2020 is my 7th year of Android research and development, from the university internship to the present. He was born in a standard class, not a first-tier city, not a major factory, but it is also a listed company. In the eyes of others, I have a stable job and financial independence.
All my emotions may be because I am 30 years old this year, but I have not lived the way I want.
This article hopes to be helpful to those who are new to the industry or who are planning to enter Android. If you drink too much chicken soup, let’s have a bowl of poison soup today .
Once I
A few years before I started working, I was full of enthusiasm for everything, and I still remember the newcomer’s testimonials written in response to HR requirements when I joined the job, “It’s really a pleasure to be able to do what you like and have an income because of it. At that time, I was very satisfied. In 2018, my fifth year of work, my rank was equal to that of the department director. This should be the greatest affirmation of my work.
Then now
In fact, I still like my job, but it is also mixed with other emotions. Next, I will explain this position from another angle. The point of view is sharp. If you don't like it, you can treat it as nonsense.
1. Personally think that Android development is a very low ceiling position
In this Internet age, almost all products are available to the public, and the world’s products are copied from each other , not to mention pure originality. In this environment, the boss has only one requirement for you: fast ! As long as it looks equal to the same type of products on the market, it is definitely not determined by a set of leather to achieve profitability. For him, design is a cost. Without making money, no one can get a share.
Staff in various positions need to control costs. They will not resign you, but they will not increase their wages. The kind of a few hundred yuan increase is not to mention a salary increase. Calculate the increase in your annual living expenses (of course not Excluding some big companies that are not bad money will have gold-plated behavior), this is why so many programmers choose to take on private work , isn't it to increase some income, if the income of the job is considerable, who does not want to rest and enjoy life.
2. The entry barrier is extremely low, the growth cycle is extremely short, and the replaceability is extremely strong
The official announcement is that this is a creative and professional technical post, coupled with the label of a programmer, will give people a kind of inexplicable tallness. Don’t be blindly self-confident . Since the rapid rise of the Internet more than ten years ago, a lot of The demand for talents has made all kinds of training courses crazy to recruit students and trained a large number of programmers, and in the past ten years of market verification, there are too many non-disciplinary programmers who are better than the professional students, and many of them are self-taught.
After three months of training and two years of employment, most of the company’s needs can basically be met . At this time, those who have worked in the same position for more than 5 years may still have some advantages, but if you wait for another year or two, they can only linger (I The words are sharper. If it stimulates someone's little heart, I will apologize here first.) If the ceiling of this post is high enough, who cares about these people who are just starting out.
3. How to explain those "Android programmers" who are well developed
Having said so much, there will definitely be upsides. There are many programmers who have been working for more than ten years. They have developed very well, and some have become managements or even start their own companies.
Be sober, management or entrepreneurship only needs CRUD capabilities . What this group of people is best at is to stabilize the military and let you pull the cart with peace of mind.
After some excellent programmers earn enough labels for themselves, they start to engage in online training . Those who are willing to do leeks also have one crop after another. The income from one training period can be equal to the one-year salary of an ordinary programmer. They talk about the development prospects of this industry all the time. Why do we have to emphasize this? To put it bluntly, the industry is no problem. If you do not find a good job, it is your problem.
In the end, why do you think that this type of population is developing well? A very important factor for judging is the level of income. Do you think a poor person develops well? We only discuss development here, not about happiness and joy.
At last
I often hear this sentence in this industry, " I am proud of myself to make this world a better place. " Drink less of this chicken soup, do some social welfare, and make the world better. Feedback is immediate.
Android programmers in the pure sense are similar to carpenters. They relied on their own skills and time in exchange for rewards . If you earn tens of thousands of dollars a month, your time is limited. Some second- and third-tier cities are even more expensive. Low, think about what you want, do you want to continue to learn in-depth and strengthen the technology, even if there is no company to dig you?
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