Due to missed the bus last night, so I opened the drops is a fast train, get on the car after the driver lad quite polite, simple talk, didn’t think was former programmers, at first thought it was a part-time job, chat results after just know is a full-time, is really a big surprise, carefully ask why just know, the original is because the outbreak was cut last year, But I couldn’t find a job after that, but life had to go on, and finally I chose to switch to didi full-time. As it is only a few minutes’ drive from our company to the subway, we will soon arrive at the station, so we can’t continue to talk in detail, but after listening to the story, I can’t help but sigh.
Everyone has his own choice, people really bad evaluation, can be turned at the time of the circumstances drops is he made the most conducive to get rid of the best choice of the current predicament, like popular long time there were three programmers meet test and success on this matter, in our opinion, they gave up their programmers, the high may find it difficult to understand, but for them, They got rid of 996, work on time every day, hair season line low, also can often and wife children warm kang, such a life do not mention how comfortable, all cloud author crazy, who solution among them taste?
Although I understand their choice, there is no distinction between noble and lowly occupations, but there are certainly differences between good and bad ones. So what kind of career is good and what kind is bad?
Good jobs and bad jobs
I think a good job should have a ceiling and imagination, and a bad job should have a ceiling and you can see your future at a glance. What do you mean?
Drops a driver, for example, for instance the daily income is proportional to the you run the singular, may be very hard to run every day, living a day can make a more than one thousand, but when you stop order, your income also stopped, cleaner, food and beverage in running errands, too, this kind of work as long as you stop working, your income is stopped, In addition, this kind of work requires great physical consumption. After working hard all day every day, there is no time to think about life. The next day, we start to work mechanically again, which is highly fungible.
So what good job features, I think there are two, one is able to continue to build their scarcity, programmers industry, for example, with the continuous progress of your skills, your treatment, irreplaceability nature will be more and more strong, 2 it is to imagine space is high enough, such as the media, could you write the article no one look, but it is also possible that write 10 w + critical, And do the long tail is obvious since the media, as long as your article/video good enough, you are in a long time to gain attention continuously, the long tail is apparent, in today’s era, the traffic is money ah, so you write good articles, you can score continually attention, recognition, that is to say, when you stop writing Your past works continue to attract a lot of people’s attention to you and create value for you, which is why I always insist on writing and encourage others to write. From this perspective, we media is indeed a good career!
How do engineers mitigate risk
In order to avoid other people think I’m in the lecture, I first simple light your own achievements, the present passive income (sideline + financial management, etc.) have been able to cover living expenses, including mortgage, etc, the wife of an investment project about 20 w also can stable income every year, it does not appear particularly large changes in life, can say without any problems, So I said some experience may be some reference for you, I hope to give you some inspiration.
Do their job well, of course, the strength of technology, the higher the position, you will be competitive, although it is now winter period, the recruitment standards is higher and higher, but from the global perspective, technical good candidates to headlines, spell, many such companies spend a decade lucky to earn a must still is not much of a problem, but have to admit, It is indeed difficult for 90% of engineers to get one million yuan of annual salary. A president of our company once said, we believe that everything below P8 can be cultivated, and P8 and above are talents. Promotion may be mixed with some luck in addition to ability.
So what should we do, as mentioned earlier, is bring back the ABZ theory proposed by ReidHoffman, co-founder of linkedin and paypal.
A: It’s something you’re doing, something you can do for A long time, something you’re committed to, something you feel secure about, and something you’re personally happy with.
B: In addition to plan A, you can train yourself in other abilities or hobbies or dreams in your spare time, which can be considered as A side job. In this case, if there is A problem with your main job and it is replaced by A robot one day, you can immediately switch to A because you have your own side job, which allows you to deal with it calmly.
Z: Personal assets are your protection and your retreat. If one day all of your Plans A and B fall through, your Plan Z guarantees that you will continue to live the life you have for some time in the future, giving you a chance to start over. My understanding is financial management, such as funds, fixed investment, stocks, real estate investment, etc.
In the IT industry, not everyone is a person of excellence, and IT is not so easy to achieve a million yuan annual salary. Then, can we consider becoming slash youth? Maybe we are not outstanding in some ability, but we can build our OWN IP matrix in communication, writing and influence. The relationship between these abilities may be “ability to ability to 1 x 2 x n” such multiplication relationship, virtually makes greatly improve our competitiveness, IT may most people heard Hou Jie, translated a lot of bestseller, I remember the one Daniel comments Hou Jie said the teacher, the theory of single technical ability to calculate upper middle, top from a distance, But he is very good translation of the book, basic it is bestseller, built on a powerful influence, now it’s like technology and the field’s most prominent bloggers stormzhang, technology is not the top, but through investment, writing, etc. To build a solid moat, they may not have top technology, but provides the first-class service for the reader, And build their influence.
It is important to note in the attempt to slash youth, these capabilities is best for the main business has a promoting effect, such as writing, through writing you consolidate the understanding of knowledge, to clarify the concept of the fuzzy, by point and construct their own knowledge system and also exercise their own writing, expression ability, etc., the main business has great role in promoting, Do not seriously consider switching from programmer to didi, because these are two completely different industries, once you switch industries, you will not have accumulated in the previous industry, equivalent to starting from scratch, and according to our above analysis, didi such a career has a limited ceiling, as far as the eye can see the head, is not a good career.
I recently did the tao, some friends seems a bit “doing nothing”, but actually makes my business from before is responsible for the financial to rebate, engaged in tao guest helps me to the business have a deeper understanding of itself, both tao guest is also a long tail obvious industry, also be more lucrative returns (I saw the most exaggerated case lying to earn a month 30 w, You read that right, it’s 30W a month! , and to do a good job tao customers, you have to know some pull new, fine operation and other ideas, so see and exercise your product and operation thinking, no matter how to look at, have a great role in promoting your main business! With all the benefits, why not do it.
Having said so much, the most important thing I think is not to set limits on yourself, to try more on the premise of ensuring your main occupation, and try to build your own ability matrix.
Say investment, stock is the ordinary people may want to get investment, financial management, and the house, but there are also a kind of return on investment is also very rich, such as investment “chamber of secrets escape” this new project, I said above, the wife of the investment in a year can lay earn 20 w project is this, the early stage of the investment, lay back after this make this, after this kind of investment, of course, need to have a vision, It takes more courage, and MY advice is to spend no more than a quarter of a family’s total income, so that failure does not affect the normal standard of living of the family.
The last
Hope this article has inspired you, in addition a few days ago in the circle of friends to share a little experience to do tao guest, did not expect so many people interested, this week will be in my another number “programmer Kun brother” to share, I hope to do tao guest friends will be helpful! If you want to see you can pay attention to this number.
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