📍Add some 6 "Web3 answers" that you may need
There are some questions under this content about Web3 work and content. I will expand it and make a Q&A.
First of all, it’s about work👇🏻
1/Q: I feel that there are fewer job opportunities in Web3, and there is a lack of "big companies" in the traditional sense. I don’t know what to do in the future
A: The industry is still in its early stages. In fact, there are still many job opportunities, but it is foreseeable that job mobility is also quite high
In addition, there is the issue of future job transfers. I could foresee before I changed jobs in 22 years that it would be difficult for me to return to the traditional financial system in China in the future
But in fact, this problem is the same for any industry. Don’t substitute the experience or position in one industry into another industry. You are almost starting over, unless it is a panacea profession like finance, administration, etc.
2/Q: I am not a programmer or a financial practitioner. I don’t know which position to start the transformation of Web3. I feel that the experience in my job position is not useful?
A: Community MOD is the most direct choice. It is still the topic above. If you change industries directly, your salary level should be "reset" because the resources and work experience accumulated in your original industry will most likely not help your future Web3 work.
Although the salary of community operation may be lower than other positions, it can still play an extraordinary role in accumulating industry resources for you, and the most important thing is that the threshold is relatively low.
Take me as an example. My current job is introduced to me by a friend who I met when I was managing a community in 2019.
If you do community MOD, if you just treat yourself as a robot-like customer service, it is no different from e-commerce customer service, but if you try to make friends with people in the community, then the potential return for doing the same amount of work is more.
3/Q: How do you integrate your main business work and your own account operation?
A: Web3 work can give us a lot of relatively free time because of the distributed office nature. Time is like water in a sponge. If you squeeze it, there will always be more.
Also, unless you are the leader of an important department of a project/exchange/investment institution, you really need to spare a considerable amount of time for your main business to handle cases. Otherwise, this is what I suggest to the friend who quoted the tweet:
(1) Or you can try to make an account and output while working. Anyway, you are good at this content.
(2) Or you can find another job. Anyway, this industry is relatively liberal. You have to take the initiative to find things for yourself to do in order to cope with the high liquidity industry background.
Obviously, she chose the latter for the time being. Also, don't make an account full-time. I do it part-time. At least my original intention of making an account is to accumulate industry influence. Making money to get ads is a very secondary thing for me.
But even if you want to use an account to get ads, I feel that the initial income will be very pessimistic. There are too many matrices now. Those ads worth dozens of dollars now seem to have to be snatched up. 🤣
4/Q: How to find a job in Web3?
A: There are some Web3-specific recruitment websites, such as Dejob, or you can directly submit your resume on the official website of the project/exchange/investment institution, and then directly contact the founder of the project or institution on Twitter (if you have a certain number of followers, it will be better).
I think it is much more efficient to contact the founder of Web3 on Twitter than on LinkedIn! ! !
In addition, I followed the recommendation of friends. I took this route. The corresponding threshold is actually much better than sending resumes to many websites.
The second is the content.
1/Q: I feel that some people's analysis, although they spend time, is useless analysis.
A: I think it is a problem of level. I have also produced a lot of long garbage, but the level is improved in this way. I feel that some of the opinions I produced a year ago are the same.
But as I said in the quoted content: copying other people's opinions is like imitating others; outputting your own opinions, the content is fresh and the core is colorful.
Don't say it because you are afraid of making mistakes, and don't say it because you are afraid of not saying it well enough. Express more opinions and less emotions, so that your content system and style will naturally continue to iterate.
It is enough to pursue 65 points of content. If you want to achieve 90 points, you can add a little bit on the basis of 65 points. Twitter is not limited to posting one content.
2/Q: How to make segmentation, bolding, and symbols clear, and how to make long articles look more fluent?
A: If you develop a habit of reading, you will know what content is easy to read and what content is difficult to read.After I post something, I will read it again with a small account, and I will also deliberately cut the beginning content to avoid folding.
At the same time, since Twitter cannot make hierarchical titles, I cleverly use some symbols to mark the levels of the titles. I think this typesetting will make it more comfortable for others to read (this question is indeed asked in this way, and she said that my content is very smooth to read, not self-promotion)
That's all.
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I'm on a business trip again today, and I'd like to share something I encountered: When I was having dinner with a friend today, he brought a junior brother with him. This junior brother joined a domestic Web3 media company last year and made daily reports every day, complaining from the dinner table to WeChat
In addition, many matrix accounts have been sharing daily information recently, so this article will expand on three topics:
1. Why come to work in Web3?
2. How do we find meaningful work?
3. What is valuable content?
Let me talk about the first topic first, because I have been in close contact with a former colleague recently. I used to work at a US stock brokerage, and later jumped to a crypto VC. She jumped to another brokerage and then to a semiconductor company.
Last month, probably because I posted a lot of content about Web3 on WeChat Moments, she started to ask me about it. After communicating with me, I learned that she had learned about cryptocurrencies when she was a graduate student, and even bought#BTCand#SOLherself (but didn’t get in-depth contact)
📍She knew that I was working in the crypto field and asked me about my motivation for working in Web3
I told her:
🔻First, I learned about cryptocurrencies and made money on it before I started working, so I thought the industry had opportunities and vitality;
🔻Second, by chance, a friend I knew in the industry recommended me to join the company, and the management is relatively flat;
🔻Third, I like the distributed office model of Web3 very much.
So now I feel that sitting in the office is simply a waste of a good life
🔺First of all, I don’t think there is much to expand on the first point, so I don’t understand why some people would waste some traditional industries and not speculate in Web3, but I also have a certain understanding of the information/cognition gap in this world
But the opportunities in this industry are indeed, how can I say it? I can only use: option chips are everywhere. In this way, we can get some early chips of some companies relatively easily
This is something that can’t be thought of in the traditional Internet. I think the fault tolerance rate of Web3 is still very high compared to other industries as long as you don’t ALL IN when you come in, and the odds are also very "sexy"
🔺There is also a second point. As far as I know, many companies in Web3, whether exchanges, project parties or VCs, actually have very flat internal management. What are the trends in the market at ordinary times? The communication is very active, which is quite different from my original work communication environment
This actually leads to a result: Maybe everyone is a cryptocurrency trader working in the same company. Although there are differences in positions at work, it is not impossible that one of your colleagues will win the lottery tomorrow (an example from my own life)
So when communicating with Web3, I always adhere to the principle that everyone should respect each other and try to be more polite when it comes to social etiquette. Who knows, the poor guy who has only 4 figures in his pocket today may be putting 8 figures in his assets on#Binanceand applying sunscreen in Hawaii tomorrow
🔺The last and third point, I am now working in a [semi-distributed] office, which means I have to travel and go to the office occasionally. I think the relatively free office environment is one of the reasons that attract most practitioners to work in Web3
Anyway, after chatting with her, she said she wanted to come too. I adhere to the principle of the second point mentioned above. I will help her if I can. I hope you don’t forget DD when Web3 is developed. I will help her see if there are any resources around her to push her. In the past month, from the exchange to the project side
Now she has successfully joined a T3 exchange, and is also responsible for the operation of an RWA project, and is also interviewing a licensed exchange in Hong Kong
📍Regarding the topic of Web3 work, I want to continue to expand: How can we find meaningful work in our work?
I have done the daily report statistics mentioned above before. To be honest, it is really a job for interns. When I was in the securities company, I would count something called [Weekly Calendar of US Stock Earnings Report]. When I first came into contact with it, I always thought it was a meaningless thing.
But the leader at that time told me: We only count companies that will be paid attention to by the market, such as Apple, Google, and Nvidia. This at least let me know which companies are worth paying attention to, because some companies I only know after counting: Oh, this company occupies such an important position in this industry
It sounds a bit like self-PUA, because in the long run, repeated data will become meaningless work.
Let's talk about market information statistics. I have the same experience: when I first started to make an account last year, I would make a weekly report every week, and there was a section in it to count the important market information of the past week
Every Sunday, I would go to PA NEWS and Golden Finance, which are information websites, and extract ten pieces of information every week. But why I stopped doing it later? Because I also felt that it was a bit meaningless.
There are two sides to this matter:
1. If you only look for information for statistical information, it is indeed meaningless work.
2. If you further interpret and analyze the corresponding opinions of this news in the process of looking for information, then it is meaningful work.
So I actually suggested to that junior brother in the afternoon: make an account for yourself and post your interpretation of the information.
He agreed: OK, OK, thank you. But I don’t know whether he will actually do that.
📍Therefore, another topic is extended: What is valuable content?
I don’t know how valuable my content is, but the first thing I think about when I create content is: Do I understand it myself? Then I think about the second thing: Can the people who read this content understand it?
For content output, I think the first principle should be to serve yourself first, then consider others
During this period, I have seen many matrix accounts posting a kind of content: daily information aggregation
In fact, it is what I said above, but so many accounts post it, I am too lazy to even read it, because of two reasons:
1. I read the news on the media website
2. I don’t even need to take the initiative to know the big news, and it’s useless for me to know the small news
But there is also a counterexample for the daily information @lijiuer1 Jiuer also posts daily content, but I occasionally really read her daily content. Why? Because not only does she have her own opinions, I also know that it is really her own business
Copying other people’s opinions is a case of imitating others; outputting your own opinions, the content is raw and the core is also colorful.
