Build a second career and be more confident in the face of workplace crises
In his spare time, he will chat with friends about the workplace crisis of middle-aged people. For a friend who is 40 this year, from his point of view, for a middle-aged 40-year-old who has initially completed capital accumulation, the age of 30 is really a very difficult and crisis-filled stage. The reason is that the age of 30 is a stage when it is necessary to balance family and work, but many people completely rely on work. Once they lose or stop their work, their career and life will be a mess. Oops. These people usually have no financial reserves and a single income model. To this end, the safer way is to reserve two or more professional skills. Especially when your current job has no room for breakthroughs, it is necessary to start learning another knowledge and skill. At this time, 30-year-old professionals also need to plan a second career or even a third career for themselves when planning their careers.
More and more people are not satisfied with the income brought by their jobs, and want to experience the fun outside their main business. When I passed on the idea of a second career to other young friends, I found that I was still at the conceptual level, but they had actually started their second career. Some friends work as a financial advisor in CBD during the day, and then go to learn yoga, get a yoga certificate, and turn into a yoga teacher after get off work. Some are just ordinary office workers in a cubicle at ordinary times, but on weekends they become literary and artistic workers who make money from photography and writing. In addition, my job is HR of an Internet company, and my second occupation is a famous online knowledge celebrity. I write articles on Zhihu and answer various questions about human resources, psychology, and career planning. They change their occupational identities and use different occupational skills to make money. Many side jobs are more profitable than their main jobs.
To plan a second career, two issues must be considered: one is the time arrangement, whether your life will affect your further study; the other is the choice, what is suitable for you, what do you want to do, whether you are interested, and can stick to it for a long time .
The first step to a side hustle: Find time!
If you want to do a side business, the first step you need to do is to find a way to find time for yourself. There is no time to prepare and execute, no matter how high the ability, no matter how good the idea is, it can only be reduced to delusion. Regarding wanting to do a side business, but there is no time, there are often the following situations:
One is that he is busy with work and has a lot of work content.
One is that although the intensity of the work is not large, it takes a long time.
One is a lot of chores, usually go to get off work, need to do housework after work, take care of the elderly, help children with homework, etc.
One is laziness and procrastination, which can squeeze out time, but are unwilling to sacrifice time for rest and play to learn and execute.
You can see what kind of situation you belong to. Different situations require different responses. But the general method is to examine the current work, and then hand over the work that you don’t like and that has little impact on your career development to others, or simply reduce your work intensity, so that you can save a part of it. time.
I have a friend who is a teacher of an English training class. In addition to giving lectures in the company, he also takes care of making courseware for teachers. He knew that with his own ability, if he taught English in this company, no matter how good he was, he would just bring in a few more students, and the chances of promotion were not great. So, he planned to use his spare time to do a side business and share it on the Internet, but he was too busy with his work, so he discussed with his boss and handed over the work of producing the lecture courseware to others. In this way, cutting off part of the work will not affect your own career development, but will also give yourself some time to seek new opportunities.
As for the second career, where to start and choose from? There are two options, one is something you are very interested in yourself. "Interest" can provide you with sufficient motivation, and you can persist for a long time before you really get paid. Secondly, the second occupation can also be found from the related industries of the original occupation, such as the upstream and downstream supply chains of products, such as the relationship chain between Party A and Party B.
First of all, we need to think clearly, what is the purpose of finding a second career? make money? Or enrich yourself? Or what ambitious goals to achieve? Note that this purpose should be specific, such as making money, how much money to make, an annual increase of 50,000, 100,000 or more? At the same time, the goal is to look farther. How long can this thing be done? Try to focus on the feasibility of Apple in five years, ten years. Of course, you have to be mentally prepared to gain something. You must pay some price, such as time for rest, time for entertainment, and even some time to spend with your family. Do you think you can accept this price? A pay and a gain, you must pay before you get what you get.
Combining your hobbies with work is an excellent development direction. Many people do not like their existing jobs. They may have chosen this job out of frustration or for other reasons. Now, if they want to develop their side business, they can first consider their preferences. Careers are used to support oneself, while side jobs are usually developed from one's own hobbies.
Some people have searched all over themselves, but haven't found their hobbies, and they are not interested in those piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but this does not mean that there is no direction to develop a second career, for example, they like to go out to play. , I like to travel, I can photograph and record the scenery along the way while traveling, and vote for the magazine to become a part-time writer. Those who like to visit Taobao seem to be spending money on hobbies, and they also have their own way of development. You can open a Taobao online store and sell some of your favorite clothing, food, etc. Interests and hobbies are not limited to those talents that are well-known by everyone. All roads lead to Rome. As long as you start to take steps, the road ahead will not be difficult to find.
It seems easier to find a second occupation through the related industries of the original occupation. For example, if you can play the piano, you can work part-time as a teacher in an art training center, or as a piano sales agent. For example, if you study finance and accounting, you can part-time help small businesses with accounting. It takes more time and there are too many uncertainties.
- List the specific action steps to achieve this goal and arrange them in chronological order. Some steps need to be refined as detailed as possible. Give each step a deadline so that you can follow up on your progress more clearly and make it easier for you to summarize feedback.
Of course, we do not advocate abandoning your own job. Since you have already chosen your first career, you should not forget your original intention and make a good start. Holding a perfunctory attitude, wanting to be lazy and slippery while taking the salary and spending all the time on developing your second career, it is better to resign as soon as possible. Not only will the boss not tolerate such an attitude, but it is also impossible for you to achieve amazing results in other fields with this attitude. When you have multiple jobs, you need to better balance work and life in all aspects, which is also a challenge to your personal ability. Are you ready for this double life?