In mid-January this year, Tsingshan Capital, an investment research center, integrated data:
"80.0% of middle-aged job seekers are willing to engage in new forms of employment, of which 40.4%, 39.9% and 10.6% consider life services, e-commerce, takeaway riders and couriers respectively."
On January 30, netizens nicknamed @Hu Gafeng also typed this paragraph in Xiaohongshu like supporting data:
Leaving the big factory to switch to IKEA only to find out...
"At the age of 40, I left the big factory and changed to IKEA selling furniture, and I understood that it is normal to work for ten years and earn 10,000 a month;
Change job at the age of 40, the interview is accepted by the company;
It is normal for colleagues aged 40+ and 50+ to be around;
You can leave work on time when you get to the point... Life goes on. ”
Click on her avatar, you will find that this note is her most interactive in the past year, and I looked at her incomparably soft interaction area, and for a moment, there was a looseness of 35+ anxieties completely shattered.
Is there still a way out for 35+ Internet people?
Going to foreign companies, being a lecturer, going to the public examination, going to entrepreneurship, going abroad, and doing the service industry, I looked at the choices of 35+ real professionals one after another, and I had a different answer in my heart.
"Foreign companies have become older Internet people
The first lifesaver that blurted out"
"Then when looking for a job, the employer generally requires that people under 35 years old, what do people over 35 years old do?" 》
Zhihu, this topic, which has been interviewed 48 million times, is a very eye-catching answer:
"Foreign companies! The United States is still running for president at the age of 70, we can't find a job at the age of 35, and it is the regular cross-company that gives you hope. ”
Sure enough, the 2.6w high praise answer @ Shen Shijun, the opening shows the way out that the public wants to go:
"40 years old, the world's top 100 foreign companies (Europe and the United States), is working as a technical expert."
He went to a foreign company at the age of 30, stayed for 10 years, from software development engineer (3 years) to development manager (5 years), and now back to technical expert.
Shen Shijun talked about the promotion mechanism and work intensity of foreign companies, I haven't seen an airborne manager for 10 years, ordinary middle-level management positions are more inclined to promote within the company, and don't expect to be able to sit back and relax after becoming a leader:
"The brothers at the bottom are all 996, do you mean to let the brothers fight hard in front and go home early?"
He once again emphasized his current situation, the intensity of work is reasonable, at least under the condition of ensuring health, there is still time to take care of the family, and finally very sincerely gave a piece of advice to the still young Internet people:
"Try to go to a gentle company before the age of 35 and avoid blind job hopping."
Because the physical function will decline after the age of 35, don't say that the company will not lay you off, you yourself will choose to leave voluntarily because of the inability to eat, similarly, do not underestimate the length of service, because in the changeable workplace environment, the compensation standard of labor law n+1 is the capital for a middle-aged person to regroup and start again.
Under the topic, do HR respondent @ Nine Sides Draw job seeker ten years of job search skills change map
"Compared to changing jobs,
The army of job seekers has never given up pouring into state-owned enterprises"
Immediately followed by Shen Shijun is a 50-year-old respondent @Mo Ye.
He also thought about going to a foreign company, but he already had a better answer in his heart than going to a foreign company:
"At the age of 30, I knew that programmers eat youth, so I decided to find myself an iron rice bowl."
What is an iron rice bowl?
He jumped from a Hong Kong company to a state-owned company.
Entering the system has always been the answer to young people's workplace anxiety and intermittent emergence, and it was also during that time that he completed various great undertakings of falling in love, getting married and having children.
According to the usual trend, his career should have ended in a state-owned enterprise. As a result, he talked about the state-owned enterprise he joined at that time, and the "Dawn of Zhongke" that was later listed.
He entered the Shenzhen branch, but it happened that the government supported a piece of land for Shuguang Shenzhen Company, and then the land was favored by a real estate company, so he acquired the land rights of Shuguang Shenzhen Company, and as a result, the real estate company did not engage in IT, and all R&D personnel were dismissed.
The details of each of them could not be traced, and he was still panicked about being laid off in state-owned enterprises:
If you want to get through the age crisis, the iron rice bowl must be really iron!
He began to study himself, analyze his competitiveness, what is the programming talent? What about time management and resource handling capabilities? After several self-tugging, he found his next way out: to rush to the management post.
The programming talent rushed the development team leader, and the other strong ability rushed the project manager, he chose the latter, and even once self-evaluated himself as 35-40 years old: it was the first-class project manager in Shenzhen during that period.
"Those who ride the tide of the times,
Regain your passion for life by going to the sea"
Of course, in addition to going to foreign enterprises to become leaders in state-owned enterprises, there are also some people who are unwilling to work and go to sea.
In 22 years, an interview with a group of 35+ former Internet executives, A Cat (pseudonym) is a very early Internet giant,
It's just that I was always abroad (big factories stationed abroad) until 2017, when I returned to China at the age of 35, my rank was upgraded by one level, and my annual salary reached one million.
Of course, there are also friends around him who have taken advantage of the rapid development of Internet factories in the past few years, from small factories to large factories, as well as options, as leaders, no matter how you look at it, you can get rid of the curse of the mid-life crisis, but this is also an afterword.
In 2017, he left.
The reason also sounds surprising: "My girlfriend of 4 years broke up with him because of a long distance." ”
He told the mood at that time, life was occupied by work for a long time, like a demon, extremely low, and even had no rational planning, just wanted to escape.
He tried to save his relationship, but after fruitless efforts, he counted his savings, spent 2 years with things he liked, and then opened a coffee shop at the age of 37.
Is there still a way out for 35+ Internet people?
The story is written here, the story of Internet people finding the way should have ended, but life is not a movie after all, and it will not be a curtain call at a certain highlight moment.
The 40-year-old @Shen Shijun, who has been in a foreign company for ten years, actually said after a long self-statement: "Can you work in a foreign company to 60?" ”
The pressure on foreign companies to survive in China has become greater, and he has assessed the profitability of his business unit, which can only ensure that his short-term unemployment probability is not large;
The 50-year-old uncle @ Mo Ye, who jumped to the state-owned enterprise and was dismissed and later became a high-level executive, said in his latest reply at the end of 22 that he originally wanted to retire in that small company, but he was still unemployed, and he is currently taking the second-level construction engineer certificate;
There is also the high-rise @ A cat who wanted to find his enthusiasm and gave up his million annual salary to open a café, a year later he lost half of the money in the café he opened in the Chengdu community, he weighed the pros and cons and closed the store, and in 21 he went to a non-profit organization at the age of 38, earning more than 10,000 a month.
What struck me was not his choice of non-profit, but his unconscious confidation at the end of the interview.
He said that after seeing his current situation, he still couldn't help but ask himself: "From the management of a large factory with an annual salary of one million to a non-profit organization with a monthly income of 10,000, is it considered 'a good hand played rarely'?" ”
Originally, he left the factory with the idea that he could go back and make money again, but after 3 years, after learning French food, coffee, bartending, and meeting many serious and interesting people, he knew that he could not go back:
"It's a track that consumes too much of your energy."
He said he wouldn't ask himself any more questions about whether it was a failure, but it was a choice, and he was even sure that his current job would not be the ultimate mission.
That was the self-consistency and calmness that he cultivated after he really lived.
And 30 is anxious about whether 40 can still have a job, we seem to have forgotten:
"When you stop and ask yourself, it's never the exact answer, but 'What is the life you want to live and look forward to?' ”
It's a pity that we are always in a hurry, and we don't understand the subtlety of time, it will not only pass, but also roll back, like the waves at high tide.