What do programmers change careers for?

Have a deep understanding of technology switching. I'm a programmer, too. Switch. I used to do JAVA development. There is only one reason why programmers change careers. I'm so fucking tired, I have no future! Overtime is a serious loss of energy, and my hair has long gone bald. I'm in my thirties, and I only have hair below the waist. Middle-aged greasy man, everyone you talk to thinks you are ugly. My friend said I was right! Especially at the age of 30, how can you spend so much energy? Some people say that you work in an office. I said, give it a try. Don't listen to others who don't let programmers change careers, they have no personal experience! Only people who do technology can realize what is really tired! No matter the front end, the back end, no matter what language you write, this kind of fatigue is from the bones! I'm exhausted. Don't stop technology from jumping ship if you don't understand! Every year, many technologies die from overwork. It's not you who are exhausted, it's us who are doing technology! Master of success and master of chicken soup stay away! Listen to me, a technically reliable transfer method.

Technology makes a lot of money, and it is also caught by working overtime. Technology is the most difficult coding farmer in the Internet industry. Do you know what a code farmer is? Go to Baidu if you don't understand! Don't tell us about technology. We only have one reason, that is, we don't want to work and want to change careers. Anyone who can say that he doesn't want to be a technical friend has made up his mind to change careers.

Many technicians would rather reduce their salary than be so tired. Tired technology has no future. Do you want to be a technical expert? Then what you think is too simple. This position seems to be highly technical, but in fact, most of them are repetitive and stressful jobs, and even if you become an expert, you will write code and write more every day. What is the difference between being an expert and not being an expert? Then you will say that your technology can't be managed? Then I can only hehe, technology is management, what is management? I'll give you a team leader. Why don't you keep writing code? You asked me how I knew. I used to be the team leader. How about being a project manager? Hehe, how can so many project managers do it for you? Technical management is very difficult! It is the lowest position in the Internet and the largest position in Internet companies! It's too difficult for so many people to change your job!

In my previous company, many skills changed jobs. One of my colleagues is over 30 years old and doesn't want to be a technician. He became the first person in our company to eat crabs. He chose the workflow because their relatives did it. When he left, he left a message telling you that if I do technology again, I will eat shit. After less than two months, we contacted him, and he did the technology again, asking him why, formaldehyde poisoning, really can't stand the smell! Might as well eat shit, hahaha. It is difficult to do anything. Interlaced like a mountain! If you want to turn, you need to be careful.

Some colleagues switched to finance, and within a few days, hundreds of thousands of hard-earned technology were gone. The down payment for buying a house is gone, but the underwear is gone. Without exception, they all failed. Because I know nothing about the outside industry! Ideal is full, reality is skinny!

In the past two years, only one technical friend I know has successfully changed careers. I met him in Party A's company a few years ago, and his mind is very flexible. This year, he went home directly to raise pigs in partnership. This colleague is great and far-sighted. He only made an investment and made a fortune when the price of pork soared this year. This is the only person I have ever met who has changed from technology to realizing the value of life. You can't succeed if you are not afraid of hardship and fatigue. Success really verified that sentence, standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly. But such people can no longer be described as changing careers. It's really hard for ordinary people to do it. They need opportunity and courage.

By industry, there are tens of millions of industries. But according to my experience, it is extremely difficult to transfer money between banks. If no one takes one, it turns out to be difficult to succeed. If you want to really succeed in changing careers, you have to be prepared in advance. It's irrational if you're not prepared to change careers rashly. Most people end in failure. It's a reality to lose your wife and lose your soldiers!

What does the internet say about choosing a career according to your personality, choosing a career according to your ability, knowing yourself and changing careers according to your hobbies? These dogmatic theories sound reasonable. But seriously, without industry experience and adequate preparation, Mao is nothing! Jumped into the water and drowned. Even if you know yourself, you don't know this industry at all! Don't listen to these chicken soups for the soul!

So you can't turn? Do you have to take some advice? Of course you can transfer, you need to master the method, and you can't do it without the method! Listening to other people's alarmist remarks is even worse. Those are useless. Only the method of changing careers is useful, and the correct method will definitely succeed in changing careers.

I recall that many friends have actually succeeded in internalizing technology, and there is still a great chance to do it now. Not all jobs on the internet work overtime like technology. In fact, after years of work, I found that the position suitable for technology internalization is product manager, the sworn enemy of technology. This position can be said to have the greatest relationship with technology. It is also a position that technology doesn't like, but this position has one of the biggest advantages, which is really much easier than technology. In fact, there is such an easy job hidden in the internet work. We have no dream of changing the world, but we have a dream of easy work, and it is also very appropriate. If only we could be transferred to this position.

I have considered whether to switch to operation, but the operating salary is too low to do. The main business has no future. Basically the same as technology. In a few years, I will transfer to other positions. The position of sales is not suitable for me to change, and it is very problematic to do dry sales with technical background. I'm not very good at fooling people. I'm more straightforward. Besides, the wind and the sun are not suitable for people like me who like quiet.

My years of experience tell me that turning inward is the only reliable way! However, you should look at the direction inside, and don't transfer to a position that makes you miserable.

After careful study, I found that Internet companies have two positions, one is a comprehensive position and the other is a professional position. Professional posts are like those we do in technology, dealing with computers every day, being unknown every day, writing lines of code and correcting bugs one by one. This kind of work consumes a lot of energy and overtime is very serious. If you want to switch to a professional position, whether it is an Internet career or not, it will not be easy. Because the nature of occupation determines the difficulty of this industry. Just like painting a wall, you have to repair it repeatedly, and you have to paint a wall several times to repair the bad part. This is the inevitable attribute of professional posts: repeatability and energy consumption. Therefore, no matter which professional post you transfer from technology to, no matter what industry you are in, there is only one result, from the wolf's nest to the tiger's nest. Turning is tantamount to turning in vain, and finally it is still so tired and tired.

There are also comprehensive positions, such as product manager and CEO. Forget it, CEO. Technology cannot be successfully transformed. But the product manager can transfer. Why are comprehensive posts easier than professional posts? Did you find that the product manager works overtime every day? Don't! They just use technology to work overtime! After drawing the prototype and writing the document, they did nothing for a long time. Although the salary is lower than the skill, this position is too easy. Although it will be rejected at the judging meeting, there is nothing to do after the judging meeting. I also found this position really good. After years of tossing and turning, I found that I could try to transfer this position. But before I transfer, I have to take a closer look at what this position does. Although I struggle with products every day, I really don't know which one to do.

Generally speaking, they draw prototypes and write documents every day, which is similar to what technology does. The prototype is not that simple. Draw a rough picture and then give it to the UI to design a fidelity picture and give it to the technology. This job is more like technology, but it is much simpler than technology. The tool they use is AXURE. It's not difficult for me to have a look. It's simple. There are also many videos and tutorials on the Internet. Relatively easy, much easier than learning code.

But they will also write documents in the Pearl River Delta, that is, documents that give us technology, and documents such as BRD. All this is a piece of cake for me. I must write better than them. Logic is our technical advantage, and product managers are not as good as us in this respect. Documents and prototypes are the main things they do, and it is relatively simple for me to try to learn.

There is also the technology of doing demand analysis. This piece doesn't seem that simple. The correlation with technology is not too great, but it is also a little easier than technology because there is no special analysis. There is a methodology. Before that, the product manager of our company told me that he was trained from product notes, which seemed to be very powerful. As for how to train, I don't know I asked him, and he said that if he wanted to learn, there were actually websites where everyone was a product manager or something. I attach them for your reference. There are many product managers to share, similar to some technical forums, to discuss the methods of making products and share some articles. It seems that after I read it, it is of little value to me. In fact, it is mainly because the knowledge of this website is too scattered. Everything, anything suitable for work. But if I want to change careers, I am not suitable for reading such articles. I think it's ok to make reference.

The product manual is said to be specially trained for product managers and is very famous in the industry. I have a look, and it is really famous. In my opinion, if you want to change careers, you must go through training. After all, interlacing is like a mountain, and it is not easy to change careers. According to the experience of my former friends, it is impossible without a professional system. In particular, this requirement analysis is only a part of the product manager.

There is also the technology of user experience, which is actually one of the skills of product managers. This also needs to be learned. Compared with technology, the user experience is also very interesting. In fact, being closer to researchers is much more interesting than studying code technically, and you need to know something about psychology. The user experience of product managers has five levels: strategy level, scope level, framework level, structure level and performance level. I won't go into details. It is an indispensable five-step learning for user experience, which is actually very systematic. You can also find information on the Internet, mainly because those who have no practical experience are very rare, and you can't change careers just by information.

Competitive product analysis is also what product managers need to do. Competitive product analysis is not that difficult. In fact, as long as you learn user experience, competitive product analysis can basically be done. Practically speaking, it is necessary to write a competitive product analysis report. Mainly to study competing products, in short, how to copy the functions of competing products and why to copy them. But this degree of professionalism is not low. Because it needs to be combined with specific needs.

Both the front and back office need to know, which is also a necessary ability for the product manager, because he has to communicate not only with the front end, but also with the back end, which must be mastered. But our former product manager was very good before and after, and the prototype was well drawn. The salary is higher than mine. I often communicate with him, and we are good friends. After he introduced me to the training, he easily transferred to the product manager.

Use research is also necessary, and user research is a must for product managers. In fact, as far as technology is concerned, at least 50% of the products are interlinked and 50% are not feasible. User research is part of learning. User research is also very interesting, just like market research, but this position is actually a market, and users still have many benefits for starting their own businesses in the future.

Comprehensive positions have quality requirements, and small partners who change careers need to pay attention. Generally, there is a high demand for communication, which is the weakness of technology, but it is also beneficial because product managers usually communicate with technology. Therefore, it is basically necessary to master certain technical terms. In this respect, technology is absolutely dominant. I'm not worried about this, as long as the communication is normal. Generally, this kind of training will be specialized training, for example, institutions that focus on enterprise training. As I mentioned earlier, product notes are also interested in this aspect.

There is also logical ability, which is the biggest advantage of technology to product transformation. Many product managers can't even read the code, let alone the logic. And now many companies need product managers with technical background to facilitate communication with technology, which is also the biggest advantage of technology to product transformation. So don't worry about this.

Learning ability, product managers need this ability, in terms of learning ability, technical learning ability is not worse than product managers. The product manager's learning ability is mainly aimed at the business learning ability, and it doesn't need to be very deep. Drawing prototypes and writing documents can basically meet it. After all, internet work needs to be studied, and the development and change of this profession is very fast. Don't worry about this. You really need to study at any time at work. I suggest taking some training if you study. The speed of changing careers is faster. After all, a day in a big city is very expensive.

This year 10 also changed careers and the training passed. Of course, you can teach yourself if you think you can, but I think it's a waste of time. Self-study for a year is not necessarily useful. I'm sorry I robbed the product manager of his job this year! I think it is actually the simplest way to switch products. It is also the most correct way and the most correct direction. For example, when changing products, the technology can be changed in more than three years, and the career cycle of products is much longer than technology. Like a product manager in his forties, many people train their comprehensive abilities in comprehensive occupations. In fact, the older you get, the higher the requirement for comprehensive ability. Even if you open a store in the future, you need to deal with comprehensive things and get a good experience in the position of product manager. Many product managers are also starting businesses, but I think the success rate is higher than that of technology entrepreneurship. Because entrepreneurship is comprehensive, when you are in your thirties, you will know that comprehensive occupations are the most suitable and professional occupations are the most difficult. Changing jobs is also a must!

I summed up the principles that need to be observed when transferring jobs:

First: Don't transfer to an unfamiliar position.

No matter how good an unfamiliar position is, it is not suitable. If you want to be in an industry, you need at least three years of practical work experience. It is not reliable to risk changing this position, whether out of hobbies, interests or self-positioning. No profession is so easy to do. No career will bring you happiness, as long as you don't hate it. As far as technology is concerned, there are still several positions that look good. In fact, it is not easy to know until you really do it.

Second: choose job transfer within the industry.

This is an advantage. Internet is a very big industry. The more relevant the occupation, the easier it is to change and get started. There are many internet occupations, not only technology, but also product managers, but the transition from technology to products is a very close and realistic way.

Third: Don't believe what others say.

Changing careers is like a pony crossing a river. The squirrel said the water was deep, and the old cow said the water was shallow. You can't use other people's success or failure experience to position yourself. This is a huge mistake, and you must never find a case. Cases are the most harmful, and few other cases are suitable for you. The more similar you are to him, the easier you will change.

Changing careers is the ultimate of every technology. The older you get, the more tired you are, the less you can see the future, the more you consume energy, but you don't grow up. More and more recruits can work overtime, but you can't. This is the most painful thing. There is nothing wrong with changing careers early. This is my career change experience. To tell the truth, I changed my career because the product manager of the company introduced me to participate in the training. I was quite resistant at first, but if I want to change careers, I have to pay something. It is impossible to give nothing. At least now I'm satisfied with my job, and I'm not as tired as I used to be doing technology. This pressure is much simpler than doing technology. Basically, you don't have to type code every day, and you don't have to think about all kinds of complicated problems. Comparatively speaking, the product manager is more like a manager. Anyway, I think it's much better than doing it.