Hello, everyone. I am Karsong.

When I met with Sohu, the director had already finished the interview. I could see that he was very satisfied with me. Before the interview, he asked me:

“Is there anything you want to ask me?”

Maybe I was out of my mind at that time, I asked: “I am a little anxious now, all talk about programmer 35 crisis, do you have any good solution?”

The director raised his head and stared at me.

Many years later, already can’t remember what he said at that time, only remember 27 years old I, face Sohu hang up.

Embrace change

I learned early on what it means to embrace change. When I just graduated, I worked as a mechanical engineer in a state-owned power generation equipment company.

At that time, the president of a small African country and his cabinet members visited our company, ready to devote the whole country to build a hydropower station.

Although this is a small country, orders are not big, but at least it is the president of a country, so the company up and down are very important. As a front-line engineer, naturally surging emotions.

Just as I was throwing myself into my work with high enthusiasm, ready to contribute to the welfare of the people of the Third world, a military revolution took place in that country and the president was overthrown.

Yes, our clients have been disrupted. It was also the first time I experienced what it meant to embrace change.

In the years since, I’ve worked at many Internet companies and encountered many weird projects. No more business line changes, and the reason for the cancellation of the project surprised me.

Choose lie flat

Life has to have some fun, and my first joy was making money.

When I was a mechanical engineer, the factory director promised us: “You will be the master in the future, a month’s salary can buy a square meter of house.”

Get the first month salary just discover, China unexpectedly has the city that house price is so low……

After switching to the Internet, my first job paid $20,000 a month, which is N times more than my previous salary. This simple happiness has been guiding me to change jobs, raise salaries, into the factory, into the big factory.

Until one day, walking out of the office in the morning fog as usual, I thought:

In my twilight years, if my grandson asked me, “Grandpa, what did you do when you were young?”

I told him, “Grandpa has done all kinds of activities to promote vitality and vitality.”

Think of here, suddenly feel work is not happy, the idea is not understanding.

PS: At home during the Spring Festival this year, I saw my mother’s mobile phone playing short videos on the tea table all day. I asked her what she was doing, and she told me that “I can get 2 yuan a day by swiping.” This is not in those days that I do those yao, ah, from the evil ah…

On the other hand, I’ve written 121 articles on the Nuggets platform since I wrote my first article in April of ’20.

Later, I began to write React technology disclosure. In the process, some friends added me to wechat, hoping to exchange React source code together.

So I started building 10 or more React source exchange groups of 500 people.

While I didn’t make any money doing this in my spare time, I got to know developers around the world and helped a lot of people who were interested in React.

This is so much more fun than going to work.

In addition, the publishing house contacted me to publish a paper book about React. I was so busy at work that I kept delaying the draft.

Finally, I thought about it, and I did what I wanted to do, so I quit naked, and I lay there today.

Lying down capital

Lay down the capital, nothing more than two points: open source, throttle.

The throttle

I’m not encouraging you to quit naked. Even at the top of my income, I had very little material desire. I grew up with few hobbies:

  • Magic magic (the main spending is to buy a variety of cards)

  • To play basketball

It doesn’t cost anything.

I have no obsession with studying in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Although I live in Beijing and earn a first-line salary, I buy my house in Sichuan, so there is not much pressure.

Open source

Even if they quit their jobs, their earnings did not decrease. There are several main sources of income:

  • Course income

SegmentFault Business approached me about collaborating on a video course. I took it very seriously and did a lot of keynote animations in the course.

As painful as those two months were, they provided me with a steady monthly after-bed income:

  • The public,

I have a small public account, because I often post original in-depth articles, so the level of fans is relatively high. Some advertising revenue every month.

  • Enterprise training

Some big companies will invite me to train them on React, and this kind of customized training can be quite expensive.

  • The interview counseling

With several other big factory friends to save a bureau, for the friend who wants to get a high salary interview coach. In half a year, I helped more than 80 friends get satisfactory offers.

  • The payment

The book will be finished soon, so I should get an extra fee this year.

There are miscellaneous income, but not stable, such as B station advertising, consulting, tips.

One striking difference between freelancing and a job is that a job sells time in exchange for income. Freelancing can sell many times in one job.

Like a course, the upfront recording takes a lot of time, but once it’s online it doesn’t require a lot of extra effort and time can be spent on other things. But the course has a fixed monthly income.

Such things accumulate, and the monthly income put together is no less than the income of technical experts.

Do something fun

With no work pressure and more time, I started thinking about something interesting.

I’ve always wanted to maintain a pure tech community because, over time, some tech groups tend to degenerate into talking heads and politics.

With this in mind, I became an Fe-Hunter front-end bounty hunter.

This is a front-end learning community with pure monetary relationships, offering questions + answers for money.

Currently, the average yield for the best answer to a question is 10-20 yuan, up to 300 yuan:

For the onlookers, we can get some high-quality answers to front-end questions every day.

For all of you, you can earn a cup of coffee a day.

And I, realize the joy of coin. Some of my friends, like me, thought it was a good thing to do, and they sponsored the bounty, and I’m grateful to them:

conclusion

All in all, I feel happy every day by doing something that I think is helpful to everyone while reducing material desire and increasing income and reducing expenditure.

If you also want to:

  • Join the Fe – Hunter

  • Talk to me about programmers on the side

  • Looking for career development advice

  • Talk about freelance life

Welcome to communicate with me (Kasong999).

This is the report of an old front end worker who turned in his 30 year old lying flat.