hour", Oldman spent a lot of time listening to Churchill's recordings to get the rhythm right. He also watched a lot of news videos, imitating his behavior, and even suffered from nicotine poisoning because he was filming. Smoked 400 of Churchill’s favorite cigars.

Gary Oldman believes:

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If one day, you sit on the chair and feel satisfied with everything about yourself, it is actually quite sad. A sense of security It’s a good thing, but it can easily paralyze you and then stagnate."
This is an era of rapid change. Last year we were still talking about artificial intelligence and big data, but this year many people Start ALL in the blockchain and enter the currency circle.

Yesterday we were still talking about Xiaomi’s new phone launch conference, but today Lu Qi’s resignation blew up the circle of friends.

In the face of the rapidly changing trends of the times, the little tricks that some people use to get by are just a joke

. Don’t let your future fall into endless paralysis just because you are greedy for the temporary comfort.

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Why have you lost your success and enthusiasm

Some time ago, an article titled "A Short Graduation Speech by a Beautiful Professor from Peking University" hit the screen: What is it? Leading to success and enthusiasm at the same time? 》Breaked up the circle of friends.

Teacher Professor Shi Jiao stood on the podium and sent a message to the graduating students. She talked about her passion for life, work and the future. She said:

There is a third factor that leads to both success and enthusiasm.

What is this third-party factor? It is mastery, your mastery of your professional skills. When you reach the master level, you will have confidence and a sense of accomplishment, and success and enthusiasm will follow.

How to achieve mastery? It is like cutting and learning, like polishing, and reaching perfection. Throughout the ages, the answer has never changed. Mastery is the result of sustained focus, hard work, and continuous practice.

Only extreme love can create ultimate enthusiasm

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Once you have such enthusiasm, you will feel that dawdling is simply the biggest sin in life.

Jobs, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2004, still maintained a fiery passion for work, a laser-like focus, and a madman-like unwillingness to compromise. He devoted himself to the work he loved and started a new life. "One person's war", using one person's power to continuously polish products, fight against diseases, technology industry peers and investors around the world, so much so that Steve Jobs was still working the day before he died of illness.

While developing Falcon 1 in 2018, Elon Musk spent several months studying the aerospace industry and the physical principles behind it, reading various professional books such as "Principles of Rocket Propulsion" "Basics of Astrodynamics" and "Aerodynamics of Gas Turbine and Rocket Propulsion", Musk quickly learned from professionals to supplement his own deficiencies in this way.

Maintaining enthusiasm is the best mental outlook for a working person, and concentration and hard work are the confidence and confidence to maintain enthusiasm

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People who are dawdling will never be able to experience the joy of success and the infection of enthusiasm.

Zhou Hongyi joined Founder in 1995, served as President of Yahoo China in 2004, and became Chairman of Qihoo 360 in 2006. Looking back on the past, he said:

Whether I was working for the country at Founder or working for foreigners at Yahoo, I was different from others. I never felt that I was working for them. Maybe I'm really confident, I feel like I'm doing it for myself.

Because the first thing to consider when doing anything is what I can learn by doing it. It's easy to deal with something if you leave it to me. But after you finish dealing with it, don't you think it's a waste of your life?

If you find that you have completely lost your enthusiasm and expectations for your future life and work, you will feel that your career path is getting narrower and narrower. If you are sitting on the bench at this time, don’t worry If you are complaining, you might as well reflect on it, are you also 'drowding around'?

Writer Zoe once said in an article that companies look for three things when selecting people: skills, knowledge, and attitudes/values.

Skills can basically be learned when entering the work field;

Knowledge requires several years of industry infiltration and deep digging;

And attitude and values ​​are the most important It is difficult to obtain, and it is also the most fundamental thing that distinguishes a person from others. This attitude and value can be specific to the pursuit of excellence in every behavior, or it can be a long-term mission and vision.

Whether in our long life or in the extremely fast-paced workplace, if we want to avoid being marginalized and replaced, the only way is to maintain enthusiasm and work hard. Highlight value.

British historian Berlin believes that there are two communication models in the world, one is called positive freedom, you can express your opinions arbitrarily in the square; the other is called negative freedom, you have the right to express, and you have The right to leave.

Similarly, everyone has many choices in life and career. You can choose to maintain your passion and work hard to make progress, or you can choose to live a leisurely life working as a foreigner, but please remember that you must be responsible for yourself.

The best ability in the workplace is to always maintain a passionate attitude, to continuously improve skills, and to have the confidence to leave at any time, instead of thinking about how to hang out in the company all day long. The boss's money, such an approach is just a mental blindness, and a boiling frog in behavior.

Don't wait until you are 40 years old when you have achieved nothing, then regret the days you spent at 20 years old.

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