Chapter 27 Part Four: The Seven-Year Itch in the Workplace

Dear Teacher Xu: I desperately need your help and guidance. I am 28 years old, from Kunming, and I am from the same hometown as Meng Ruoyun, the Danish princess in your book.After graduating from a junior college, he participated in post-graduate study after working and obtained a bachelor's degree certificate.Currently working in Yunnan Branch of China Construction Bank, he has successively obtained the qualifications of Chinese Certified Public Accountant and Chinese Certified Assets Appraiser.Although the college entrance examination was a nightmare for me, after working, I studied hard and worked hard, from the most basic savings bank of Yunnan Construction Bank to the branch office.

Since graduating from junior college, I have been working for seven full years.At present, I am faced with the choice of whether to go abroad, the reasons are as follows: 1. There is no background in work, and it is very difficult to be promoted recently, and the career development is facing a bottleneck; 2. Age is facing a turning point; 3. I hope to change my development track and achieve a breakthrough in life by studying abroad and going to the UK; main problem: 1. English level 6, IELTS level close to 6 points (have not yet taken the test), English preparation needs 1 year; 2. Worried about losing many opportunities in the process of preparing to go abroad and going through the procedures; 3. Worried about studying abroad after going abroad Come back, the opportunity is gone.

Now I am at a loss, not knowing whether my choice of going abroad is right or wrong, and how to achieve breakthroughs and transcendence in my life.I don't have much time left, I hope you can give me some guidance in your busy schedule. your readers Dear Kunming CCB: First of all, I would like to congratulate you on your achievements: As a person with no background and only a college degree, you have been working all the way to the most central department of your unit in the past seven years after graduation. In any case, this is a success story in the professional field.Warm congratulations!

1. Analysis of your strengths 1. You are a down-to-earth and dedicated person.Down-to-earth professionalism is the most needed and lacking quality for contemporary youth, and it is also the most precious quality to ensure everyone's success and happiness. 2. You are a studious person.Moreover, your study has a clear practical purpose.Through your studies, you have obtained the qualifications of Chinese Certified Public Accountant and Chinese Certified Assets Appraiser.This is the triumph of youth, a remarkable achievement. 3. You are a restless person.This is another valuable advantage of you. It is the source of motivation for you to keep improving while doing a good job in the work at hand over the years, and to ensure that you will continue to improve and achieve greater development.Restlessness and down-to-earth professionalism are not contradictory.The more dedicated people are, the more restless they may be.Because the purpose of dedication is for the development of "career", to pursue a higher position, win higher remuneration, and obtain more opportunities.A person who is dedicated but content with the status quo is a mediocre person.He could die a natural death in one position.Although there are many such people, in this era full of opportunities, we should actually be vigilant—be wary of forgetting or even deliberately giving up the bright sunshine and fresh air outside the window, forgetting or even deliberately giving up the great world when we are working hard. wonderful life and beautiful fantasy.

Professionalism and the pursuit of development, down-to-earth and dreaming of the future, are a pair of contradictory communities, just like loving couples: they fight just to reconcile; they reconcile just to fight. 2. Analysis of your dilemma "There is no background at work, it is very difficult to be promoted recently, and the career development is facing a bottleneck". You do face bottlenecks in development and advancement.One of the foundations of happiness in life is a developable employment.Here, employment is the bottom line, and development is an additional condition.In general institutions, mainly in state-owned enterprises and government departments, the promotion and promotion of an employee requires some background and connections, or relatively special abilities and means.Background and relationship are more difficult to create out of nothing, but ability and means are the only things that young people who lack social resources can add to themselves!

People write to me looking for solutions to similar annoyances.The question is, where is the root of the trouble?The root of the troubles lies in the fact that in the state-run institutions that have such troubles, their productivity does not conform to the Three Represents, and it is not the advanced productivity determined by the advanced production relations.In an organization that does not represent the future and does not keep pace with the times, no matter how hard you work, how can you have a future and develop? Corruption, bankruptcy, brain drain, overstaffing, extremely low efficiency, bad debts, and the tragedy of the life development of young people like you are the helpless reality of countless state-owned enterprises.

Institutions are people, and people are institutions.As long as you step out of your position, you will see that your confusion and pain are actually the confusion of an era; your pain is actually rooted in the pain of yesterday. This is a digression, but it is of great significance. Therefore, when young people choose jobs, they should try their best to choose those employment places that represent advanced corporate culture, and choose companies where the value of talents is fully marketized, so as to ensure their future development. Therefore, I encourage you to work in units that represent advanced productivity.Such units include new state-owned enterprises that have undergone transformation like Lenovo; private companies with a capital structure like Minsheng Securities;

With your background, your age, your ability and all the qualifications you have, it is a good time to enter those new institutions to seek greater development! 3. Planning your life According to your situation, I support you to study abroad, study finance in the UK or Australia, and study a master's degree related to finance for no more than two years.By studying abroad, you can complete a big jump in life and transfer to the new types of finance and related institutions mentioned above. The so-called degrees and institutions related to finance, I think you know this better than me.In the financial industry, there are countless specializations that require specific qualifications.For example: accounting, auditing, insurance, credit, wealth management, securities, investment banking, CA, CGA, CMA, CPA, CFO, ABCD, EFG, HIJK, LMNOP... (Sorry, the following letters are made up by me to show the type and Opportunities abound!).

The reason I'm kidding you is because there are far more career opportunities happening around us and rushing towards us every day than these acronyms!If a person doesn't even know what opportunities exist in his own field, how can he immediately dig out and quickly occupy the gold and diamonds of life? One day in the heart, thousands of years in the world!This is the glory and dream of China Opportunity! Studying abroad for opportunities in China, your time is ripe, you can sound the charge and attack boldly.North American educational institutions, from universities to elementary schools, have a system called "sabbatical leave" for teachers. (Sabbatical means rest every seven days).The characteristic of this system is to encourage every professor or teacher to take one year off every seven years, stay paid and suspend, and go to the place he likes for further study and study, so as to update knowledge and replenish spiritual nutrition.

Sabbatical leave, advanced study every seven days, is a system established for the constant development of professionals.This system is similar to the so-called seven year itch that describes the weakness of human nature.You have worked here for exactly seven years, and it is both human and professional to leave work to recharge your batteries and change your emotions and thinking.Since the system does not give you this opportunity, create it for yourself!This is in line with the law of sustainable development of life!It must be done quickly! Sabbatical leave--give yourself a chance to recharge, add value, update, and replace.

4. Prediction of your risk of studying abroad The reason why studying abroad has formed a social atmosphere, and the reason why many people are crazy and "unconscious", the root cause is actually the great progress and huge gains brought by studying abroad to talents.Studying abroad is like a carp jumping through the dragon's gate. After a thrilling jump, it will be a prosperous future. However, the key to flying around is: are you fully prepared before this fatal jump?The carp jumps over the dragon's gate, after all you have to be a carp.If you are not prepared enough, you are just a loach, but after a hard jump, you may turn into an eel.Then the dragon is not the dragon, the phoenix is ​​not the phoenix, the fish is not the fish, and the snake is not the snake.That's bad. You are right to be concerned about the risks to your future studying abroad.I have seen many people who went bankrupt and came back from studying abroad, and took an unsatisfactory salary in an unsatisfactory position. They lamented every day that if they did not study abroad, their income would not be less than now!I think you are also afraid of this happening.However, those losers in the domestic employment competition and career field after studying abroad often have a common feature: lack of industry experience before and after going abroad-and because of the lack of industry experience, studying abroad is easy to be aimless, and they have not obtained the ability to solve specific problems. genuine talent. Your experience is already sufficient, and there is no risk caused by inexperience in the industry.Your English is also good enough.Now that you have developed your life, the most important thing you need to do is to try to absorb the experience and wisdom of the world, and come back to continue to pursue your career development in the industry.You should go abroad boldly and without fear of risk. Carp, you jump the dragon gate boldly.Jumping through the dragon gate, regardless of your own safety, behind the dragon gate is the future! congratulations! Xu Xiaoping