There are a few friends who plan to switch careers to become network engineers, but they often see it on the Internet. For example, those who are programmers usually find it difficult to develop at the age of 35. So many friends also asked the growth diary of network engineers. The author, editor, if you are a network engineer at the age of 35, will you encounter similar problems? If you encounter them, how can you solve them?
Xiaobian, the author of the growth diary of a network engineer, will introduce you to this professional crisis and age problem.
1. The difference between computer software development and computer network technical support is still very big, they are completely different
If you are doing computer software development, which is what we usually call a programmer, his work is high-intensity mental work. Generally speaking, there is no need to deal with people, as long as you can continue to work hard on the computer. Mental work is enough, so programmers usually face 996 overtime. The so-called 996, overtime is from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week, so many people who are programmers feel tremendous physical and mental fatigue.
When programmers reach the age of 35, they basically can’t adapt to this 996 overtime and high-intensity mental work. This is why programmers are forced to change careers at the age of 30 or 35 or encounter jobs that are not easy to find. problem
2. Why don’t network engineers have such a professional crisis too much?
For network engineers, it is not necessary for network engineers to 996. Many people don’t understand. To give the simplest example, if your customer is a bank, if the bank’s network requires you to work overtime at 996, you can Prove or say that you can imagine that this network is basically paralyzed, it is enough to expel you 10,000 times
Therefore, a network engineer, his job is more preventive maintenance. To do this kind of work, he does not need high-intensity mental work, nor does he need crazy 996 overtime. Because of the nature of his work, he does not There will be a large area of this kind of occupational crisis facing 30 or 35 years old, because they cannot work overtime, because they cannot work hard mentally.
So you don’t see too many descriptions on the Internet. Computer network engineers will encounter this kind of 30-year-old or 35-year-old professional crisis problem, because this kind of thing does not happen very often in network engineers.