Programmer's inspirational story: Stay Hungry, stay foolish

I want to share with you a real story around our programmers when the whole community is watching amid. And I in the "If you can't see you can make it?" "In the article introduced by those blind programmers, the same is stay hungry, stay foolish. But I personally think that the story I want to tell you today is more meaningful to us ordinary people. I sincerely hope that we read this "from the toilet to the programmer" story, we can learn something from it.

Because of the friend's reason, I and a start-up team often have intercourse, through this team, I knew this story the master-Wang Ping (@wpingsuper). In fact, he follow me in Google Reader and Buzz a while ago, and I never communicated with him. And his experience I was in last weekend to visit the entrepreneurial team when I heard. I asked them to Wang Ping's telephone, contacted Wang Ping, detailed understanding of Wang Ping's experience, and obtain his consent, here to share his story.

Wang Ping is a Guizhou people, 03 University graduate, sports major, no family background, only in Guizhou Mountain in a middle school as a sports teacher, a monthly salary of 150 yuan. Probably like most of the young people with dreams, he is not reconciled, from 03 to 05, he had many times to Beijing, he felt in the big city has his dream. So, at the end of 04, he formally came to Beijing at the beginning of 05, because of university professional problems, he could not find a good job like college students, then he can only in a small restaurant in Beijing as a cleaner, he in the restaurant washing dishes, sweeping the floor, brush toilets, one months 400 yuan.

Because his education is the highest degree in this small restaurant, so, what happened in the restaurant will let him to go to, so, the financial use of the computer has a fault also let him to repair, at that time he was completely unaware of the computer is how one thing, but since contact with the computer after he was hooked on the computer. He and I said, he this person is curious, good move, what all want to get a get, so, time long, make more, also can for food and beverage to solve some not understand the problem, maintenance financial computer is one of them. A long time, although still brush the toilet, but the salary also rose to 800 yuan one months, even the restaurant chef also told him that he does not belong here, he will certainly have a future. At that time he still felt impossible, smiled and went through.

Until the day of 07, the restaurant accountant said to him-"look at you are so interested in computer, you should go to learn computer", this sentence woke him. So he found in the newspaper a teaching to do a Web-page training, three sessions, nearly a year, each period needs 7000 yuan, the good-hearted accountant gave him 6000 yuan, so that he can participate in the course on the weekend. He and I said that the accountant is his noble, today he can not find his money.

But the last time, only a period, the problem came, the restaurant weekend also to work, he could not attend the training course. So, he resigned, went to the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital, when a drug delivery, is to use a scooter to send medicine from this place to another place, all physical work, one months only 200 yuan, but he has the weekend can go to the training course of that time. But the money also spent, on the two issue can not continue. He told me that at the time I felt as long as I could live, and not enough to eat.

At this time, although he went to the web-making training course, but because there is no practical to do a thing, so it is training and nothing to understand. Then he saw that Java was a very good direction, so he wanted to learn java. So, in early 08, he used his previous credit card to apply for a personal loan to the bank, to report a need for more than 14,000 Java training course. At this time, he met my friend-Bingbin (@yanbin001), my friend was in this training company as a lecturer, speaking Java.

No computer-based Wang Ping learning the difficulty of Java can be thought of, and very painful, so, Bingbin see him understand dot web development, let him do not learn Java, engage in web development of the front-end Web. Moreover, my friend Bingbin is a entrepreneurial madness, so, often pull Wang Ping together with him to do the Internet products, and let Wang Ping to study some other people do web pages, so Wang Ping learned to do the Web front end, and began to independently develop some front-end Web pages, with a real exercise, Wang Ping he began to really use HTML + CSS, it will be a little bit JS.

April 09, Wang Ping in Beijing West Four ring found the first decent job, is a health care products small company, need to do a company's website, a monthly salary of 3400 yuan. This allowed him to pay off the money owed to the bank. He also joked with me that he and I were doing e-commerce. Of course, this is not enough for him. And my entrepreneurial friend Bingbin, also called him out of business, but the start again failed. He had to go back to work again.

April 2010, he went to 12580 to do front-end development, a monthly salary of about 4000 yuan. He said that 12580 of the front-end development only he alone, today 12580 of the page more than 90% or he wrote, and he also gave me this link: http://12580.10086.cn/. You can go and see if you can get this page from a person who used to clean up a computer in a restaurant.
At this time, Wang Ping, the Web front-end development is very familiar with, very skilled, even the back end of the engineer to him also very admire. Think he used CSS and JS straight is quite good. Of course, Wang Ping is not satisfied with the job, in 10 in November, he switched to the current work unit-Baidu and Japan Rokuten joint venture--------------Le cool day. Still the same, he was in charge of all the front-end development, but this time job, he found a pretty good salary. My understanding of this salary is the advanced front-end development programmer. I quote my other friend in Microsoft and out of the country and Wang Ping worked with the words-"Wang Ping is too fierce, CSS and JS used to be extremely ripe, every time we ask him to help us fix a page effect, we asked him 2 days can not, the result he took 2 hours to fix!" ”。
Well, my story is going to end here, let's take a look at the look of Gen Wang.

In the enjoyment of the work of Wang Ping, personal blog

I don't know how you feel after reading this story. I have two senses:

• Jobs said stay hungry, stay foolish. Today, when all of us are looking at jobs like God, when we are talking about the people at the top of the wave, after listening to Wang Ping tell me about his experience, I just want to say, in fact, most of us really do not understand what is--stay hungry, stay foolish. including myself.

• Wang Ping let me think of the film "Fortune Planning Bureau" in the last sentence, probably said-" most people live according to our route, afraid to explore other routes, but there will be some people, they are not satisfied with the set of life trajectory, breaking through our set of obstacles, The person who realizes that free will is a godsend knows how to use it only after struggling to fight it. ”

Programmer's inspirational story: Stay Hungry, stay foolish