This world is a perfectly functioning machine, and there are many loopholes behind this perfect world.
a) Smart philistines
One guy complained to me that his salary was low.
When he confided in me like this, I saw the helplessness in his eyes, gray. A man exposes his weaknesses.
He is a warehouse supervisor with a monthly salary of more than 4,000, and he has been working in this position for more than 10 years. He has seven or eight subordinates, some men and women, someone responsible for shipping off the shelves, someone responsible for the goods on the shelves, someone responsible for handling, someone responsible for code words.
I have seen him commanding and imposing in his own territory. I've seen him debrief at the conference, clearly organized and crisp.
This is undoubtedly a smart man. At least smarter than Muru.
There are many people who are smarter than Muru. There is a master plumber who can make Mu Ru a car by playing chess. The master has a lot of craft skills. In fact, in their school, the carpenter welder and the plumber, he did everything well, and he cooked a good dish, and he was very popular with the principal.
However, when the master confided to me that he only had a salary of more than 3,000 yuan, when he looked down at me to show me the gray hair, I had deep pity.
Compared with this kind of smart person, Mu Ru is like a waste.
b) The story of making money
Mu Ru didn't have many friends, because he rarely met people who understood him. At the same time, it is also widely communicative, three teachings and nine streams, eclectic. So I know, see, and hear a lot of money-making stories.
For example, people who work as plumbers in enterprises and institutions such as schools and hospitals, if they are really loved by the head of the unit, the oil and water are very rich. This kind of person Mu Ru has seen a lot.
The faucets in the washrooms, the bulbs in the corridors, the levers in the doors and windows, the glass glue that prevents rain and leaks, and the working tools of the plumbers are all consumables. That's a lot of money. Where to buy, what brand specifications to buy, are the workers themselves decide. The things to be purchased are too complicated, the single amount is too small, and even many of them are scattered cash purchases, and they are bought at the hardware store on the street.
Mu Ru has seen that many people earn such money, which is 5-10 times their salary income.
There is a little brother, whose profession is sales, and who supplies solder to large factories such as FuX Kang all year round. One day, the buyer asked him if he could buy scissors, sharp, not easy to break, preferably imported brands.
So, this little brother ran to the hardware wholesale market to buy dozens of various color scissors and let the buyer try to select. Finally, a pair of scissors was tried out, which was very durable, and the workers in the workshop praised it one after another.
The brother said it was an import from Japan and it was expensive. The purchase said, "It's okay, you do the quotation contract to come, our company payment method monthly end, the order time is uncertain, once the order is placed within 12 hours the goods will be delivered." ”
This business term is not generally harsh, and it is strange that the Japanese original factory office in Guangzhou can accept such an order.
But my brother can accept it, the scissors he found in the hardware wholesale market are produced in Hunan, and the supply is abundant. As for the brand, don't you just make a leather envelope?
At the beginning, it was really sad, every three to five phone calls to deliver, more than dozens, less when there are two or three. The brother could not resist later, and said to the purchase, "I will bring 500 pieces of goods at a time, I will give you blank delivery notes, I will not come when I place an order for delivery, and then call me when I make statements." ”
Thus, the two of them became good friends, Iron Brothers. As soon as this business was done, it was not broken for many years, and there were no competitors to grab, and there were no customers to reduce the price.
Compared with Hunan goods, Japanese goods, the price is one day, one place. Exactly how much money they made, outsiders can not know.
Mu Ru is here, and he has no intention of teaching people to do bad things. Doing business is to be convenient with people, to provide services for people, and then to obtain the profits they deserve.
A lot of business can make money, can continue to make money, in fact, it is not easy to do. The purchase volume is small, the specifications and models are many, the quality should be excellent, the payment settlement is not timely, and the purchaser is still bombarded.
In the two cases listed above, many formal enterprises are indeed reluctant to touch, because they are not big, the overall profit is small, and it is not worth it. Any normal sales executive is not willing to take on such a business.
However, as far as Muru knows, there are hundreds of millions of people in our country who have a monthly income of about 1,000, and hundreds of millions of people who have a monthly income of no more than 5,000. Among the Chinese people whose monthly income does not exceed 5,000, many of them have university degrees. In this country, with an annual income of more than 300,000, it has entered the middle class.
However, with an annual income of 300,000, it is really easy.
This world is a perfectly functioning machine, and there are many bugs behind this perfect world.
Bugs will only be discovered by a small number of people. Mu Ru felt that this had nothing to do with people's intelligence.
3) In this game of life, we must learn the card slot
There is a book called "Limited Games and Infinite Games", it is said that the boss of the US group, Wang Xing, read this book and realized the truth, thinking that life is an infinite game.
What kind of game is life, Mu Ruhui is shallow and can't understand. But Mu Ru does understand that life is a game, and each of us is playing a role in the play.
Some people think that going to work is very hard, and leaders are difficult to get along with.
Some people think that sales are hard and customers are difficult to get along with.
Mu Ru recommended that they read a book, "The Self-Cultivation of Actors". We are just acting, why should we be so real, why should we go to the heart, why should we let other people's language and form make ourselves unhappy?
The above is talking about mentality. Let's talk about card slots, or walking slots. In that sense, everyone tastes it themselves.
Now people like to say "choice is greater than effort". This sentence is actually a nonsense. Similar to fortune telling, after the fortune is done, is it good or bad and what is the meaning?
Man's situation is, of course, because of the choices that have been made. Today's choices will also determine the future situation.
However, no one has a prescient name to foresee the future.
The prophecies of those great men are mostly wrong. In fact, those prophecies are right, and they are also coincidental.
The so-called summary is nothing more than shooting arrows first and then drawing targets.
The workings of the world arise from chance. That's the case at the macro level.
What we can do is at the micro level. What we call the card slot, or the move, is a microscopic operation.
Two companies that exist at the same time, two college students who graduated at the same time, each chose to join a company. Who will be better off in the future? Unpredictable. Summarizing the experience of the choice afterwards is not of much value.
For example, 10 years ago, some companies, Mu Ru absolutely did not look up. Low wages, poor environment, small scale, no technical content of the product, remote geographical location.
However, 10 years later, I suddenly heard that the company was listed. Those who were once less qualified and have backgrounds than Mu Ru have now become the mainstay of listed companies.
Time back 10 years ago, reviewing the respective choices of that year, Mu Ru and the people who made the same choice as Mu Ru, the strategy is not wrong. This is the contingency of the world.
But in the world of chance, at the microscopic level, in limited time and space, there is inevitable certainty.
We are talking about this at this moment, not only about making a little money, but also about investing in financial markets, which is philosophy.
In the macroscopic world of contingency, look for inevitability at the microscopic level.
For example, starting a business, choosing a business. There are indeed projects that bring stable cash flow, small investments, and high rates of return. Such projects do not show dew, do not require a large site, and do not require many people to participate in the collaboration, so the labor cost is low, the stability of products and services is good, and the risk of accidents is small.
Giant dinosaurs are extinct. But some of the weak creatures of the dinosaur era still reproduce today.
Powerful lions, tigers, and leopards often starve, but birds don't.
In a peaceful and prosperous society, people are trapped in cement building cubicles, factory workshops, farmland and forest farms, struggling at the level of low income. This is the microscopic world, the opportunity that existence must improve life.
Such an opportunity can be to change a part-time job, or to do a certain type of business.
Mr. Ou once wrote that the executives of the companies he used to work for were in a bad and unstable situation, but the heads of offices in cities like Shaoguan and Meizhou were super stable and had a lot of income. In fact, this is the card slot in the game of life. You get stuck in this position, get this benefit distribution, it is difficult for someone to grab it with you.
The same is true of business. If you find a random location to open a small shop, or find an industrial park to set up a factory, it is likely that it will not survive for too long. Or some industries, such as the domestic Internet, make creative products, have a good prospect expectations, then the probability will be poisoned by such a giant as BAT.
Whether it is a business or a part-time job, it is necessary to find such a position, no one pays attention, no one competes, and the income is not more and no less (but it is far beyond the income of most Chinese).
Observe carefully, think carefully, don't give up, you can definitely find it.
I see the head of the experimental testing department of some small companies, how much skill is required for such a position? It's not needed, but how can he occupy a well-paid position? It is nothing more than entering the company early, staying up other colleagues, and not changing jobs for many years, so he has become an experienced expert. But he, the expert, just counts in this company, and it is not a fart when he goes out.
There are many such opportunities in doing business yourself. For example, the product itself consumes less and the customer distribution is wide, so the powerful large companies are reluctant to do it, so they leave room for self-employed small companies. For example, some brands of products, radiation area is wide, there are market segments of customers, in the segment of the market segment customers where the transaction requires local contacts or local authority certification, so for a small number of people familiar with the industry with resources to leave room.
Among the A-share listed companies, there is a stationery, Chenguang, everyone looks at their financial statements, and the profit is very high. This phenomenon is in line with the characteristics of the business listed above.
The listed enterprise where Mu Ru used to work, the suppliers of stationery, leaflets, chapters, and other accessories for the enterprise, are often self-employed. Carefully investigate, the income of these people is far more than the middle-level cadres of our company.
So why do the smart people at the beginning of the article face the dilemma of poverty? Oh, don't want to say.
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