(From Lebyte)

“I was laid off at the age of 34, and I haven’t looked for a job in more than ten years. I’m too shy to ask my friends to recommend me. I went to a company for an interview, and a 32-year-old interviewer asked his age with a look of disgust on his face.

Isn’t everyone 35? There is no advantage!”

A lot of people often say “midlife crisis”, someone always feel is selling anxiety, I just want to say, early know early preparation, don’t wait until true middle age regret not early do plan, unfortunately met by a batch of embarrassment is not cut?

32 years old interviewers are good, now there are many post-90s leaders, can look at the Forbes list of elites under 30 years old in recent years, the title is very high, and further closer to say, imagine the person five or six years younger than you in charge of you, what is the feeling in the heart?

There’s no point in avoiding something that everyone has to face sooner or later. Just face it early and see what people say:

“You can tell the interviewer that he’s going to have to go out and be shot in three years.”

“At this age, networking needs to be used quickly. It can happen to anyone. Former classmates and friends can help you out.”

Others shared their own sad stories:

“I was forced to take the initiative to leave during the 37 probation period. I tried everything in the world for a month, but I also made myself reflect a lot. I hope to have another chance to work for three years with steady progress, during which I began to prepare for the next stage of life.”

From the perspective of middle-aged programmers, we all hope that the workplace can be more tolerant. Who is not middle-aged or what?

But objectively speaking, the workplace is the workplace. When young people are being educated, how do the veterans ever want to take more care of the young people just entering the workplace?

Society is very realistic, work is more realistic, either have power, or have money, both can make people less embarrassed. Do you think you want to keep changing jobs at your age? It’s one thing to jump, but it’s the company’s willingness to take it.

I also have a deep feeling about this. I have seen many programmers of Lebyte company around me at that stage, and they were powerless. We sat and talked together and came to a conclusion: the bitterness of middle age is the laziness of youth.

Some people may say, I have been conscientious and diligent in these years to do the “code farmer” things, learning is not how to pull down ah, why did not earn any money, the crisis is not still coming?

In fact, it involves the difference between “tao” and “skill”. Some people live their whole life and don’t understand, while some people have figured out the first half of their life before the age of 30.

In my opinion, the career development of programmers is actually a typical T-shaped path, either to the depth of professional ability, or to expand their influence outside the technical field, horizontal leadership and vertical professional, so that they can walk more stable.

A simple example, you can find time to read over, and must be related books, it’s hard to chew and again look not to understand that, and then send the reading notes settle to blog, write every day, you have to have 400 a year to blog, and many technical BBS and meeting over the weekend, create your own amateur technology project, Unconsciously you will be able to “unity of knowledge and action”, practice out of real knowledge, learning to feed practice.

For horizontal development, you can make more cross-border activities. The simplest way is to start as a product manager and learn how to lead projects, how to push projects and how to deal with interpersonal relationships with project managers. Learn from your boss how to manage your team, how to “think big” yourself, how to promote your business from a technical perspective, etc.

One of the most important aspects of horizontal development is that it takes many programmers out of the “art” stage and into the “tao” directing “art”. Just like someone who writes code, who can figure out what the value and purpose of what they’re doing is, rather than just doing it, it’s not that different from outsourcing.

Programmer Nicholas Zerkas once said, “Don’t be a ‘cook’ of fast food.”

How far you can go in your career depends on how valuable you are, and how strong you can be in your career for 10 years, let alone 34.

PS: The self-study course of the front and rear end separation project is completed. Station B: BV1Y64y1m732