Programmer's midlife crisis?

In Nanshan Science Park, few programmers do not know the death of Eugenio.

Born in Hunan province Shaoyang Wugang a rural family Eugenio, the former half has been trying to change the fate through self-struggle. 1994, he graduated from high school, with excellent results into the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, out of the hometown of the small mountain village.

After graduating, Eugenio into a research institute in Zhuzhou, and by 2001, he resigned to Shenzhen and joined Huawei for 8 years. Later, he was admitted to Nankai University Master's, in 2011, into ZTE's subsidiary--Shenzhen Zhongxing Network Technology Co., Ltd. has been working so far.

Eugenio settled in Shenzhen, married and had children, but also bought real estate and private cars, is the hometown of the example of praise, until he suddenly was the company dismissal.

According to his wife, in early December 2017, Eugenio's direct leader Wang was talking to him, revealing the meaning of his dismissal. Eugenio to the company whether there is room for redemption, whether internal exchange posts, Wang said, the above leadership has decided that there is no room for manoeuvre.

In this regard, ZTE Network letter company Brand Department has told the media, the company is in accordance with the normal personnel flow and labor system in the implementation of the staff to be discouraged also belongs to the normal business matters. The company does not currently have a large-scale layoff plan.

December 10, 2017, around 10 o'clock, Eugenio from the company's northern 26 floor fell dead. Shenzhen Nanshan Police after the site investigation, the preliminary elimination of homicide.

No one knows why he embarked on this path of despair. But his death in the public opinion field to produce a "programmer midlife crisis" proposition discussion.

At the memorial, Eugenio's classmates sent baskets. Shen Wendi, the surging journalist

"When I first started working, I was 23 years old, and on the internet it was said that no one was going to be a programmer after the age of 30. When we reached the age of 30, we became 35-year-old programmers nobody wanted. I am now nearly 35 years old, found that the company's more than 40-year-old programmers are still a lot of AH. "Middle-aged programmer lian Ping that the" midlife crisis "is questionable.

Six o'clock in the evening, he left the Mercedes parked on the roadside, then walked into a café. His chest was also hung with the company's work cards. The 34-year-old engineer is not only overweight, but also very well-kept. A neat short hair with a thin face, looks exceptionally energetic.

Lian Ping is an engineer and project director of a well-known chip design company, belonging to the middle of the company. He was recruited to Shenzhen by school ten years ago. At that time, like most young programmers, live in a handshake building, eat fast food, a pair of jeans wear 67, the hems wear hair cut off to continue wearing.

He has also experienced the days of working overtime in his dreams.

Once he was in the team for a project for 30 consecutive days overtime, one night he and colleagues are online communication bug, chat with colleagues on the shadow, how also do not reply to him. Two hours later, the colleague sent a message, "just went to the bathroom fainted", and then continue to discuss the bug.

Lian Ping says programmers who have not been in class are not a "qualified" programmer. But when the age slowly came up, he found that his body can not be so frustrating, "the company in the year 30 has begun to pay attention to fitness, this is perhaps the so-called programmer's midlife crisis."

One o'clock in the morning, a building in an Internet company is still brightly lit. Shen Wendi, the surging journalist

But he believes that 30-year-old programmers who work overtime to 20 years of age, this is inevitable, there is nothing to worry about. One of the things that really can be called a crisis is the promotion of self-worth and the pressure of reality. A few years ago, Lian Ping and his wife divorced, he attributed, busy work and irregular schedule is one of the reasons.

Lian Ping is a programmer, but he is more interested in managing the project and prefers to communicate with others, so he jumps out when a suitable opportunity is available. Of course at his side, some people do not want to jump.

"Some people's character is suitable for the programmer, his interest is to solve the bug write code." You talk to him about promotion he can't understand, let him control the project also not. Our company is also a lot of such people, technical Daniel. But there is a problem, if there is an emergency he has to top up, his schedule is always fluctuating. ”

In Lian Ping's view, the programmer's ceiling is determined by a number of factors, "personality, education, working age, network, company personnel structure, opportunities ..." and the key point is whether your pace can keep up with the pace of industry updates.

Almost all respondents said that the most important feature of the Internet and communications industry is that technology is changing rapidly and products are continually updating iterations. If you don't update your skills and you don't embrace new technologies, you'll be eliminated.

"Now it's a great fight, and the language appears too fast." The advent of Python makes us feel that there is no possibility of breakthrough. Baidu's unmanned driving is related to it, AI algorithms are required to write this thing. In saying this, the Little Dragon's face was full of anxiety, and the tone was full of uneasiness.

Perhaps for young people, there is still time and energy to learn new things, but when you have a family, with children, further study is a great challenge.

During lunch break, a company downstairs has staff reading. Shen Wendi, the surging journalist

Lian Ping has a six-year-old daughter who wakes up every day in his daughter's hug and sends her back to the company after school. The busiest time will be a few weekends.

"One weekend is a variety of training courses, my daughter to learn English, you have to spend a lot of attention to choose which training institutions good, not necessarily close to home, so every time to drive more than half an hour to open to training institutions." After you finish, you have to find a place to have lunch immediately. I had to Gan Chang in the afternoon and learn music in another district. After learning to go home, you have to review the day's English. I'll take an English class the next morning and bring her to the amusement park in the afternoon. Come back in the evening and the weekend is over. ”

He said that colleagues around the same, the weekend is the whole of Shenzhen disorderly, not in the subway, bus, anyway, are on the way to training institutions. "It's not so much a programmer's midlife crisis as a middle class panic," he said. Worry about their children later than others, can't maintain the status of middle-class. ”

Lian Ping said that with the family and children, coupled with mortgages and car loans, he "dare not to fall", fortunately, after 10 years of fighting, he has no mortgage worries.

In his opinion, the high salary of the programmer, the fundamental reason is that the industry is valuable, but in turn, when the industry one day, the wind is not so big, the people on the tuyere what to do.

In 2013, a 10-year-old employee resigned from the communications industry, in the forum has been updated more than 18,000 words, recalling his various past in the industry, "the communication industry appearance, stained with high-tech light, many parents are willing to send their children to learn." In fact, after the wave of mobile communications around 2000, the landscape gradually began to decline. ”

The senior Communicator analysis, communication compared to the Internet, people mobility is poor, there is little room for choice. "Highly monopolistic industries, high-tech concentration, patents, long research and development cycle, is destined to belong to the game between the big companies." "In addition, the knowledge is easy to depreciate, the technology is eliminated quickly," 2G, 3G, 4G each other uses the technology to be different. May wait until the 5G comes out, uses the technique to be different. ”

This article, called "The Decade of communications", has aroused many people's sympathy at the time.