Excluding the ability and cost-effective factors, the fundamental reason for the company to clean up 35-year-old programmers is that the company can only sign two contracts with employees, and the third signing must be an indefinite labor contract. The company must provide employees with pensions, so Kill employees in the ninth year. Generally, employees enter the company at the age of 24-26, and it is time to sign the third contract when they are almost 35. So, understand?
The programmer is 35 years old + unemployment countdown, 5 years left! ! !
Are you still young?
Do you still have the capital to live by and fish in peace? In five years, you will be 35 years old. Will you be ready when the mid-life crisis comes?
If your current job is pretty good, then do it well and slap your code.
Continue to lure, take good care of it, hurry up, obedient, work overtime, don’t leave the job lightly.
Maybe this is your last job, and cherish it.
A microcosm of the programmer's career
- Before the age of 27, I don't know what headhunting is.
- At the age of 28, he was targeted by headhunters.
- Before the age of 32, an average of 2 headhunting calls per week, you mistakenly think that you are before...
- By the age of 35, I still receive a headhunting call almost every month.
- After 37 years old, no headhunter contacted you, so you took the initiative to contact the headhunter, but never responded.
The resume was posted on the Internet and no one was interested in the first half...
Where have all the programmers over 35 go?
1% Successful entrepreneurs or transformation executives
There are very few such successful cases. I have basically only heard of one or two. Because starting a business is too difficult and difficult, except for many VC-oriented founders, too few truly bring social value.
5% of architects still deal with technology
Some of my friends who are very skilled in technology can achieve this level. The income is good, the job title is also bright, but tired, 996 is essential. If you don't consider whether a middle-aged person's body can bear it, it is still a very reliable way out.
15% go abroad to continue to be a first-line programmer
Programmers with strong business ability and a certain amount of savings and courage have basically gone abroad. This part of the programmers are all very thoughtful. They made a very clear career plan from the beginning, and knew what they wanted. Before 996 became popular, they had already made their way out after the age of 35.
The rest are basically humble "alive"
They are the most distressing. Although there is a certain amount of savings and ability, but the east is a hammer and the west is a stick. Today, I am doing a blockchain bitcoin (maybe there are good ones, but I personally always think it is a Ponzi scheme, like Amway, insurance, etc.) People lose money in the end), build some small gray business apps tomorrow, and try crazy on the edge of illegal crimes.
Some also go to open a convenience store, Didi drivers, takeaway riders (the online takeaway brother helps to fix the bugs should be real) or part-time odd jobs (externally speaking, they are entrepreneurial), in fact they do it everywhere/change hands some Outsourcing projects. Most of them are doing some roles such as project manager, but the current main income has little to do with the technology that I was proud of before.
A passage I saw on Zhihu a few days ago
The reason why we choose to go to school is to avoid doing the same hard physical work as our parents when we grow up, but after being unemployed at the age of 35, life is forced to return to manual labor...
Have you accumulated enough capital?
- How much capital did you accumulate from your work to the age of 35?
- What is your income? Income is divided into labor income and financial income. The former is to pay physical strength, time to exchange money, income before going to bed. The latter is money making money, such as investment, etc., income after going to bed.
- Have you bought a house?
- Have you bought a car?
- How long do you have enough funds to support your unemployment?
- Are you old at the top and young at the bottom?
- Is your insurance configuration complete?
How to "safely" survive the 35+ mid-life crisis
If it is said how programmers should survive the midlife crisis safely, it is to do the right thing.
**Technology accumulation:** No matter where you go, as long as you have capital, you are not afraid of being hungry. The programmer's capital is nothing more than programming ability. During these 5 years from the age of 23 to 27, you have to accumulate enough technical foundation, polish your technical strength, and become a master in a certain technical field.
**Forming the stage of thinking methodology and knowledge system: **When you accumulate enough technical strength, for example, more than 100,000 lines of code, you should form your own thinking methodology and your own independent learning skills, any new technology is in your You can quickly see the essence of technology in your eyes, and quickly absorb it as part of your knowledge system.
**Get out of your own way: **At the age of 30-33, the most important thing is to understand yourself. Know what you are good at and where your strengths are, and plan ahead before the age of 35. How can I maximize my value while also knowing what major flaws I have. Towards management, architect? Or change to another industry, what kind of industry do you do? These can be planned in advance!
The other thing is that the middle-age crisis is not a person's business, but a family's business. If you have already married and established a business, you must be soberly aware: How should your career develop to ensure that you support the burden of the entire family? This includes not only your lover, but also your children and parents (especially both When you are an only child, what you have to bear is the support of the four elderly people on both sides).
about me
I was 32 years old in 1988 and an Android developer with 10 years of experience. I have been in a small factory, and I have also been to Huawei, OPPO and other large factories. In May of 19, I entered ByteDance as a senior architect until now. , Has now settled in Shanghai to buy a house.
Now you are escaping from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen for ease. In the future, your children will do their best to return to first-tier cities. Escape is useless, you have to do your best to stay in the first-tier cities and provide your child with a platform and track until he succeeds in the jump.
In addition, if you are also an Android developer and plan to go down the road of technology and develop towards an architect, I might be able to give you some help. I started in 17 years, including before my job-hopping ByteDance, I used to share some of my technical study notes and development experience, as well as some interview questions collected by major companies from job-hopping interviews, and share them on my Github , and I will do it later. With system classification and sorting, if you are right now at the bottleneck stage of advanced technology, it should save you a lot of time.