The article “Mid-life crisis at the age of 35” has been widely circulated among Internet professionals’ circle of friends. Reading this popular article, not only I, but also many product managers and practitioners around me are reflecting on the existence of our industry, just as the article said: 35 years old will be a watershed or even a gap.
It’s hard to jump ship because you’re too old
It’s hard to leave because you have a mortgage and a car payment
Stability is difficult because there is a new crop of young people coming in
Do you want to XX… Because…….
Forget 35. Look at you now. Have you planned your career? Avoid midlife crises at 35.
Reflecting on your career after a few years of your product.
Once I also asked myself, without work, there is a way to earn ten thousand a month?
Looking back, the answer is: I did
As the title says, how do you earn more than 10,000 yuan a month besides working?
“In addition to work” refers to the salary you receive for each month you work, or the benefits you receive in your organization from your job.
“Work makes you happy, work keeps you happy” is the kind of text we punch in our moments after work.
What are 99% of us fighting for in our society? In fact, according to the classification of Maslow’s life theory, the purpose of human struggle is five different needs from the basic to the high
We have moved into a society where physical needs are not so difficult. Countless of our jobs are actually based on biological needs of the class.
Besides income, work can also bring good results, which can be given to the team and the enterprise. In the end, we are all in the same boat to achieve the success of the enterprise, so choosing good jobs and opportunities may also enable us to realize our self-needs (self-worth).
According to the method of “hard work may bring good harvest”, everyone knows that studying and working after graduation is the easiest way to do, but the final result is difficult to achieve.
Every day after work, Kevin would spend about an hour sorting out recent work cases or interesting hot spot analysis. One hour is not long and not short. I have been doing it for three years now, and I have insisted on it almost every day.
In addition to the above, I will also have some habits in life: such as daily fitness, weekly swimming. Try to make the time of life pie chart, gradually 24 hours a day for me, no regrets.
If I set 1 to 3 small goals for myself every year, then the 24-hour schedule can also be regarded as the dismantling of small goals.
This is a time management example I keep for myself. How much time do you give yourself after work each day to complete your “little world”?
Some students will say that I will leave time for myself to write diary after work, time for myself to play piano and so on. But I want to emphasize that your “little world” will give you a sense of grounding. In the future, there will be value in “small worlds” that will allow you to escape the pressures of physical demands in real life.
For me, I stick to two original posts a week and spend an average of one hour a day on such product circles. So for you, what’s outside of work? If you don’t have one, you can try it. Take the time you need to build on the skills or abilities you can do, and you can make more than $10,000 a month.
First of all, it is impossible to earn ten thousand a month without working.
Whether we work in the corporate world or in our own “little world”. We all need to work, but the work here is still the same as the enterprise, Internet people for specific product design, operation, development and other directions, but different from work, the work here is you take the initiative to do.
If you are in business, you can try the following example. The most famous operation circle of in-depth operation selection, three classes, starting point college, etc., they are the platform to start operation. Operation students can always find some hot spots to leverage countless users, plus advertising income, operation knowledge and skills teaching monthly income is able to do. Several of my operational classmates are working full-time on their own operational content.
Whether it is we media or content advertising, someone once said: “Standing on the tuyere, pigs will fly”. Content platform and knowledge of the rise of the tuyere, so that the first batch, the second batch of content operators taste fresh.
As long as your content is valuable and you have enough cases to show. There will always be people who need it, and by linking to your content platform, you can not only help them get their first cash out of work faster, but also influence them to spread it to as many people as possible.
In my case, I set up my own product case sharing circle in my spare time. During the process of product sharing, I found that many product newbies were always looking for “reliable” cases and “real” product teachers.
Coincidentally, I happen to be able to provide them with some answers and choices in their work. The content I share is linked to the product manager’s upstream and downstream partners. Upstream and downstream tools to help product managers have been deployed to product salons across the country.
As such, I am a product mentor and a content producer in the product community outside of work. I gradually decided to keep producing content in this “small circle”. Three years passed, in October this year, my first book “from Zero to One” was published, and I successfully realized tens of thousands of monthly income.
A book for yourself and product people: from zero to one
That’s my story. It’s so simple, it seems like every ordinary person can do it. Just like the name of the official account, if we can’t become a “pig” of the tuyere, we can choose to cultivate our own soil bit by bit and finally harvest the fruits.
Up to today, MY e-books have sold more than 3,000 copies. More than 1,000 people paid to watch the course.
Course Address:
Background products, 1 case | a month 500 product managers
Finally, this post is not intended to encourage you to make your first paycheck outside of work. Instead, I want you to recognize a problem.
When you are old. Is it possible to avoid the opening question: “I worry about XX because XX.”
This post is for those of you who are struggling to find a way forward in your career and are worried about losing your job. If you’re struggling with this, imagine your 35-year-old self looking at yourself and saying, “Do a little more now, maybe I’ll be less tired.”
Maybe you will change from today…….
As Internet practitioners, we can face the hot spots and new industry opportunities in the first time. A good little program, for example, may lead to the first round of financing, but someone else is tinkering with it outside of work.
I suggest that product people should make their work more than just work. Internet people, whether they are product or operation students, have their own skills to turn the fun daily scenes in life into Internet. Even if it’s a simple essay, the skills you use on the job can actually be used on a daily basis.
For example, the product manager not only researches his company’s competitive products at work, but also discovers possible scenarios in life, such as taxi-hailing and take-out, and spends his spare time agonizing over products in such scenarios.
Maybe you can produce a better demo that gets first users, second users.
After all, for Internet practitioners, especially wechat small program. A front-end developer, a product manager, a designer, and a full-fledged demo are ready to land. It doesn’t take long, but once it becomes a hit, it may be able to enter the capital market.
Keep in mind what skills your current job brings to you and whether you should continue to develop those skills outside of work. This way, you can also avoid the burden of being 35.
Well, that’s it for today’s share. I will write two original articles a week
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