小納邁向棕熊之路

The most valuable lessons I’ve learned from my summer internship are the skills of Microsoft Office, interviews, teamwork, and, last but not the least, the art of “rework”.

Imagine that you spend several hours sitting in front of your computer, typing, coding, drawing charts, copying-pasting, proofreading etc. until the end of the day, and then you email your precious mega files to your supervisors, senior colleagues, or teammates (or you print them out and present in a meeting).

A couple of minutes after, you are told these are wrong/ useless/ illogical/ meaningless/ too complicated, you name it. You need to make a vast change or just dump it.

You go back to your once-you-sit-down-nobody-can-see-you cube, open the file, and wonder why you can be such a dimwit. Before you rework on it, you have to either delete your work or save another version_x file (I always have xxx_v1, xxx_v2, all the way to xxx_v8). Seriously, it’s hard to decide. They are like your babies, although it’s 10 hours instead of 10 months of intimacy.

Before you look back and regret in the future, chill out and think. The version_x files are just a waste of your disk space. You create a folder called “crap” and collect all these files no one would ever take a look again. Thus, the best solution is to delete the dumb work, though it’s mental suffering when you click that mouse.

So how can you successfully overcome the emotional barriers?

I’ve found out the solution “this morning”. Yes, “morning”, that’s the answer. Dumping these files is the first thing you should do at work in the early morning. You feel fresh, young, energetic, aggressive, and ready to make a difference to the world. (The truth is, you forget what happened yesterday after you wake up, so the emotional barriers disappear themselves.) You delete all these data and start to work hard - until you get rejected next time, and then everything starts all over again.