From a young campus to a busy workplace, from a graduate with a dream to a professional who has gone through ups and downs, a post-90s generation has spent a full ten years in the workplace. In this article, she will detail the gains and losses of the past decade, sharing the joy of growing up, the pain of setbacks, and the expectations of the future.
From 2015 to 2025, I have been working for 10 years. At this moment, I am in the study at home, lighting lights, listening to music, and recalling the scenes of the past. I once fantasized that after working for 10 years, I would be a leader or a senior expert or a successful entrepreneur, and I would have no worries about food and clothing, and my children would be happy.
In fact, I am still working the front line, desperately trying to repay the mortgage, living a frugal and frugal life, and having no children under my knees. In 10 years, I accepted that I was an ordinary person. there are failures and successes; There is chaos and clarity; There are gains and losses. Next, welcome to read my 10-year story, I hope to inspire you and inspire you.
01 The sword has not yet been matched, and it is already a river and lake to go out
From the first grade of elementary school to the third year of high school, there was not a day when I didn’t study hard, and learning became my habit. After going to college, I still immersed myself in studying, stupidly thinking that studying was the whole of college, and it wasn’t until I started looking for a job in my senior year that I woke up the dreamer.
I went to various seminars every day, applied for resumes online, and although I was busy, I didn’t know what kind of job I was suitable for, and I didn’t get an offer.
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Good product managers are very scarce, and product managers who understand users, business, and data are still in demand when they go out of the Internet. On the contrary, if you only do simple communication, inefficient execution, and shallow thinking, I am afraid that you will not be able to go through the torrent of the next 3-5 years.
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Fortunately, I found that people around me are looking for Internet products, operation-related jobs, and are still doing related internships. I also followed the trend and began to learn the knowledge of Internet products and operations, experience various apps, practice how to interview bragging, and followed the army to find a job as a product assistant before graduation.
But in the four years after graduation, my career was very bumpy, and the company I joined either went bankrupt or laid off employees. I usually work very hard, and my home is full of bestsellers of various products, but I still lack the talent and feel of making products.
“The paper is finally shallow, and I know that this matter must be practiced”, this is a problem that existed in the first 4 years of my work. What small companies do every day, projects are overturned one after another, and I have learned very little from practice, and I can only make up for it from books.
Thinking back to my experience at a startup, it’s also very ridiculous. The company requires everyone not only to do the job at hand, but also to participate in brainstorming and contribute entrepreneurial ideas as CEOs. At that time, I was young and ignorant, and even if I put forward ideas, I was imaginative, and once I landed, I would be shattered.
After realizing that the project I was doing was worthless, I left the startup again in early 2019. At that time, I was very uneasy, I didn’t accumulate any business experience in the past 4 years, and my product experience was not mature, what should I do with my next job?
02 Looking back, the light boat has passed through the mountains
“There is no road in vain in life, every step counts”, although I had a bad start after graduation, but at least I had the ability to design products.
By chance, in 2019, I joined a mutual fund company to make products. It was also from this year that I grew rapidly, as if my bones were growing every week. Therefore, I wanted to express my desire to record it in time, so I started writing an official account and became the author of the product column.
It was also from this year that I met the other half of my life, which added a lot of joy to my life. Really, when people are in good condition, God will favor you, and good things will come one after another.
From 2019 to 2023, life is simple and ordinary, work is normal, life is dull, and occasional travel adds some happiness.
In order to get better job opportunities and benefits, I went to Shanghai alone this year to work. Every day I go to and from work, and I spend more than 200 days and nights alone in a rental house. Every night before going to bed, I will emo in bed for a while before going to bed.
Sometimes I think that a person is working hard and being wronged, and unconsciously burst into tears, and I call the target to say that I want to go back to Shenzhen and quit. In the end, he was pulled back by reason and said to himself: “If you give up now, why did you come to Shanghai in the first place?” ”。
Fortunately, the final result was touching, and after 8 months of perseverance, I finally returned to Shenzhen to work, with a family to live in, a lover to accompany me, and a sister to keep me by my side.
“Looking back, the light boat has passed the mountains of ten thousand mountains”, I thought it was a big thing, as long as I was willing to wait, there will be a day when I will be satisfied.
03 I want to buy osmanthus flowers and carry wine, but it doesn’t look like a young man
Now that I am in my 30s, I don’t have a lot of wealth, I don’t have an official position, I only have a little wealth, which is good. I have some money in my card, a house to live in, a lover by my side, and a hobby of writing, and I am satisfied.
But as I got older, I lost a lot of things. The snacks I wanted to eat when I was a child now have money to buy but dare not eat them; When I was young, I dared to think and speak in front of my boss, but now I have lost the momentum of youth; In the past, I had many friends and was very closely connected, but now I can only like each other in the circle of friends.
People cannot have youth and feelings for youth at the same time, and when they miss youth, they can only rely on memories and laugh it off.
Time is a train, people get on and off at different stations, friends stubble after stubble, and in the end only you are left.
04 Looking forward, the road ahead is long and bright
In the first 10 years of work, I felt like I was running around and proving to the outside world that I could do it. Rarely stop to enjoy the scenery along the way, almost never give your soul a holiday, and your body is sub-healthy.
In the next 10 years, I don’t have much expectations at work, I just hope that I am physically free, mentally free, and continue to have works.
Continue to exercise, maintain good health, physical strength and energy; have its own value judgment system, reduce dependence on external voices, and return to self-feeling; Read a lot of classic books, produce excellent works, and have sustainable income.
Looking forward, the road ahead is long and bright. Cherish the present, imagine the future, and hope that in the next 10 years, we will still be teenagers.
