10 Years of Work Experience That Saves You from Struggling

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I bought it on Amazon at a discount, and the rating on Douban is not low, so I decided to give it a try.

The first principle is quite surprising:

Never work on the computer yourself.

As a programmer, all I can do is laugh.

Fortunately, the third and fourth principles make sense:

  • Get into the center of power.
  • Never trust HR.

After that, it provides some more advice:

  • Remove useless people from your network in a timely manner.
  • Break the rules.
  • Connect with important people.
  • Go with the wind.
  • No mercy.
  • Take credit for your subordinates’ work.
  • …

It really embodies the style of Li Zongwu, the master of deception, who is said to be “as black-hearted as coal, with a face as thick as a city wall”.

It completely blew me away.

Towards the end of the book, when I thought Vezeer, the old fox, was going to make the protagonist give up on their marriage, he suddenly turned the tables and coldly threw out a sentence:

Is this what you want?

Overall, the only feeling I got from reading the whole book was:

You make a lot of sense, and I can’t say a word.

233333 (Note: 233333 is an internet slang for laughing)

Translated by gpt-3.5-turbo