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"Good morning, migrant workers" and "There are no difficult jobs, only brave migrant workers".
Recently, the term "migrant workers" has become popular on the Internet. After dinner, we can see the figure of "migrant workers" everywhere in WeChat chat and even expression wars. Many people regard "migrant workers" as their true portrayal. Faced with the difficulties in the workplace and the burden of life, "migrant workers" even become the entertainment carnival of Internet people.
Compared with "social animals", "struggle" and "007" mixed with feelings of being squeezed, inferiority and resignation, "migrant workers" seem to have a little more optimism of "human awakening" and "you and I are both laborers", which can better describe the struggle temperament of strugglers.
What do you think of the word migrant workers? Today, we talk with Internet workers of different occupations about their professional lives.
Some people think that migrant workers are "tool people" and the fruits of their labor are not respected; Some people think that "part-time job" means that they have no right to say "no", and they are forced to accept the guidance of laymen and dare not resist the excessive "KPI" formulated by the leaders; Some people spit out while working, taking hardships as fun and becoming an essential skill for migrant workers; Some people think that fatigue and struggle are normal for migrant workers, so they accept that they can't go home until midnight every day; Some people are already co-founders of the company, but they do the work of secretary+sales, and in the end they are still working. ...
More importantly, these internet workers still have obvious age anxiety. They are worried that they will be photographed on the beach by the waves and will not even have a job when they are 35 years old.
Yang Yang | 28-year-old Internet user operation
This is my third job in Beijing after five years of work. My last job was a bit "paddling", which made me feel that I was really "drifting north".
For me, "drifting north" has the bitterness of a migrant worker, but it is an inspirational word. According to our elders' generation, going to Beijing is for "work", which is a bit derogatory, but for our generation, there are jobs everywhere, which is somewhat self-deprecating. But you have to believe that if you give, you will be rewarded.
I am a "worker" who doesn't know how to refuse. I am very obedient. I will do whatever the boss tells me to do, and no matter how late it is, the task will be completed.
I am a user operator of an Internet company, and my daily job is to recruit student users. The boss gave a heavy KPI, and it is common to work overtime to 1 1. I don't think it's because of the high KPI and unreasonable job requirements. I just sometimes think, "Why can't I finish it?" I'm prone to self-doubt and worry that I will be laid off if I don't finish the task well.
I was really anxious before I became a full member. The task at that time was to expand 60 users, which required cooperation with a school community. First, we must find two core members of a community. On the last day of the mission, I haven't found those two people yet. I am desperately looking for all kinds of QQ and telephone contacts in the company. In the afternoon 1 1 the company people went to the building, and I was still looking for them. Finally found it, but it was too late to complete the KPI.
This means that I probably won't be able to get a full job, and I was very sad that night. When something goes wrong, I will choose to sleep and do it when I wake up, but many times I can't sleep, and I will be woken up immediately when I fall asleep. I try to calm myself down and find out what I can do at work next.
It's really hard to write a positive evaluation. Fortunately, my team leader took good care of me. He told me it didn't matter, and then I just needed to find someone else, so I stayed smoothly.
This kind of pressure has also improved my ability and made me feel practical. I look forward to the successful completion of the project at the end of the year, and I will be rewarded by an excellent team. Of course, this is all external, and I hope to be affirmed. As a migrant worker, I haven't had this kind of enrichment for a long time. It's time to affirm myself.
I know the 35-year-old curse of Internet professionals. In fact, I don't want to do this business and work all the time. I just want to work in the next two years to save some money and open a bar in a second-and third-tier city. The bar doesn't need to be very big, just 40 or 50 square meters. Invite some singers to sing. I can also play the guitar and sing. If I have nothing to do, I will make friends, which makes me feel great.
Circle | 33-year-old market leader of an Internet listed company
Why are they called "migrant workers"? Can you beat the workers? A 996 gregarious animal, even if it can be defeated, will pay for the lost time.
All right, put a homophonic stalk. I have been working for 10 years, and I am still very ordinary, so I dare not resign casually. I am a non-core employee of a non-head Internet company, which is accurate and sad.
This is a 5% and 95% world. If you belong to 5%, you are participating in or even deciding the direction of the world, but if you belong to 95%, you can only be a worker.
At work, there are many moments to remind me that I am a "migrant worker".
Some senior executives or old employees of our company have stocks, and the company will send emails regularly to remind everyone when the trading window is. To put it bluntly, stocks can be realized. This email is sent to everyone, but I don't have any stocks. Every time I see the notification email, I feel very worried.
As marketers, we often need to attend the dinner party of industry activities, but only the boss can serve the table, and our employees can only stand by and starve.
Another time, the boss asked us to talk about the plan outside and went in the afternoon. Later, it was a little unpleasant, and we were criticized by the boss. It was seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and the boss said that he would check the plan with the next project team, so he let us go and there was nothing to eat around. We worked all day and went home hungry. The boss has emotional freedom, but we don't. We are just "tool people" and the fruits of our labor are not respected. This is the biggest difference between bosses and migrant workers.
Working in an internet company, sadness and depression are the norm. A friend of mine in Ali said that if you don't reach P8 at the age of 35, you will be considered as underdeveloped and eliminated. It's not that we have age anxiety, but that the Internet industry is sensitive and unfriendly to age, especially to women.
We can only motivate ourselves: 80% of the pain in life comes from work, but I know that if we don't work, 100% of the pain will come from having no money, so I choose to work between work and having no money. Work may shorten your life span by ten years, and you can't live a day without work.
I will be 35 years old in two years. Now I will pay attention to my way out and make two preparations. I think it is not shameful for many people to do WeChat business and sell insurance. I have seen this indifference or even exclusion before, but now I will pay attention to it, including opening an online shop and operating a small red book. I will think about what I would do if I were in this situation, how to apply my work experience to it, and how others succeed. As long as it can bring income and growth, it is good. For this reason, I can put down my body.
Tian Liang | 27-year-old advertising company AE
The workers are talking about me. The word "migrant workers" is also very popular, because it is difficult to find a job this year and there is great competition pressure. In fact, it also shows that white-collar workers are ordinary workers, just like manual workers.
We are very much like running errands for the boss. We are busy all day. The hardest thing is us, but in the end it may be that the boss bought a Rolls Royce and we made a fraction of the boss's.
There are many channels for major companies to connect with the media, so it is difficult for advertising companies without housekeeping skills to survive. Advertisers in it are facing great competitive pressure.
I am AE (Account Manager) myself. I need to sort out the situation of various industries, expand resources, establish contacts, understand social interaction, and have strong learning ability and professional knowledge. For example, the live broadcast is very popular and many customers want to enter. We must quickly understand this industry, give customers what they want, and more importantly, we must find customers to sign the bill and then implement it.
We have quarterly KPI, and everyone works hard to get customers. At present, there are more than a dozen advertising companies waiting around a customer, and it is even more difficult to win a customer. The customer I mentioned was only formally discussed in September last year, and it was exposed this year 10. A colleague of mine heard that a potential customer had a birthday the next day, and all the cake shops were closed that night. He knocked on more than a dozen cake shops one by one, and finally one made an exception and promised to make a cake. My colleague used this cake to hold a simple birthday party for the client the next day. The customer was really moved and signed the order immediately.
As Party B, we are basically responsive. I often stay up late if there is an emergency or a big project. On several occasions, I changed the plan at three or four in the morning, and got up at seven the next day to deliver the information to the customers. A lot of housework must be done. Once a customer needed some cartons, so I rolled up my sleeves and took the lead in gluing the cartons together as materials.
I wear a suit and run around every meeting place and office building every day, but I often wonder when I can have my own space, even a cubicle. For me, the coming 30 years old is a hurdle. I have struggled in Beijing for several years, but I feel that my salary and career have not met expectations.
Standing at thirty, I am far from standing up. I am busy every day, but the output is not satisfactory. Now I'm a little confused and tired. I don't know whether I should continue to work in the advertising industry.
Lu Xiao | 25 years old, venture capital project manager of Internet company.
Everyone is actually a migrant worker, but the class is different, and the boss also works for his own life.
Every morning around 9: 00, I will send a message "Good morning, migrant workers, today is another vibrant day" among my girlfriends and colleagues, and I will also encourage each other with the stem of "migrant workers' working souls, migrant workers are talented people" and start a day of "squeezing".
10120 On the day of the live broadcast of Li Jiaqi and Viya, I squatted in the live broadcast room until about 1:30 in the morning, bought what I should buy, washed my face, continued to sit in front of the computer, and finished my unfinished work before going to bed. At that moment, I felt that I was really a migrant worker. I have to save money and finish my work before going to bed.
Working in an internet company is fast-paced and stressful, but I study every day. I don't have any business experience and venture capital background before. At first, I spent most of my time studying to keep up with my colleagues. Later, my boss will give me many projects and activities.
During the period, I was really stressed and cried several times. I really want to resign at once. I remember that on the day of an activity, I was in charge. I got up at 6 o'clock in the morning and didn't have breakfast. I braved the rainstorm and took the subway for more than an hour to reach the activity venue to prepare breakfast for the guests. After everything is ready, I'm starving. At that time, I felt that I was either a gregarious animal or a slave.
But later, my boss said that I had completed these activities well, even better than he expected, and I suddenly felt that my previous experience was not so difficult.
Pleasure in pain is a necessary skill for a mature migrant worker. There is a spit group among our colleagues. Sometimes the boss is in a meeting, everyone is typing and spitting, sometimes they can't help laughing, and then they have to go back immediately, because the boss finds out that it is another scolding. Our colleagues are very United in private, and often make appointments to watch movies, eat and sing together on weekends to relieve stress.
Although it is growing, age anxiety is becoming more and more obvious. At one o'clock in the morning yesterday, when I was writing PPT, I was still thinking, what should I do after I turned 35?
According to my previous job hunting experience, the workplace is not friendly to women. Some interviews are cancelled because I have a boyfriend, and some interviews require bringing wine to the interview. I thought of two ways, to be a middle-level or start a business in an Internet company. Because there are new demands in the market, if there are good projects in the future, I may consider starting a business.
Su Daxi | UI Design of 25-year-old Dachang
I often ask myself, "Are you tired?" Tired! Just tired, because comfort is reserved for the rich. Since I joined this company, I haven't left work at 10: 30, and my normal state is to work until midnight 1 1 before I can go home.
The company won't ask you to work overtime, it will only tell you "when do you want these things". As long as you give them at that time, they will work overtime consciously.
But when I think back, when I just graduated, I was in high spirits. At that time, I was engaged in graphic design and didn't want to make many drawings without standards.
After the "migrant workers" became popular, I sometimes posted an expression pack in the work group that "love is not the whole of life, but working". Most of them were sent to friends, and a photo of "Good morning migrant workers" was sent early in the morning. When I spit out my work, I sent a sentence "Come on, migrant workers" to encourage each other.
Now the whole team has been busy for more than two months, and the APP is finally going online. You think it's all over, but it's actually another beginning. You will start iterative optimization immediately, or start a new project directly. My job is in a dilemma between product and technology. I will try my best to catch up with the progress given by the product manager and leave the time for technical development.
This is the attitude that a professional should have, but I am afraid that the division of labor of small companies is not clear or the work is not well coordinated. Product managers and technicians have a lot of time, but the design is stuck in the middle, and the time is particularly short, so it is urgent.
My previous company didn't pay attention to design and didn't understand it. Now the company is very good, for example, the product manager didn't expect it, but I am a designer. I found that there are illogical places to communicate with him through reverse reasoning, and maybe he will accept my opinion.
But on the other hand, working in a big factory is very stressful, because my colleagues around me are very powerful and often feel inferior to others.
Colleagues from other big factories have done independent projects. My last job was doing graphic design in a small company. The work content belongs to the intermediate link, such as telling me "what kind of drawings I need", I will do it and change the drawings every day.
I switched to UI design, which is equivalent to starting all over again. After the leaders have passed, they should basically learn logic by themselves. My work experience, work experience and even work ability are different from those of my current colleagues. I am in anxiety every day, which actually affects my work status.
But as long as you have anxiety every day in the workplace, even if you start a company as the boss, you are still Party B and a migrant worker. Unless I retire one day, I may get rid of it. Every cause has its consequences. Only by constantly improving one's ability can one lay a solid foundation before retirement.
The only thing I'm not satisfied with is that I'm too busy to fall in love now, but fortunately, my parents don't urge me to do my career well.
A Le | 28 years old, product manager of financial listed companies.
I am quite indifferent to the expression pack of migrant workers, because I have long acknowledged that I am a migrant worker in the city. As a "village boy" in a third-tier and half-town like us, do we need to laugh at ourselves collectively?
Especially when you are in a big company, the happiness of the company has nothing to do with you. Once the company's performance is not good, you will be the first to feel it-because benefits or year-end bonuses are scarce immediately.
Plus, I am a product manager, and everyone has heard the saying that everyone is a product manager. When anyone seems to be able to give you a bunch of ideas, which are actually in your plan or idea, but you can't do it because of various compliance requirements or other reasons, you can only laugh at yourself because "everyone is a product manager".
Migrant workers do not mean that they are not serious or attentive to their work, mainly because they have no right to control and choose, and they have no right to say "no". Sometimes they are even more afraid that they are not needed.
I work in a listed financial company, and I do internal-oriented systems. Compared with C-end products, the number of users is not particularly large, and the data and feedback are not particularly intuitive. The company is also sales-oriented, and its business is offline. The online system is not the most important part. If customers have any questions, they will go directly to the business manager or financial planner. The demand for apps is not particularly high.
Aside from the difficulties in cooperation and wrangling with other big companies, our group is facing the whole business group and needs to connect with different business lines, which will cause a problem: we often make plans, but the plans will never keep up with the changes. According to the plan made two months ago, when the product went online, the form of business promotion changed from A to B, and the company's business ranked first, so we were very passive.
At the same time, whenever it comes to financial business, compliance is always the first factor, and the product department has little room to play. We will operate according to the transaction flow specified above. Over time, the company's intractable diseases were all pushed to our group, and my current working status is "abnormal product manager".
The Internet has gathered more emerging people and industries. When more and more post-00 s join this industry, even when the salary is higher than mine, the pressure will naturally come.
I'll never draw a prototype. There are only a few product directors, and product managers are a new industry. There are hardly any product managers over 40 now. What will happen to me after I'm 35? How should I get up? In fact, the whole industry is still being explored.
I haven't had time to relax completely for a long time. Even during the holidays, I still think about trifles at home and at work. Recently, the most relaxing time was eating a very delicious ascetic chicken on a honeymoon trip. Food heals the soul, away from work, where prices are low, and that moment is really empty.
Peng Ji | 34 years old, an early employee of an Internet company.
Five years ago, an old friend called me to come to Beijing and said that he had started a business and the company would go public in the future, and invited me to join. I was working in a second-tier city. I can't fight for years. I joined as soon as I got excited.
At that time, there were few people in the company, and everyone had no salary. It is estimated that this is to inspire a few friends who joined early, and gave me the status of "co-founder" and little equity. At that time, I felt that I had started a business.
After working for so many years, the company did not go public, but the project was a lot yellow. More importantly, I think I am not an entrepreneur, but a migrant worker.
Before, I thought I came here to change the world, give a speech on the stage and brag in front of young employees. Later, it turned out that I had to do PPT for the CEO every day, go out to run business, deliver tea to customers, order takeout for company employees, and even clean the office. At first, I was in charge of the market, but in fact, I did everything except make the final decision.
When I returned to my hometown, my family asked me what business I was doing in Beijing. What do I usually do? I said that sometimes I have to do PPT and go out to run clients. They asked, aren't you a secretary and salesman? Why do you still do this when you are the boss? I said I'm not the boss, I'm just a part-time worker.
The founders are very powerful, and our so-called co-founders all have a serious working attitude. After all, you didn't register a company, you didn't propose a business model, you didn't provide major funds, and you only had a small percentage of shares. You are starting your own business and working for others.
In the past, my impression of work was that I was carrying my bedclothes and taking a green leather train to move bricks in big cities. Now I think most people in big cities are working. Nowadays, the pace of life is too fast, especially for young people in big cities. Everyone is like a screw, walking in the track set by others. This is the living condition of most people.
Before coming to Beijing, I worked in an Internet company for several years, reaching the middle level of my business position and buying a house in a small city in the south. I was going to go back to my hometown. As a civil servant in a small city, drinking tea and eating seafood at work is quite comfortable. At home, you are your own boss. Even if we go out to work, we are all locals, and the pace of life is slow, so we won't feel so squeezed. After coming to Beijing, the acquaintance society has become a stranger society, social stratification is more obvious, and life is not so rich.
I've been floating in Beijing for so many years, and I'm almost 35 years old in the blink of an eye, and I haven't created anything yet. I can't do odd jobs when I return to my hometown. Due to age restrictions, civil servants only recruit young people. More importantly, entrepreneurship sounds like a halo. Your family thinks that you have become your own boss and done big business. Will be the boss of a listed company in the future. Now, when you return to your hometown, there is always a feeling of loss.
I also thought about quitting my job and looking for an internet company to work hard, but the 35-year-old internet person has no advantage in the internet world of big cities, and the back wave has already photographed you on the beach.
* The title map comes from deep combustion. At the request of interviewees, Yang Yang, Tian Liang, Lu Xiao, Su Daxi, Ale and Peng Ji are pseudonyms.