Programmer's age, no topic

In China, our software industry seems to have such a rule:ProgramEmployee = eating youth meals, which makes the programmer's age issue quite sensitive. Here I will first tell a story: (it is estimated that many old cows know, Mo Xiao)

 

I remember it was 02 years ago. Net just came out. At that time, a netizen IN THE csdn water park wrote such a help post:

I am a 50-Year-Old programmer. I will be a basic, VB, C, C ++, Pascal, ASM, and FORTRAN programmer. Now I want to learn C #. I don't know if it's too late, what else can I learn?

At that time, in a short period of time, the whole post was drowned with laughter and buzz. The old and incompetent joke landlord, the joke landlord, was not refined, And the joke landlord came to grab a job with the young man ...... It wasn't until several hundred floors that someone found a reply from the landlord: "My name is Tan haoqiang"

Embarrassed...

The post author made a joke to everyone. It was very cold and cool, so I had to admit that it was a problem for Chinese programmers. We still remember that Han Yu's "Shi Shuo" pointed out that at that time the academic community "shame as a teacher" is abnormal (that is, the worship of human teachers is considered a shame). Now, have we also encountered something similar to "shame for old programmers?

 

As we all know outside China, most people who have no worries about clothing and food regard work as part of their lives. Note that career and job are different words. Because of their developed economy and material civilization, they have focused on pursuing their own spiritual civilization in their careers. Programming is career for foreign programmers, it is a kind of spiritual civilization activity that is more advanced than interest and hobby. It has nothing to do with age. Everyone knows that there are many 40 or 50-year-olds abroad.

In China, from to 99 years of it, we have shown great enthusiasm for high-tech (or high-paying) programming technologies, so the programmer class was born. At that time, in everyone's opinion, the program was the kind of job that relied on pure intelligence to earn a high salary. As a result, many aspiring young people also joined in this trip. The computer major scores of the college entrance examination were violent and high. However, I think that at that time, most of our peers were directed at jobs, not career. Maybe they didn't really like programming. They just wanted to have a good job, it is normal that we make more money to honor our parents and love our wives. After all, our material civilization is still underdeveloped. However, without a strong interest or hobby, programming is a heavy physical labor, this makes many programmers who are not very fond of this line end their programming career in a hurry when they are less than 30 years old, and spread the terror of exhausted energy at the age of 30.

Since then, our country's programming industry has had such a deadline, and everyone is also worried about their age growth day by day, so the age topic becomes sensitive; likewise, the gender topic also becomes sensitive.

 

In fact, programming is a mental activity, just like playing chess. If you are interested, you can play at the age of 6 and 60. If you have a deeper feeling for it, you can also be a professional player for a lifetime! Although there are differences between people, talent, and environment, just like many colleagues who love basketball and football, they do not necessarily require you to become a top-level player. If you love this activity, it's good to get your own spiritual civilization!

This is a globalTechnical CommunityIs very good:

For example, Asp.net officialCommunityHttp://forums.asp.net/

You can see that there are top answers on the homepage, which is to help others in the ranking. Let me introduce the top ranking:

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1. Vinz ranked first, with 343 points, that is, 343 effective solutions provided to others within 30 days (at the same time, Microsoft's official full-time technical support engineers only scored 263 points)

He, from 1986, now22Age

2. tatworth ranks top 10. You can see his profile: Birthday (57 years old), 29 years in it and counting! Polyglot in C #, COBOL, FTN, HTML, RPG, rpg ii, rpg iii, rpg400, vb3 thru 6, VB. NET and XML.

3. heartattack ranked 31st, which was once the second birthday in the clientside sector: 08-20-1986 (22 years old)

4. pkellnerMVP, age unknown, but looks like this old manAt least 60 or 70 years oldHis friendsJoshstodolaAlso active in the community, birthday: 10-14-1985 (22 years old)

5. Let's take a look at what pascallj says in this post: "O, ehm I am Dutch and just13 years oldSo my English is... let's say not good ...."

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Of course, the times have evolved. I remember that when I first entered college, I admired the senior who achieved excellent results, students smiled and told me, "You will be better than us in this session." A few years later, when I got good results, I also leave the same words to my younger siblings.

 

"Wen Dao has a succession, and the skill industry has a specialization"

As an older programmer, we are just a few years old, just before dirain, we don't have to strictly review him, and we don't have to fear that we will grow older, young people start to take over our world a little bit. As long as we still think about it, we can continue to do our favorite coding.

Dirain, as a professional in the industry, specializes in this trip at a light age. Although it has made great achievements, you need to know your "specialty ". Since it is "specialized", it will inevitably be different from other colleagues in other aspects, so we should not be afraid to get rid of the job of young people.

 

The most taboo of learning is impetuousness. We should all follow our own career path with a normal heart. In the post posted by the 13-year-old colleague above, those who reply to the post are not surprised. They bring together the common career and the pursuit of technology. No matter where you are from, how old are you, as long as we regard development as our own profession, we are equal peers!

 

In the end, I hope that the blog Park will be professional, harmonious, rigorous, and mutually beneficial, just like the excellent global communities.

 

PS: I saw dirain on cnblogs a few months ago. At that time, dirain was still looking for a job. At that time, I also left an anonymous comment to the colleague, telling him to treat the comments of the disease with a common mind and to separate the objective comments from them, I don't know whether dirain remembers it. I hope that my colleagues can take their careers with a normal mind. It is very important to study a foreign language!