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A while ago, I talked about ordinary people who have no money and no resources, and can consider some positions in programmers and the Internet, and the relative space is larger.
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To be honest, programmers are friendly in high-paying occupations.
Compared with finance/medical, 985 masters or even doctorates are often jumped off, and some background is often needed to get a good job.
Because of my own relationship, I have contacted a large number of programmers, of which there are not a few who have changed careers, before there were sales, insurance sales, Chinese teachers, HR, design and so on. Through training institutions + self-taught practice, it is possible to get an offer for a junior position in about half a year.
Of course, changing careers is not an easy task, but you want a high salary and don't want to make an effort, what is such a beautiful thing?
People who can really find high-paying jobs at will are definitely not ordinary.
Looking around like this, it seems that how to go is a dead end.
What's the problem?
Combined with the above "Ordinary people can be programmers? I thought about the comments, and the problem is probably in these 3 words: "ordinary people".
02
You probably see one type of comment often:
"Ordinary people are not suitable for this at all."
"This side hustle is completely unsuitable for ordinary people."
"Ordinary people still forget it, it's all survivor bias."
These types of comments tend to get a lot of likes.
Let's talk about side hustle.
Writing and self-media, many people feel that ordinary people are not that talented at all. How much does it cost to write an article? Do you know how low the submission pass rate is now? How many people can't write a public account for N years? 100 people do self-media, and 1-2 people do it well.
The same goes for my job.
What kind of education is required by a certain industry, how many years of experience are required, and 12345 skills are required, and the requirements are very high.
In the end, it was concluded that ordinary people still lie flat and pull down, no matter how much tossing and turning, it is useless.
Are these things a small probability?
Indeed it is.
But anything that has some value is always a small probability.
For example, if you are admitted to 985/211, you will know how low the proportion is by dragging out the admission rate of the past years;
For example, the monthly salary is over 10,000, the average monthly income in the country is less than 5,000, and the seemingly unremarkable monthly salary of more than 10,000 has exceeded 90% of the people;
For example, the realization of side business, the investment of time and energy, the application of various courses, can continue to do a year is already rare, smooth realization and stable income, it is estimated that less than 5%.
But are those who do it really gifted?
Not necessarily.
Most of them are definitely classified as "ordinary people", as if they are just trying a little harder and persevering.
One word has to be mentioned here: self-prophecy.
Psychology refers to the fact that people will unconsciously act according to prophecies, and eventually make prophecies happen.
If you think that you are not the material for reading, you will not use reading books to prepare for the exam even if you have time, because you think it is useless for you to read. The result is really a mess, and you think:
"Sure enough, I'm not reading material!"
You define yourself as a so-called ordinary person from the beginning, think that it is useless to do anything, and in the end you will not do it, and test your conjecture with a result without suspense.
And this conjecture further affects your future actions.
The more you believe something, the more likely you are to achieve something.
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In turn, self-evidence has a powerful driving force.
You decide that you can do something, and you have a high probability of achieving some small goals.
The same difficult thing, different psychological cues, is likely to bring about very different results.
I once talked about buying a house in a big city, and many comments said that those who buy a house in a big city are not relying on their parents to pay for it? No education, no background, no family support, and I can't mix it up in big cities!
It's normal, and that's how most people react.
However, one reader commented like this:
At the age of 19, he dropped out of school and began to drift north, did more than a dozen industries including miscellaneous, workers, and waiters, and then taught himself programming, and now he has been a programmer for 5 years, with a monthly salary of more than 20,000 yuan and more than 1 million savings.
This reader's background should be considered ordinary to be more ordinary, right?
In Beijing for more than a decade, even if he has not yet bought a house, but at least it is not a star and a half better than when he first came to Beijing, and to exaggerate, he has achieved a certain degree of life counterattack.
Compared with.
Many people are overly pessimistic, believing in the common logic of "no matter how hard ordinary people try to be useless", seeing that some people have high incomes, some people buy houses, and some people settle in big cities, and immediately throw out because others have such and such conditions, and they do not, these objective factors lead to their own failure.
Is it OK to think so?
Of course, OK, how a person thinks is his freedom.
But if you look closely, you will find that anyone who can do something will believe in the "power of belief" instead of questioning everything all day long.
They are willing to try again and again.
Liu Run mentioned a kind of probabilistic thinking in "The Underlying Logic".
Assuming that the success rate of one thing is 20%, the probability of doing a failure is: 1-20% = 80% = 0.8.
The probability of at least one success of doing n times is 95%, which is equivalent to the probability of not succeeding every n times of repetition is 5%.
So repeat it 14 times, and you'll have a 95% success rate.
People who prove that they can't succeed in the first place are not willing to continue to invest in it.
And people who prove that they can do something, they are willing to try, even if they fail, he can't swallow this breath, he will think of tossing and turning again, the number of tosses is more, and the success rate will go up.
Therefore, there is a chicken soup called "thoughts determine behavior, behavior determines destiny", which is actually supported by data.
04
I often say a word, change what you can change, accept what you can't change.
If you are dissatisfied with the life in front of you and are not dead-hearted, then stand up and do a good job, and enter an inch of joy.
If you doubt everything, it is not a good thing to lie flat. Step on the watermelon peel and slide to where it counts, resigned to fate.
What is the most frightening thing?
I want to use the operation of "ordinary people" and want to get extraordinary results.
There is a popular saying in the story of "The Oil Seller": without him, only the hands are familiar.
To do something like a little, in fact, as long as you do it repeatedly and practice repeatedly, it is enough to surpass most people.
Yes, it is not easy for ordinary people to have a high-paying job, it is not easy to have a good side job, it is not easy to buy a house and settle down, and the success rate is not high.
But if you don't believe in evil, give yourself chicken blood, and the chance of success after N attempts is very high. Even if you don't succeed, at least you can get closer to the goal step by step, which is much better than being in the same place.
There is no way to earn millions a year, but learn more, reserve more, and there is still hope for a monthly salary of 10,000-20,000;
There is no way to buy the ideal house, that save money and use + open source and throttling, buy small houses if you can't afford to buy big houses, buy suburbs if you can't afford to buy them in urban areas, buy them first and then find ways to replace them;
There's no way to monetize your side hustle right away, but you're happy to keep doing it, and maybe you'll get an opportunity a year from now and get on track.
No job is easy, and if you can stick to it, you are not an ordinary person.
Finally, I would like to say.
Man's energy is limited, do not waste energy on doubting - > self-proof - > more doubt - > further self-proof - the path of complete failure of >.
People will eventually live as they imagined.
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Lingongzi: In the workplace, he has mixed with first-line Internet companies, and is currently a senior product manager of a fortune-500 company; outside the workplace, he is a contracted author of workplace/financial platform, a partner of a media company, and a real estate investor at home and abroad. Welcome to follow my headline number @ Pro Gongzi