young one way street
We have been on the same path.
What matters is not the road, but one, and only one.
Growing up, we didn't have many choices.
For elementary school, parents should try their best to choose the best elementary school in the city. There is really no way to choose the second-best elementary school. Junior high school, high school too.
There are traces to follow in our entire life trajectory, a road to darkness.
Deviation from the route will also be broken back by education, parents, and teachers.
The world when I was a teenager was summarized by dualism, black and white, good grades are the most important thing, and earning more is the most important thing.
In the period of mental immaturity, simple binary division is actually not a big problem.
Adhering to the idea of "study hard and make progress every day, improve your grades to get ahead", at least you will not have any problems when you are a graduate student or even a doctor.
The problem is at the intersection of the dual world and the multiverse.
The ivory tower before entering the multiverse
After entering university, many students will feel that they have begun to grow up.
I started to think as an independent individual, and I also started to be responsible for myself as an independent individual.
People with this kind of thinking can change to the right path in a very short time.
I believe that you must have seen and heard of some good students who used to be in middle school and high school, but they are still unable to adapt to the problem of not being able to take care of themselves after they arrive at university. The essential reason is that they are used to the one-way street before.
When it comes to college, some flexible people can always find that everything seems to be different from before.
No one wakes you up every day anymore.
No one is urging you to go for a run.
No one asks you to study by yourself at night.
Is it freedom?
I feel like a prison of freedom.
Whether this freedom binds you or liberates you, what matters is whether you are in the cage or outside the cage.
No one requires you to wake up at 6:00 in the morning for morning reading. In other words, you can arrange your time reasonably according to your biological clock. Some people are more efficient at night, so they can naturally wake up later and go to bed later.
No one urges you to go for a run. Similarly, you can play basketball, football, and find girls you like to beat the road. These are all sports, and they are all sports you like.
During this period, two kinds of people live best.
People who can't see anything clearly have a good time for a few years.
People who see some things clearly begin to develop in multiple ways.
This is very important, because if you haven't changed your dualistic thinking when you were young, you will soon be beaten when you enter the society.
A workplace that seems to have lost its standard of judgment
With the idea of dualism, you can't get along in the workplace.
To give a very simple example, how can a project be completed "good".
Is it best to maximize performance? With limited resources, no.
Is it best to reduce the cost to the limit? Neither is it when the market is objective.
Is it running the latest technology? Absolutely not in the case of maintaining upward and downward compatibility.
May wish to think about it, what is the definition of a good course in college? High comprehension test scores.
Thinking about a project in hand now, it seems difficult to find a "good" standard.
Even if it is the same project, the background is different, and the judgment criteria will change.
Even if there is a bug, when competing with competing products, it can be launched first if it is not serious.
Those who have not changed from a single evaluation index will be defeated in the workplace.
With such a big change, how should we change it?
Fortunately, before that, there is still an internship stage, which can give you a fault-tolerant workplace experience .
Simulation training before entering the workplace - internship
I have always felt the importance of internships, on the one hand, to add points to the resume, and on the other hand, to experience the workplace.
In comparison, technological progress and code progress are just by-products.
The advantage of an internship is that it will give you a brand new experience, and the problems arising from this experience will not affect you.
For example, this is a bit like when you play a game, you also go to the training ground to practice before the game. Even if you die, it will not affect the record.
You can make mistakes, and the company has a high tolerance for interns; you can do projects very slowly, and the company will not require an intern to have a high output.
Where in the world is there such a good thing?
Although the company's requirements are not high, your requirements for yourself must not be low.
Be sure to treat yourself as a real professional.
I used to play basketball, and the coach most often said that "everyday is like a game, and the game is like a normal game." During the internship, you can demand yourself as a professional.
The consequences of low-level mistakes in the formal workplace may be great.
There is too much content to teach you how to improve your skills in the internship, so I won't talk about it.
Today I will talk about those non-technical, but very important things.
Build relationships with colleagues. There is no competitive relationship between interns and regular employees, and it is easy to establish a good relationship. Moreover, interns, who are harmless to humans and animals, can also get help and guidance from seniors more easily. In the future, whether it is internal referral or expanding the circle, this is a good opportunity to broaden your network.
Pay attention to the company's development process. Who proposed the requirements of a project, who needs to go through research and analysis, what type of documents to produce before writing the code, the process of reviewing the code after writing, the relationship between development and testing, the process of going online, and the handling of online accidents. These are very important knowledge that have nothing to do with the technology itself. Paying attention to and understanding these processes will allow you to integrate into the company as soon as possible and lay a solid foundation for your formal employment in the future. From a utilitarian point of view, if an intern is willing to pay attention to these things in addition to writing code, he will be considered "smart" by the manager, and there will be more opportunities to become a regular in the future.
Observe your colleagues . See how your colleagues respond to product needs, how to reject product needs, how to report their own results, how to explain their own delays, and even how to prevent blame, how to blame, how to catch fish. You don't have to do this, but you should know this. When something happens, think about how to deal with it yourself, then observe how others deal with it, and then review whether your thinking line can be improved.
Internship is an excellent workplace experience and opportunity for trial and error, and this kind of opportunity will never be available again in the future. Seize this opportunity and correct your own evaluation system before entering the workplace, from dualism to pluralism, which will have a fundamental impact on your workplace.