As a happy (hard-working) programmer, while working overtime, he also knows that he is enjoying the dividends of the Internet era, and at the same time, he feels anxious about being optimized at any time... I believe that many programmers are the same as me,
yes The identity of "coder" is loved and hated, so do you think the profession of programmer is good or bad?
Long working hours, 996 workers
Programmers, especially programmers in large factories, are definitely the hardest hit areas for overtime work. 996 can be regarded as a blessing, and 007 is the norm when you are busy. I still remember that there was a project pressing DDL to go online, and the team happened to be understaffed. I worked hard for a month, and I didn't get home until twelve o'clock every day. I basically fell asleep with the pillow on my head, and barely completed the task.
Of course, I was rewarded with overtime pay and a body that was almost overdrawn. I was very irritable typing on the keyboard every day, but I was relieved when I saw the salary I got at the end of the month: as long as the money was in place, what if I had to roll for two more years?
Too much hair loss, poor health
Most programmers have sub-health symptoms, and baldness is not only a joke in the circle of programmers, but also a bloody reality. Believe it or not, you can see that the foreheads of those seniors who have worked for more than 10 years are really shiny.
So the programmers around me have stepped into the ranks of health preservation one after another: lutein, vitamins, chamomile, wolfberry, neck pillow, lycopene... It can be said that it is a combination of Chinese and Western, both internal and external, just for themselves to "live" longer." Although making money is very important, programmers should not forget to take care of their bodies.
Career is short and easily optimized
The fundamental reason why programmers keep learning is: the technology update iteration is too fast, and they are afraid that they will be optimized one day.
This is like the situation of women workers in textile factories during the first industrial revolution: when a new method of labor and labor tools are sufficient to replace mechanized repetitive labor, it improves work efficiency for capitalists, but for textile factories Female workers are a disaster...
So programmers are often frightened, but force themselves to keep learning, like a car driving forward with full horsepower. Especially now that the emergence and development of ChatGPT has made many CRUD and "ordinary programmers" without too high technical content become precarious.
Of course, the profession of programmers is certainly not all "suffering"...
Grasp the trend of the times and realize class leap
With the gradual increase in the number of programmers, the careers of programmers are getting more and more complicated, but it has to be said that those programmers who have seized the trend of the times during the ten years of the booming Internet have already settled down in big cities, buying houses and cars , although it is not considered rich and powerful, it can be regarded as realizing another kind of class leap.
After all, for workers who are still struggling in tiankengs such as biochemical and environmental materials, programmers still get higher incomes and more resource tilts. Those programmers with unique visions have already grasped the industrial age. The trend of the development of the times has achieved N consecutive jumps in salary, and gained wealth that many people would never earn in this life.
It can be said that if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Although programmers' careers and work intensity have been widely criticized, we have to admit that programmers are still an industry that many people envy...
Get Secondhand Ready for a Career Switch
Whether it is long working hours, poor health, or easy to be optimized, the solution to these problems is to change careers.
Fortunately, the cost of changing careers for programmers is relatively not so high, whether it is becoming a teacher in a university, an employee of a bank, etc., or becoming a freelance worker who receives orders on platforms such as Programmer Inn, Code Market, or working with Product managers fall in love and kill each other to become product managers, or even develop a small program or game, and become an independent developer, all programmers can choose the path.
In addition, if you happen to be the programmer who has caught the trend of the times and the salary is enough for you to lie flat, then going home and having a job with a salary of 3,000 a month from 9 to 6 may not be the perfect career transition for another programmer Answer.
Programmers, do it and cherish it.