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Hello, I’m Wang Naiai. I am 23 years old and have been working as a front-end developer for four years.
You may wonder, at this age, you should be just out of college.
Why did I work for so many years? Maybe you have guessed, in fact, I did not go to college, technical secondary school graduation began to do front-end development.
Before I became a programmer, I did a lot of short, temporary jobs.
At the age of 17, I was working in Foxconn during the summer vacation organized by the technical school. I could not bear the oppressive environment in the workshop, so I stole away from Foxconn and came to Beijing alone with more than 200 yuan.
I worked as a waiter in a small restaurant for two days. In the evening, the staff had a meal. Because I ate a bowl of rice, the owner’s wife gave me a black eye.
I left in anger and went looking for a job along Qianmen Street in Beijing. A hotel manager was kind enough to take me in as a receptionist after learning my experience. Although it was only two months, it was the longest career I had ever had before I became a programmer.
There was some kind of mix-up behind it. Get into the programmer business. From 17 years on the job, it’s been four years.
Before I became a programmer, MY impression of this industry was that I was a computer nerd on TV, who could solve the biggest problems of the century by tapping my fingers on the keyboard. I also imagined that I could develop a product as popular as wechat. After the actual work, only the development of endless background management system, users are rigorous and rigid ZF personnel.
After four years of working as a programmer, there was a big difference between reality and expectation, and I have to say that programming really changed the course of my life.
If I had not learned programming, I would have been working in the factory assembly line, delivering food in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, and repairing cars, just like my classmates who dropped out early.
Not to say that these jobs are not good, as long as they rely on their own efforts to make money is also worthy of respect, but in comparison, the IT industry is much higher than the traditional industry wages, so that ordinary people change the probability of fate increased a lot.
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So many people think that if you don’t go to school early. That’s a child who doesn’t study well.
Actually, when I was in primary school, I was pretty good at studying. Top three in my class every time.
After entering junior high school, many of my classmates went to boarding schools in the county. I envy those who go to school in the county. You can leave the village and meet the outside world.
But I didn’t go because of the bad conditions at home. At that time, my sister and I were in high school. My mother was always sick, and my father was the only labor force to support our family of four. Going to school in the county would put another burden on my father’s shoulders
The middle school is in the next village. It’s three or four kilometres from my home. I ride my bike every day. I ride my bike home after class at noon and in the afternoon.
What games are the students in the middle school talking about? How many points did you run every day? What kind of gun was used in the crossfire?
In order to fit in, I also started going to Internet cafes. Played a few games, really not interested. At that time, QQ mailbox had drifting bottles. I just throw bottles and talk to strangers. Or go to an Internet cafe to watch TV and listen to music.
I went to Internet cafes many times, and my academic performance began to decline rapidly, especially in English classes. English teacher on the blackboard write words, if wrong a word, to write 100 times, at the beginning of the wrong less, I will seriously put the wrong word to write 100 times
But later the wrong words too much, I began to do not write homework, become the eyes of the teacher to give up the students. I also stopped checking my English homework. I felt happy and relieved at that time.
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In this way, junior high school self gave up for three years.
At that time junior high school learning is not good, generally two ways out:
1, go out to work, go to the southern city to find an electronics factory to stay.
Go to a technical school to learn a trade, auto repair, beauty salon, electric welding and so on.
I don’t want to go to work. I don’t want to study hairdressing. I want to go to technical school to study computer science
It is not that I know more about computers, but I have been interested in novel things since childhood. When I was young, I watched Journey to the West and saw sun Wukong’s flying in the clouds, and I was curious to ask my father, how is this achieved? My dad said to use a computer to type out, this is my earliest computer enlightenment.
When I said to learn computer, my father shook his head and disagreed, saying that MY brain was not good, I didn’t go to high school, and I could not learn, so I went to learn auto repair, saying that now there are so many cars, vehicle maintenance market is so big, learn to find a job.
A careful thought, think my father said right ah, I only in the Internet cafe contact with the computer a few times, switching input method to do a long time, typing words at the keyboard letters, with fingers to knock.
I don’t know if I can learn it. I wasted my time and money on auto repair.
I clearly remember that on the day of entering the school, the school arranged the teacher of auto repair major to take us to visit the school. When we went to the auto repair workshop, the teacher took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and smoked. He was very proud to say, “Some of the students I led worked in the FAW-Volkswagen workshop as team leaders, and their salary was more than 4000 yuan.”
It was 2015, and I thought more than 4,000 was a lot of money. After learning, I can like him to earn four thousand a month.
The students in the class are about the same, 16 or 17 years old learning is not good, parents are reluctant to children at a young age to suffer from social beatings, sent to learn a technology to seek a way to live.
Think about it, you can know that students who can’t learn cultural courses in school will not learn technology well in technical schools.
Just changed the environment, continue to play mobile phones, the difference is, no longer secretly under the desk to play mobile phones, directly unscrupulous in the desk began king of glory.
The circle determines the cognitive ceiling. When I just arrived at the technical school, I looked forward to the future. As I got along with my classmates, my attitude gradually changed and I began to drift with the tide.
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Technical school nominally is practice work, actually is to take you to electronic factory to do general work, the school and the factory have the cooperative relationship of labor dispatch, the student satisfies the demand of labor on the factory assembly line, the factory gives technical school introduction fee according to student head.
There is mutual benefit between the technical school and the factory. The pity is that the ignorant students work in two shifts day and night on the assembly line to screw the screws, earn the lowest hourly wage, and are threatened by the teachers in the factory. After three months, they will not be issued graduation certificates when they return to school.
Think about it now is really ridiculous, on the hot issue of knowledge on the way out of two degrees is what, what can three graduates do? Family undergraduate students are confused, anxious future, and this technical secondary school diploma has a fart to use?
We do the assembly line is apple mobile phone headset hole section, specific work content, from the belt off two headphone jack, and a pencil eraser head size, on grinding tool, press machine, began to drop of glue, open the sharpener, out and back on the assembly line, the people behind to do other processes.
Take the headphone jack from the assembly line, drop glue with a grinder, and remove it. The whole process should not take more than 20 seconds, or the length of the line will start to yell at you as the parts pile up in front of you.
In order not to be scolded, I can only speed up their own speed, of course, the quality is not satisfactory, a lot of times the glue drops partial, the parts are scrapped.
Seems to remember to do more than 10 bad to fine money, so I secretly put the scrap parts in the pocket hide, and then take out a large scrap parts thrown away from the pocket when coming off work.
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My sister once called and said, “What are you going to do with your life?”
I replied, “I don’t know. I haven’t learned how to do auto repair in the past two years. I’m too tired to be an apprentice, so I’ll work in this factory first.
My sister said, “You work in a factory and do the same thing on the assembly line every day. It takes a lot of energy and you can’t touch anything new. What will you do when you get old? Return to factory work, the somebody else still want you?”
And I said, “Well, what can I do?”
My sister said, “Aren’t you interested in computers? You can go to training for programming. Some of my classmates will go to training after graduation, and their monthly salary will be 7,000 to 8,000, or even tens of thousands. If you learn it, your salary will also be tens of thousands.”
Since the recruitment teacher pit by technical school, at that time if someone said to me, learn a XX technology can earn ten thousand a month, I 100% think he is a liar.
My elder sister always takes good care of me. I naturally believed what she said and replied, “When the electronics factory pays salaries, where can I have a try?”
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When we worked in an electronics factory, we lived in the same dormitory, which was four or five kilometers away from the factory. Every time after work, we went back to the dormitory by shuttle bus
One evening after work, as we slumped in the back of the bus, I asked him, “What are you going to do with your life?” He said, “I don’t know, just play it by ear.” I said, “Why don’t we learn programming? We can earn ten thousand a month after graduation.
He waved his hand and said, “Forget it.”
I understand his subtext, I do not know what the situation, we are not good at school, technical school did not learn what, and then came to the factory to work, learn programming that forget it
Most of the time is not their own, but subconscious denial of their own, did not begin to know how to do it?
Although I do not know programming is specific stem what, even if learned technical secondary school record of formal schooling can find a job?
But I think I can. I can learn to code, work hard and make $10,000 a month.
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Electronics factory pressure half a month’s wages, must work enough to pay wages for half a month.
The night before payday, everyone in the dormitory was talking about not going to work tomorrow, having a good day and then running home and leaving this hellhole.
My courage is small, afraid to pay pay day absenteeism, wages do not send, then in vain for a month and a half, so the next day I went to work.
At noon, when eating, the mobile phone text message prompt salary to arrive.
I don’t know how much, but more than 2,000. I worked two shifts day and night, only had four days off in a month, and I was paid more than 2,000 yuan. It was really chilling.
With his salary in hand, he didn’t want to spend another minute in an electronics factory or go back to technical school, so he decided to pack up and go home.
There was no shuttle bus to the dormitory at noon, because it was very hot in summer in south China. I walked 5 kilometers from the electronics factory to the dormitory. At noon, the sun was at its most poisonous.
When I arrived at the dormitory, I did not have a rest. I immediately packed my things into my suitcase and booked the ticket. I bought the train ticket home in the afternoon, eight hours hard seat, and arrived at the station the next morning.
I set foot on the train home and changed my life since then. Instead of working two shifts day and night, PROGRAMMERS worked overtime endlessly. Soon, at the age of 20, I realized a monthly salary of ten thousand, worthy of my efforts to stay up late in the training class to learn programming.
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