Summary
Programmers inject code into life to create the top of the Internet wave. When they get old one day, they will go there. What will they do? The real life of the glamorous "program ape" is on the back of an unknown bitter history. Let us learn about the profession of programmers together!
When programmers get old, they don’t believe in age anymore
Programmers inject code into life to create the top of the Internet wave. When one day they are old, they will go there and what will they do?
Many years later, on the morning of my 60-year-old, I woke up as soon as it was dark. I went to the park for morning exercises and then came back to make breakfast (I learned to cook when I was 50). After sending my grandson to school, it was exactly 8 o'clock. Since Beijing has restricted travel for single and even months starting in 2020, this month is a single month, so I can only use the subway. There are as many people as always. A young guy wants to give me his seat and look at his small body. I said no, you are also doing IT. Today we are all programmers.
When I came to the company, the newly dazzling rule posted on the wall always made me very uncomfortable: all server-side languages must use Come, mobile-side languages use Swallow, and Java, C, Go and Swift languages are still being used to write programs. Yes, a fine of 500 yuan. I don’t know how many new languages I can learn. After working for 40 years, I have used more than 100 programming languages...
At ten o'clock in the morning, after 00, TeamLeader ran over and told me, Chi Da, did you always do the new smartwatch control UI? It seems something went wrong. I said it was done by Pharaoh last week. He shouldn't have done UI for presbyopia a long time ago. I didn't come this week. It is said that arteriosclerosis is reported. Well, then you can help him to change...
When programmers get old
This morning, the boss received two more applications for working from home, including Lao Feng's. The reason for the application was: poor waist. Sitting or standing can’t solve the problem. You can only install the screen on the ceiling and program while lying down. I'm okay. I play badminton all the time. I have a good waist and good health. However, I didn't have much appetite at noon today. Because of the toothache, all kinds of teeth began to loosen, so I had to pick some soft food in the cafeteria.
I found that the only post-70s main program (main programmer) has a lot of memory loss. After talking about the realization of the eighth function point, Ah suddenly said: OK, the above is the first point, now let's talk about the second point. We have been talking about point 2 until the end of get off work. After the meeting, the main program blamed me for not reminding him. In fact, I reminded him 13 times. Don't care about him. He will be 65 next year and will retire.
After assigning the requirements, the work in the afternoon is to draw the interface and do the form filling procedure. I have done this work for decades and have been very proficient. The coding time is always the happiest, unknowingly it is 10 o'clock in the evening. Go home, you can take a taxi after 9 o'clock.
When I got home at 11 in the evening, the dishes were cold and the children fell asleep. I lay on the cold bed, opened a book of "Come Language Programming Practice" and started reading. Programmers are a lifelong learning industry...
It is estimated that most of the programmer readers are heartbroken. Don't worry, if you don't read MacTalk, the evening scene is bleak, and everything is fine!
Soon, I stood at the 30-year-old crossroad and looked around. There was no way in the other three directions. I could only move forward. So I reluctantly moved to the 35-year-old golden dividing line, or called The programmer's lifeline. I don’t know which great god drew such a line for our programmers. Three hundred and sixty lines are the top picks. Why is this line only available to programmers? Use Google Baidu to check "Programmer 35 years old". It’s sensational words like "not being a 35-year-old programmer", "technical phobia of older age", "transfer to management after 35 years old", and "X things that programmers must plan before 35 years old." When I think that I have not planned. These things", I’m desperate. Something bad might happen on the 35th birthday. For example, programming, speaking, writing, and design skills will disappear? I may not keep up with the development of the times. ?I might be fired, I think.
When programmers get old
The 5th birthday has passed. Nothing happened except for the birthday gift. I was still alive and kicking in programming, speaking, writing and designing products. Everything got better.
When programmers get old and look back, I find that those little friends who were passionate about programming and full of ideals in life in the past have become technical experts in a certain field, and they are busy preaching and writing books while making products. Some operators are large or small companies while still writing programs; some have designed software products used by tens of thousands of people; some have become pure managers, operating organizations with thousands of people . They are all programmers.
The programmers who are really likely to have a bleak night scene are those who are not interested in technology and products, who only use programming as a tool for life, and those who cannot learn for life. Give the opening text to these people, I hope they can read this article before the age of 40.
The question of programmers changing careers is also a false proposition. No one’s career is static. Today you are considering whether LVS should use IP tunneling technology or direct routing, load scheduling should use weighted round robin or least link. In ten years, what you might want to do is to add product features and read user consumption. psychological. Time will drive you to constantly choose your own path. If you continue to program to maximize your value, then go for programming. Too many sophisticated and complex technologies require long-term accumulation and practice to turn the complexity into a simple and magical work. Hurricane all the way on the road of the god of technology.
If designing products can maximize your value, then design products. The modern world is no longer an era where "aesthetics, art" and "electronic products, software" have nothing to do with. People pay more and more attention to product experience and art Aesthetics, if you know the beauty of the product, you can estimate how long the product can be developed, and you also know some development details. I don't know how many programmers can be abused. Think about how beautiful this scene is.
If running a company can maximize your value, start a business, recruit comrades-in-arms, service partners, provide products, and create your own sky.
If you give a speech... if you consult... if the market..., obviously, the programmers I see have unlimited possibilities in the future, and our biggest advantage is: these guys can even write code, which is really cool!
Of course, we programmers should not be too complacent. While working hard in a certain field, don't forget to broaden our knowledge. If a person's field is too specialized, after a period of time, you may find that your major is obsolete. If a person has a wide range of knowledge, with the cooperation of lifelong education, your major can change with the changes of the times.
Finally, let me say a few words to readers who are not programmers. If you have programmers by your side, you must be nice to them. Don’t tell programmers that it’s easy to achieve if you don’t understand the technology. They are not happy if they don’t know how to do it. Please eat Haidilao, and give them a salary increase if you don’t work overtime, and introduce girlfriends if you don’t have a girlfriend
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