Text: another dimension
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During the tax season, my good friend on Facebook came to me to file tax returns.
I looked at the payroll and was shocked.
"I know that Facebook has a high salary, but the annual salary of a group of 20-year-old or 23-year-old keyboard men who just graduated from undergraduate courses is 165438+ 10,000, which is too exaggerated!"
"I will raise my salary by 30% next year, but I will create more value for the company."
These young people, who are spoiled by high salaries, quite regard themselves as characters.
I especially like the Facebook office.
Located in the center of Seattle, with floor-to-ceiling windows and the best scenery in rainy city, the table is close to the window, the chair can move freely, the color is neat and the space is vast. In the corner, the shelves are full of snacks. When you open the refrigerator, milk, yogurt, soda and beer are all available, all of which are expensive brands.
Coffee can be ground in the open kitchen, and fruit can be put in exquisite baskets. All the furnishings are painstaking, not abrupt, but full of beauty.
Most importantly, everything is free, just take it.
This is the teahouse.
The office area was full of Apple computers, and suddenly a Texas Hold 'em table was inserted. Not far away, there is a cylinder I don't know. My good friend pulled forward, revealing a bed. It is said that code farmers who are not inspired or tired from work can come in and sleep, soundproof and avoid light.
Is it fun enough?
Not enough. There is a game room on the lower floors. Sofa TV, Xbox, Lego, fitness ball and a basket of toys are scattered all over the floor, and there is a table tennis table five meters to the right. Americans always think that China people are table tennis gods. On Facebook, as many as 34% of Asian employees can hear Chinese anywhere, and table tennis table may be a gift to please them. Oh, keyboard, mouse, USB flash drive, earphone, charger in vending machine ... just swipe your work card, and take as much as you want without paying.
What about the canteen?
Chefs often change, and dishes from different countries are often updated, which is big enough to accommodate employees of the whole company. Every Friday, Zuckerberg, who rarely comes to Seattle, will host a video conference for them here. A huge Facebook is a scene of "one world, one public world".
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Many of my best playmates in college live here. They are in the office when they ask questions, and I have become a frequent visitor.
Sitting by the window chatting, people from China often pass by, looking for people from China to join us. Why don't you go home every weekend? I asked.
"The office is more interesting than home, with food, drinks and toys."
"The network speed is very fast!"
"Zuckerberg cried and raised a nest of children who love to take advantage."
"He should be laughing. We are full and tired of playing, so we can only remember the unfinished code. Go back to playing, work overtime, no overtime pay. We can't even eat enough overtime for this snack and drink. "They retorted.
"Zuckerberg is too smart." I sincerely sigh.
"Well, people here are very smart."
Eating and playing, the scenery is pleasant. Not far away, I saw Brother Blonde dating his girlfriend in the teahouse. His girlfriend made coffee and he wrote the code. The light poured into the French window and sprinkled on their young figures, harmonious and quiet, like a painting.
Such a working environment, with an annual salary of 165438+ 10,000 RMB, is simply paradise.
They unexpectedly decided to resign at three o'clock.
At three o'clock in the morning, I will suddenly receive a phone call.
"I think of a way to improve our ideas (three thousand words are omitted here)! Aren't you going back to China to sell books? Remember to do market research. If it is almost the same, I will resign immediately! "
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I first met him in the 24-hour library four or five years ago. I'm wearing headphones and tapping on the keyboard. I am very happy to scratch, and the action is particularly big.
Seeing the library game from a distance, I thought, can you keep a low profile? When you look closely, you are actually writing code.
He successfully entered the Computer College with a very low admission rate, and his younger brother and sister teamed up for experience. He doesn't know how to control his hard work. I taught him: "You study for seven hours a day. In order to avoid the peak of the canteen, you have enough to eat before six o'clock and take a bag of beef jerky to prevent the later hunger from affecting efficiency." For the younger generation, this is a very shocking experience. "
He waved and refused to lie.
"Everyone is different. For me, spending time on programming is the most meaningful and enjoyable thing for me. For me, self-discipline is a means to get close to the person I want to be. So the more self-disciplined I am, the happier I am. If they think that only by controlling themselves and learning the code well can life have a way out, then the more self-disciplined they are, the more painful they will be, and then it will be more difficult for them to brainwash themselves by' eating bitterness and being a master'. What if they commit suicide? I don't think I am bitter, I am very happy. "
From then on, I no longer spread the legend of the group of "self-study for seven hours a day".
"The seniors worked hard all those years, so they succeeded." This bowl of chicken soup is poisonous. If hard work itself can't make you happy, there will only be pressure and pain in the long road. It's too late to adjust your negative energy every day. How can we stand out? In any industry, trying to help you survive will not help you stand out at most, only love from the heart.
After his annual salary is one million yuan, people often ask, "Senior, what is the secret for you to reach the peak of your life quickly?" "Where is the peak? I am now in the stage of accumulation dormancy, and my life has not yet begun. "
Yes, he will decide to resign at three o'clock in the morning and give up his idea before going to work. Call me and say I can't bear to part with his mentor.
Facebook provides mentors for every new employee, takes them to projects, teaches them skills and answers all their questions. He often says that Facebook is the best school in the world that he can find after leaving college. He is a big fan of the tutor and wants to finish the project at hand and learn more before leaving.
He has successfully completed several projects. Every time he completes one, a group of college friends celebrate him, get together for dinner, ski, go to sea, drive 2000 miles and travel in South America for three days ... I sigh, if you leave Facebook, you will have to bid farewell to freedom, five stars and first class.
He said, it doesn't matter. Forget it. I have always been very happy, because I have seen my progress over the years, and I was not happy until I came to Facebook. If there is a place where I can study and show better, I would like to go. What attracted him was never the million-dollar annual salary, but the learning opportunities.
His greatest happiness always comes from learning itself.
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Another playmate of the "self-study for seven hours a day" group is now in the Surface Pro team at Microsoft headquarters. Code farmers in similar companies have the duty to call once every two months for a week-for problems that cannot be solved by local branches and customer engineers, they must be on standby 24 hours a day and solve them immediately.
Brother Microsoft is 23 years old, single and lives alone. He is on call on New Year's Eve. I felt sorry for him and asked him to go home and rub jiaozi.
A group of friends who went abroad to study and then stayed, video-talked with their families together. Seven or eight screens were on, and my parents exchanged New Year greetings and thanked his daughter for taking care of my son. Suddenly, brother Microsoft's phone rang. He jumped to work, knocked on the keyboard and spoke English. The whole video is mourning for him. It was two o'clock in the morning in Seattle.
Since then, his parents, together with his three aunts and six grandmothers, have given him all kinds of education. "What do you do to earn so much money? If you work hard like this, you will earn money! Money is very important, but earning money is almost enough. If you don't work hard, you will regret it sooner or later. Life is also important, and poetry and distance are also important. "
He nodded and didn't refute. He tried to tell the villagers that besides making money, it is more important that he made awesome products, but the villagers still only remember that he made money. Young, hard working and earning a lot of money.
"Work is my poem and distance, why don't they understand?" Brother Microsoft asked.
There are many people in this world who have never experienced what it's like to do a job that they love, are good at and generate value, and then realize themselves from it-all happiness comes from learning, accumulation and progress, from polishing a product, constantly making it better, and watching it make the world better. They don't know this feeling exists. They can only see what they can understand, money.
Therefore, in their eyes, young successful people just work hard and earn a lot of money.
They overdraw their health and work too hard. Or am I so relaxed, healthy, happy and long?
In fact, I just can't understand the meaning of life pursued by others and the happiness that others get from it.
Half a year before the launch of the new product, Microsoft Brothers updated its circle of friends at four in the morning.
"This world is a group of people running at high speed day and night, and another group of people wake up and find that the world has changed."
His efforts are not hard work, nor are they for millions of annual salary. Hard work is the way for him to realize himself and make him infinitely happy.
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My high school classmates asked me to ask my friends to tweet Facebook.
He has been "someone else's child" since he was a child. He is the top three in provincial key high schools, playing the piano, practicing Taekwondo and singing bel canto. He was admitted to the best university in the country and graduated to study abroad. For several years in high school, he was spoiled by his teachers. Everyone thinks that he is a hero of idol drama and will dominate the world in the future.
However, six years later, although his resume is not ugly, he has become an extremely mediocre person.
Following the advice of teachers and parents, in order not to waste high marks, I chose the school of economics and management with the highest threshold. Later, it was found that programming was popular and paid well, and it was the easiest to stay in the United States, so graduate students turned to it.
But after finding a job, I found that America is a boring place, leaving work at six o'clock and having no nightlife. I sigh from time to time: "I have worked hard for so long, which is such a life." "That's it? Am I getting married and having children like this, and am I old? " However, at least I am well-fed and well-educated, and occasionally complaining is always said to be showing off.
Seeing Facebook, peers are generally optimistic and full of energy. The harder you work, the happier you are, with an annual salary of one million. Soft welfare is world-famous and very desirable.
But he didn't pass the Facebook interview.
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Having dinner together, the "seven-hour" group talked about the ideal as usual, and talked about how to help themselves get close to the ideal through what they learned at work. They are very happy, and their old classmates are sitting next to them, giving birth to a strong sense of inferiority.
"I found that these people decided what they were going to do early in the morning, and then they spent their whole lives accumulating strength for their ideals, so when talking about life and the future, their eyes were full of hope and light. I am so lucky. "
I said, who are you to blame for not looking for and guarding your ideals? At first I sympathized with Zuckerberg. People waving millions of annual salary are eager to move in droves and full of the idea of resigning.
Later, I learned that Zuckerberg couldn't find anyone willing to stay on Facebook with 1 10,000. He doesn't want it.
The young people he is looking for don't look at chicken soup, they are chicken soup themselves. Taking learning as the greatest pleasure, I am eager for self-accumulation, addicted to self-realization, not afraid of failure, full of dreams, confident that I can change the world with my own hands.
He is looking for someone who wants to be Zuckerberg.
This is really an unresolved contradiction.
At the age of 22, Zuckerberg rejected Yahoo's $654.38 billion acquisition. Those young people who can make Facebook wave an annual salary of 6.5438+0 million are not those who pursue an annual salary of 6.5438+0 million.