Whether To Move Or To Stay: The Confusion Of Changing White-Collar Cities

In the three cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, due to high housing prices,

[white-collar knot] moving outside to tie up environmental constraints

Fred, 29 years old, worked in Beijing for 5 years.

Fred, who has been in Beijing for 5 years, said he was envious of the living conditions described by his old classmates at the party gathering at the Spring Festival: the beautiful Jiangnan Town, the 230 square meter duplex room, the 15 minute bus ride to work, and three to five times to go to the parents' home for dinner.

He could not help wondering whether the choice to stay in Beijing was wrong.

Intense competition in the workplace, spend 35 hours a day running dozens of kilometers to work, there are still unattainable housing prices!

Fred said frankly that he also wanted to return to the familiar hometown of Jiangnan, but what happened to his girlfriend who had been in Beijing for 3 years?

What do family members expect of their roots in Beijing and their return to their homecoming?

Can I continue my career development if I leave Beijing?

When I think about this, I have to dispel the idea of escaping. "

"Many people choose to develop in big cities, no matter to rich and fast information in the big cities, relatively fair competition environment, freedom of life and high chance of success, and fierce competition.

It's hard to keep pressure.

Mary, 30 years old, worked in Shanghai for 6 years.

In early 2008, Mary and her husband spent 820 thousand yuan on the outer ring road outside Shanghai, and bought a house with two rooms and one hall. When they got married, they paid 300 thousand of the down payment and paid more than four thousand yuan a month.

Originally thought it would be "happy and happy life", who knows that the husband in the architectural design institute is almost overwhelmed by that lucrative job.

The excessive labor intensity and psychological pressure caused by his work made him overdraw. He even did not dare to ask for leave.

In the middle of 2009, a IT company in Suzhou sent an invitation to Mr. Mary, promising to pay higher vocational education.

Although Suzhou's housing prices are not cheap, it is cheaper than Shanghai, and the household registration problem is also easy to solve.

After weighing several times and repeatedly communicating with their parents, after the Spring Festival this year, they sold Shanghai's house and moved to Suzhou.

Mary said that after moving to Suzhou, the quality of life was significantly higher than that of Shanghai, and family relations also improved a lot.

The vast majority of white-collar workers who are changing the city do not want to give up their efforts in Shanghai for many years. They just keep on leaving them behind.

[Planning Proposals]

Staying in a big city or going to a two or three tier city is not a good choice.

For friends who are in the vortex of contradiction, we should consider the following three aspects:

Carefully compare the gains and losses of moving and guarding.

With the intensification of urbanization, many people have come to the "north to Guangzhou". But how many people have considered or assessed whether they are really fit for the city before entering the city?

How many people combine their future career development with the development of big cities rationally?

In order to calculate the gains and losses of moving and guarding, we can see the result most intuitively by using the more common "gain and loss balance assessment" in career planning consultation.

Find out a blank sheet of paper and list the A and B places that need to be listed. According to the importance level, list anything you think is important, such as living environment, employment opportunities, work environment, work remuneration, promotion and development, training opportunities, self actualization, family relationship, spouse influence, resource utilization, leisure time, challenge, achievement and so on.

According to their own feelings, the scores of each project for different cities are varied from -5 to 5 points. For example, compared to Suzhou, Shanghai has 5 points in Suzhou and 3 points in Shanghai.

The higher the score, the more obvious your subjective guidance is.

Thinking clearly about the development goal of oneself

No matter which city you work, it is for your own good career development.

If we have a clear career planning and development direction before we choose which city to work, we will have a clear idea of "what kind of person do I want to be" and "what kind of job do I have to do". "Which city can I achieve more easily and achieve the fastest and best career development"? Will it be more scientific, smarter and clearer when facing the choice of developing cities?

Planning for future based on current situation

From the point of view of career development, it is suggested that in the early stage of career development, more attention should be paid to the biggest job of self training, and jobs in the areas where employment opportunities are more developed can be matched with their career goals.

Job seekers in this period should not be too frequent to change cities, because the resources you accumulate in a certain city will gradually lose their value with the change of the region. At the same time, the adaptation to new culture and new environment will also be a great challenge. In the middle stage of career development, when career experience, working ability and economic level are relatively mature, there are suitable development opportunities to choose to work and live in the cities that you like, so as to improve the happiness index and better life.