Chewed homely
Five one long holiday is over, the calm down to adjust the state of hard work.
This time let’s talk about a little friend may also be concerned about the problem, that is the choice of graduation city. And when IT comes to this question, IT inevitably comes up with some questions about: IT jobs? Technology climate? Job-hopping? Salary level? House and rent prices? Happiness and belonging? And so on.
Well, that’s what everyone always asks, so I can only talk about my feelings!
I think the choice of city is very important, especially for us ordinary people. Daniel need not pull, go to where can be stable, go to where someone threw olive branch to him, this ZA than, there is no need than.
The longer you stay in one city, the more expensive it becomes to move, especially after you have a family and a career. I stand in the present point of view, to recall this matter, and I graduated from the thought, and has a very different.
Too young
When I was about to graduate, I could say that I had no goal. I desperately wanted to enter BAT, and I took it for granted that I could make a breakthrough in first-tier cities, always thinking that I could “counterattack”.
However, after working for a few years, we realize that we can’t change anything, we can’t even change the fact that we are getting fatter, so many of the ideas at that time are very funny!
I graduated from Wuhan at that time. I didn’t want to stay in Wuhan after graduation. Although I stayed there for several years, I didn’t seem to know much about wuhan.
All I know is that it should be a city with a large structure, and the urbanization construction is going on crazily. I feel that it will have a good future, but I don’t have the will to stay there. The main reason is that I feel the pressure of graduate school and I don’t have a sense of belonging.
Now looking back, if I had stayed in Wuhan at that time, graduated in 2016, and pooled money to buy a house in optics Valley near the school, it would be cool now.
Where should I go?
To be honest, I didn’t have a clear goal in mind. Finally, I came to Nanjing because of the coincidence of various aspects and some offers in the school recruitment. After all, nanjing side acquaintances more, some close to home, there is no special feeling, come to come.
So let’s take Nanjing, where I live, as an example to talk about my feelings about life and work in several aspects.
Because Nanjing is a typical provincial capital city, there are many similar provincial capital cities, most of the provincial capital cities are estimated to be very bad, there should be a little representative.
Technology atmosphere
Programmers, of course, are concerned about the IT technology climate, which in turn leads to some job opportunities
The first obvious difference between the IT technology atmosphere in the first and second tier cities is that there are more and more native IT enterprises in the first tier cities, so the technology atmosphere will be very good, and the IT culture is more prosperous, so there are more and more opportunities to choose when job-hopping.
Therefore, in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, the headquarters of basically well-known Internet/communication/software companies are all there, and a series of ecological chains or downstream companies derived from these big factories are also many, so there are more opportunities.
Second-tier cities, on the other hand, have fewer budding IT enterprises. Most of them are R&D centers or branches set by large companies, so the technology atmosphere may not be as prosperous as the first-tier cities.
What’s more, second-tier cities are characterized by a lot of outsourcing, especially software outsourcing companies. Remember before oneself change a line to look for a job in the agency recruit, obviously have kind of restricted feeling, come out really don’t know where to go, scale is a little bigger so a few.
wages
In fact, the salaries of IT positions are not low, which I think is also an important reason for many friends to change careers.
But I think we all know that salary depends on a lot of factors: industry, location, position, ability, etc.
Originally, it could not give a definite conclusion about this thing, so I could only talk about it based on the world and limited cases as far as I could see, and only consider the ordinary situation, just for reference.
Let’s take our place, for example, where programmers get paid a certain amount. For graduating undergraduates, take a 7, 8K ~ 14, 15 K, the median tens of thousands of dollars is already very good; And for this year’s master’s degree students, take a 10K ~ 18, 19K should be basically about the same, the median of 14, 15K appearance, also about this appearance.
When it comes to social recruitment, the situation is even more impossible to sum up, different people do have a little big difference. In general, like this kind of work about three or four years, in the local can take 20K is already very good, and this is still a good ability under the circumstances.
If it is a city like Shenzhen in the north, the overall situation I think 30 to 40% of the float should be normal.
Again emphasize a sentence, this is only a personal understanding, after all, limited, only for reference!
The cost of living
The first is the normal price and consumption level. I estimate that cities of the same size should be very similar, no matter how big the gap is, it can not go anywhere.
People are probably more concerned about the cost of stable housing, which is about the price of housing and the price of renting.
First of all, the housing price: I came to Nanjing in the summer of 2016 to work. At the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017, I began to look at houses crazily. At that time, the average price was generally more than 20,000 yuan, and the location and traffic were not particularly good. Over the past three years, average prices have risen, but not by much.
So for a programmer, if accept a loan to buy a house, I think in our similar city to buy a house on salary should not be a problem, it is just a matter of time.
As for renting: I also graduated in 2016 and came to Nanjing. At that time, I rented a 34-square-meter single apartment in Jiangning, with one room, one hall, one kitchen and one bathroom. Each space was not large, and there was no water cut power grid fee. If you accept sharing, a single room should be much lower, estimated range between 1000 and 2000, which is strongly related to the region, area, traffic and environment of the house.
So about renting a house, I think in cities like Nanjing, there is no pressure at all.
happiness
Human beings, after all, are sentient animals. We are not machines or tools.
A big part of happiness comes from belonging, and a big part of belonging, of course, comes from having a stable place to live in, or in a narrow sense, a house.
Honestly, when I was renting, I didn’t really feel like I belonged. Renting a house always has to look at the landlord’s face, also unstable, a little tired of telling the truth.
And I love electronics and messing around with my desk. When I was renting a house, I always moved with a big head, which was troublesome and uncomfortable. Later, after buying a house, the sense of happiness and belonging can be said to be very good, to live and work in peace and contentment, people also feel a lot of psychological stability.
So that’s still the same thing. In a city like ours, if you work as a programmer and work hard and steadily, it’s not a big problem to buy a house or a car and stabilize yourself.
After a few years, most of my classmates, whether they are undergraduates or postgraduates, have settled down here, so they still have something to look forward to and can fully support our common people’s yearning for a better life.
So on that note, in retrospect, the choice wasn’t so bad.
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Well, everyday Lao to here, the holiday is over, it is time to enter the normal rhythm of life and work, blunt duck!
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