I am Fuyang Normal College, electronic information science and technology majors graduated in 2013, a second school, in Beijing to do the Internet for three years, the position is a product manager.
My first internship was on V2ex to find, go to a Nanjing outsourcing company, the position is a PHP engineer, did a week, did not say hello to the boss, ran away.
My second internship was inexplicably found through blogging, and I went to a company we all know now as Meituan, where I worked as a system operation and maintenance engineer.
At the time, my later boss called me and asked me to do an internship in Beijing, saying, if you do a good job, you'll stay.
Meaning, if you don't do well, get out.
So I took a chance and on the night of April Fool's Day that year, I put in my parents' one month's salary - 3,000 yuan - and bought a 98 yuan hard seat, stood for 15 hours, and came to Beijing.
This photo was taken at the Fuyang Railway Station when I interned at Meituan after graduation, and it should be the last piece of my memory in Fuyang.
This is the dormitory where I lived during my internship at Meituan (six rooms), and many people have lived here off and on since then. I met a lot of interesting students from Meituan here, and now that it's been three years, most of them have become senior engineers and senior product managers in major Internet companies, and some of them are already starting their own businesses.
While nothing will, but finally can enter the Internet company, to see the previous can only be seen on the Internet, happy dead, because the dormitory has no network, I do not have the money to do, every day 12 o'clock to bed, 6 o'clock to get up to run to the company, every day to turn over the knowledge base, the intranet to write something to share with others, every day is very happy.
Then the market photography girl to find our group of that handsome guy to take pictures, said the publicity with, he did not do it, so let the stupid cute and cute I took a picture of the headquarters posted more than two years, and now it seems to be out of the way.
After the internship, I stayed.
But I still dawdled in the company dormitory for a few months. Then I couldn't rub it in anymore, and I didn't have any friends to turn to, so I went to the first floor of the Lishui apartment (about 10 square meters) and lived there for three or four months.
The most painful thing at that time was that I couldn't tell whether it was day or night every day, and it almost didn't drive me crazy, but I never wanted to go home, and I loved Beijing.
Then I couldn't afford to live there, after the New Year, that is, in early 2014, I asked people everywhere, and then I heard our group engineer introduce me to the Geological Apartment behind Longde Plaza, and I rented a house, and a big room was only a thousand or so, so I was happy to think about it.
And then later, I found that I could not sink my teeth into the operation and maintenance, and I did not learn better techniques, and I felt that my development was limited in this way, and I struggled for a long time, and I could not sleep every night.
Then another team that serves merchants happened to be short of product managers, and I summoned up a lot of courage to find their boss and say, "Do you think it's okay for me to be a product?"
So I became a product
The sad truth is that I underestimated the skills and responsibilities needed for the product, my brain is relatively stupid, logic is also very poor, time management is also not good, the result is that the product work is always done poorly, during the period of the most serious thing is not more than to the tens of thousands of people with the United States Mission of the business system to get down for one day, almost because of this resignation, for which I am sad! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.
Later, the building where I lived was to be demolished, and the company moved from Beichen to Wangjing, in order to save time commuting to Wangjing, I switched to live in Wangjing, and I only had 200 yuan, and I didn't want to ask for money from my family, so I borrowed 5000 yuan from my boss, and the rent was still short of 300 yuan, and I went to find a classmate and borrowed 500 yuan, so that I didn't starve
Results, the rent only cost me about $10,000, and I was able to pay for the rent with the help of my boss, but I didn't want to pay for the rent. The rent was only 1,000 out of pocket, and the work, though still overtime until 1:00 or 2:00 every day, and still continuing to make all kinds of low-level mistakes, and being scolded every day, gradually began to get better.
But the exciting thing is that I realized that I really love to do the product this position, so I brush all kinds of news every day, buy all the books related to the product, every day to read the things to read before going to bed, in the continuous efforts and the boss's urge the situation has finally got a little better.
I got to know more great people in the company, and because of the good training of Meituan, I often heard all kinds of sharing, and I also met Mr. Ma Zhankai and Mr. Li Xiaolai, whom I have long admired, in person, and my feelings were really indescribable.
Then, for a whole year, my performance was always S (top 5%)
After another year, I thought, "Should I change the industry and continue to do real Internet business?"
So I left Meituan, where I stayed for more than two years, and moved to Sweetwater Park, where I lived in a real city for the first time ......
The room for three people, with a shared bathroom, was pretty nice except for the fact that I couldn't go to the bathroom very often, and it was like 15 square feet.
I saw a brand new industry again, contact with a different business, with the experts in the industry learned a lot of things, in this period I do the product to engage in the operation, and some of their own improvement, the whole day is very happy.
But in fact I know, I can only be regarded as just getting started.
Later, I moved a little bit closer to the company, and I lived in a four-bedroom apartment, but this time I lived in a one-bedroom apartment, and the price was a little bit higher than the previous one, which was a hundred bucks.
This time, because always in Mr. Zhan's public number inside the message, through Mr. Zhan to know a lot of interesting friends, I feel that their horizons and therefore broadened a lot.
This is the most recent move, because a very good friend also came to Beijing, and with unfamiliar people to share a room, it is too much trouble, so I rented a two-bedroom apartment with my friend, and finally live a little decent life, at least you can eat dinner at home.
And then later, I thought, "Should I do better?"
Working with colleagues and experts in the industry behind the learning, non-stop spending money to find connoisseurs to chat, coupled with their own willingness to spend time to study, and now finally began to lead the product operation team, and recently learned some online marketing knowledge, I feel that the horizons of the broadened quite a lot again.
In the three years since I came to Beijing, every photo has some special memories that I can't forget. Thinking back carefully, time has passed without me realizing it, and although I occasionally feel lonely, I haven't had the feeling of drifting outside.
From the birth of hardware, to do the Internet operation and maintenance, to learn the product, then do operation, and now try marketing, I have been in the wild and reckless growth, although sleep deprived all the time, but I have not been very tired, may be in Beijing's work and life is like an open Pandora's box, to give me more surprises and fun it.
Next weekend, I'm going to summarize and share my three years of savage growth as a 23rd birthday gift to my parents, who have been behind me all these years.