Why is choosing a boss more important than choosing a job opportunity?
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A friend of a professional elite faced a very tangled problem. He consulted Lao Wang and said that he has encountered a problem now: a company offers you a monthly salary of 100,000, but the boss's reputation seems to be bad; another company gives you The monthly salary is 60,000, but the boss has a good reputation and is willing to share it with employees. The question is, which one should you choose as your next stop in your career?
This is indeed a problem, a very real problem. Faced with this question, Lao Wang could not give him the answer directly. He told him that Cai Chongxin gave up his job with a monthly salary of 500,000 yuan and came to Hangzhou alone and joined Alibaba with a monthly salary of 500 yuan. why? Lao Wang believes that there are many job opportunities, but there are very few bosses who can give you dreams and realize them; very few can realize their dreams and share them with employees. Cai Chongxin did this because of a good boss like Jack Ma. It can also be said that Jack Ma does not have the help of Cai Chongxin, and everyone does not necessarily know that Alibaba exists; and Cai Chongxin does not have the vision of Ma Yun to discover Maxima, and he can only live in a foreign company with an annual salary of millions and tens of millions, and he will never be like now. In the same way, it has become the goal pursued by the elites in the workplace. These are mutually fulfilling processes.
Back to the real problem, Lao Wang advises the elites in the workplace:
If you think of work as a job to survive, choose a high-paying opportunity, because you don't know what the future will look like.
If you regard work as a kind of dream, you can choose a relatively low-paying job, because what you choose is a kind of dream and future.
In the workplace, there is no opportunity to have both fish and bear's paw at the same time.
Let's go back to the topic and analyze why choosing a boss is more important than choosing a job opportunity?
With the development of the economy, coupled with the era of entrepreneurship and innovation, there are many opportunities for everyone, and each one is more attractive, but how many real opportunities are there?
In today's impetuous society, everyone has an entrepreneurial heart, and everyone wants to achieve financial freedom. And now it is even more cruel, the probability of a real entrepreneurial success is one in ten thousand. This is also what Lao Wang said we face almost a lot, but there are too few real good opportunities, and many opportunities for career development are traps.
The next question is, how to choose a company with such a low probability of success in starting a business? Lao Wang's answer is that the core of choosing an enterprise is to choose a boss. If you take this step wrong, you will truly lose all the opportunities in your life.
Why does Lao Wang say that you will really lose all the opportunities in your life? Let's think about it. Suppose we graduate at the age of 22, and some graduate at the age of 25 (three years for graduate students). After the age of 45, we have not developed very well, and have not achieved the core level. That is to say, after the age of 45, your career It's the end of it. In fact, our professional age is less than 20 years.
Suppose you are a fresh graduate and the first 3 years after graduation did not go well. It can also be said that your future career development will face a lot of ups and downs;
Suppose you are a professional, you choose a company for your second or third job, and it goes bankrupt in less than two years. During the official two-year working time, your career development will be deducted instead of added. . Let's think about it, your two-year career development is a step backward, while the career development of those who graduated at the same time as you is forward, you want to surpass others, there is no chance. Don't forget, you work hard, others work harder than you.
If you do not choose a good boss in the development of the workplace, for you, it will be a waste of your youth, and wasting your youth is equivalent to suicide. Instead of wasting youth and life, it is better to choose a good boss, develop together, and realize our dreams. Or you choose to start your own business and give the opportunity to help yourself and others achieve their dreams. Writing this, Lao Wang thought of a suggestion from an expert to Lao Wang. You can't let others become your confidants, you have to become others' confidants. This is also the process of mutual selection in the workplace.
The mentality of some bosses is that they have raised funds anyway, and it doesn’t matter whether they succeed or fail. Anyway, they sell some old stocks or have income from other conveniences, which is enough for them to spend ten years. Workplace friends, if you encounter such a boss, quickly hit the wall and die. Because you are too blind to choose a good boss. Don't forget, when the boss is interviewing you, you are also interviewing the boss, which is a two-way selection process.
Alright, let’s summarize, Pharaoh believes that there are many opportunities in society, but most of them are pseudo-opportunities. When you want to change jobs for career development, the first choice is the boss, and the second is the salary. If you haven't met a good boss, but please choose a high-paying opportunity, it's only fair to you.