02. setbacks in the workplace. You think of the famous chicken soup that looks poisonous afterwards-"CEO mostly starts with sales." ? So you went to apply for the sales position in high spirits. After a few days of harassing phone calls, you were scolded for doubting your life. When you looked up, you found that most of your colleagues were technical secondary school or even junior high school diplomas, and they were spitting Mandarin with a strong accent at their workstations. ? In the process of voice training, you find that your product is not competitive at all, and you can only make a list by fooling and lying. Your department manager hangs everyone's index list in the most conspicuous place in the office. Those bright red figures tell you the cruel reality all the time-whether you get along well here depends only on your conscience and shame. You just want to leave this place as soon as possible now, so you left without even asking for your salary. After that, you tried a civilian post, planning copywriting, and operating new media. You were relieved that there was no naked sales target oppression and guilt of selling your conscience. It won't be long before you find that the copywriting you devote yourself to writing for your brand every day, WeChat Weibo graphic, is not read at all. Most of your 10000+ double micro fans are bought, and the number of fans will decrease with the naked eye after each push. You have become a backward representative that the boss is bound to criticize at the weekly meeting. Sadly, after that, how can you mix with new media in copywriting? Your value to the company is not even as good as that beautiful receptionist with a monthly salary of less than 4 thousand. ? You spend most of your time at work in Zhihu, Weibo, doing some irrelevant forms, documents and PPT. With a monthly salary of 4000, all your work can be easily replaced by a high school student, and there is nothing you can do. You even feel sorry for your boss. Giving you 200 yuan a day is worthless to him, because you think the work content is meaningless. You can't find anything that gives you a sense of existence and accomplishment except fitness and games, so you feel like you are at work every day. ? Once the rhetoric, once the dream of getting ahead, almost dried up. ? After years of hesitation, you begin to accept the fact that "not everyone has the ability or opportunity to become a manager from a grass-roots civilian position", and you don't want to make a living by selling your conscience and face. ? 03. You are eager to change, and you begin to actively look for a way out. At this time, your desire for "one skill" has reached the point of hunger and thirst, and you begin to wonder if it would be better if you could engage in technical work, because you love reading and thinking, and science is also your relative strength in middle school.
By chance, you came into contact with W3CSchool and learned about programming. At the same time, you also know that the income of this business is relatively high, but it is very hard. ? After full consideration, you have made up your mind to go all the way to the dark, because you are beginning to realize that the higher the technical threshold, the less you need to intrigue (just relative, don't interfere). ? You have a long-lost motivation to learn HTML and CSS, and you want to start from the front end of the web. The road is tortuous, the time is long, and I feel painful and happy. When you start programming, the world in front of you suddenly becomes clear, and a grand and spectacular digital world is presented to you. You never thought that there were so many twists and turns behind the apps and websites you used. Memory, variables, sequences, judgment branches, loops, function encapsulation, variables, API, object-oriented, framework ... When you wake up every day, you will find yourself a little more and stronger than what you knew yesterday, and what excites you most is that if you succeed in becoming a programmer, you will have this feeling of growth every morning, provided that you keep learning. Every minute you feel that you are making progress, and you are regretting why you didn't decide to change careers earlier, why you volunteered for liberal arts in the college entrance examination, and why you didn't buy a computer for your family in junior high school ... (in fact, you can't afford it). Your code is accumulating more and more, your ability to solve problems is getting stronger and stronger, your self-study method is becoming more and more mature, and you are only one step away from getting on the bus.
In the end, you successfully changed careers and became a qualified junior front end. You are satisfied, because your income has more than tripled in the past, and your work is saturated every day, full of meaning and sense of accomplishment? You finally feel how happy it is to apply what you have learned. You can't wait to come to the company every day just to type two more lines of code and read more documents and tutorials. It seems that you have found the meaning of life. Your boss is a C++ Daniel, who has been in a big factory for many years. He has given you a lot of help and promotion since he joined the company. You begin to fantasize that you can be him one day. You are not satisfied with the front-end one acre and three points. You want to find out what's behind every ajax request, not just treat it as a black box. You want to learn Java, PHP, PY and SQL. You even want to start with undergraduate computer basic courses, such as C/C++, operating system, binary, compilation principle ... You feel that time is really unprecedented, and you start to think that playing games and getting together with friends is a waste of time. At this time, you just want to be stronger and have no distractions. Yes, I just want to live with dignity, make a living by selling my wisdom and skills instead of my face and conscience, become stronger and travel around the world with food. Even 996, I don't regret it, that's all. That's why I chose to be a programmer.