What should I do if I have no experience and no one to guide me?

Some classmates left me a message asking, "I have just started working in a new media operation position, and there is no experienced person to lead me in the company. What should I do?"

This question has been asked several times, so I wrote down my opinion seriously today.

"Telling a story about an operator "

Let me tell you a story first. I know an operations guy who was also very unlucky. The boss of his first company was a jerk. He paid him a very low salary and did not train him much. After a year and a half, he couldn't stand it anymore and left.

Later he went to a new company. Although the boss was quite powerful, he was nowhere to be seen most of the time. When he was seen, he only came to sign for reimbursements. There was no one to guide him throughout the entire work process.

Less than a year later, he went to another company. At the beginning, his work was not going well. He always failed to do his job well and was very miserable. Two months later, the COO who recruited him resigned, and the company did not recruit a more capable operations person for a long time. There was no one to guide him at all.

What’s even sadder is that the company’s financing was almost gone, and all developers, designers, and product managers were laid off, and product development was also stopped. Including the boss and the finance department, there are only four people left. Without anyone to lead the company, the entire company is about to collapse.

This person is really unlucky. Since he entered the workplace, there has been no one to guide him, and he has encountered many bumps on the road to operational growth.

Fortunately, he was very hardworking and the short-term setbacks inspired him to constantly improve his abilities through self-study, thinking and summarizing to cope with the current difficulties.

The fact that there was no one to guide him actually gave him a lot of room to develop his ideas.

Then he gradually made some small achievements, his salary gradually increased, and slowly more outstanding colleagues began to recognize him.

Because I had a lot of experience in independently managing projects, I was later invited to be an operations partner in a company founded by a former Tencent technical director.

It was this "unlucky" guy who shamelessly opened a public account and carefully wrote 13 articles. Fortunately, he attracted 28,000 followers.

Well, I am the unlucky guy.

"How can you grow quickly without anyone to guide you?" 』

Of course it would be better if there is someone to guide us, and we can indeed produce some results faster.

But looking back now, maybe it was because there was no one to guide me that I developed my ability to think and solve problems.

Without a mentor, there is no dependence mentality and you have to solve problems independently, which increases the opportunities for self-improvement.

In order to solve the problem, you have to try every possible way to search for information, try a lot of things, reflect and summarize, and draw inferences from one example . In this process, your abilities will also improve rapidly.

In addition to the ability to solve problems, we have gradually developed the ability to find "solutions" , so that we can deal with more complex challenges more easily.

So I think that in the workplace, the most important thing is not whether you have "someone to guide you", but whether you have the opportunity to grow quickly and the awareness of self-growth.

For example, this is like a monster-killing game . Some people will envy having a big brother to lead them in the game. It is easy to kill monsters all the way, and a lot of experience points are indeed gained in the process of picking up leaks, but most of the experience points are still taken away by the big brother.

For those without a big brother to guide them, it is much harder to kill monsters. If you are not careful, you will die and have to start over. After failing a few times, you will start to get discouraged and sigh:

After lamenting, I began to find a reason to justify my continued failures and slow progress: "That's because no one is guiding me!"

Another type of person who doesn't have a big brother to lead him, although it is difficult to kill monsters by himself at the beginning, he keeps trying to find ways to defeat the monsters one by one.

In this case, all the experience points gained from killing monsters are on him alone, so overall he grows quite fast.

What are the opportunities for rapid growth? 』

It means that the company can give you some opportunities that allow you to be responsible independently, maybe not the entire project, but at least a small part of the project.

When you are independently responsible for this part, you need to try to solve the problem yourself. Every plan you conceive and every action you take will have feedback from users and data, and you can make continuous adjustments to achieve better results.

In addition to finding ways to achieve your goals, you also need to deal with various emergencies and coordinate resources from all parties. This process is the most rewarding.

In addition, it is also important that the company is open-minded and the leadership delegates power . This way you can fully express your ideas and when you have different opinions from your leader, he can discuss with you instead of just saying "just do what I say" for all issues.

If your company has no one to guide and train you, and does not give you space to display your abilities, or if you are given blind orders by people who do not understand the Internet at all, then you can consider changing jobs. (Reply "job search" to see specific suggestions)

"Should I find a company with someone to lead me?"

So is it worse to have no one to guide you than to have someone to guide you?

The point is not whether there is someone to lead it! It’s about whether you have the awareness to continue learning and growing.

The truth is, if you don't have this awareness, even if someone guides you, you may still grow slowly.

Stop complaining that no one is guiding you. Instead, think about whether you don’t have strong enough learning ability to solve the difficult problems you are facing.

Having a wise leader is better than having no leader at all, but remember that it is not the main factor that determines how fast you grow.

Conclusion

If you are struggling to solve a problem and feeling miserable, tell yourself that this is normal. It is these things that temporarily make it difficult for you that help you grow.

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