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"after leaving the big factory, I have a completely different life", "leave the big factory, my life has changed dramatically", "leave the big factory, I find myself again" …...

On social platforms, there can be hundreds of discussions at the bottom of articles like this. Those are all the same young people who want to leave the big factory.

Just like a decade ago, when the Internet industry was in its heyday, young people were concerned about how to get into big companies. Now, people in Fortress besieged are more concerned about the outside world, and it seems that they can get everything they want by escaping from here.

Run away from the big factory, quit naked, stop rolling. These keywords are indeed eye-catching traffic passwords on social platforms, but they are probably not the standard answers you can copy. Leaving a big factory is like a chance to reopen a blind box, but it doesn't mean you can win the "hidden money". There's a good chance you'll get the "ordinary money" you already have.

"the pain of working in a second-tier city is far greater than the sense of security of stability." I went to university in the northeast and came to Beijing after graduation. At that time, I chose Internet companies because the industry was indeed highly paid. Engaged in operating positions in large Internet companies, mainly involving docking and cooperation with talent, belongs to the field of live broadcasting. I gave up a lot of interview opportunities because I didn't want to be entangled in the spring tricks, and I picked up offer directly without considering how long.

Only after I joined the job did I know that the sector I worked in was actually a relatively marginal business. In addition, due to the adjustment of the organizational structure, my leader was directly replaced. The new leader exercises stress management on the whole team, and everyone's business changes so much that he can't find his or her place every day. People have a lot of negative emotions and complaints. It was hard for me to see the change and began to question whether my choice was wrong. With no hope and nothing to learn, I chose to leave my job. I had only been on the job for three or four months at that time.

But after I left, the situation became very awkward. I don't have the identity of a fresh student, but I have no experience in social recruitment. It's hard to get an offer when you just graduated, so change your mind and look at some small and medium-sized Internet companies. Either the salary is not too good, or the flat salary is an unheard of business area, do not dare to try.

At that time, there happened to be a job opportunity in my hometown. I attended an interview remotely in Beijing. I was also an Internet company, making instrumental products. Small companies have more autonomy, can give full play to themselves, and their salary is not low, with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan. In second-tier cities, it's really hard to earn more than 10,000 a month. So I chose to go back to my hometown.

Only after you have really experienced and experienced the work in a second-tier city will you know that the pain of work is far greater than that of sense of security.

In life, there are too few people who can think the same frequency and have the same experience, and there is no freshness and passion in life. Second-tier cities are not as free and open as first-tier cities, which will restrict a lot of things. This is a yoke. In terms of work, the current company is not like a big factory, there will be a lot of people in a department, and there are only less than ten people in my department.

Everyone has more than one post, which is a lot of pressure. In fact, this has reached the state I originally wanted, and I can have complete contact with the process from zero to one, or a full-chain business process, which is beneficial to people in many ways. But the lack of a mature management model and business guidance, a lot of things need to explore their own, leaders always give very vague instructions.

This may be the drawback of small companies. I need to manage myself psychologically every day, and there was a time when I was particularly mentally sensitive. In a year, I'm not as excited as I just started working. Now I'm putting up with it purely for money. But in that case, why not go to the big factory to get more money?

We imagine that the second-tier life is slow, and there is a balance between life and work. But my company is still very busy. I go to work at 9: 00 and get off work at 8: 00 or 9: 00. When you get off work on time, you will be gossiped.

In fact, the level of consumption in the second line is similar, mainly in renting housing is cheaper, just over 2000 can rent a single apartment, in Beijing 3000 can only rent a single room.

After going back to my hometown for a year, I already regret it. I want to save money first, develop my sideline in my spare time, and then go back to the first-tier city. I am now running my own Little Red Book account from scratch, ready to build my own IP. I will do this because I was forced by life to a certain extent, back to the planning of big factories in first-tier cities, but also to make my soul less painful.

"when you resign and set up a stall, mental friction may be nothing compared to unstable income." I used to work in an Internet company, and my job became unstable because of the epidemic. Coupled with their own age is not young, there is a kind of high, low feeling, more yearning for freedom. I resigned naked from a big factory in 2021.

In the process of naked resignation at home, originally waiting for the next job, I realized by chance that there was a stall in the trunk. I had contact with my baby when I was walking my baby on the weekend, but I was more interested at that time. Now I happen to have time, so let's do it for yourself.

In August 2021, I began to set up a stall selling hand-made lemon tea. It was originally intended to make some extra money as a transition. But now, because of the epidemic and rectification, the trunk stalls have also become unstable. I am now thinking about finding a new job and going back to operation.

Being a full-time stall is much more tiring than I thought. Many guests watch the boss leave the stall for three or four hours every night. In fact, the preparation time is quite long, basically the bedtime every day can not be guaranteed.

It takes a lot of time to restock during the day, cut lemons, make tea, and buy ice cubes before going out of the stall. I close the stall at one or two o'clock in the morning, and I still have to wash things when I get home. Usually I can't have a real rest until four or five o'clock in the morning. Repeat this every day, in fact, there is not much time to rest. Only those who have really experienced the stall owner will know that setting up the stall is not easy.

In the whole process of setting up the stall is to keep in touch with guests, will meet a lot of new friends, people are happier. But in the end, I don't actually earn much. At first, more than 200 cups may be sold on weekends, but business is not very good on weekdays. When business is good, it is true that you can earn more than 10,000 yuan a month, but it is not normal and extremely unstable. And the effort behind the monthly income of more than 10,000 is no less than that of going to work. Hundreds of cups a night, all need to hit by hand, the waist is not straight to go home at night, it is really too painful. So I can't get out of the stall every day.

And this year, the whole trunk culture is very strong, the industry is also a little inside the volume, especially hand-played lemon tea threshold is relatively low, especially many peers. It is obvious that business is not easy to do this year. Lemon tea is also a seasonal drink, summer is a popular style, now the weather is cold, not many people drink. I am also developing hot drinks now, and I am not idle when I am not out of the stall. I have to study spices, mix drinks and make sure that they are fixed and new in order to retain regular customers.

The ultimate goal is to start a business and open a restaurant to keep this customer after having certain customer resources, which is still very difficult. Now that there is no internal friction, if you can, you still want a job with a more stable income. Mainly now the epidemic, I can not find a very suitable job.

"from running away to returning to the big factory, my state of mind is completely different." after graduating from college, I have been engaged in data analysis for four or five years. Last September, I joined an Internet company. At that time, I also received a better-paid offer, and I finally chose this Internet company because I felt that their system was relatively complete and that they could learn things systematically.

But this year, after staying at home because of the epidemic, the new leader and I have great differences in our work. My position is technical, but my immediate leader is a business background. In his eyes, many of my work is of no practical value. In March this year, my work became operational, which completely deviated from my career direction.

During the epidemic, people already have a lot of negative emotions. There was no suitable job at that time, and it was not convenient for an interview. In addition, I had a plan to go back to my hometown, so I simply quit naked and chose to go back to my hometown instead of staying in Shanghai.

Although it is expected that wages will be discounted in my hometown second-tier cities compared with Shanghai, it was only after I went to the interview that I found that the gap in treatment between first-tier and second-tier cities was really big. I interviewed a very well-known local company, in the final confirmation that although the salary is more than 10,000, but the company can only pay three insurance and one gold, and the proportion is very low. I accepted it, but this is just the beginning.

Although the interview is about two days off, but in fact, it is basically a single day off. According to the calculation, I was also in 996, which is not easier than that of a big factory, and my salary is not as good as that of a big factory. The more you go to work, the more you will suffocate. What is the purpose of going back to my hometown?

Another reason why I choose to go back to my hometown is that I am almost thirty years old, but I still have no date. I intend to go home to work. After settling down, I can have more time to go on a blind date and then get married. But work still takes up a lot of my time, and I don't have time for blind dates at all.

As a matter of fact, I am a stable person, so I always thought that going back to my hometown was the most suitable place for me. But back to the acquaintance society in my hometown, the logic of doing things is different from that in first-tier cities. Even after coming back for half a year, I still haven't changed, and I still can't get used to it.

With my savings in the past few years, I bought a suite in my hometown with a down payment this year. Now it is still a lot of pressure to repay 5000 yuan of mortgage every month. I'm already looking at the work in Shanghai again, and this time it's all about money. It took years of hard work to pay off the mortgage.

"starting a business is not easier than in a big factory. You can only understand the bitterness and bitterness through experience." after being laid off in a big factory at the end of 2021 and getting a sum of compensation, I took a month off.

It is false for the whole person to say that he is not anxious. In fact, the entire Internet industry is moving towards sunset, and friends in other big companies do not have good jobs to push inside. To tell you the truth, after staying in a big factory for a long time, I am in fact quite resistant to the transformation to other industries, and I cannot accept going into the system step by step.

So I decided to start a business, and it seemed like a crazy decision, especially in this environment. But do not want to be swayed by the tide, can only take the seemingly difficult road.

But the reality is, almost a year after starting a business, my mind has changed dramatically. "changing fate" only exists in movies and anime, and real life is "conforming to the trend".

I opened a restaurant in Shanghai that specializes in takeout. As soon as I was ready to decorate, I encountered an epidemic situation, which was delayed for 3 months, and it was not until June that I began to continue decorating. But the rent has been paid, and the landlord communicated with the landlord no less than ten times, and the landlord finally agreed to a reduction in the rent for these three months to make up for some losses.

With no experience before, there are many pits in the decoration. From choosing a decoration team to buying materials, every detail needs to be paid attention to. Without help, you can only learn and learn by yourself. The bitterness and bitterness of this can only be understood through experience. It took almost a month to decorate, and finally opened for business.

I specialize in takeout to join the brand, do not need to spend too much time to promote. I wanted to hire staff in the store in a month or two, but after a month, I found that I could barely reach a balance. The 45-square-meter storefront costs as much as 30,000 a month for rent, and 60,000 for pre-decoration. My shop is near the office building, and business will be better on weekdays. Nearly 100 orders a day, there can be fast 2000 yuan of income, but the need to deduct the takeout platform deduction points, the cost of these, the real profit is not much.

So I can't hire staff. I'll do it all by myself. I am really tired every day. I spend more than 12 hours in the store from morning till night. There are no weekends or even holidays.

I used to think that to open a shop and start a business is to move towards freedom, but now we also know that a shop of dozens of square meters is another form of shackles. I am stuck in this shop every day, completely lost my life, no personal time. Especially in very hard times, seeing the bad reviews of the takeout platform, the mood will really collapse. But now the store has opened up and can only survive, otherwise all the money invested in the early stage will be wasted.

"if I can do it all over again, I won't leave the big factory." the most regrettable decision I made this year is to leave the big factory and not "meticulous" on the Internet.

When I was in an Internet company, I was shrouded in a repressive atmosphere every day. Although the layoffs didn't happen to me, it wasn't easy for those who stayed. At that time, all I wanted to do was to escape from such an environment, and I felt like I would collapse.

I didn't think too much at that time. I chose a small company with a total of more than a dozen people. I thought it would be freer, but "small companies don't work overtime" is really my illusion. The working hours are not shorter than when I was in a big factory. In a big factory, I am really tired because of the heavy workload, but in small companies, I often work overtime in order to work overtime, just to get off work later.

The so-called "flat management" is just that any leader can talk to you. May be called into the office by the leader at any time and talk for an hour. I think that if there is no management, it will be more free, but the work often cannot be pushed forward. There are no matching resources, no clear work guidance, and no project direction. It was a mess, and I fumbled entirely on my own.

Often when a project is not completed, the leader will ask you to start working on the next project. This means that your previous efforts have been in vain, and you have not fully experienced a project or precipitated it. And most importantly, these achievements cannot be included in your resume and are not independent and complete project experience at all.

More importantly, there are no colleagues of the same frequency in the company. A small company with more than a dozen people, I thought it was a vibrant entrepreneurial company. But the colleagues here work as if they are providing for the aged, most of them are perfunctory, and the intrigues between colleagues have not diminished.

But this time, I dare not change jobs at will, for fear that I can't find a better job. Now the employment industry can only be said to be getting worse and worse. If you want to go back to the Internet, you have to wait for the opportunity. Although I regret it, I can't start all over again. I'm trying to accept what my own choices bring. When I regard my current situation as an experience for me, at least my state of mind will improve.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: Tech (ID:tech618), by Xi Rui

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