What is it that you understand too late in your life?
Your way of thinking must change: it is not hard work, but your scarcity that makes you more valuable.
For every holiday, there will always be a lot of students and friends who have trouble finding part-time jobs: what is the part-time job that makes money? There’s so many part-time liars on the Internet. Is there any way to find a good part-time job quickly?
But my point is simple and clear: don’t waste your time looking for part-time jobs unless you really have a problem with your life or you’re in a situation where you need to save your money.
The vast majority of university students work part-time and find it, not only in the form of tutors, questionnaires, pushes, promotions, shopkeepers, typists, proofreads, and so on. Their common feature is that the threshold is very low. These part-time jobs are more demanding than real skills are a lot of repetitive, mechanical work and the time they are willing to work.
In short,
I know that for many university students, hundreds of thousands a month is a great temptation, and the cost is only a few days a week, a few hours a day. Looks like it’s a good deal. However, in unit time, the return is very low, at $120 an hour. Is it worth your precious time? It’s not worth it.
Remember:
One of the most likely mistakes of university students is to underestimate the value of time. Because universities have the greatest amount of leisure time, it is easy to create the idea that time is insignificant and often even to think about how to wipe out time that is not known how to use it.
However, when you graduate for a few years, like me, you will remember a time when the university has a lot of leisure, without any burden or pressure, and you will regret not having taken good advantage of every second of university life.
Why do you say that? Because, to a large extent,
This is by no means alarming.
Worktime is always a process of synchronized work and learning. And what depends on the effectiveness of learning? Much depends on your platform. And how can we, at the beginning of our journey, get into an excellent platform that can provide you with indefinable momentum? Depends on what you get in college.
No good firm, no platform will value part-time experience. They only value your skills, abilities, qualities and visions, which cannot be given on a part-time basis.
Many say that part-time work makes you more diligent — in fact, it’s no use. In this age, hard work is precisely the least important thing. What do businesses value? It’s “efficient”: shorter time, less resources, higher output.
Working hard is one way to be “efficient,” but it is also the least useful. It is more important than hard work to use skills, methods and tools to achieve the desired purpose.
So, for example, it took you five days to make a picture of it with PS; another person spent one afternoon with an online template and a personalized chart. Of course, you can say you did better than him, but can this gap make up for more time?
In this age, I’m learning.
What are core skills? Core skills are your positioning and your best value for business.
Your PPT works very clearly and beautifully; your writing is excellent; your code is always efficient and concise; your design work has always been a piece of paper; your data analysis has been in a lot of trouble; you’ve been doing an impeccable project schedule; and even your English language is excellent, and all foreign clients have to ask you to come out — these are your core skills.
How can core skills be developed? You are required to exercise, learn, give feedback and practice in a clear direction. This is a long-term process, whose value does not necessarily manifest itself in a short period of time and which requires you to persevere for a long time.
So, don’t waste time on the small fly-heads in front of you — part-time, for example, or on a well-paid (but useless) internship.
It’s not hard work, it’s yours.
Many people feel that, through a high examination, they can get a breath and enjoy a good university life — indeed, going to university is the real start of the competition.
How can those who graduate with high salaries, and those who are young and can perform in many fields? Actually, they’re not necessarily much smarter than us. They are just so keen that they can quickly discover the industries they want to pursue and to develop, from the very beginning, to learn skills, to develop experience, to learn partners, to practice over and over again, to try to enhance their own values and to make their hours more irreplaceable and valuable.
In short, in universities, it is most effective to find their own place as early as possible, to find their own future development plans, and then to learn their skills, internships and experience.
I wonder if you have considered a similar question: why is it that many people have worked their whole lives, struggled their entire lives and still have no way to change their poverty?
Many times we feel that the poor are poor because of asymmetrical resources. The poor have too few resources — such as status, human connection, influence — to spend much more time and energy than the rich to leverage them to achieve their goals.
But the difference between the poor and the rich — or not so poor — on resources is really so great that the poor cannot go any further in their lifetime?
I don’t think so. In fact, the main cause of keeping the poor out of poverty is another thing that is imprinted in some of the poor’s bloodlines, born and difficult to overcome:
Why is information asymmetric inconvenient? For, in fact, the resource asymmetry is not terrible, and it may lead you to be a bit behind others, to work harder, to twister, and to struggle at a lower speed and upper limit, but in most cases, as long as you are willing to fight and have a brain, your achievements are not too bad.
The worst thing about information asymmetries is two things: 1. People with missing information have no sense of changing the current dilemma. In other words,
In fact, where does poverty come from? Your family. The vast majority of the poor are from isolated villages, and the family environment from childhood is closed, backward and poor.
For the poor, however, their origins significantly limit their efforts.
The limitations of poor people’s origins do not necessarily lie in better material living conditions, but rather in the fact that they are born in the poor.
While there are many good young people, many of them at university, this rarely happens to the children of the poor, who do not have that sense. The vast majority will be content with mediocre and will remain mediocre. This is the shackles that the lack of information brings to them.
I have spoken to a number of people in the eyes of many who are considered to be at the bottom of society, including construction workers, vendors, cleaners, salesmen, intermediaries, etc. The nature of their work is similar to the part-time work of university students: they do not concentrate on technical content and take time for money.
There is one thing in common: they do not have the will to “change the status quo.” They are more of a life-or-life mentality, and they feel that life in the present is hard but good, and that their greatest desire is to build a building at home or to save money for the next generation to marry a wife, that is all.
Can you say they’re not trying? No. The vast majority of them are even more diligent than we are. In the case of one of the real estate agents I know, he’s been out running business since he graduated from middle school, running for at least 50 hours a week, on weekends (because most people only come out on weekends) and only 3k a month. But because they can only do some labour-intensive work, it’s bound to
And the rest of the money? It’s either for sexual consumption (e.g., a good meal, or an iPhone for yourself), or it’s saved for the prevention of major diseases, the building of a home, the marriage of the next generation, etc. It is inconceivable for them that you let them seize the opportunity, invest in themselves and raise future incomes.
This is the consequence of information asymmetries. They know that life is unfair and that the next generation will do what it has done, but, sadly, they do not want to really think about it or have the capacity to do so. Most of them lack a long-term vision, lack a sense of security about the future and are in a state of intense “satisfaction to present needs” every day because of a lack of basic vision. Because…
Many times we feel that the poor are short-sighted, stupid, vulnerable to deception and prone to rumours, but it is not their fault. It is likely that they have never had contact with anything that is common to us. So, they’re going to sell, they’re going to believe in fake drugs, and they’re going to lose their blood because of their low IQ? It’s not.
One simple idea is that all our encounters are the result of our decisions. And when you lack enough information, it is difficult for you to make the right decisions. For us, there may be 10 options for a real problem, but for the poor there may be only one — because he does not know what else is possible. He needed enough luck, wise minds and some courage to discover other options hidden in darkness. Such a process, in turn, may take tens of thousands and millions of times over the course of a lifetime to get out of this situation. You can imagine how difficult this is.
That is the root cause of all the tragedies. You know, there are still a lot of people, and awareness of the Internet is limited to 100 degrees and micro-credit. Even more people have never had access to the Internet.
What has happened to 100 degrees of business, for example, in the recent wave of events? Very little. The audience for 100 degrees of outreach has never been us, but rather the people who know 100 degrees, who do not have the capacity to screen for information, and the networks that are built around them. For them, 100 degrees (and some of the traditional media) contain all the information they can access, but nothing else is in their world.
Even worse, this group of people, because of the lack of information, cannot even speak for themselves. How many people are suffering injustice and suffering every day as we rush into the cities? Nobody knows. No one can shout, no one can hear.
That is the vicious circle of poverty.
Of course, it is not just information asymmetries that cause and exacerbate poverty. One book, ” The essence of poverty ” , refers to four other causes of poverty: the overburdening and responsibilities of the poor; the disappearance of some markets serving the poor; the failure of Governments due to poverty (and therefore their lack of motivation to tackle poverty); and poverty as a self-realization. Together with asymmetrical information, they persist in all efforts to lift themselves out of poverty and eliminate them in poor and difficult daily life.
But obviously you can see that these four causes are not the most important, and the most important ones are, in many cases,
All I can expect is that with the Internet and education, barriers to information can be broken and everything made more equal.
And in order to be able to break down this information barrier, you should have done so since the student age:
Write your interest, write it in detail, article by article.
From your interest, find your best part and list them.
In accordance with the first two steps, find out what the future and development of the industry is, and choose one from which it will become your “core skills”.
The other skills involved in this “core skills” are listed.
According to the items on the list, a single check is made of the plans to attack them. According to your plan, it is broken down weekly (and even daily) and implemented as planned.
Joining relevant communities, meetings and exchanges.
Summer and winter holidays, looking for practical opportunities, going to work in the business, and actually getting into the business.
In a phased manner, you can export what you learn, or produce small results that can effectively foster your sense of achievement and drive.
If you don’t have a clear idea of your own planning, and you don’t know what future trade you want, then you’ll have to start with the following skills:
Finally, there must be more internships.
Because, no matter how much you learn and improve, it’s not impossible to build a car behind closed doors, and internships are the real way to get to the industry and to practice. What you learn in your day-to-day life must be tested, applied, sharpened. It is when your skills actually solve the problems encountered in the course of your internships that you really learn them.
On the other hand, by observing the work of your colleagues and supervisors during the internships, you can learn about their intellectual composition and working methods and how to go further in this sector, and how to adjust your learning paths in line with this, if you are to truly contribute to post-graduation development.
It was lucky enough to be born in this age, but still so many people live under the burden of life. I can’t change anything, even what we can’t do, which is the most desperate and sad thing.
Perhaps the only thing we can do is do what we can to spread more knowledge.
And even the slightest light will always shine so dark.
What’s the point of being too late in your life? – The answer to the salt selection.
I don’t know.
Keep your eyes on the road.
