In 2020, I decided to give up Amazon

The period between New Year's Day and the Spring Festival is actually quite interesting to think about.

I think this period is more like a gestation period and a sprint period.

According to the Gregorian calendar, the new year is approaching, and it's time to think about what you want to do next year.

But according to the lunar calendar, this period is still at the end of the previous year. You can use the efforts during this period to make up for the regrets of the past, just like the final sprint of a marathon, and try to create a better result.

No matter which algorithm you prefer, Tea Shopkeeper wants to ask: Have you figured out what you want to do in 2020?

Recently, I saw a hot post on the K circle of Kuaiguozhidao.

The poster said that he graduated in 2018 from a non-key university, majoring in trade economics, and his second degree was in e-commerce. After graduation, he has been working in a small company in Shenzhen on the cross-border e-commerce Wish platform.

She has been working for about a year and a half now, and she thinks about the future from time to time. She thinks cross-border e-commerce is not very friendly to older girls.

She mentioned two points in the post. First, the resignation rate (being persuaded to leave) of their company was particularly high, with more than one hundred people leaving in one year (they were a small company with just over one hundred people).

The second is that more than 90% of the company’s employees are in their twenties.

Given this, she was curious about what those female employees did after they turned 30 or even 40.

As a relatively new industry, cross-border e-commerce has a relatively younger workforce and a faster work pace than many traditional industries.

In such a young and fast-paced environment, the mentality of practitioners is generally more impetuous. After working for one or two years, many people, if they have not achieved good results, are prone to fall into a state of confusion, not knowing whether to change careers while they are still young or continue on the same path.

Personally, I think that if after 1-2 years of trying, you find that your interest is not in the cross-border e-commerce industry or if there are things you particularly want to do, then don't hesitate and change bravely.

Let me tell you about the experience of a friend of mine. He passed the CET-8 and was recruited by a large retailer in Shenzhen in 2017 as a customer service representative. After 9 months, he was transferred from customer service supervisor to operation. After 8 months, he became the number one in sales and interest rate in his department.

But what no one expected was that the day after the company distributed year-end bonuses after the New Year, she chose to resign, then rented a house near the university, and used the year-end bonus to enroll in a training course that offered a full refund if she failed the exam.

Yes, she has always wanted to be an English teacher, but when they graduate, everyone wants to go out and travel.

After six months of intensive review, she successfully passed the exam and is now an English teacher and class teacher in her alma mater of high school.

What I post on my Moments every day are my students’ smiling faces and scenes of myself preparing for lessons.

At 5:30 this morning, I sent a message about my location in Shenzhen, saying that school was on holiday and I wanted to go out and have some fun!

The reason I talked about her experience is because I think her experience is more representative. Many girls working in cross-border e-commerce would choose to change their careers by taking the exam to become a teacher, as they think that being a teacher has an easy job and there are winter and summer vacations.

But if it is just because of this reason, you may not be able to stick to it for long. Many of my classmates listened to their family's advice and went to school when they graduated, and now they are complained about, such as students being naughty, old teachers finding fault, etc.

Of course, more people will not choose to leave the big industry of cross-border e-commerce. They may change jobs, such as from customer service to operations, from Wish operations to Shopify operations, or some sellers may switch to become service providers.

I know an operator who used to work for Wish in Yiwu. His colleagues and boss were very friendly, and his performance was also okay. However, he felt that the gameplay of Wish was not exciting enough, and he could not find a sense of accomplishment in his work. So after working in the company for a year and a half, he chose to resign and then came to Shenzhen to work for a company that does Shopify.

When I asked him last week about his work, he said he had a lot to learn, but he gained something new every day and was happier at work than before. It was just that his commute was too crowded, so he had to leave home an hour earlier every day.

In the long journey of life, if you take some time to choose, you may see a different picture.

Of course, many friends may choose to start a business in the new year.

Let me share a sentence that a veteran Amazon trader whom I personally admire said at the annual meeting a few days ago. 70% of people have thought about starting their own business, and 30% have made more or less preparations for starting a business, such as trying to select products and register a company.

But in reality, only 3% of people actually completed the entire process of starting a business, and 0.5% of people did not lose money.

The reason why I agree with this statement is that I have witnessed many people around me fail in starting a business. They entered the market happily and exited sadly. However, it seems that they have become more mature in their mentality after starting a business . After returning to the workplace, they are more clear about what they want and how to do it.

In 2020, some people will definitely leave the cross-border e-commerce industry, but what is certain is that thousands of fresh blood will pour in.

Will you change your career in 2020?