A friend used to work as a front-end developer in a top 100 company. He worked diligently for five years and was highly appreciated by his leaders and was promoted to middle management.
In the third month after becoming management, the group parachuted in someone to take his place.
Facing the new leader, he felt very unconvinced; facing his colleagues, he looked like everyone was laughing at him.
At the same time, the leader assigned him a new business line.
The new business is in the exploratory stage and there are no performance rewards, which means his income will drop sharply.
During that time, he was having a hard time going to work every day.
After enduring it for a month, he submitted his resignation to the company.
He originally thought that with his previous work experience, it would not be a problem to find a job with similar pay.
Reality gave him a loud slap in the face, and all the resumes he submitted for two consecutive months fell into the dust.
I finally found a job, but neither the resources nor the treatment were comparable to those of my previous company.
Moreover, his colleagues like to cuddle together, so he is naturally excluded as a newbie.
At this time, he realized that he should not have resigned hastily.
Resigning during a trough period is just like a relationship gap period. You haven’t fully recovered from the previous relationship, and you are anxious for a seamless transition. There is a high probability that you will make the same mistakes again.
Many people think that if you move a tree, you will die, but if you move a person, you will live.
If you are not happy at work in one company, your situation will improve when you move to the next company.
In fact, 99% of the problems encountered at work cannot be solved by resigning.
There is no perfect job in this world, and there is never a job that is meant to be enjoyed.
If you feel that the work pressure is too high and you are not competent, the next company will not lower its standards and let you make money just by letting you sit down.
If you meet a colleague you don’t like, there will still be people in the next company who will confront you tit for tat.
Leaving a job during a trough period is nothing more than jumping from one pit into another.
I read a post called “Every time I encounter difficulties at work, I want to quit and escape.”
The poster found a job after graduation but chose to escape because he was not qualified.
Later, she changed two jobs one after another, and both resigned for the same reason.
“When you encounter a problem and don’t want to solve it, you just run away from it. Then you will encounter the same problem in your future work.”
The weak avoid problems, the strong solve problems, and the wise eliminate problems.
After graduating from university, the corporate trainer was assigned to a training position by the company by accident and was required to give a speech.
She was an introvert and had never spoken in public.
In the beginning, she was scolded so badly by her leader that she often hid in the toilet and cried.
During that time, she felt aggrieved, and anxious, and had a low sense of self-worth.
She also wanted to leave, but she was unwilling to give up so easily.
To write a satisfactory speech, she will consider every word and work overtime until she is the last one to leave the company.
When she got home, she recorded her speech on her mobile phone, found out her shortcomings, and conducted targeted training.
To overcome her fear of crowds, she even pulled up a speaker and ran to the square to speak in front of the crowd.
Soon, her speaking ability was greatly improved, and she was promoted to department manager a year after becoming a full-time employee.
Changing swimming pools cannot solve the problem of being unable to swim. For some problems, it is better to practice in place.
Everyone will encounter problems of one kind or another at work.
If you get through it, your business capabilities will improve by leaps and bounds; if you beg for mercy and escape, you will be stuck where you are.
The financial writer Taleb once proposed two states of life in “Antifragility”:
The first type of person becomes like a glass ball when encountering something unsatisfactory. Once it falls to the ground, it will shatter into pieces;
Another kind of person will be like a rubber ball. Not only will it not break when dropped on the ground, but it will bounce higher.
Facing various challenges at work, only by enduring the pressure can we achieve results.
Let me share with you my outlook on work, which can be summed up in eight words: do your best before giving up.
Whenever I get into trouble at work and want to give up, I ask myself: Have you done your best? If not, then you are not worthy of giving up.
Therefore, when facing a tough period in the workplace, you might as well ask yourself: Have I tried my best?
If not, then please try harder, you still have a lot of room for improvement.
Some people compare people who are at a low point in their work to trees.
When a person is at a trough, it is the best time to take root.
The deeper the roots are, the better they can withstand the attacks of violent storms.
Those who have achieved success in their work have always spent the long trough period silently accumulating strength and cultivating themselves.
Work is like climbing a hill, don’t get discouraged even if you hit rock bottom.
Because when you’re at the bottom, no matter which direction you go, it’s all uphill.
Instead of escaping reality by resigning, it is better to cultivate your abilities and continuously increase your bargaining chips.
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“Don’t change jobs when you’re at the bottom, but when you’re at the peak. Only when you’re at the top and are high-spirited will you have the energy to jump further?
If you are at a trough, your mentality will be depressed and your ideas will be restricted. If you just give some money or a position, you may jump, and you will jump lower and lower. “
When you encounter a slump at work, remember adversity as training before transformation, calm down, and work hard.
You have to believe that when you run towards the moon, the moon is also running towards you.
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