This week I'm reading the book "I'm an IT Little Bird". The main thing to watch is the story of Hu Jiangtang.
He described his experience as a very tortuous one with a mixed background. I see it as it is. He was born in a rural area and studied liberal arts in high school. He studied economics at Beijing Technology and Business University as an undergraduate, and a master's degree in software engineering at Peking University. After that, he worked as a SAS programmer in a pharmaceutical factory. In several choices, he seems to have chosen a sparsely populated road, and he has done a good job, which I admire very much.
What impressed me the most is that he first chose the China Economic Research Center of Peking University when he was studying for a master's degree, but was rejected twice. So he chose the School of Software at Peking University. At the time, I was full of thoughts: Is there still such an operation? In my opinion, the author is a business student. It takes too much work to enter the IT industry at the master's level. It is really not easy to make such a choice. Thinking about myself again, just changing the research direction in the field of information science is already entangled enough, and it is still too cowardly. People like the author who dare to make such a choice must be full of self-motivation, and have long been prepared to learn all kinds of new things. They are not afraid of new knowledge, but are particularly yearning. I feel ashamed of myself at this point. I always seem to be full of fear of unfamiliar things, maybe because I worry too much about gains and losses. I always feel that what I have learned may not improve the things I need the most, or it may affect my current development in other areas. Can't let go of hands and feet, resulting in too little knowledge reserve. Seeing the author happily writing technical blogs and communicating with various technical gurus, I could only sigh about my weakness. Starting point and platform, in the long run, are not very important factors in determining career development. Your own characteristics, such as the ability to learn things, the ability to communicate with others, etc., are the most important.
In addition, the author also nicely told readers about his job search experience. He mentioned writing a resume from the employer's point of view and thinking about what kind of person they want. As well as sticking to technical blogging and self-marketing, both of which make perfect sense and I find it very rewarding.