What have I experienced from telephone customer service to becoming a freelance writer?

Last month, I wrote an article, "Your ability can't keep up with your ambition, and you are eager to make money. It's really embarrassing. "I have gained a lot of reading and gained a collection of nearly 1000 in the headlines.

In fact, the inspiration for writing this article is that a contributor did not submit as required, resulting in no reply after the deadline.

So he cursed me on WeChat and deleted me. I came up with this title in a rage.

It is true that writing comes from life. The article talked about some writers who were eager to make money, but I dropped out of college to work and then changed careers by leaps and bounds.

Some readers see that many people from the media make money by writing, so when they encounter something unsatisfactory at work, they want to resign immediately and become a freelance writer.

Do you want to write this story with two feet on both sides or resign and start over?

My answer is always, put your feet on two boats and decide which one suits you before making a choice.

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Let me talk about my experience before I became a freelance writer.

/kloc-when I dropped out of school at the age of 0/9, I had no knowledge and diploma, just looking for a job to make a living.

This year is the worst year. When I was poor, I only dared to eat 50 cents of sweet steamed bread for breakfast, and I also encountered the embarrassment of having no money to eat.

Because of greed and desire, I was cheated of 1000 yuan, which is why I often write articles warning people not to be eager for quick success and quick success, and not to be too eager to make money. I've stepped deep in the pit!

At the age of 20, I was still looking for cheap part-time jobs everywhere, serving dishes, washing dishes in the kitchen and delivering real estate bills. At that time, I was unemployed.

Once, when I was a part-time waiter, a woman was very kind to me. At work, our bags are put in the same cupboard, and the keys are kept by her.

Then at the end of the day, I found that more than 100 yuan in my bag was missing. Before I found out that the money was lost, the woman with the key had disappeared. At that time, 100 yuan was already a lot of money for me!

But she introduced me to a job, that is, I stuck to the telephone customer service work for two years, so 100 yuan bought a job.

Telephone customer service, as the name implies, is to answer the phone every day and talk on the phone until the voice is hoarse. After I become a full-time employee, I can get about 5000 yuan a month (excluding five insurances and one gold).

This salary was already quite high for me at that time, after all, the salary of many college graduates was also hovering in this range.

Job stability is stable, but after a long time, if there is no passion, no innovation, no breakthrough, most people will resign, and I am that ordinary person.

Also, if you want to earn about 5000 yuan a month, you have to answer the phone very hard. Some employees earn only 3,000 to 4,000 yuan.

Later, I felt that I had encountered a bottleneck and was unwilling to take my salary, so I began to write in my spare time to relieve my worries, and my writing story began.

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I worked as a telephone customer service for two years. A few months before I left my job, I was almost in a state of soy sauce. Finally, I felt really bored and submitted my resignation application.

After I resigned, I started to write the official WeChat account, when I was 22 years old.

Then I got a job as a copywriter. After interview and written examination, I successfully switched from telephone customer service to copywriting editor, but it's a pity that the boss announced the dissolution of the company more than a month later.

At that time, the Spring Festival was approaching, and I was more and more confused about my future. I felt that my situation was very bad, so I took a long trip with my friends, went to Fenghuang Ancient City and Xi 'an, and spent all my savings.

After the New Year, my friend introduced me to make money by selling credit cards, so I also became a credit card salesman. The job of sweeping the floor and running errands really didn't suit me, and I resigned after more than a month.

At this time, I was 23 years old and had no stable and formal job. Of course, I will be anxious and confused.

But whenever I sit at the computer desk and type a string of words, it always calms my anxious heart. The only worry is that I don't know how to make my words come true.

My boyfriend likes children very much, and she hopes I can find a job to teach children to draw, because my high school major is drawing, and I can also do such a simple job as early education as an art teacher.

So I got a job that had nothing to do with words. Fortunately, because I have been writing the official account of WeChat these days, I got a part-time job to operate the official account of WeChat, and the salary is higher than my main business.

I really became a freelance writer in 2065438+March 2009. At that time, I didn't have a fixed writing organization or a fixed source of income.

Now that I think about it, I feel that my writing path is really bumpy. Maybe everyone has encountered many difficult experiences like me when growing up.

When I decided to be a freelance writer, in fact, my monthly income from early writing was only 1000, and more income came from photography.

I also want to be a freelance photographer, but I find that the threshold for photographers is very high. Not only do you have to spend money on equipment, but you also have a lot of professional knowledge. And it's hard for girls to run outside all day, so I chose writing after weighing.

I wrote it on the official WeChat account, I was draining it, and I wrote gossip in today's headlines. I tried many methods, took many detours, and gradually got a clearer positioning and a more stable income.

The intermediate process, if you want to elaborate, really can't finish writing a book.

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Having said so much about my previous experience, I want to talk about my family now.

As a freelance writer, many parents disapprove because of instability, no social security and no sense of security.

I have a bad relationship with my parents. I have little contact with them since I was a child, so they don't care about my work. Up to now, my father doesn't know what I am doing.

My mother doesn't care about my job either. My income has nothing to do with them, and their income has nothing to do with me.

Raising my grandmother, because she is a rural person, doesn't know what I do and doesn't ask how much money I can earn. She just wants me to take care of myself. She'll be happy.

I will buy some furniture and daily necessities for my family and send some money to my grandmother occasionally. In a word, my family won't object to my choosing freelancing.

In fact, as long as you can earn money by freelancing, no one will refute you. The only reason they don't agree is that you can't achieve this through freelancing.

At first, my boyfriend was very unhappy, but although he opposed it, he also supported me in his heart, praised me actively, shared my article, and then slowly accepted my choice.

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Finally, to sum up.

In our life, from graduation to finding a job, from finding a job to supporting ourselves to a job we really love, we will experience many twists and turns in this process.

Even some people have been busy all their lives, and they can't be attached to the cause they love.

Freelance writers are the vision of many people who like to write. It feels good to save the commuting time, write everything around you into your own story, and then make money.

But in fact, how beautiful the imagination is, how skinny the reality is.

If you want to be a freelance writer and earn money, you must be professional enough, not just saying "I like writing".

To tell the truth, before I decided to be a writer, I also read many related articles and some successful cases, but I still don't know where to start after reading other people's stories.

Li Ka-shing once said:

"The most time-wasting thing in the world is to tell young people about experience. Say ten thousand words, it is better to fall down by yourself. Tears teach you to be a man and regret helping you grow up. In fact, the detour that life should take is indispensable. "

Yes, it's better to fall than to hear a hundred truths from others.

/kloc-after dropping out of school at the age of 0/9, he experienced the time of being cheated, anxious and at a loss. From telephone customer service to credit card sales, from early education teachers to freelance writing, I really fell many times.

Many people ask in Zhihu how to become a freelance writer and get along well. There is really no reliable answer to such a question.

Instead of constantly learning from Zhihu's experience in finding successful people, we should practice more, read more books and code more.

Behind every excellent person, there is an unknown silence time, which is a day when a lot of efforts have been made but no results have been achieved.

We call this period the rooting stage.

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