We were taught from an early age to set high ideals and to keep striving for them. I remember when many of our ideals were the liberation army and scientists, reflecting the high place they held in our hearts. When kids today are asked about their ideals, the answers become more diverse, including doctors, lawyers, police officers, bosses, chefs, and so on, reflecting the changes in our society.
My childhood aspirations
When I was a child, the future was a blank sheet of paper in a child’s world that described as best as it could what my future would look like. As we grow up and experience more and more, looking back at our childhood ideals and then looking at the work we do now, the ideals and the reality have faded away. Recently, Beijing’s pancake aunt got angry and said that when a pancake aunt argued with a customer, she blurted out, “If I make 30,000 yuan a month, how can I throw you an egg?” I make 30,000 a month!” For a while, people couldn’t help but sigh, which made the white-collar workers in the office feel ashamed. It also made more office workers think about why Auntie Pancake makes 30,000 a month, reading that there are 985211 of you, so why don’t you have anything?” Many people see it as a joke, or a joke.
Of course, some people laugh at themselves, we all turned this country away, auntie just called GDP. “Although the overall level of 985 and 211 will be higher than the average university, it does not mean that the graduates of 985 and 211 are excellent. Graduates from lesser-known universities have the same opportunity to fight back. Today, after years of reform and opening up, it is no longer just the age of education, and employers will place more value on their employees. Not long ago, I heard from my friend Y that her colleague S had been working for the company for over a year and was doing well in various businesses. He used this opportunity to go out with the company leader to ask for a promotion and higher salary. The leader was still happy to say that he couldn’t wait to say that if the company didn’t consider his request, he would handle the business, etc. This made the leader very angry. A company gives an employee a raise, not because he asked for it, but because a company creates value far beyond his current position.
In the stock market, value investors believe that the value of a company determines its share price. In the short term, the stock price may deviate from the company’s value, but in the long term, the stock price will be close to the company’s value. In the workplace, your own performance is your value, and the salary the company pays you is your price.” The higher the value of the company, the higher the position and salary of the company.” A lecturer once said that a company was looking for a driver, but it was hard to know how to tell if the driver was the right fit.” The best way to recruit the best talent, the teacher said, is with the best salary. For example, a local driver’s monthly salary might be $2,000, while the company hiring the driver’s monthly salary could be set at $5,000.” This is the only way to recruit the best overall driver. Of course, his job will certainly not be limited to a job like driving.
Examples from around me
Let me also talk about examples from around me. Cars, once a luxury, are slowly becoming a consumer good. There are more and more cars in the city, but parking will not increase dramatically. After all, there is a limit to the number of vehicles the city can accommodate.” In the parking lot near my house, the large number of vehicles makes parking naturally require personnel to direct. In the past, there were still several caregivers responsible for parking vehicles neatly, but they left after a long time without work, probably because of low pay.
Later, the community also found an elderly owner to direct the vehicles, and although he did so, after all, the limited ability to deal with some specific problems seemed tedious, and sometimes when he saw that a vehicle was badly parked, the owner was gone by the time he responded, and then it must have been reluctant to ask the owner to move the car.” I’ve heard of scrapes between vehicles caused by a lack of careful care for the vehicles, and having the community responsible for the parking lot pay for them. There is no difference between high and low, but there is a difference between high and low human ability.” Because of their low value, they are left to do repetitive work with no added value.
We all have our ideals, and if we don’t break them down into small goals and just keep them in our heads without putting them into practice, then ideals are fantasies. No matter what we do now, if you have an ideal, keep raising your own value and realize the beautiful ideal in your heart!