Young rice, this phenomenon exists in many industries, but particularly prominent programmers who generally older programmers encounter promoted ceiling, remuneration up weak, lost competitiveness in the job market. Under the influence of factors of the economic cycle, trade wars, the economic slowdown, the industry bubble burst, capital of winter comes, older programmers suddenly became old outer leaves from sub people to be seen.
Just past the 2019 downsizing layoffs news constantly, chill very hot, with veterans of the program I feel very real, a lot of close friends have experienced layoffs storm, in the end what is the reason to become a programmer young rice it? It is not intended to investigate the sale of anxiety, but try to get the reason behind Chu problem, the only way to eliminate anxiety, calmly fight, and ultimately resolve the issue, otherwise, we can wait any longer. Combined with the real past experience, will be the next veteran brother to chat with you the reasons behind the young rice:
1. The net inflow of industry employment
Large inlet flow reasons 1.1
- Industry professionals in great demand: relative to his industry, IT is a sunrise industry, also before and after decades of development history. From the beginning of the birth of personal computers, the popularity of the Internet, to Internet + change enabling all walks of life, although the middle happened bubble burst, but the industry is basically on the rise, development requires a lot of talent. In particular, fueled by cloud computing, big data, block chain, artificial intelligence and networking and other hot spots, all these years and gave birth to a number of giant unicorn, schools, training institutions, IT industry to transport a lot of talent, but also spawned numerous foam.
- The relatively high remuneration: Remuneration in short supply under the IT industry is higher than many other industries, Going with the flow, downwards, high income to attract a steady stream of young people to join. Interdisciplinary postgraduate year veteran brother joined the army code farmers, in addition to the IT industry is full of curiosity than substantial income is the main reason. At that time Silicon Valley wealth creation myth appeals to the imagination, domestic Sohu, Sina and Netease and other Internet companies rising, and many other professional students have applied for the computer science graduate students, more than eight candidates finally admitted two hundred people. Not admitted students can read at their own expense School of Software, or sign up certain employment package of training institutions.
Small outlet flow reasons 1.2
- Industrial division in the downstream: we are in the downstream industry standards and core technology in the hands of US and European companies, most of our companies are doing application development, less demanding on the technical capabilities in the global industrial chain among. Veterans brother first major work in the communications industry is the international telecommunications forum to achieve the standards set floor, the final product must purchase Qualcomm and other production components. Career oriented technology is not strong, the programmer limited space along the line technology development. With our upstream industry to upgrade, upside programmers will continue to expand and take the technical development of the competition line-up will be reduced.
- Conventional development path is blocked: programmer optional conventional direction of development is very limited, technical experts or architects do, turn to do the project management line management or technology management technology along the line, turn the product line product director or director of operations done, to marketing other lines such as less restructuring. Excellent learning Shi, all routes are then further on to do a pure management, organizational structure in the pyramid, the higher up the less the number of jobs. 30-year-old veteran brother before and after the development of post ceiling encountered by architects to break through self-transformation do it better development and income, but I foresee architect of the ceiling will appear in the near future.
Inlet flow large and small export flow, mighty force squeeze single-plank bridge, this mode there will certainly be a large number of programmers pushed overboard. In the case of the rapid development of the industry, especially when the foam is infinitely big or programmer in short supply, the above problem can be masked or delayed, when faced with the external environment deteriorates, the deep-seated problems will be exposed. But why pushed overboard mainly older programmers to it? In a market economy, labor is whether the commodity, a commodity selling determinants is cost-effective. With age, the programmer has not become as popular as more and more doctors and other professional, cost-effective inversely with age, what the reason behind it there?
2. The cost is inversely proportional with age,
2.1 industry upgrading too fast
Relative to other industries, changes in the IT industry is too fast. Veteran Columbia undergraduate majoring electromechanical, and now many college students still make a living knowledge and skills taught in schools, but the IT industry is different:
- School year teaching the BASIC \ FORTRAN \ C and other programming languages are almost revenues museum.
- Operating system upgrades countless versions, Windows 98 from Dao 10, Unix \ Linux also spawned many versions.
- Front-end technology stack already beyond recognition, Java Applet \ JSP \ Servlet \ Adobe Flash \ Adobe Dreamweaver \ Adobe Fireworks and other technologies have been eliminated, Struts \ Webwork \ jQuery \ Bootstrap \ Angular \ Backbone \ React \ Vue techniques you Changba me debut.
- Back-end technology also evolved from C ++ \ Java and other programming languages to now flourishing, database types are continuously enriched, different ecosystem has a lot of middleware products.
Change contains both opportunities as well as challenges associated with, a little slack you do not rush the trip. Like previous years, the mobile Internet hot when the market shortages iOS / Android development engineers, but not for two years to become a surplus, remember that a small partner just to master the iOS / Android technology, not enough time to find a job to learn new techniques H5 / applets wait.
In addition, the communications, the Internet, mobile Internet, big data, cloud computing, chain blocks, artificial intelligence, 5G, networking and other hot spots turns appear, each associated with a large number of new technologies, regardless of the company or individual wave are easily Technology annihilation, back on the top of the wave to spend tremendous efforts. With age, curiosity and learning ability will weaken, and slowly you can hardly keep pace with the upgrading of the industry.
2.2 Specification increased resistance secular
In time "on the" to do "right" thing, which is behind the conventions of social norms into secular, non-compliance with environmental pressures will suffer, like the marriage age had not marry and have children, family and friends will put pressure on him , she married and had a very personal thing. The same work also has a similar specification, unless high-tech research and development of your company's products, and you really like just another study technology, otherwise, it is a different story.
If after a 35-year-old is also engaged in development work, then you have to face the strange eyes of others. We now value system is still relatively simple, society can not exist to accommodate diverse, even if you like to study technology, will be the world that did not do well. If you did not care about the views of the outside world better, otherwise it will affect you or threw himself into work, veteran brother rarely encountered in over 40 years older programmers work for so many years.
2.3 Home increasing pressure
Young, people eat a hungry family, now under the old and have small, middle also carrying car loan mortgage, living expenses and ultimately, everything. In addition to the economic level of pressure in the time and effort you have to balance career, family and life, it is impossible to work overtime day and night when workaholic, a loss, not worth the candle.
In addition, the geographical imbalance in the development of the IT industry, mainly concentrated in the capital city of first- or, most practitioners are homes to major cities, friends and family are at home, settle down high costs. As the child's birth, the cost of living is increasing, which requires you to get a higher income. With age, becoming less and less money was spent, external drive utility salary increases brought diminishing, the same increase incentives have not so young, and very easy to fall into the low not high not the embarrassing situation.
2.4 difficult to change the physical laws
As the saying goes: you find the disease before the age of 30, after 30 years of disease to find you. The human body function at their peak at around 30 years old, began to decline in the future, adhere to exercise can delay the process, but time is getting, you can not, as young as overtime stay up late. Veteran brother in 2005 to 2015 this decade, often work overtime, sometimes to the customer site to install the upgrade system, always will stay up all night, then no matter how tired sleep was restored.
The ability of physical energy when you are not as abundant in the past, to learn new knowledge and technology is also weakened. If the technical content of the work itself is not high, employers will think that you might as youth work overtime. If the work needs to continue to charge that the employer will think you might as well learn to love the young, as young men willing to embrace change. Everyone in the lower face of competition, and your labor cost is several times the young, from a cost point of view, employers would rather recruit a few young people.
3. Summary
Inlet flow large and small export flow, programmers price is inversely proportional with age, this is the reason behind the young rice. Find out the reason, we will find a solution, veteran brother back to write an article to say something about how to make programmers more popular the older.
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