• Key words: Trend

Around 2003, BAT was still a little-known start-up company. Although there were pioneers like Google, eBay and ICQ abroad, the business model of these companies at that time had not yet taken shape, and they were not regarded as promising in their advanced business mode. Even Little Brother Ma was ready to sell QQ to Shenzhen Telecom at a price of 1 million yuan. Therefore, when Veteran Brother graduated from graduate school in 2005, the preferred employer of most of our classmates was a traditional giant in the pan-IT field, while a few students who failed to join a traditional giant chose BAT. But just ten years time, great changes have taken place in the IT industry, at the beginning of the effect of choice of life is very big, the BAT stick students to obtain the material rewards more than expected, in the process of rapid development in the company also have more growth opportunities and space, to a higher stage on the site, see a bigger world. Homeopathic chang, the situation is always stronger than people, in front of rolling forward, irresistible trend, the power of the individual is really very small.

  • Key words: direction

Around 2003, apart from traditional IT giants such as Microsoft, IBM and Oracle, the hottest industry was telecommunications, when mobile phones began to fly into the homes of ordinary people. Great Dragon Communications, Datang Telecom, ZTE and Huawei Technologies, referred to as “Great China” for short, are the most popular employers among graduates. Many of our classmates graduated from the same class went to ZTE and Huawei. Around 2007, rapid rise of the Internet enterprises, in order to follow the traditional giants for talent, they started to send stock options, which reversed transmission traditional giants have to launch a long-term incentive mechanism, core backbone talents apartment, zte to huawei to core backbone with internal stock, as long as the service contract number in the company, all the rights and interests of employees. Those of us who have persevered in the project have earned good profits. Although ZTE’s development is not as good as Huawei’s, the growth rate of housing price in Shenzhen is not worse than that of Huawei’s internal shares. Many students who have obtained talent apartments have also bought commercial houses. As long as it’s in the right direction, it pays off.

  • Key words: stop loss

Yu ‘ebao, which was put into operation in June 2013, opened the prelude of Internet finance. Around 2015, Internet financial innovation has reached a very hot degree, especially the rise of P2P (Peer to Peer) online loan business. Numerous online loan companies, large and small, have been established across the country, among which there are many platform unicorn companies with strong background and strong capital. Veteran brother’s friend M joined a well-known Internet financial company in Shanghai in that year. His salary was above average, but the key was that the company gave him considerable options. From the media, I occasionally see reports that this company has completed a new round of financing and its valuation has skyrocketed. I heard from my friend M that it plans to go public at the end of 2018. May not have thought, P2P network lending industry has been exposed to a number of money running away events, industry regulation is constantly tightening, friend M company’s business plummeted, the listing plan is also stranded. Two days ago, my friend M told me that he had resigned and changed his job. The option that could not be cashed was just a piece of paper.

  • Key words: search

My friend W, veteran brother’s former colleague, is also a good friend to chat with. We were both optimistic about the mobile Internet industry and joined the same company around the time Apple released the first iPhone. The pay package was more than average, but we both drew a big pie for ourselves, hoping to ride this trend to pay off the mortgage. However, limited by personal cognition and vision, we finally found that what we were holding was not ma Liang’s magic brush. After leaving the previous company, my friend W did his homework and joined Ali. However, Ali had not yet incubated new growth points at that time, and the appreciation space of options was limited. Considering that his work place was too far away from home, he did not stay long and joined Tencent. In the following three years, he often worked overtime with young people, but the slow development of the business line led to mediocre performance, and he never got any options. However, with the development of Internet finance, Ali hatched ant Financial. Taking advantage of the attractive recruitment conditions at that time, he made a quick decision to jump in, and this big pie is just around the door.

The above stories are real experiences of veteran brother or friends around him. It’s nice to see that friends can make their first bucket of money with the help of the trend. After all, having a few rich friends is not a bad thing! Veteran brother, I can only live on my own, buy a house by myself, buy stocks by myself, still on the road to pursue my dream up and down. However, after years of research, I still feel the strong trend, from communication and telecommunications to mobile Internet, and then to cloud computing, and now I am engaged in fintech related work. I still follow the industry trend. While constantly updating my skill tree, I accumulated a wealth of up-to-date practices and got a good salary return. Looking back, these experiences have made me more and more convinced that one’s destiny, of course, depends on one’s own efforts, but one should also consider the process of history. For ordinary people like you and me, it is not only necessary to do well, but also to marry well. Sometimes direction is more important than speed, choice is more important than effort.

Of course, in addition to trend, direction and choice, personal struggle is also very important, without the struggle may not even have the opportunity to choose. It’s just that it’s easy to fall into the trap of disguting strategic laziness with tactical diligence, walking with our heads down, rarely looking up at where we’re going, and never taking the time and effort to learn how to make choices. Miss BAT, whether to miss the world? In fact, BAT still enjoys a strong momentum of development. It is common to see readers in BAT wholeheartedly join the company. Although they fail in many interviews, they still persist for six months or one year until they succeed in the job interview. In addition to the BAT, IT emerged in the IT industry jingdong, headlines, Meituan and drops and many other unicorns, even in the field and is generally think that didn’t have a chance to fight the millet, a lot of spelling and other giants, including cloud computing, big data over the years, chain blocks, artificial intelligence, finance, science and technology, 5 g, the Internet of things such as meadow, in fact, the last thing we lack of opportunity, What’s missing is the ability to identify it and catch it.

Choice, very important! But there’s always a risk in any choice, there’s always the possibility of making the wrong choice, and even the father horses themselves don’t know they can make such a big career. What you and I can do is to learn from each choice and reduce the probability of making a wrong choice. Less money, more money and closer to home may be what most of us define as a good job, but do those criteria really filter it out? When submitting your resume, are you randomly selecting, or are you actively selecting? When receiving multiple offers, do you completely follow the advice of your friends and family, or do you make your own decisions and choose the one that suits you best? Should you make a move when your current job is facing a bottleneck challenge, an outside temptation, or a company in a period of frequent change?

A few days ago, VETERAN elder brother wrote a series of articles based on the consultation of readers, sorting out the job screening criteria from the dimensions of industry, type of capital, equity structure, company size, business type, length and return, and also discussed and answered the following questions:

  • Put down roots in an industry, or jump ship to a hot one?
  • How to package your strengths when changing jobs across industries?
  • State-owned enterprise, private enterprise, foreign capital, which Style is more suitable for me?
  • Join a startup, why should pay attention to the ownership structure?
  • Can you tell me how to choose between large and small companies?
  • 2C\2B, what does a business model have to do with getting a job?
  • Which tastes better, stock options or Ann’s salary?
  • … .

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