If the annual salary reaches one million, will the programmer turn over?

Last weekend, a friend asked me: How can a programmer really stand up?

I have not turned myself over, nor have I achieved financial freedom. It is obviously impossible to answer such questions.

(Zheng Yuanjie’s definition of financial freedom: not working from now on, can maintain the current standard of living unchanged, and maintain it to the next generation)

I thought about it for a while and asked him: Is it counted as turning over after reaching an annual salary of one million?

With an annual salary of one million, it shouldn't be difficult to buy a house in first-tier cities. For pure technology, this goal can only be achieved by leading Internet companies.

But the young man has bigger ambitions: "Although it is very attractive to continuously improve technology and personal abilities, getting a million annual salary is also very attractive, but that is not the end I want."

This is going to cross classes ! Relying on part-time work to achieve an annual salary of one million is definitely not enough. You must be your own boss or partner, be able to coordinate and mobilize resources, and extract surplus value from other people's labor.

He asked: "Are there any books, articles, or experience teachings worth learning about this road, or some successful cases in the industry."

I said that those people probably wouldn't share this kind of experience, and they don't have time to share, unless he wants to make money from it.

The biographies of celebrities on the market all highlight how determined the celebrities are, how far-sighted they are, how wise they are in decision-making, and they show the best. Even in the face of setbacks, he will turn the tide and turn the crisis into peace.

It is difficult for you to learn something of real value from other people’s successful experiences. Times are changing, and decisions and behaviors at that time will become invalid in the new environment, not to mention that his success at the time also has a lot of luck: The wave of the times.

(On the contrary, it is more meaningful to see how these people fail.)

Is it locked up? No, many people have broken through.

For example, Guo Yu, the ByteDance programmer who was so noisy in the previous paragraph, has financial freedom. He went to Japan to open a hot spring hotel. He has strong technical skills and a keen eye. From Alipay to Embarrassment Encyclopedia to ByteDance , And finally get rich returns.

Such an experience looks beautiful, but like a celebrity biography, it is difficult to replicate. Can you find an early startup company and stick to it for a few years, waiting for the company to survive? What to do if the startup company dies?

Reid Hoffman said that the so-called entrepreneurship is to jump off the cliff, then assemble the plane during the fall , and fly up, nine deaths, even ninety-nine deaths.

But this does not mean that you will work for others all your life.

I personally think that in the first five years of graduation, don’t think about it so much, concentrate on studying technology, improve your technical ability to a relatively high level, and then strive to enter a large Internet company and achieve an annual salary of one million (imaginary number, not necessarily It is millions), pay attention to establishing a wide range of contacts and influence in large companies, and then patiently look for business opportunities, business models, may be found, may not be found.

If you are lucky and find an opportunity, the opportunity is not to be missed. At this time, if you have funds and contacts, you can fight for it and you will complete the leap.

Why are Internet giants, because they are at the forefront, can see more and more things, and can broaden their horizons. There are a lot of people in big companies who are really super capable and can really learn a lot. In addition, after training in the regular army, things will be more organized.

What I am afraid of is that I don't have these experiences. I just patted my head, thought of a "brilliant idea to change the world" and started to do it without any guidance. I have problems with my vision, funds, and contacts. The probability of failure is extremely high.

The last sentence is that we can embrace change and uncertainty, but we must also have a clear understanding: the vast majority are ordinary people.