Foreword: You already have a girlfriend, what if you don't?
Recently, some netizens asked a question that made people "speechless"...
After having a girlfriend, I have no time to study technology at night, lack of time to work overtime, and low reading efficiency. On the contrary, my life is not as fulfilling as I used to work overtime every day, and I feel anxious. How to solve this problem?
As a former programmer, I also have my own feelings. From 996 to 007, programmers are actually more anxious?
It is a good thing to have a girlfriend, but this netizen is very anxious, which also proves that the IT industry is highly competitive, stressful, and highly alternative.
Why are programmers prone to anxiety.
The older you are, the more popular you are, and the older you are, the easier it is to be laid off.
Have you noticed that in this era of programmers everywhere, everyone seems to recognize that programmers eat their youth.
Programmers with more than 30+ are not as good as young people who write code. Everyone is afraid of being replaced by young people. They are also afraid that they will not find a job at the age of 30. After all, there are many layoffs.
Although you can switch to a product or project manager or an architect at this time, not every programmer has this strength.
As many 30+ programmers from large companies around me have recently come to small companies as management, if the small company can't stay, I dare not think about it...
I was thinking that many professions, doctors, lawyers, and accountants are older and more senior, and the older they are, the more valuable they are. How can programmers get older and more afraid of being replaced by young people and can only change careers. Is the experience accumulated by programmers who have worked for ten years really useless?
In fact, many programmers write about additions, deletions, modifications and investigations all day long. Many people can get started in the training course for a few months. Some people have been writing CURD for a few years in a muddle-headed programming career, and found that it is getting worse and worse to change jobs.
Because you have been doing repetitive things, you will be the same as the fresh graduates, and you have no advantage.
To be honest, no matter what industry, once you have been doing repetitive things, you have to think about your future career development .
Middle-aged anxiety of programmers
My father is 56 years old this year, and my grandfather is 75 years old. Compared with them, I just passed 30 years old and I really have no right to say that I am old. However, for people engaged in technology development, 30 years old is no longer young.
The core competitiveness of technology developers is knowledge reserve and learning ability. The accumulation of time can increase the knowledge reserve, which is the advantage of developers who have been in the industry for a long time over those who are new to the industry. But the development speed of Internet technology is amazing.
Looking back on the experience and technology accumulated in the past few years, many of them have become products of the old age and can only be regarded as experience rather than ability.
The older you are, the more things you need to deal with and the less energy you put into learning technology. This is an absolute disadvantage for older developers.
It is like a 100-meter runway. You are ahead of others in the first 50 meters because you start early, but in the last 50 meters, your runway is hurdles and others' runways are flat. Competitors with comparable capabilities will eventually be overtaken.
Not because you are old, but because you have less time to compete.
Finally, programmers who struggle to middle age usually have a certain economic foundation. For a motivated programmer, the first 5 years of his career is the golden period (it is best to enter a large factory during this period).
At this time, income usually has a relatively steep upward curve. During this period, if you have a little money management and know a little investment, you will usually have real estate and some savings to accumulate some economic foundation for your future transformation or other.
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