From the tearful talk about "Awkwardness and Confusion of a Middle-aged Android Development" in the middle of last year, to the end of the year JD.com abolished 10% of its executives, and then a sudden layoff of the famous pension unit Oracle, "35-year-old crisis", "middle-aged" The term "unemployment" has begun to overwhelm.
"Internet companies can not tolerate 35-year-old female employee"
, "middle-aged house and a car of the best bully"
, "middle-aged people can easily call the workplace"
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The harsh but true facts show everyone that the workplace of middle-aged people is perilous, and the middle-aged people suddenly fall into anxiety and panic.
Looking around, more and more post-90s and post-95s have stepped into the workforce as the main force, while those middle-aged people over 35 have become increasingly embarrassed.
Where did the middle-aged people who disappeared in the workplace go?
Let us first look at the following examples:
Changing careers in middle age is the helplessness of life
Ms. Y 36-year-old company changed to sell insurance
In the past two days, I heard from colleagues complain that a leader of her former company had been asking her for dinner every other day. On the surface, he asked her to help with user surveys, but in fact he wanted to promote insurance.
It turned out that the leader was optimized when the company was in a bad situation, and then somehow switched to selling insurance. A colleague who was not very familiar with her, she was very disgusted by the WeChat greetings every two days, telling her about the benefits of insurance products from time to time.
At first, everyone didn’t understand the matter of her changing career, but perhaps it was the embarrassment of a middle-aged person in the workplace. Many people could not find a suitable job after a salary cut. They had to work overtime with young people to work harder. It is impossible.
However, selling insurance has no requirements on age or industry, and the low threshold has become a last resort for many people.
In the face of frequent personnel adjustments of large companies, the talent market has become more severely oversupply, and more and more people have joined insurance sales in the past two years. The insurance industry seems to be a major choice for middle-aged professionals to survive the career downturn.
Among them, some people value the freedom of time, while others are helpless under social and family pressure.
When hobbies become missions, why not the platform
Miss X 37 years old, former technical director selling clothes live
Miss X turned out to be the technical director of a well-known company, with personnel, resources, overall planning, inside out, and easy control of the audience every time. At that time, she was a company goddess who envied others.
But with the rise of various new technologies, the once brilliant technical director has not escaped the decline of his learning ability. Leaving the platform, coupled with the increase of age, it is no longer able to find a satisfactory job.
She simply used her amateur expertise to become a fashion blogger, patted private servers, talked about fashion and matching, and accumulated personal traffic. Then contact some online clothing brands, sell clothes while broadcasting live, and monetize the traffic. Although the income is barely enough, at least I can use my professional and work accumulation, and my time is relatively free.
Miss X has passed the transition from technical director to fashion blogger relatively smoothly. From the original office white-collar to freelancer, what remains unchanged is that she can still communicate and share beautiful things through her accumulation and hobbies. She herself expressed that she was quite satisfied with her current state.
When I am no longer competitive, I can only learn a skill from scratch
Miss F, 37 years old, a former technical expert of a company opened a body shop
Ms. F is also a practitioner in the Internet industry. She used to be a technical expert in a certain factory. In order to take care of her children, she volunteered to be a part-time job two days a week. The part-time job itself is not high in salary. In addition, she is not full work, and the salary in hand is even poorer.
The workplace will not be tolerant to anyone. She used to think that her career and family can be balanced. When people reach middle age, these suddenly become a fantasy.
As she gets older and older, she is completely replaced by those born in the 90s who are young, capable of working overtime at any time, and have various new ideas. She had no choice but to find another way out because she couldn't continue in the original industry.
She first invested some money, joined a chain of beauty eyelashes and body, went to learn eyelash grafting skills, and passed the qualification certificate.
Now she posts body slimming advertisements in her circle of friends every day, as well as WeChat user feedback screenshots. Many friends lament: Miss F has been a decent big cow once and now half a WeChat business, that is, a few years.
But she herself said that compared to the boring, repetitive, and timeless work before, it is a very fulfilling thing to provide satisfactory service to each customer personally, and even to become friends with them.
All the jobs that rely on one's own hands are worthy of respect, and the profession has never been distinguished between high and low.
The kid let me know that life is not the only choice
Miss L was a 34-year-old original film producer and now a freelance photographer
Miss L studied at the Communication University when she was in college. She also took photography because of her hobbies. After graduation, she started with the crew like other classmates. She is small, she rushes around in various crews all day long, the wind blows and the sun shines, day and night.
Later, she married and had children, and found that work and parenting could not be balanced at all. She also knew that with her current family life, it was no longer suitable for running the front line with the team and doing such an uncertain job.
After struggling, she quit her job, changed to a brand new lifestyle, and started her personal hobby-photography while bringing her baby.
From taking pictures of her own daughter to traveling to more than a dozen countries to take pictures of the world, now every photo of her can get thousands of likes on IG. She seems to have found a career direction again in her thirties.
Later, she compiled a book on the cities and landscapes she had traveled through these years. In addition, she often receives filming invitations from some brands. This has also become her new source of income.
From executive producer to freelance photographer, looking back at the road she has traveled, she also feels incredible. For so many years, she has been living in a fixed mindset. She feels that work and overtime are the only way out in life.
It wasn't until she had a child that she felt that there were many career options and different ways to move forward in life.
Now she doesn't care about the "35-year-old crisis" or "middle-age unemployment" at all, but intends to live the next life at the pace she likes.
At this age, I finally settled with myself
Miss S is 39 years old to take care of children and the elderly at home
Miss S was a senior director of a company before, but due to poor management of the company, she faced the risk of bankruptcy. When she realized the risks, she chose to leave.
After that, she found acquaintances and asked headhunters, but half a year passed, but she asked more and didn't push forward. After finally getting a job, he was asked to get a demotion and pay. This made her unacceptable, who had led a team of dozens of people, and she refused.
She used to work overtime day and night, trying to do her best, even her children did not care, but at this awkward age, she had to accept the fact that she was no longer needed by the workplace.
After a long time job search to no avail, she simply lost her mind and took care of the children and the elderly wholeheartedly at home.
She said that relying on her previous savings, it would be no problem to live like this for a few years, but she didn't know how long this state would last.
"Of course I am not reconciled, but at this age, coupled with the status quo of the talent market outside, I have to settle with myself."
People in the workplace after the age of 35 can have happiness despite suffering.
The road is long and long, everyone can choose again and interpret different stories in the second half of life.
If I don’t admit defeat, no one can force me to give up
Mr. Z's 37-year-old hobby is the best teacher. Learning ability, thinking ability and young mentality make him pass 35 years old steadily
Mr. Z was previously a Java developer. Following the Android boom, he entered Android development in 2012. He has screwed the screws in a big factory, and has led a team in a small factory. He has worked on technology and managed. When he realized that the crisis had fallen, he chose to resolutely return to technology from the management post.
"Because the management post has a stronger sense of crisis. After all, I still rely on technology to get into management. If one day I have a middle-aged crisis, it must be because management is not as strong as others, and it is difficult to do it again. technology."
"I have witnessed a lot of people leaving with my own eyes. The Internet workplace is cruel. Every rank is a big exam. The lower the rank, the older the older, the less valuable the person."
Mr. Z in 1983 was very fortunate to have grasped the technology. For a long time, he studied hard while taking care of the second treasure at home. He was tired and happy every day. If it weren’t for the technology, it’s likely that the bus or even a stall is crowded now. Learning cannot be stopped, and opportunities are always reserved for those who are ready.
Mr. Z has survived 18 years and 20 years. Now he is still doing "research technology management" in a large Internet company, with an annual total of about 200W. (According to Mr. Z himself, "side business + income after bedtime" is counted, but I think he must have not counted...because last time he boasted to me that he had made hundreds of thousands of funds from buying funds...not yet. sideline……)
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