After the Ching Ming Festival, I blindly guess that everyone has no intention of going to work and is counting the days to prepare for May Day, but when thinking of the balance in the bank card... the mood is not beautiful in an instant.
Recently, the employment survey of college graduates in 2023 shows that the average monthly starting salary for undergraduate graduates is 5,825 yuan. As soon as the survey came out, many students expressed that they were averaged again.
Looking at this data, one can't help but think of a survey conducted by China Youth Daily not long ago: Nearly 60% of college students believe that they will earn millions within 10 years of graduation.
Can graduating 10 years really bring such a big change? Are young people overconfident or is it really achievable?
An old man said: choose the right direction, hard work is meaningful. The salary of fresh graduates may be related to academic qualifications, but some industries have very low ceilings, which directly determine your salary ceiling, and it is difficult to break through no matter how hard you work. The salary ceiling in the IT Internet industry is much higher. How much you can get depends entirely on the individual.
From a low monthly salary to an annual salary of hundreds of thousands, what have they experienced? Share a workplace story today:
*In order to protect personal privacy, the text is a pseudonym
Job hopping = salary increase
Zeng Yi: Ordinary two, computer major, initial monthly salary of 12k, 7 years after graduation, monthly salary reaches 35k!
Obsessed with games in his youth, he failed the college entrance examination as expected, and Zeng Yi's score was barely enough to get into a secondary school
Since she likes computers and wants to do computer-related work in the future, Zeng Yi chose a computer-related major without hesitation, and started her four-year college years.
I don't know whether it's because the rebellious period in high school has passed, or because I was influenced by my classmates in high school. Seeing that my former playmates all went to their favorite schools, I inevitably felt depressed. Zeng Yi decided to make good use of the university and strive to find a satisfactory job when she graduated.
It is easy to stick to it for one day, but it is too difficult to stick to it for four years, especially when watching the students around are playing games, it is difficult to stick to the idea of reading.
Zeng Yi was indeed shaken, but when he thought of his friends in the same community working hard in 985 colleges, he would panic, and the gap would be even bigger if he didn't work hard!
Fortunately, every ideological struggle ends with hard work.
During his four years in college, Zeng Yi participated in many competitions and won many awards, which became the extra points for him to find a job when he graduated.
During the school recruitment, Zeng Yi got olive branches from many Internet companies. Although they are not as good as big companies, they are much better than their peers. Finally, they chose a 13k offer.
Like all newcomers, Zeng Yi is full of passion.
Arrive at the company 20 minutes early every day, and leave almost at the end. Because of his good attitude, the leader is also willing to take him to do projects. Later projects have achieved results, and the salary has been raised smoothly, from 13k to 16k!
In 8 months, the salary has increased by 3k. Zeng Yi is very happy in her heart, thinking to work harder and strive to break through 20k as soon as possible!
After the project stabilized, Zeng Yi's leader chose to change jobs. Before leaving, he promoted Zeng Yi to be the project leader and asked him to work hard.
This time is Zeng Yi's third year of graduation, and his salary has risen to 18.5k , which is still a small step away from 20k.
Although the leader left, I felt that I lost my backbone, but I was still happy for a long time because of the promotion. Zeng Yi thinks that fortunately, she has worked hard all these years, otherwise she would not be able to achieve today's results.
However, Zeng Yi accidentally learned during a dinner with her former colleagues that her salary has never exceeded 20k because the company's employment costs have risen slightly, and her leader chose to change jobs because of salary reasons.
After the leader switched jobs, the salary directly increased by 50%! After the former colleagues left the company, their salaries have increased a lot, and 20k is not difficult at all.
After learning from the pain, Zeng Yi began to revise the resume and submit it. Sure enough, as soon as it was submitted, HR was looking for it.
This time, Zeng Yi seems to have found the key to a high salary, 18k, 23k, 30k!
Now, Zeng Yi, who has been working for the seventh year, has a monthly salary of 35k!
Thinking about walking along the way, although it was not easy, fortunately, I persevered. Recalling the process of her own salary increase, Zeng Yi concluded: Appropriate industry + continuous efforts + adaptability = secret of salary increase!
"If you want to raise your salary, change jobs first." This consensus exists in various industries, but there is no industry that is more applicable and easy to use than programmers.
From the story of the above-mentioned protagonist, we can also see the elements of hard work. Although their salaries were not high when they first entered the workplace, they have been adjusting their direction and constantly moving towards their goals. I have to admit that there is also an element of luck, but if you don't work hard, after luck comes, you may not be able to catch it , and you can only regret it afterwards!
Academic qualifications and majors are of course important to us, but when these cannot bring benefits to our career development, we might as well try to improve our skills and seize more opportunities.
meager strength
As a senior automated software tester, I would like to share some of my summaries and summaries of technology over the years, and share my notes on the skills that an advanced tester needs to master. I hope it can help those who are interested in technology On this road all the way to black friends! At the end of the article, I also shared the learning resources I have summarized over the years
Let me share the knowledge architecture diagram of the development direction of software testing engineers that I have compiled in 2023, which may be the most complete.
1. Automated testing must know Python programming technology
2. Web automation testing technical content
3. Technical content of APP automated testing
4. Postman test tool topic
5. Technical content of interface automation testing
6. Ability to build automated testing framework
7. Continuous integration
8. Jmeter performance test
9. APP performance test
10. Use of Fiddler packet capture tool
11. TCP/IP protocol
12. Linux system operation
13. MySQL database
14. RobotFramework automated testing framework
15. Cross-platform automated testing framework Airtest
The above is a technical advancement path map for full-stack test engineers that I compiled . Complete the construction of such a technology stack. It can be said that this process will make you miserable, but as long as you get through it. Later career will be much easier. As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as you take the first step, you are already halfway to success. The ancients said, "If you don't accumulate steps , you can't reach a thousand miles." When you look back on this journey after completion, you will definitely be moved. a lot.
meager strength
Finally, I would like to thank everyone who has read my article carefully. Seeing the fans’ growth and attention all the way, there is always a need for reciprocity. Although it is not a very valuable thing, you can take it away if you need it:
These materials should be the most comprehensive and complete preparation warehouse for friends who want to advance [automated testing]. This warehouse has also accompanied me through the most difficult journey, and I hope it can help you too! Everything should be done as early as possible, especially in the technical industry, we must improve our technical skills. I hope to be helpful……
