The wave of layoffs is coming, what mentality do we use to survive in the workplace?

| Vickie

In July last year, educational institutions were shut down with the implementation of the "double reduction policy", and a large number of education and training practitioners were laid off.

On December 23, a well-known large-scale factory laid off employees on a large scale, optimized more than 300 people in the game department, and laid off 90% of the live broadcast business. At the beginning of the month, iQiyi was exposed to optimize personnel in the proportion of 20% to 40%, and some VP-level executives will be dismissed.

In a trance, the undercurrent of layoffs seems to have come to us... How should ordinary people in the big era plan ahead, and how should they adjust themselves when they are unemployed?

Make a side hustle transition

The most terrible thing about unemployment is undoubtedly the loss of a stable income, so if you can have a side job and earn more money, you will have more confidence in your heart.

1. Do inward push, vocational training

@ Jason, a programmer at a large factory

Janson is a senior programmer at a large factory, and like many employees of a large factory, he will also take some outsourced technical work to earn extra money in his spare time. He soon found that although outsourcing "came to money" quickly, it was a huge workload, and it was difficult to balance the side business and the main business for a long time.

In the face of mistakes, he found a "business opportunity": his cousin graduated from a CS major at a well-known university but repeatedly encountered a wall in his job search, and asked him for advice.

Under the detailed chat, he found that although the fresh graduates have excellent academic qualifications, they lack practical experience and do not understand the specific responsibilities of the Internet company position. So he "prescribed the right medicine": first took his cousin to practice a project, and then helped him sort out the technical and interview ideas. After a set of operations, the cousin got a very satisfactory offer.

Is there a lot of fresh graduates like cousins who also need job search counseling?

In this way, Jason relied on his own technology and experience to engage in "customized employment counseling", looking for him people flocked to him, ranging from dozens to hundreds of singles, spending less than ten hours a week, you can earn about 30% of the additional income of his main business, this "use of their own knowledge and information barriers" to engage in side business ideas can increase their competitiveness and sense of security at the same time, can be described as a lot of things.

2. Bloggers start a business and make money by hobbies

@ A large factory operation post, fashion sharing blogger

Don't liberal arts students without technical barriers have no chance to do side jobs?

Nope, if technical training is To B, then the operation post has a natural user thinking, they can create content directly To C monetization.

Zhang Mou, who is operating in a large factory, experienced a job transfer last year, so he had a strong sense of occupational crisis.

"Will I be firen?"

There are many people doing self-media now, but everyone suffers from a lack of professional skills. After she found this, she simply opened an account on social media to teach netizens how to edit videos, how to find topics, etc. Unexpectedly, it became popular, not only accumulating 100,000 fans in a year or so, but also frequently appearing on the front page of the platform.

In addition to receiving some advertisements to monetize, she also seized the opportunity to open her own Taobao store to sell some cultural and creative peripherals. This side job made her more confident. The more dependent, the less worried about being laid off.

Face reality and adjust career expectations

The path of life will not be carried out one hundred percent according to personal expectations, if you really encounter the "Waterloo" of the profession, appropriately adjust your career expectations and even life planning, perhaps the future will be brighter than expected.

1. Employment is pluralistic and equal, do live broadcasting

@ Former English teacher who turned to education anchor

Maggie was once a senior English teacher in the organization, and after the implementation of the double reduction policy, she lost the direction of her work for many years. After a short period of confusion, she found that there were also many English education big V on live broadcast and short video platforms.

Although Maggie has little experience in new media operations, she has solid English basic skills and many years of educational experience, coupled with her perseverance, carefully studying the details of each "blockbuster" video, after sending a hundred videos, she finally ushered in her own blockbuster video, and is now a full-time blogger with a stable income.

2. Qingbei graduated 70% into the system, and it is also a life choice

Once upon a time, it was a bit of a "big deal" for graduates of famous schools to take the civil service examination.

However, in recent years, with the economic crisis brought about by the epidemic, people have gradually discovered: "The end of the universe is the compilation", according to the 2021 graduate employment quality report of Tsinghua and Peking University, about 70% of the graduates of the two universities have signed a tripartite employment graduate to enter the system.

From a realistic point of view, in the era of economic benefits, it is indeed easier to realize the value of life in the field that you are good at. In the current slowing economic growth, it is also a good choice to choose a job in the system of "stable salary, less work pressure, and easy not to lose unemployment", and in the system is not necessarily a life that can be seen at the end, work well to accumulate experience and ability, and have every opportunity to jump out and try another life in the future.

The focus of life is to live comfortably, and being safe is not a life choice.

You can choose to receive unemployment benefits

1. If you really encounter a salary cut and layoffs, do not be easily "dissuaded", and try your best to protect your own interests. It should be noted that if you feel that there is a crisis of layoffs, you must strictly implement every detail in the attendance rules to avoid losing due compensation due to "non-compliance with labor discipline".

In addition, recordings that are not agreed to by both parties to the conversation will not be accepted by the court, so if there is a dispute, it is necessary to consult a lawyer in time to discuss a legal and favorable solution.

2. If you are really unfortunate enough to be laid off, you can look at the local unemployment benefit and do not cut off social security contributions.

Adjust yourself to the next opportunity with the best possible form

Go to charge

@ Former Language Teacher of Educational Institutions, went to Hong Kong for graduate school

Pippi works for a small educational institution, and after the company was shut down, she was directly told that the personnel relationship was outsourced, so she could not get compensation. The situation of being put in a lawsuit by the "scumbag" is unfavorable, so Pippi decides to temporarily go home to Gap for a year.

During the period, she went online to communicate with the unemployed people who had fallen at the same time, and found that many people wanted to take the opportunity to go to graduate school to make a battery for themselves, which also awakened her long-sealed dream: to study abroad.

She desperately prepared for the language, found materials, wrote documents, and finally got the ideal offer.

Slow down at the trough, and don't forget to learn and contact new knowledge, skills, and meet new friends in order to seize it when new opportunities come.

Discover your true needs

Before leaving, Mr. Wu, 37, was already a content executive at a medium-sized company. After leaving, she suddenly found that once she passed the age of 35, she was eliminated by the content market by default.

After experiencing reluctance and confusion, she was attracted by starbucks job ads and suddenly remembered that she hadn't always liked coffee. This love made her, who once earned 30,000 a month, choose to learn to make coffee from a basic barista at Starbucks.

Although the barista has to stand in the store for 8 hours a day, but free from high-pressure mental work, and free coffee to drink casually, is actually a job with a high sense of happiness, and most importantly, she seems to have found her own new direction: to open her own café in the future.

After being laid off, I learned to adjust myself

@ byte former programmer big Z

In fact, before being "optimized", the programmer Big Z was ready to leave.

After 4 years of work, Big Z sits at his desk for an average of 10-12 hours a day and doesn't leave the company until after 10 o'clock almost every day. Under the high-pressure anxiety for many years, he not only had a reverse arch of the cervical spine, overworked and fattened, but also had a problem with the gallbladder that had been operated on, and the doctor bluntly said that if he continued like this, he would die young.

Being laid off "saved" him

After being idle at home, Big Z's primary goal is to adjust himself. The first step in adjustment is to "accept his negative emotions", he does not deny himself as anxious as he did at work before, but gives himself time to adjust. Slowly, his mentality was much calmer than before, and he also had more motivation to do things.

On the advice of his doctor, he began to exercise regularly and pay attention to his diet. While working out, he experienced the feeling of having no distractions and going all out, and this sense of accomplishment allowed him to walk out of the trough of doubt and anxiety and regain his ambition, and recently he began to prepare for e-commerce entrepreneurship.

No matter what stage of your career and life you are in, whether you are in the trough or not, you must learn to recognize yourself in your heart, try to find your own shining points, so that even if you fail to climb the peak, peace and happiness will always be with you.

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