即便你不是自由工作者
Even if you don’t work for yourself,
即便你在公司里有一份
even if you have a job inside a company and you love it,
你热爱 值得坚持的工作
that’s what you want to keep doing,
我还是想鼓励诸位思考
I would actually encourage everyone to think about
如何让生活和工作中的收入
how they can develop multiple income streams
成倍增长
in their own life and in their own business.
我的职业生涯始于
When I started my professional career
作为一名记者
I was a journalist
大概工作了一年时间
and I had been doing it for about a year,
有一天 我被叫去人事办公室
and one day I got called into the HR office
我被解雇得毫无预兆
and I got laid off without warning.
他们给我一周的解雇补偿金
And they gave me a week’s severance pay.
事实上 周一我已经工作了
Technically I had actually already worked Monday,
所以相当于只有四天的补偿
so it was four days severance pay.
我不得不找出自身的问题
And I somehow had to figure out what to do with myself.
就这样 在22岁 我第一次意识到
And that, at age 22, was my first realization
我们认为理所当然的事
that the things that we take for granted,
我们认为稳定的事 都不会持久
the things that we think are stable, are not always.
事业上 如果你想主动创收
If you take the initiative to develop multiple income streams in your business,
如果你每周能花几个小时
if you even just spend a couple of hours a week
发展某种副业
developing some kind of a side project for yourself,
你将受益无穷
there are a host of benefits.
首先 你要保证日常工作不出问题
First of all, heaven forbid something happens with your day job,
如果做到了 你又额外发展
but if it does, you’ve been cultivating something that
你就能创造额外收入
over time, awfully, you’ve been able to create to
这些额外收入
bring in additional revenue
能起到缓冲作用
which creates a cushion and gives you something else
让你完成转变
you might have to be able to pivot toward.
这非常好
That’s great.
但是让我说说另一案例
But let me make another case.
哪怕你百分百确定
Even if you feel 100 percent sure that
你和雇主的关系良好且稳定
things are good with your employer and are going to stay that way,
当你在私下做企业实验时
which is when you do entrepreneurial experimentation on your own time,
你就是在增加自己对公司的价值
you are making yourself more valuable to your company.
在我的书《创业的你》中
In my book, ‘Entrepreneurial You’,
我讲述了连尼·亚干的故事
I actually tell the story of a guy named Lenny Achan.
现在伦尼是我认识的人
Now Lenny was somebody that I got to know
因为我给他的雇主做顾问
because I was consulting for his employer.
那时 他曾在纽约的西奈山医院工作
At the time he used to work for Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
我一直听说这个人
And I kept hearing about him.
人们背后议论他
People were sort of whispering about him
因为他晋升太快了
because he had risen so rapidly in the organization.
所以遇到他时 我很好奇
And so when I met him I was curious.
我说：“伦尼 你经历了什么 给我讲讲吧”
I said, “Lenny, what’s your story? Tell me.”
在职业生涯的最初
And it turns out he had started his career
他是医院的一名护士
as a nurse at the hospital,
我遇到他时
and by the time I met him,
他正运营医院的通讯系统
he was running communications for the hospital.
这不是惯常的职业道路
That is not a traditional career path.
绝大部分护士不做这些
The vast majority of nurses are not doing that.
但是 他能突然转变
But the way he was able to dramatically transform
职业和收入的原因是
his career and his income
私下里 他对应用程序
was that he had become interested
越来越感兴趣
in the side, on his own time, with apps.
所以他另外学习了
And so he learned what he need to learn
创造应用程序的必备知识
in order to create a couple of apps on the side.
他的老板发现了这件事
His boss found out about it,
有一天 把他叫进了办公室
called him into the office one day.
连尼以为他不小心违反了什么规定
Lenny was worried because he thought
他十分担心
maybe he had violated some policy he wasn’t aware of.
但是老板并没有解雇他或者惩罚他
But instead of firing him or punishing him
老板说：连尼 我听说你做了些应用程序
his boss said, Lenny, I hear you’ve made some apps.
然后连尼说：是的 我做了
And Lenny said, well yes, it’s true. I did.
接着老板说
And the boss said,
我们需要有人运营医院的社交媒体
we need someone to run social media for the hospital.
我想你应该可以
I think it should be you.
所以他晋升了
And so he got that promotion
他做得很好
and he did so well with it,
最终他成了整个通信部的部长
ultimately they gave him the entire communications portfolio.
当你在个人时间里学习和尝试时
When you are learning and experimenting on your own time,
你能追寻兴趣
you are able to pursue your interests,
加深爱好程度 学习更多技能
deepen your passions, gain more skills
它们都会回馈给你的工作
and then bring all of that back to work for your employer.
当他们看到你主动去做
When they see that you’ve taken the initiative to do that,
你就变得突出
it sets you apart.
绝大多数人不会这样做
The vast majority of people are not doing that
而你 最终会得到奖赏
and it ultimately is likely to lead to you being rewarded
即使在现有工作上也如此
even more in your current job
这让你更有把握
and making you that much more secure.
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