Have you ever thought carefully about a question: "Why is it that when we first started working, everyone started from the same starting point, but after one or two years, the gap between peers widened? ?”
It’s not that you are not smart enough, but that you have never worked hard or planned your career development seriously.
Two months ago, a senior design intern came to the company, and another designer and I were responsible for guiding her. The little girl is quite smart and sweet-tongued, but she just doesn't take her work seriously. I asked her what design knowledge she had learned in school and how to use the shortcut keys in PS. She didn’t know anything about it. Since she came in through a special relationship, we couldn’t say anything.
The designer almost taught her how to design from scratch, asking her to memorize the shortcut keys one by one, and then do exercises and submit homework every day. After two months of passive learning, I was finally able to do some simple design, but this was just the beginning of the nightmare.
Ask this female intern to make a simple business card, a first draft for a business client. As a result, the customer's phone number and address were all wrong, and the color matching of the business card was not suitable for business style. She told me proudly that she had done a great job, so don't worry. If I hadn't checked carefully, the order would have been ruined. Later, she had to make two revisions before getting all the copywriting correct.
While having lunch together, she asked me: "Sister, what is your dream? How long will you work in this company? What do you do after get off work?" I said: "I My current dream is to be financially independent and live a relatively free life. For me, there is a rule wherever I work: to do things well, I must be serious when I go home and read and study when I have time. "I would meet up with my friends every now and then to chat about each other's lives, and would also go out to take photos with my camera." She said she wanted to make a lot of money, and then buy designer bags and sports cars, and she was especially envious of those who were young but had a lot of wealth. people. But her life after get off work is about eating, drinking, having fun, and often playing computer games.
I smiled and did not continue the conversation with her.
If you want to quickly acquire wealth and power, there are two ways: first, you are born in a rich second-generation family, such as Wang Sicong; second, you have extraordinary talent and achieve high results in a certain field. achievements, such as Jack Ma. Nothing? Then you'd better stop daydreaming and get your work done first.
Usually, some small mistakes are ignored, but when she made more and more mistakes and became more and more serious, I finally couldn't help it.
Today she made a gourmet banner for a client and made another mistake. In order to standardize the naming of design pictures and facilitate customers to quickly understand the design products, the company specially standardized the naming of files: name + date + size, so that company personnel and customers can quickly find the design drawings they need. But after telling her the story for the Nth time, she still couldn't remember it. Today, I once again sent a bunch of banners to customers with unnamed jpg. file names, without names, sizes, or dates.
The client came to me very angry and asked what level the designers in the company were. They couldn’t even standardize their names. Do they want to cooperate in the future?
I saw the message from the customer and quickly apologized.
I have emphasized the details to her many times before and not to make the same mistake again, but she just didn't take it to heart. If you can't remember, you can take a notebook and write it down. If that doesn't work, you can put a sticky note with the file naming convention on it and stick it in front of the computer screen. I don't believe you can't remember it like this?
The opposite of the company intern is another person, who is also a senior intern in the advertising industry. Little D is a cousin of a friend. She is currently looking for an internship related to advertising. She carefully messaged me on WeChat to see if she could spare a few hours to give her some advice face to face.
After reading her resume, she started working part-time during her freshman year and also participated in some competitions in the advertising industry. I had met her several times before. Xiao D was very serious about her work and left a deep impression on me, so I agreed to meet her without hesitation this time.
She told me her ideas, showed me her design and copywriting work, and then asked me what needed to be modified. Before I could say anything, she took out a pen and notebook from her schoolbag and started recording. I took a look at the book. It was filled with all kinds of creative ideas. Each stroke was very serious, simple and neat. I said casually: "You are so serious," and she said she was used to it. She would check her schoolbag every day before going out to make sure she had all the necessary things.
During the three hours of chatting with Little D, her questions were very targeted. It can be seen that she has relevant internship experience and has been responsible for several small projects. What I didn't expect was that after the conversation, she gave me a book as a gift. She said: "I'm sorry to disturb my sister suddenly, because I have encountered some difficulties and confusion about work recently. I hope to hear the experience sharing from people who have experienced it, so that I can avoid some detours. It is right to pay for knowledge, but I don't have it. With too much income, it would be too tacky to give other things. Knowing that my sister likes to read, I gave her a book that she liked very much.”
After she returned, she handwritten a mind map and sent it to her. She gave it to me and bought related books that I recommended to her. Looking at her Moments in the next few days, I can see that she is practicing it seriously.
They are both students from a university in Yunnan. They are also in their senior year doing internships and looking for jobs, but their attitudes towards work are different. One is not serious and doesn't work hard, and waits for others to passively teach him everything; the other is conscientious and takes the initiative to learn, and even if he encounters a problem that he doesn't understand, he will humbly ask for advice. And when I finished writing this article, the careless intern made a mistake again, almost every day.
The difference between people at work is not because you are not smart, but because you do not treat your work with heart. When others are working hard to move forward, you disdain them. So when others achieve higher achievements at work than you, don't be jealous of others.
No pain, no gain.