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Reporter: director, National Day you want a film “programmer version of me and my hometown”, the majority of IT compatriots want to know what the film said.

Director: Well, in order to make more people focus on this group of high quality and high IQ, this film is specially made. It will introduce the emotional story of programmers and their hometown in four paragraphs of their life.

Reporter: What is the main line?

Director: homesickness to travel, homesickness to struggle!

Story 1: Wuhan – My mother said I was too far away from home

Distance of home: Xiangyang, Hubei — Wuhan, Hubei

I am a test and development engineer. Now I am based in Wuhan, and my hometown is rural area of Xiangyang. When I entered the university, my father told me excitedly that he would take the exam for a grassroots civil servant and go back to lead the village to make a fortune.

Our village is neither near mountains nor near water, and the rural areas are not like those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The rural areas here have no resources, and without resources, they are poor. Since childhood I envy those kinds of fruit trees, greenhouse vegetables, scientific pig…… As far as I am concerned, if we had policy support or ecological resources, we would not be able to rely on the weather for generations.

Later, before I graduated, my father called me and told me not to take the primary exam. The idea was that there was a new college student village official in our town who was crying when the village secretary held a meeting with the town leaders. I want to want, nothing more than when involving a few topics it is to say you have not done in the countryside you do not understand, the theory is useless……

Those who do IT know that there is a big gap in employment opportunities and salary in first-tier cities, second-tier cities and third-tier cities. I stayed in Wuhan after graduation, a city with no place to jump (persistent big factory). But in all aspects of the industry, staying in Wuhan is at least better than going back to Xiangyang.

Parents that generation, rural, do not understand what is the Internet, with the increase of age, more and more envy those children and grandchildren around the knee of life, will nagging from time to time “or do not read you grow up, grow up have gone”! It is a kind of melancholy, but also a kind of helpless, and we are not?

But I do not regret their choice, life is a one-way line, stem our line of most more rational and decisive. I know the basic level is what kind of, pay is not high, there is no urban straight unit year-end bonus, can not guarantee the normal rest, there is no room for promotion, simply speaking is dawdling can also, to have a big development is not easy.

I am already 30 years old, but I have not made any contribution to my hometown. My registered permanent residence is in Wuhan, and returning to my hometown once a year is the last connection between me and that place called hometown.

Story 2: Beijing – I have a Beijing hukou but no apartment

Distance of home: Huanggang, Hubei — Beijing

I am a Java development engineer in Base Beijing. My hometown is Huanggang. When I was in high school, the teacher said that the college entrance examination was a single-plank bridge, and only a few people could squeeze on it. I was admitted to Wuhan Institute of Technology, and I should have stood on the edge of the single-plank bridge.

After graduation, I wanted to go to a big city to look for a job. I have been in Hubei for the past 20 years. Through campus recruitment, I entered a state-owned enterprise in Beijing and signed a contract. I will not leave my job for five years and guarantee my Beijing hukou. At that time, I wish the whole China were discussing how hard it was to get a Beijing hukou. I couldn’t buy any Beijing hukou. I was so excited that I signed the contract without discussing salary carefully.

It has been the sixth year since I came to Beijing, and I have a Beijing hukou! They say time wears passion down, and they must be right. My monthly salary in Beijing is more than 10,000 yuan. After graduation, my competitiveness is not very strong. My sister said that the Java development that I have studied can get more than 20,000 yuan in Beijing.

I have a Beijing hukou, but I still need a little down payment to buy an apartment. Met some people, heard of some things, just know Beijing Wa Test university is not so easy. I just remember a teacher once told me that a child with Beijing hukou has one foot in Tsinghua/Peking University. Now I really want to remember which teacher said that sentence to me, and I want to ask him whether that sentence means that Beijing children can wander around Tsinghua/Peking University, but not the meaning I understood (laugh and cry).

Awkward age, awkward situation, many of my college classmates are married and have children, and those who are slower have already bought a house. Think about yourself, standing at thirty, but it seems not standing!

My friends advised me to retire and enjoy life, and both my parents and I felt it was a shame to lose our Beijing hukou, which we had worked so hard to obtain for five years. It is simply a vivid interpretation of life experience “tasteless, it is a pity to abandon”. I’m gonna try, and I’m gonna leave before I bought a house here 35 years ago.

The development of my hometown without a force, I am an ordinary to impossible again ordinary programmer, say big development cannot leave small people, but HOW can I not see their role in hometown?

Leave home and go to his hometown, hometown can not go back, stay in his hometown!

Story 3: Shanghai – I’ve been living with my wife since I got married

Distance of hometown: Luoyang, Henan — Shanghai

I am an Android development engineer, now based in Shanghai, my hometown is Luoyang, Henan. Wuhan read the university, general, that is a 985 (smell a trace of pride).

Before I graduated from college, I met my wife through the introduction of my high school classmate. My hometown is in the same place, which is more convenient for me to walk between the two families after marriage. Shanghai is a place where you can get as expensive a house as you want, but you can hardly get a cheap one. As a programmer, my classmates and friends all seem to be in first-tier cities or Hangzhou. Besides Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu are the new first-tier Internet companies.

Our husband and wife are married, but they are different from each other all the year round. My wife has a mediocre education and cannot find a good job outside. My income is not enough to support my family, buy a house and buy a car in Shanghai. My boss said that they were a group of people who caught up with the real estate bonus in Shanghai. When she came to Shanghai, the Shanghai government still gave hukou to her, so I think it must have been a very early introduction of talents. Now the house price around the place WHERE I work is 70,000 ~ 110,000 square meters.

After discussion, we chose a different place, the wife took an examination of the teacher in the old home, with woven down also stable, income is not much, but the old home that place consumption is low, she is not a person who loves to dress up, one thousand two thousand is enough. I saved most of the down payment on the house, and my parents gave me 60,000 yuan for help, which was all they could give, because I had another brother who was unmarried.

We bought a house in our hometown, installed it and repaired it in a different place. I would go back home once a month to see my wife and children. We were not romantic, so we still lived like this. It’s a white picket fence to say I don’t want to live in a city with my wife and kids, but my life is so perfect that I’m pretty content.

Hometown, there are my family, there are my classmates and friends, there is my youth, I settled down here, although there is no big contribution, but the development of hometown, I believe I have a force, think about it is also very proud.

Story 4: Shenzhen – I outsourced and rented my house

Distance from home: Taiyuan, Shanxi – Shenzhen

I am an outsourced test and development engineer, now based in Shenzhen, my hometown is Shanxi. Now I can’t remember why I didn’t work hard at that time. I just felt that there was a way out if I didn’t study hard and go out to work. I only found it very difficult after I experienced it, so I had to choose Peking University Jade Bird to learn programming. After three years of training, I could get more than 9,000 yuan in Shenzhen.

Our youth will always lead us to the wrong path, side road, my childhood she chose to study hard, just graduated from a prestigious university, than I this job three years of outsourcing test pay. I think outsourcing is not inferior to the status of the company’s own employees, but I still feel timid when I see the people coming in and out and the different colors of the work card.

Each group construction activity, looking at their own staff discussion jubilant, I silent, because I am outsourcing; Every holiday, looking at their own staff packages, I silence, because I am outsourcing; Each meeting, looking at the meeting only its own staff qualified to report work progress, I silence, because I am outsourcing…… I think I am a serious job, rely on their efforts to make money, I am not inferior to others, but why is my heart still very not confident?

This year is the eighth year that I came to shenzhen to work. My husband and I are renting a house in Shenzhen. We are glad that we come to Shenzhen. The city is not only inclusive, but also very friendly. Renters can use the school quota of the rented house, so I am not too worried about whether the children have books or not.

My husband and I together more than 20,000 wages, to tell the truth in Shenzhen is still very tight, just want to have a home, can not be in Shenzhen, it is better to be in their hometown. So we bought an apartment in our home city, but we never stayed there because we were always in Shenzhen. I thought that when I was old and made some money, I could go back to my hometown and live in my own house.

A lot of friends ask us why don’t we go back home, because the income will be halved back home, and really feel that shenzhen’s environment is good, fresh air (a little hypokey), can only say hometown or not to create a good environment for Internet enterprises, but we want to go back home in this industry, but what can we do?

Can not go back to the hometown gradually became a foreign country, programmers mostly just programmers, Liu Qiangdong has only one, go out outside still miss that place — hometown.

Photo: The film Me and My Hometown

Summary: can not go back to the hometown gradually became a home, but the country is home, programmers are a group of people with power, a spark can start a prairie fire, no matter where you are, struggling programmers can make some achievements, become the pride of hometown! Hats off to IT people!

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The blogger graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology with a master’s degree. He is a programmer who pursues technology and has passion for life. A few years in a number of front-line Internet companies, with years of actual combat experience in development, I have technology and story, waiting for you.

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