The circle of friends on holidays is full of ronin with different positioning.

Most of these people are elites in the workplace, including entrepreneurs, team leaders and friends in career transition.

Their circle of friends can basically satisfy some people's fantasies about the middle class:

Some high-performance scooters are generally Mercedes-Benz BMW; The school district house is not necessarily a house, but it has at least one property; The marital status is unknown, but the child must be an international school. I have my own independent office in the company, but I don't seem to need to go to work; Can speak standard English pronunciation, and travel abroad is not important.

If you believe this bustling circle of friends, you are likely to meet a fake middle class.

Where there is no middle class, only the proletariat earns a little more.

02

When we were young, we talked about the future and life. Now, housing, cars and money. Vulgar, but what can you do? Dreams are broken and rich. But life is cheap without money.

Who hasn't had a dream? Unfortunately, most people only have the right to express their dreams, but they have no ability to maintain them.

As the mainstream of the cutting-edge middle class, the post-80s missed the wave of the post-70s reform bonus, without the fearless mentality of the post-90s. The realistic pressure of having parents and children forced them to choose stability.

But no one saw their panic about the surrounding prices, house prices and smog. Regret for wasting time, dissatisfaction with reality and anxiety about the future make them have to lift their pants and run.

It's like there is a long passage in front of you, but you can never see the door in front of you. Even if you get up the courage to open the door and walk in, it's still a long passage.

Always on the road to hard work, always work hard.

03

Kenichi Ohmae, a Japanese trend researcher, once proposed a social framework: M-type society.

This metaphor is very vivid. The bottom class and upper class on the left and right sides are gradually increasing, while the number of middle class in the middle is approaching a low point. A considerable part of it will fall back to the bottom after 5 to 10 years.

This is not an alarmist. How to keep existing assets and avoid class decline is a problem that every middle class should seriously consider.

The writer Mao Mu wrote a novel The Moon and Sixpence, which tells the legendary experience of a stock exchange broker who changed from a so-called white-collar worker to an impressionist painter.

The hero made many sacrifices for this, but the most important thing is the moment when he pursued his dream:

"I want to paint, just like a drowning person has to struggle."

I have an executive in the financial industry around me, who has to travel to and from Beijing and Hong Kong frequently because of his work needs. I asked him if he was tired. He agreed, but only physically. Mentally, he always likes his job.

More interestingly, he was an ordinary programmer five years ago, and then he met a financial analyst by chance. Since then, he has developed a strong interest in the investment field, formulated a transformation plan, worked during the day and studied at night. After three years, he entered the door of the financial industry and stepped into the fast lane of improving his ability.

Every excellent person should have the consciousness of putting everything together for what he is really interested in and good at.

04

People often compare wealth transition and class mobility to "getting on the bus":

Upper-class people ride smoothly in the car, and the air conditioning temperature is suitable; Outside the window, everyone tried their best to catch up. When they are exhausted, they stop and go back to a happy life.

But the middle class is obviously more embarrassed.

They managed to put one foot into the car door and the other foot was still outside. They had to grasp the window gap and try their best to keep their balance in the howling wind, and a sense of panic came to their faces.

Only in today's ever-changing world, panic and anxiety are useless. For the unwilling middle class, rushing forward has become the only choice.

This is an era of the law of the jungle, and it is also a relatively fair era. No matter how small an individual is, he has a chance to jump over the dragon gate, and even the dark environment can shine in the cracks.

No matter when, struggling forward is our lifelong homework.

Without giving up, there will be no curtain call;

Without success, there is no failure.