What should programmers do after 40?

You can continue to be a programmer, start your own business, or do online "contracting" work and become a freelancer.

It is said that programmers are a bowl of youthful rice, mostly because it is a job that requires high-intensity mental work, while programmers over 40 years old are gradually weakened and entangled in family chores, often facing the situation of continuing to do technology or switching to management. ? Some people consider transformation, and of course some people choose to be down-to-earth in this profession.

Although many ordinary programmers despise ordinary people, some people enjoy it. It is the dream of countless programmers who love programming to be an ordinary programmer, go to work on time every day, get off work on time, do their favorite work and change the world with their own code.

It can be said that most people who choose programmers as their lifelong careers love this profession. They didn't come to this industry for a high salary, nor to make themselves black-eyed every day. ? For these people, lines of code are not just commands to achieve a certain purpose, but a beautiful long poem.

Although in the impetuous IT environment in China, such programmers may be rare, which cannot be completely attributed to programmers, but the positioning of programmers by enterprises is not accurate enough. In the programmer's session, there has always been a legend that a programmer in his seventies worked as a programmer all his life, but Bill Gates admired him very much. This man's name is Dave Cutler.

Dave Cutler is 74 years old this year, but he is still a programmer. He has no team and no manager, but his position in the company is higher than that of most vice presidents. It is said that once a team predicted that a project would take several months to complete, but he couldn't see it. In two days, it was completed by one person.

Some self-employed people are willing to be programmers all their lives because of their love, while others choose to be programmers just because of "saving the country by curves", thus realizing their dream of self-employed. Since Premier Li Keqiang put forward the slogan of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation", Zhongguancun Venture Street has been established. Countless young people have devoted themselves to the upsurge of self-employment.

When the internet just emerged, countless young people with technological ideals returned to China to start businesses. In order to realize the ideal of changing the world through technology, entrepreneurship seems to be the quickest way for them. Although they know that this road is not smooth, although countless young people have fallen here, there are many examples of programmers establishing business empires through self-employment at home and abroad.

For example: Apple founder Steve Jobs, Apple founder Joe, Bill Gates, Facbook founder Zuckerberg, Baidu founder Li Yanhong, 360, Xiaomi founder and so on.

For programmers, they believe that technology changes the world; Embark on the road of entrepreneurship with a little persistence and self-confidence, but such people often face the problem of being too conceited when getting along with others. Entrepreneurship success must be the result of team efforts, which requires not only technology, but also a series of actions such as operation and promotion. So? If programmers want to be an excellent entrepreneur, they must learn to deal with people and learn to converge their abilities in time.

Take Yimei as an example and enter the management. In order to prevent the physical function of programmers from weakening with age, avoid programmers weaker than young people from competing with other young people on the same platform, and ensure that their skills will not be lost. Many programmers want to enter the ranks of managers, and the best choice is of course the CEO, CTO and CIO of the company.

However, no matter in a society or a company, managers are always only a few people, and most companies have only one CEO, CTO and CIO. A few means fierce competition. However, many people have finally achieved their personal goals and won social praise. For example, Ali, who took over from Wang Jian in early April, is currently CTO Zhang Jianfeng and Yahoo Beauty CEO marissa mayer.

It can be said that as a manager, you need not only superb technical level, but also the progress and efficiency of the team. The incumbent also needs good communication skills and excellent leadership.

From an ordinary "code farmer" to the CTO or CEO of a listed company, the whole promotion road is like a funnel, and few people can settle down. But? This is still the most ideal way for programmers to seek specialization.

Freelancer When China's definition of freelancer still stays in the unemployed or artists, many countries? Programmers have realized their dream of making money at home. The mature IT environment in many countries seems to make IT not so difficult for programmers to become IT freelancers. There are two main ways: online and offline.

Programmers should all know or bring a little "? Private work ",ranging from three or five hundred to several thousand. In fact, this is also the most important way to make money offline as a programmer freelancer. However, this requires programmers to know a group of friends who can give you private work, and they need to be good at talking about business with each other. Online crowdsourcing seems to be more suitable for freelancers than offline use of personal relationships to pick up private jobs.

Websites similar to freelancers have appeared abroad for a long time, and there are some similar websites in China at present. Programmers can "contract" online, relying on their outstanding business ability and good luck to grab jobs.