Dear leaders and colleagues:

Good afternoon everyone! I am Liu Zhen from the Credit Card Center of Hebei Bank. The title of my speech is "It turns out that there are also poems and distances here."

I have always liked Gao Xiaosong's famous saying: "Life is not just about the things in front of you, but also poetry and distance." Far away." Every time I see this sentence, it always makes me scream. I always remind myself that I cannot be fettered by what I see in front of me. "Poetry and distance" are the life I want.

In 2011, I said goodbye to campus and walked into the three-foot counter of the Sales Department of the Management Department. As time goes by, repetitive and monotonous work gradually makes the enthusiasm of entering the workplace gradually fade away. Sitting in a 30-square-meter cabin every day, facing strange faces outside the window and counting dirty banknotes, I was confused: Could this be the future I described poetically? Is this the far place I want to reach?

I have forgotten how many times I stared blankly at the employees of the head office rushing past the window, my eyes full of envy. Their work must be meaningful, right? Their wages must be extremely high, right? They must be well respected, right? At that time, I often thought, if one day I could be like them, what worries would there be in work and life?

Finally, after two years of employment, I was transferred to the credit card center of the head office through internal competition. Work is fulfilled, and life suddenly becomes brighter again. I'm glad that I finally got rid of my boring position and stepped onto a new stage, one step closer to my dream.

When I came to the credit card center, I began to be responsible for the management of the credit card WeChat official account. In layman’s terms, it is “editing WeChat”. Just like everyone here, I initially thought this was a simple and comfortable job that could be easily completed by simply copying and pasting.

However, things are far from easy as imagined. The embarrassment and embarrassment I felt when I first started using it are still unforgettable to me. When I opened the editor and faced the blank page, I started to feel at a loss. Every word, sentence, and picture here must be thought about, selected, and entered by yourself. After a busy day of work, I bit the bullet and finished the knitting. I thought I was done. However, when I sent it to my phone and looked at it, I fell silent. The text is messy and disorderly, the pictures are blurry, there is no sense of beauty at all, and there is really no desire to read.

Dragging my exhausted body back home, I didn’t think about food or tea, and felt a sense of loss that I had never felt before. I was indignant: I came from a finance major, but why did I always do things that were far from professional? I thought I had reached the ideal place, but I found that I was still surrounded by those who were just mediocre. That night, I fell into deep thought. Ask yourself, if I am not satisfied with one position or two positions, will I be satisfied with the third position? If I can’t do one job well or two jobs well, will I be able to do well in the third job? If you think about it carefully, there is nothing wrong with pursuing poetry and distance. If you are afraid, you will be afraid. If you lose to the present, you will still seek comfort by pursuing the distance.

The change in my thinking and mentality made me suddenly enlightened, and I began to step down to face the challenge. Since I didn’t understand typography, I followed the WeChat accounts of dozens of banks and learned their image and text combinations bit by bit. Since I didn’t know how to design, I taught myself PS and searched online for various beauty techniques. I don’t know much about marketing, so I pay close attention to what kind of topics are attractive, what kind of content is outstanding, and what time to publish it is effective.

Gradually, the work gradually improved. The WeChat public account has more and more fans, from 30,000 when it was taken over to 70,000 now; the number of views of each picture and text has also continued to rise, from the initial few thousand times to now easily exceeding 10,000.

What inspires me is not only the changes in numbers, but also the recognition of customers. I remember that Beijing and Zhangjiakou jointly applied for the Winter Olympics last year. Due to sufficient preparations, I posted the pictures and texts just 10 minutes after the news of the successful bid was released. Soon, a customer left a message on the official account, "This marketing is well done and timely!" I felt so happy that I couldn't help but reply to him, "Your encouragement is the driving force for us to move forward!" I soon received another reply from him. : "I pay attention to your news in every issue. The articles are wonderful, keep up the good work!" There are countless similar interactions, which will happen in every issue of picture and text push.

What is even more unforgettable for me is the scene that happened at the preliminary party member selection meeting.

When I finished my ideological report and everyone was commenting on my work, a colleague spoke affectionately of my experience during my business trip in Tangshan, where I was busy training at the branch during the day and stayed up late at night editing WeChat in an Internet cafe. Everyone started to speak one after another, and by the end almost everyone was fighting for the microphone. Everyone is telling me about the little things in my work. I have forgotten many things, but I didn't expect them to remember them deeply. As I listened to everyone's warm words, my chest kept rising and falling, and tears welled up in my eyes.

I was very moved. I didn't make any achievements, I just did some of my job, but I got recognition from so many people. I suddenly discovered that the things I longed for and pursued - value, respect, affirmation, recognition, without my realizing it, in the reading, forwarding and likes of every picture and text, work quietly gave me Got me.

I began to understand that the meaning of work is often beyond our horizons. Work is like an old naughty boy, no one can see clearly the deep meaning of his old man. Many times, it forces you into a corner, leaving you helpless and painfully accepting its will. And often after you finish it with difficulty, you realize that it is actually a good thing. There will inevitably be pain, grievance, confusion and loss at work. When you encounter such a stage, don't rush to let work give you all the answers. Sometimes, you have to be patient and wait. Even if you shout to the empty valley, it will take a while before you hear a long echo.

I am very lucky that I changed my mentality in time. If you still aim too high, the end result will be to switch from a job that you are tired of doing to a job that others are tired of doing, and finally you will be tired of doing it again. There must be something more suitable to use our talents in reality. But in the current position, no matter you choose it voluntarily or passively accept it, whether you keep doing it or you will leave one day, as long as you are on the job for one day, you must try with the mentality that life is valuable in in-depth experience. Do your best with meticulous attention to detail. I believe that those who finally reach the distance, no matter whether they have the right to choose when they set out on the road, will have gritted their teeth and perseverance and made deep and arduous efforts along the way.

So, please be grateful for everything your work has given us. Don’t blame everyone, don’t hold grudges, be sincere to everyone, and be enthusiastic about everything. One day, you will be surprised to find that the "suffering" that you once thought was unbearable will suddenly transform into the distance in poetry and dreams.