A lot of people read grind, the result still went doing development, be blood deficit?

You’re in a master’s or a development job, so I’m still in a cat graduate school?

What is the point of graduate school? What can we learn?

Do I get on the boat or not?

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This is a topic often discussed by friends in private messages, blogs or forums, and many of the friends who discuss this problem are watching and preparing to get on the boat.

Today is the weekend again, ready to talk about this topic, by the way cooked some chicken soup, friends do not welcome.


01,

Since I want to compete, let’s start with myself and talk about some real situations around me.

Take the employment situation of my lab classmates when I graduated that year as an example.

There are five friends who graduated from my tutor. Two of them went to an Internet factory for development, one went to a communication factory for sales and service, the other also went to a communication factory for development, and only one of them went to an algorithm research institute to continue to work on image-related algorithms.

In this way, there is only one image correlation algorithm research in the old line, and only 20% of the calculation is not rigorous.

Obviously, this vegetable sheep is also reduced to engage in development of the bottom of the society fishing line Coder. After all, the ability is limited, the algorithm does not know, had to find an excuse to say that they are interested in development, the result is really relying on development to make a living.

After working for a period of time, I have come into contact with some people. It should be said that the majority of postgraduate students around me are engaged in development and products, while the proportion of those engaged in algorithm research or low-level research is still a little less.


02,

In that case, does development really require a graduate degree?

Programming development really focuses on technical ability. A degree may not be as important for programming development as it is for technical ability.

At least for most of our ordinary people “development jobs” not so high requirements for education, at least in the recruitment requirements of the bachelor’s degree is basically enough; Only a few positions in algorithms, big data or basic research and development require a master’s degree or above.

So below the circumstance that undergraduate student is very general now, undergraduate course record of formal schooling should be the basal record of formal schooling barrier of obtain employment, so why to say specialist associate people have opportunity to be able to rise this rise this as far as possible, namely this meaning.


03,

Talk to here some people can not help but the heart is born to sigh, especially had boarded the small partner, then if I also go to engage in development later, that read this research still have a meow meaning? I, myself, am I not wasting my life?

I don’t know if you have watched the program of “Rebuild 2020 Technology All-star Dialogue” in station B, but I have carefully watched the episode of “Lei Jun’s Dialogue with He” :

I noticed that Mr. Lei Jun mentioned a question that everyone might think or hesitate about when talking about the significance of college study:

If you think about it, this question has a lot in common with the topic of our title.


First of all, whether you are studying for graduate school, or waiting to go to graduate school, you must be clear about one thing: no one will teach you employment-related skills in graduate school, nor will your mentor. If you embark with such expectations, you are likely to be disappointed.

Graduate school bubble in the laboratory to do “scientific research” small partners are not a few. Sometimes think about it, in fact, like us engineering graduate students are also very lucky, more or less always have access to some employment skills or project atmosphere, but most of the time for graduate students of many disciplines, may be the following similar process:

In particular, failure in the process is almost normal, and the repeated process after failure is stressful and boring, and it is also very normal to lose interest.

And that’s when we, all of us, get anxious and think about a life question, which is:

  • Is it really useful to work on something you’re not necessarily interested in?
  • Will my time and energy be wasted?

Personally, I think it is not like Mr Lei jun said above, when we go to work after graduate school learn professional skills and scientific knowledge is not necessarily can come in handy, professing the probability is very small, but the process of training to some of the basic ability and quality will directly influence the development of career height, including but not limited to:

  • The ability to learn independently
  • Ability to retrieve knowledge and summarize
  • Persistence, resilience, deliverability and the ability to resist loneliness
  • Communication, collaboration, presentation and writing skills

So as long as the heart, white is impossible to give for nothing.

After several years of actual work, I met many friends, both undergraduates and postgraduates. Apart from the special cases, I feel that even in terms of the development post, the partners with master’s degree are generally good in systematic learning ability, ability to find and analyze problems, and ability to summarize, which makes it easier to stand out in the post.

Therefore, if we hold such a mentality to face our daily anxiety may be “useful theory/useless theory” problem, the heart is not more stable.


04,

I still remember when I was in school, the campus occasionally heard a very “social” learning rhyme is: “Gold bachelor, silver master, scrap iron is a doctor”.

To be honest, this sounds a little silly, especially for those of you who are already in the middle of a siege. But the truth is, every time I hear this sentence, I basically say it from the doctor’s mouth. Of course, I also know that the doctors are having fun, the surface of a Bohemian joke modest self-mockery, in fact, to encourage together.

Indeed, even after reading the postgraduate, do not look too high at yourself, let alone have too heavy psychological burden.

Most of us are ordinary people. We don’t have to live by “other people’s standards” or “standards that may not fit us.” Objectively weigh your strengths, weaknesses and interests, and choose a practical direction that suits you based on the current opportunities may be more conducive to your long-term development, at least I personally think so.

So back to the topic discussed at the beginning of this article, who said that after graduate students can not do development, have to shut up: artificial intelligence; Machine learning; Man on the moon, just off the time machine; At the bottom of $50 a year…

Even if it is to do development, in fact, there are a lot of things worth studying, depth and breadth of knowledge, career development also has a considerable possibility.


05,

Finally chatted chatted, returned to that ancient problem, that I want to take an examination of grind in the end?

Did not say, can refer to the article that had talked before: “want to take an examination of grind after all?” … class = ‘class7’ > < p style = “color: RGB (50, 50, 50);

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