A real estate company I worked for in 2011, the boss's full-time driver, H, is a veteran, high school dropout, will be sparring, a little bit of massage. He actually doubled as the boss's bodyguard and masseuse, so his monthly salary was the highest in the fleet, 6000 RMB (which was pretty high in 2011).
One day, H privately approached me and said that he wanted to leave the company, and that he had already found his next employer, with a monthly salary of 8,000 yuan. The first thing I did was to ask him about his family's elderly illness, his two children, a sophomore and a senior, and his wife's health was not very good, and he was farming in his hometown, and his family's expenses depended on the 6,000 yuan he spent, which was too much for him. He said it was because of the big expenses at home, only from the county of the transfer of the animal husbandry bureau left to work out. h1969 born in 2011 has 42 years old.
I reported the situation to the boss on the same day, the boss said to H monthly salary increase to 8000 yuan, said that we must stay H. I later thought, so passive retention is not a way, if next year and find 10000 yuan monthly salary to jump ship? And continue to passively processing salary? Salary does not match the value of the position is not a long-term solution. The next natural step is to let H improve their value.
I found that he is very suitable for the procurement work through in-depth understanding with H. The most direct way is to let H improve the quality of the work. The most direct way is to let H upgrade his education and study a major related to the company's business - civil engineering, and at the same time, set aside a workplace in the procurement department for him, so that as long as the boss is not going out, he will sit in the procurement department, starting from the responsible for the purchase of office supplies.
Civil engineering is, after all, a very difficult profession, and H only had two years of high school, and his high school diploma was bought for 30 dollars (a high school diploma is required to apply for correspondence courses). However, H's motivation and desire for knowledge is much stronger than I thought, although the age of forty, but the brain is very good (now think about it, the 1980s to the end of the high school should be quite valuable).
H wholeheartedly pounced on learning and work, in the company, often go to the engineering department to ask for professional knowledge. Maybe people think H is the boss "side of the person", may be H's efforts moved, colleagues to the help of the special enthusiasm and special patience.
Correspondence three years passed quickly, H successfully get a college diploma, the focus is not on a paper certificate, in the three years, H learned more knowledge than the company's civil engineer four years of college, but also solid, and H also in the Procurement Department to grow rapidly, to get a diploma that year was promoted to be responsible for the company's non-engineering materials, deputy manager of the Procurement Department. Although the boss's support is inseparable, but I think it is more H's own efforts and hard work to get the opportunity!
I left the company in 2013. I left the company in 2013. I met with H for dinner after the Chinese New Year this year. He has not left the company, but also a bachelor's degree by correspondence, and I heard that the boss is going to send him to Tongji to read the EMBA. Now it is already in charge of the company's administration, logistics (management of the driver and the staff canteen), personnel, finance, purchasing and general manager of the six departments of the deputy general manager! Annual salary of 600,000 yuan.
This is an example of 42 years old and hard work.
Summarizing H's example, there are three points that are particularly important for older people to struggle:
(1) To find a strong motivation to struggle. Insufficient motivation makes it easy to give up halfway and unable to discipline oneself. Struggle for power must be from the specific goals of financial pressure, not confused years can embrace the dream, not to talk about life and ideals.
(2) get rid of greed. Ordinary people want to achieve success, it is necessary to get rid of what all want to do, feel that they can do anything idea, focus, focus on a field, career direction should not be towards the three twilight, see the difference;
(3) strong willpower, tenacity. Persistence and resistance to pressure is the necessary guarantee to realize the dream, only rain or shine willpower, ten years of perseverance, repeated defeats and repeated defeats of tenacity, in order to reach the other side of the success.
Finally, before the age of 30 is the age of trial and error, 30 years old, especially after the age of 35 is the age of life in the direction of the established courage to go forward and never look back, so the development of the goal to be pragmatic, combined with their own actual situation.
If you are not gifted and talented, don't start from scratch; there is no shortcut to change the status quo, no fast track, as short as one or two years, as long as three to five years, so don't start full-time, and try to "half-work, half-study" type of struggles, especially in the case of the elderly and children.
It's not too late to be 35, and you still have 25 years left in your career! Take action now! It's never too late to start!
I'll tell you the story of my coworker LF, which is really called Life Against the Odds. She is 79 years old, 41 this year, but looks like early 30s, the mentality of a very small girl a person. LF she graduated from secondary school, short, 22 years old or so into the C company, in the production line as an employee, more than half a year because of the work of careful and responsible was promoted to deputy team leader. Not long after the C company was acquired by a foreign-funded group, a subsidiary of a listed company, and then the C company's human resources department to go formalized according to the group's requirements, the internal staff began to be in short supply, just as some people take maternity leave, so to the production department to borrow, the requirements of junior high school education, know a little bit of the computer with a little bit of English foundation on the line. The production manager thought of recruiting people to rely on the Ministry of Human Resources, do not want to be too perfunctory, the short but reliable LF recommended over.
LF entered the Human Resources Department by this chance, and began her journey. LF into the human resources department, very cherish the hard-won opportunity, free overtime is her normal. Because there are too many things she doesn't know, she always spends several times to familiarize herself at the beginning. 2012 when I joined, she was 32 years old, her child was more than 3 years old, and she had been in Company C for 10 years, successively working in the recruitment team of HR, training team, salary and welfare team, entertainment and activity planning team, and she had a lot of experience. The boss at the time gave her very many opportunities, and then the position level from the first level of employees to the seventh level of supervisors, counting, basically every one or two years in the promotion! You have to know that in a foreign enterprise human resources department to do a commissioner may be a few years are difficult to rise a level!
I was also lucky to be interviewed by LF, she thought I was born in the countryside, I should be able to bear the hardship before I chose me.
I was lucky enough to be interviewed by LF, who thought I was born in a rural area and could work hard.
Although she was already a supervisor at that time, she had a nagging feeling about her secondary school education, agonized over her lack of English, and lamented that her development in Company C had come to an end. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on this, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good deal on this, so I'm sure you'll be able to get a good deal on this. Later, she really just went to look for information and started to apply for the examination online. She is a very hardworking person, after applying for the examination almost every night to insist on reading the self-test book to do questions. She used 2 years to finish the college, and then she went on to enroll in Sun Yat-sen University, administrative management professional bachelor's degree, 3 years time also took down.
In the years when she took the exam, her work was not easy at all, but it never affected her exam. I joined half a year, C company will be merged into another subsidiary of the group D company to go, C face layoffs dissolved. LF and I were temporarily arranged to work in Company C and Company D alternately, and were transported by the company car. We were involved in the layoffs and dissolution of Company C which lasted for half a year, and finally merged into Company D. We had to work in Company D for a long time. When we arrived at Company D, business was also in the doldrums, and the bosses who had been covering us were laid off one after another, while our former colleagues from Company C who felt ostracized and undeveloped also left. People were in a panic, but LF kept telling me not to get distracted and to do my job well, and the new boss would see our efforts. But in fact, every time the new boss came, he gave us a hard time and took a lot of blame, so he practiced his ability to protect himself. Each time it was LF who carried us through. By the time I left my job in 2018, LF was a senior director of HR at Company D.
In her, we can see the qualities of good learning, hardworking, self-discipline and enterprising. If you want to change your destiny and realize wealth appreciation, you need to have good quality and learning habits first.
LF from the production staff to the senior director, education from secondary school to self-test bachelor's degree, there are a lot of people's luck, but more is her own efforts. The key is to see how hard you work, and the harder you work, the luckier you are and the more opportunities you have!
Honestly I am a lazy person to knock the words, but seeing this problem of yours, I still decided to spend some time, to write my story, but hopefully it can help you!
In 2015, I shifted from sales to administration, my work became idle at once, and my salary was stable, but people became anxious, and my sense of time value was low. In order to fill my free time, I started to read, and when I first started to read, my efficiency was very poor, about 2 books a month. At that time, I set a goal for myself to read 12 books a year, and in fact, to be honest, at that time, I was not sure whether I could achieve this goal.
Fortunately, I persisted for three months, and I found that my reading speed and efficiency improved a lot, and my perspective and depth of thinking changed a lot. What's more, I started to do time management, get up at 4:30 a.m. to read like in the book, and by now I've stuck to it for more than 900 days, and started to do knowledge management, use impression notes, and mind mapping.
In 2017, I set a goal for myself to go to a bookstore and do a share once a week, 50 times a year. As a result, I did it, and now I don't read more than 100 books a year, and started a knowledge entrepreneurship, got 1.75 million investment.
Back to the question itself, to change the fate and family life, when it is not too late, the key is to look at what way, some people chose to keep changing jobs, some people choose to start their own business, some people chose to work? Side business, but these are through the external environment to change, and now the social incentive to compete in the environment, the majority of people driving around still in the same place.
Reading it, is another dimension of the method, by investing in self, enhance self-worth, may not be able to have a big change in a short period of time, but I think, as long as you will read, adhere to the reading, adhere to the study, adhere to the practice, 5 years, 10 years after the bound to exponential growth.
Not only can reading change a person's fate, people live to learn some of the skills applicable to the public, or to create a business, and then know how to innovate, will also live quite well.
All men have to do is to study. This sentence is not only to educate and encourage their children to study more, but also to be used as a motto to enrich themselves, this sentence should be he is not a differentiation between the age level, but a differentiation of our attitude towards learning and life. Of course, it is not reading, is our only way out, but more reading, more learning, more conducive to us to find more ways out. Plus we have an old Chinese saying, people have to learn to live to old age, district 35 years old nothing too late, too late, just through our learning, refracted our life, for learning an attitude problem, even if we learn for the family status quo or no change, but we at least for the problem in front of us to make an effort to make a change, on such an attitude, how can God he will not be able to change? The first thing that you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and then you'll be able to get a new one.
I'm glad to answer your question: When is it not too late to learn to be strong, as long as you are willing to work hard, everything is too late.
I'll say some time ago I watched TV, Mom Mia program in a lady in her 40s, her son is autistic, she in order to encourage the child to cure the disease, to the child as an example, began to learn the pole dance, at first just to encourage the child to look at the mother how hard more brave courageous and bold to learn, and in the public **** occasions, go to pole dance to earn money for the child's cure, the head of mom in the Learning the process of pole dancing, fall from above, forehead hit the pipe, bone concave in a pit, this is just one of the things, the bureau of the lady's teacher, the lady in the process of learning pole dancing for two years, all parts of the body of multiple fractures and injuries, but she still insisted on learning pole dancing until the third year of the pole dance there is a chance of a world competition, the lady also enrolled, she is ready for the competition, to this point reminds me of the pole dancing, and I'm very happy to see you. She prepared for the competition, which reminded me of a saying that success is reserved for those who are prepared. This lady achieved excellent results during the competition and finally won the first prize of the world competition. Since she won the first prize in the world competition, her child's autism is also much better, and the child, who used to be afraid to even go out of the door, is now learning pole dancing.
So everyone's potential to learn is different, and as long as you're willing to work hard to learn, you'll get to the other side of the river where you want to be! You're just 35 years old it's not too late to learn anything, I'm with you, you'll definitely change your destiny through hard work.
Reading, when it is not too late. The key is whether you are willing to take action immediately.
Thirty-five years old, as early as over the years, their own status quo their own clear, no one to the age of thirty-five years old will be able to read all the books? And no one dares to brag that by the age of thirty-five one can know the whole world.
As long as it is something you want to do, thirty-five is not too late, it is the most mature stage of the mind. You know your own shortcomings, immediately start to squeeze out time to read, you will feel that you become happy, you become strong, you become confident, the more you live, the more happy you feel!
The book has its own face, the book has its own golden house.
The book long wisdom, this point firmly believe. The first thing you need to do is to read a book, and then you can read the book.
Everyone does not want to become a person hiding in a bottle.
If you are already thirty-five years old and want to rely on reading to change your fate and the life of your family, then you should read professionally and with utilitarian reading. Instead of reading for pleasure.
Recreational reading, that is to say, reading some literature, history and culture books, these books can increase your knowledge, but for your work and not much help. Because reading these books only enhances your self-cultivation. Of course, you can read these books at the same time as utilitarian reading, but it is more important to carry out utilitarian reading.
The utilitarian reading is done on the premise of getting an academic degree and taking a qualification test. For example, if you are interested in English, you can work while studying English, and it is best to go to night school or something like that. This way you can get a degree, and secondly you are able to study systematically. And then you'll also be able to get a translation certificate. You'll be able to find a better job if you study for a few years and get a degree and a certificate.
Thirty-five years old is a watershed for a person, and a lot of companies don't hire people over thirty-five. If you reach thirty-five years old still have to go to the job market to submit a resume, then your life is even more of a failure. If you want to improve your competitiveness, the best way is naturally to study. But for many people learning is just an empty word, want to learn, there must be a system, and then to learn English as an example, you systematically study a variety of books in the English profession, to memorize thousands of English words. Then you will be able to master English. If you just fish for three days and sun-dry the net for two days, you are just wasting your time, and you can't learn anything at all. This kind of learning is not efficient, and it is impossible to improve your own competitiveness. In case of unemployment it will be difficult to find a good job.
Thirty-five years old, is it too late to start studying hard to change your fate and your family's life? My opinion is not to simply study and do nothing else. In other words, work and study at the same time.
The reasoning is simple.
1. Anyone can not live in a vacuum. 35 years old, may have started a family, face the old, the next day, face the huge pressure of life, without a certain economic foundation is never OK.
2. My opinion is to work while studying. Work, in order to solve the problem of life, and reading, is an important way to change destiny. Of course, reading here should be a broad range, for example, to learn a skill, or to take an accounting certificate, chef's license, etc., not necessarily like high school students through the "college entrance examination" to change their destiny.
3. As the saying goes, 360 rows, rows and rows, as long as good at learning, willing to study, in each industry, there may be a big difference. Therefore, it is more important to be good at work to learn, willing to study, so that also learn you will become a leader in a particular industry. This is the same way to read to change your destiny.
My opinion is still the same: while working, while reading.