Around this stage from 2012 to 2014, I changed my title to architect. From then on, it was very smooth, from technical expert to CTO, with a management team of over a hundred people. I have been working in the industry for more than ten years, which happened to be the years when I was receiving bonuses, but to be honest, the most profitable thing for me was not earned through salary.
The money I made mainly came from several aspects: buying a house early, making a lot of arbitrage on Bitcoin futures, and making small gains in business (starting a company to make money). This is what gives me the confidence to troll people every day, because I no longer need to rely on others, so I started a career of trolling.
In fact, it has nothing to do with salary. Salary cannot make money.
Trolling people is a side job, but my main job is to share something with everyone. Just give me a like if you pass by.
There are many friends around me who have an annual salary of one million, but those who have reached the level of financial freedom, as far as I can see, have either cashed out by going public, or have an annual salary of more than 2 or 3 million.
Someone in the comment section I answered before said, "Does the boss have time to talk to you?" ? ? I'm quite surprised, how do you know I'm not a boss? We have been working as senior executives for more than ten years, and we have a large circle. Big bosses are also human beings. They also have to be independent, and they also have to ask questions about how to educate their children, which food is delicious, and what gossip is happening in the industry recently...I want to be a sycophant. no? (In fact, the boss in your eyes is often criticized by me)
So what I'm talking about is first-hand information.
As far as I can see, in our circle, many people are in their 30s and have an annual salary of more than 500,000. Those with an annual salary of one million are basically directors and CTOs of first-tier medium-sized companies in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
There are some ceilings in the IT industry, and some people cannot move up after reaching this level. For example, the factory workers of big factories, such as Ali P6, are actually coolies, because only P7 has stocks, but at the level of P7, at least they are the core of any small factory. As long as the boss of this factory can do something, he will give stocks , giving options, taking people out to KTV...If you can't give money, give them love, and you have to do whatever you can to keep people here.
If you are in a small factory and do not have this kind of treatment, you have to reflect on it.
So in fact, many "big guys" with an annual salary of one million don't have much money. Most of them are from ordinary families. They have made a million in their 30s, are on the front line, buy an apartment, and basically their visible future is gone.
Boss, you will also worry about your mortgage.
An annual salary of one million now seems to be very cost-effective.
Because those who earn millions a year are basically living in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and houses are too expensive. It’s not easy to live even if you make millions.
As I said before, the most profitable thing for me is not from salary. I have some ideas about making money.
Ways to make money:
1. Speculation
2. Investment
3. Long-termism
You can't make money by working part-time, even if you make millions a year.
The question asked what to do when you are 25 years old. I feel that pursuing a million-dollar annual salary is not particularly cost-effective.
It's like I have a friend who claims to have an annual salary of 1.5 million. He shows off his wealth to us every day. In fact, everyone is too lazy to pay attention to him. He has been silent recently, probably because he has graduated.
I was speechless when I told you a few days ago that I spent tens of thousands to buy a chair, several hundred yuan to buy a mouse, and my monthly mortgage payment was more than 40,000 yuan.
I bought a chair for 399 yuan and a mouse for tens of yuan. I said he had been brainwashed by consumerism and had a brain problem.
What’s the biggest problem with earning millions a year? Here's the thing: You'll graduate at any time.
And all your skills are like those of a dog. Your master teaches you how to shake hands, teaches you where to poop, teaches you to be nice to people...and then when your master is not good, he abandons you.
A domestic dog is no match for a starving wolf.
At present, in my opinion, taking the road of high annual salary has little value unless it goes public to cash out.
On the contrary, it is more meaningful for you to engage in a technology.
Friends who follow me all know that I practice technology every day. In fact, it is difficult for you to learn any technology in a company, unless it is a big factory.
On the contrary, if you learn by yourself, you can learn more deeply.
90% of my skills are self-taught and I have never relied on the company because the company did not give me such an opportunity.
To learn a technology, in 200X (I won’t disclose my age), I found a freelance consultant to consult for our company. This elder brother was known as the first person in the country in this field, and his consulting fee for a day was 10,000 ( Includes food, accommodation, five-star rating).
That was the year 200X. In fact, there was a lot of progress in technology, but I had been spraying technology every day in the past two years. The reason was that most technical people were on the road to death.
When doing business, you can make money quickly, but you don’t have the skills.
Those who are skilled, such as a friend who works in distributed databases, can’t find a job if they go out.
To do technology, you have to do the full stack, go on an independent path, and go in depth, because you can only go in depth if you are not controlled.
This is the tragedy of domestic technical people, but what can be done?
We can only go step by step and find our own way.
Finally, my article is an essay and a rambling talk. If you ask me what is the purpose and significance of saying all these things, I'm sorry, no.
I just saw a few comments, but I hope it can give you some encouragement.
In order to stay on topic, I would like to give a reply to the questioner: go to the deeper context, otherwise just speculate. Some people may say that this is speculation, but most people don’t know that speculation is the most effective way to make money. No more explanation, I will write an answer when I have time.
At present, the technological gap between my country's IT industry and foreign countries is not getting smaller, but getting wider.
It is unrealistic to expect companies to close this distance. We can only count on ourselves.
If you work in this industry to a deep level, you will know that all your technologies are foreign and none of them are domestic.
From the CPU layer to compilation principles to programming languages and tools, they are all behind.
But programmers have to eat. No matter how you look at it, it's despair.
The interesting thing is that you can be happy when others are in despair, because no one understands.
I just hope that a flower can bloom out of despair!
Care less about worldly things and more about yourself. People must learn to love themselves.
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