Going to work is a waste of time and youth.
I am a serial entrepreneur myself. I have done several Internet projects. I have sold the projects and I work in Alibaba Cloud. I am responsible for the research and development of website building products. Still have a say in this issue.
1. Who is the entrepreneur?
Think about this issue clearly. First of all, we need to clarify what is an entrepreneur. A company may be composed of founders and multiple partners, or founders and co-founders to partners. For another example, companies like Ali have about 30 partners. Are these people collectively called entrepreneurs?
So in a popular sense, an entrepreneur directly refers to the founder or co-founder of a company. As a founder, having the highest decision-making power also has the highest risk. The company's profit and loss and employee wages depend on the founder. Some founders even blocked all their net worth and even borrowed when the company had a shortfall in funds. Once the project failed, they would be burdened with tens of millions of foreign debts. The pressure was beyond ordinary people.
And when it comes to reluctance to return to the company to work after a business failure, most refer to the founder. Such founders are divided into two categories. One category is those who have been starting a business and have never been to work. One type was started after a period of class. The reasons for the two types are different and common.
For entrepreneurs who have never been to work, going to work must be the most difficult. It's like being an animal that grows in the wild since he was a child. Putting him in a cage must be more painful than a person who has been in a cage.
A friend of mine started his own business and became a CEO since graduation. Later, many big companies offered him an olive branch with a million annual salary and stock, but he was still willing to work on his own projects with less money but freedom and comfort.
Therefore, what we should focus on should be those who have been in a class for a period of time, start a business in the middle, and then fail to do so. What should we do?
Second, how many kinds of work do you have?
This part of entrepreneurial failure often has three choices, either to go to work, or change to another project to continue the business, or to become an investor.
The latter two are okay, especially being an investor is the ultimate destination of many successful entrepreneurs, and the first choice is the most difficult to accept, from the boss to the employee, from directing others to being directed by others. The psychological gap will be difficult to alleviate for a while. Going to work is divided into three situations: low-level employees, middle-level employees, and senior managers.
Being a low-level executive, apart from the heavy workload, I don’t have time for myself. Therefore, there is a joke that these people would rather go to deliver express delivery than to work, this is also a common dilemma.
What about mid-level? Relatively speaking, the pressure is relatively small, but the degree of freedom is less controlled, and the experience of being a business helm is lost, and I have to get off work normally from 9 to 9 every day. At the same time, compared with the investigation of ability when starting a business, whether it is improved or improved, the gain is extremely declining.
It is better to be a high-level person. This kind of situation is rare, but it is also true. As a kind of self-cultivation, it is also a good choice to restore the damage of entrepreneurship. Like my current colleague, Uncle Tian, who is in charge of Alibaba Cloud's website construction and operation, is one of them, and he has entered the age of confidence.
I was tired after 7 years of starting a business and 7 years of floating abroad. Nowadays, it is more to grow up with her daughter. Therefore, for such people, finding a big factory to stay steadily does not have such a big psychological barrier to return to work. Because it is just a more rational thinking and choice, that is, the way to make a living.
Three, the real reason for unwilling to go to work
Work is not equal to work. In the Baidu Post Bar of "Qiang Qiang", a certain netizen described the definition of "work" and "work" very appropriately.
[Going to work] = those young people and middle-aged people with ordinary family background and no special talents who are reluctant, reluctant, passive, and purely in order not to be stigmatized as "unemployed" Things. "Hooking up" is the common mentality of office workers. Because their income is not high, but they cannot live without this income, the proportion of patients with "anxiety disorders" is relatively high. This is in countries where there are more wolves and less meat and more competitive minds. The most obvious. Of course, there are some people because of inertia (getting used to it), and they don't have high demands on life, so "fun days" are the best days for them.
[Work] = It is done by people who are positive, not just for not being discriminated against by others as unemployed, who have goals and can combine their own abilities, who want to realize their own value in their work and can enjoy it thing.
Correspondingly, there are also a lot of popular phrases on the Internet, such as
"There are always 30 days a month that I don't want to go to work."
"There is no skilled person who sells his time in exchange for money."
"Going to work is a waste of time and youth."
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What is straightforward is that the ROI is too low, which can be proved by the widely cited book "I Live at the Bottom". Workers at the bottom give their bodies and time to capitalists in exchange for income, and the income in exchange is immediately consumed by rent and other consumer goods. In order to ensure uninterrupted income, they cannot bear the salary of this restaurant, and they devote themselves to another place where the environment is worse. The restaurant, only to get the more than a dozen dollars each month.
It is essentially the same as the current office workers, who go to work just to make a living. Not only earning little money, but low returns, but also endless, meaningful and meaningless work and entertainment, always in a busy and poor state. Uncontrollable timetables and schedules are physical consumption and spiritual Hollowed out. In addition, there is a high degree of organization that is often suffocating, as if a martial arts master is shackled and unable to perform his skills. Entrepreneurship has become the best way to get out of this state.
Therefore, it is difficult for workers who have started a business to return to the company to work.
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I hope that today’s sharing is helpful to you. If you have any questions about cloud computing and website building, you can privately trust me. I am Bei Ke, a master's degree in CS (Computer Science) from Cornell University, and a serial entrepreneur. I am currently working in the R&D team of Alibaba Cloud AI intelligent website construction technology as a senior algorithm engineer. Welcome to pay attention.