what exactly is career success?

each of us can work.

how long do we have to work all our lives?

many people's answer is: more than 3 years.

however, have you ever thought about how this long journey will end after more than 3 years of career? How will you draw a happy ending for your career?

I tried to ask many young friends in the workplace this question, and they said that they almost never thought about it. In their mind, the end of their career should be to retire, put down their jobs and start enjoying life, walking birds, playing cards and traveling around the mountains, which is a beautiful picture.

However, retirement does not mean "completion". If we can give full play to our talents in our work, that is, self-realization, it is career success.

do you agree with this view?

what kind of full stop should we draw for our career after going through the process of self-realization?

Let's take a look at the experiences of several friends in the workplace:

Is it really ok to retire after a few years?

Liu Jin, 4 years old, is the principal of a training institution. She grew this campus from scratch. At that time, the performance of the campus was once leading in the country, and she was awarded a special award by the president. She was a management cadre of the company. Liu Jin felt that she had realized the value of life to some extent.

But a few years later, one day, she suddenly found that the leaders of the headquarters had become young people in their twenties and thirties. At the monthly meeting, these young people gave directions to the work of various campuses, and the monthly performance of several campuses fell short of expectations. At the meeting, the 28-year-old vice president of marketing publicly questioned: "You are also an old principal for several years. How can I say such a basic question?" Liu Jin was wronged to tears several times. Every time he said that he would never do it again this year, but every time after the New Year, he said that he would do it for another year and retire after a few years.

can you keep up with the market changes?

Mike is the HR manager of a Fortune 5 foreign company. In that year, domestic private enterprises began to like foreign companies to dig people. Mike went to a well-known domestic shoe and clothing company, and introduced the management mode of foreign companies in the past, which raised the company's human resources management level to a new height in a short time. The leaders greatly praised him, saying that "the experts in the Fortune 5 companies are just different", and Mike naturally became a core management member, welcoming the bright moment of career development.

But the good times didn't last long. That year, there was a wave of "learning from Huawei" in China, and Huawei's partner system and wolf culture were regarded as the Bible by domestic enterprises. Mike's company first invited Huawei teachers to give lectures, and later invited consulting companies to make changes to Standard Huawei. Finally, the boss simply asked someone to dig an HR executive from Huawei. As you can imagine, Mike began to sit on the bench.

can the plan keep up with the changes?

Lao Sun is the vice president of R&D in a company, and has always been the core backbone of the company. At the age of 42, he wants to make further efforts to be the head of the department. As his "last career", this job is also satisfactory.

in 216, there was a wave of rejuvenation in China, and the company made a rule that no employee over 4 years old can be the head of the department in the future. This time, my mind was completely confused and I lost my motivation. A year later, the company proposed to cancel the contract on the grounds of poor performance. After staying at home for three months, I still haven't found a suitable opportunity. At present, my house is still under mortgage, and I have to pay a lot of mortgage every month. After counting my savings, I can barely last another two years. If there is no turnaround in two years, he can't imagine what life will be like.

are these examples familiar? In fact, it happens around us every day.

after years of hard work, some people in the workplace have successfully entered the ranks of executives and become successful in the eyes of everyone. But this highlight moment did not last until the end. Can professional life be called career success if it ends passively and prematurely, or if it ends awkwardly in the downhill?

obviously not.

ten years' cold window for people in the workplace, plus one or twenty years' hard work in the workplace, is not only for a good-looking professional title and illusory psychological realization, but also for a moment of high light. What is more important is the realization of real value, so as to keep yourself away from the embarrassing situation of getting old before getting rich and realize the prosperity of life.

it's not the end. Only by doing its best, and finally achieving prosperity in life, is it complete.

It is a relatively perfect process, from more work and less gain in youth, more work and more gain in middle age, to getting something without work in old age (earning money without work). A good career process should enable people to get something for nothing, which is a complete career life and a complete career end.

Therefore, in today's commercialization, career success should meet two conditions:

Personal talents are fully brought into play, that is, people make the best use of their talents.

For example, if you have IT talent, you will apply your technology to a variety of products and systems in a big IT company and spread it all over the world;

For example, if you have management skills, a company asks you to manage a multinational team of 5 people;

For example, if you have a talent for investment, a fund company lets you take charge of an asset with a market value of tens of billions.

This kind of opportunity is like Zhuge Liang's to Shu, Shang Yang's to Qin and Jiang Ziya's to Xiqi, which is the so-called best combination of talents and platforms. The elites can splash ink on this stage and make great efforts.

The opposite of giving full play to one's talents is that one can't meet one's talents. For example, if you have good martial arts, how can you live in a peaceful world? Even if you have enough food and clothing, it is a pity that you have achieved nothing. The sense of accomplishment of making the best of one's talents comes from the heart and cannot be measured by money.

the value of an individual is recognized and rewarded to the greatest extent, that is, it is worth it.

pointing out the mountains and rivers, inspiring words, discussing swords in Huashan Mountain, and honoring the gods in the workplace are all portrayal of talents being brought into full play, and the psychological sense of accomplishment brought about by them is undoubtedly a success.

However, if the peak of life does not end with quiet years, it is not complete, and it is a pity if there is no abundant life as a footnote. As an ordinary person and an ant in the workplace, personal value can be fully realized, and achieving prosperity in life is the proper meaning of career success.

to put it bluntly, a winner in life can only be a talented person who can sell at a good price.

Some people say, "Aren't you talking about the same thing? If you have the ability, you still worry that you won't live a good life?"

Look at the stories of Liu Jin, Mike and Lao Sun above, and you should understand.