People say "thirty and standing, forty is not confused", men's thirties and forties are the most stressful, the strongest fighting spirit, the most energetic moment, at this time is the most suitable for the world.
However, some people chose to quit their jobs as executives during this period and returned to the hidden mountains with their wives and children, and this person was Tencent's elder - Wei Zhen.
Brilliant resume
In 2003, Wei Zhen from Hefei, Anhui Province, successfully graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China as a graduate student.
Graduate students in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Science and Technology of China are real "young talents" and talents that many large companies are competing for.
Therefore, Wei Zhen successfully entered the Huawei position.
Huawei is famous, has high salaries, and can also let people show what they have learned, and is the "dream lover" of countless "program apes".
But Wei Zhen only interned here for three months.
It is not that he has wasted his name, but three months is enough for him to see the situation clearly, recognize his own abilities and needs, and summon up the courage to jump ship.
With many incomprehensible eyes, Wei Zhen resolutely left the enviable Huawei and came to Tencent, which was still unknown at that time.
At that time, Tencent was only established for less than 6 years, and Huawei, as the leader in the same field, had been ahead for a full 10 years.
Wei Zhen's relatives, friends, and experienced teachers and commanders all advised him to seize the opportunities he already had in his hands and not to "abandon the light and throw in the dark" and the pearl to cast dark.
However, Wei Zhen had his own way to go, and the facts also proved that gold would shine wherever it went.
Elites such as Wei Zhen quickly relied on their own ability and perseverance in Tencent, step by step, from a rookie who had just joined the company to a project leader, to a company executive, and finally became a senior executive of Tencent.
From a smooth emergence and standout among more than 600 employees, to occupying a place among executives, Wei Zhen proved that he made the right choice.
At this time, Wei Zhen was already in a high position and had a considerable annual salary.
As long as he wants, he can always stay in Tencent, a paradise that has been cultivated by his own hands.
But he was not happy - after three years of diligent work at Tencent, he resolutely chose to resign.
Resignation again.
This time, Wei Zhen saw a lot of puzzled eyes again, but few people had come to dissuade him.
Because at this time, he already has enough achievements to prove his strength and vision.
This young man has ideas, pursuits, courage, and courage.
People are clustered in groups.
After resigning, Wei Zhen quickly found like-minded friends and worked together to create their own prosperity.
Wang Haibing, as the father of QQ pets, is a member of Tencent's generals like Wei Zhen.
He communicated with Wei Zhen many times, and later joined hands with Cheng Yunpeng to fill the gap in China's children's Internet games and established Shanghai Taomi Network Technology Co., Ltd.
The company has burned the chubby red-nosed cartoon images of Moore Manor and Purcell into the minds of a generation.
Taomi's chief technology officer (OTC) is Wei Zhen.
These achievements are a more brilliant page among Wei Zhen's many achievements.
What a satisfying thing it is for a person to shine in an area that he is good at and loves.
Therefore, in the process of entrepreneurship, Wei Zhen has always adhered to the front line of work even if he is tired and tired.
The first line here is not the blood and sweat under the scorching sun, but the circling and contesting with electronic codes.
Wei Zhen's efforts and hardships were no less than others.
Fortunately, the great success of the "Moore Manor" series proves that Wei Zhen's hard work was not in vain, and it also proves that they were right to choose "resignation" in the first place.
In 2008, Wei Zhen founded the Taomi brand, which became famous overnight with "Moore Manor".
A year later, Taomi once again launched the blockbuster game "Sail", which laid a good foundation for the company's listing.
In 2011, under the persistence and rush of Wei Zhen, Taomi was officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.
From the fledgling to becoming the CTO of a listed company, Wei Zhen only took 8 years.
Although Wei Zhen is good enough, his achievements today are still remarkable and amazing.
Career & Family
Young talents like Wei Zhen naturally have no shortage of suitors, but it is a pity that he "married young and early".
His wife was a classmate of his college, and later worked together at Huawei, which can be described as knowing the roots and sharing hardships.
After the two married and had children, his wife became his most solid backing, she gave up her job, returned to the family, and took on the heavy responsibility of taking care of the family and children.
In this way, outside the male and female, the family is ready to take root in the city of Shanghai.
At this time, Wei Zhen, in the eyes of the world, was a happy family, a successful career, and envied others.
But Shanghai is not a place to live a leisurely life.
As an international metropolis, Shanghai residents have always refused to lie flat, from top to bottom, from small to old, and have been frantically "rolling inside".
Middle-class families living here attach great importance to their children's education.
Wei Zhen, a senior executive of the company, is also among the middle class, and his economic income is naturally out of the question.
Moreover, Mr. and Mrs. Wei Zhen are both 985 high-quality students, and they both understand the importance of learning.
Therefore, he arranged his son's study very thoughtfully.
My son usually attends an international school with a tuition fee of more than 100,000 yuan, and participates in various cram classes on weekends and holidays.
But in international schools, my son was not happy.
International schools in Shanghai are generally bilingual, and even directly use the original British and American textbooks, which brings great learning pressure to students.
His son's classmates, each with a well-off family, Wei Zhen's identity and income, can not make the teachers and students of the school look at his son differently.
This group of students basically belong to the group of people who "win on the starting line", they have entered various cram classes since they were young, each with a skill, and excellent learning and conversation.
Wei Zhen's son was far from being so good, and he was overwhelmed by such a learning atmosphere and school environment.
Wei Zhen had little time and opportunity to perceive his son's psychological problems.
It wasn't until his son had a nervous breakdown, locked himself in his room and cried incessantly, and felt self-pity, that Wei Zhen panicked.
Some people may think that such a child is pretentious, is pretending to be pitiful, and it is good to beat up.
Some people may think that how can the tiger father be a dog? How can dogs be allowed?
So dare to ask, such a person, in the heart of the child's future, or their own face?
Children with immature minds need care and communication, not blind oppression and blame.
In Shanghai, it is precisely this group of children from middle-class families who are under high-pressure education that are prone to psychological problems.
Wei Zhen looked at his tearful, sobbing and helpless son, and his heart was very tormented.
He constantly reflected on himself, what exactly went wrong that led to today's situation? What exactly can be done to save this situation?
He suddenly found himself absent from his child's upbringing— he spent time with his son.
As a father, he never skimps on spending money on his son, eating and wearing, learning and entertainment, and he will provide the best for his son.
But Wei Zhen lived himself as an ATM.
He simply couldn't find time to develop a relationship with his son.
So much so that when he was busy sneaking around and spending half a weekend with his family, his son was not close to him.
The imaginary warm dinner seems to have become a routine, one at the dinner table plays "fatherly kindness", the other plays "filial piety", for the son, a meal is tasteless, even trembling.
But at that time, Wei Zhen did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and he even felt that he had taken time to go back to spend with his family, which was already very considerate and thoughtful.
It wasn't until his son's mental problems that Wei Zhen suddenly understood that money can't be earned, dreams have no end, but time will not stand in place and wait for you, and the healthy growth of children is not something that money can pile up.
Obviously, he is a family living together, but the son seems to be a child of a single-parent family, a child who stays behind, and he lacks the strength from the "father" in his growth.
Wei Zhen finally understood that his father's position was irreplaceable.
Therefore, at the peak of his career, Wei Zhen submitted his resignation again and chose to return to his family.
He abandoned the code of the virtual world, intervened in his son's life as a living person, and gently hid his anxiety, took his son around, saw the world, and slowly guided his son out of the inner shadow.
Vast blue skies, dense forests, mysterious seabeds, steep mountains... In the nature far away from the hustle and bustle, Wei Zhen joyfully witnessed the changes of his son.
In the no-man's nature, the son's face finally showed a long-lost, heartfelt smile,
However, as soon as he returned to Shanghai, where the traffic was busy, his son's mood dropped again.
The neatly manicured gardens, the endless streets, and the hurried residents made his son feel depressed, and he longed to see the flowers and plants that grew freely and bloomed in the mountains and forests, as if nature could give him a sense of security and accommodate everything he had.
But Wei Zhen can't always take his son to travel at home and abroad every day.
Return to the garden
Since you can't travel every day, why not choose to live in nature?
The mountain is not me, I come to the mountain.
In 2017, Wei Zhen and his wife unanimously decided to leave Shanghai and find a piece of mountain forest to settle down.
The place name "Zhanglaoxu Village, Zipeng Mountain, Feixi County, Hefei City, Anhui Province" sounds remote and backward, but this is where Wei Zhen took a look.
This place is lush and green, far away from the hustle and bustle, and was formerly the school of Zhang Shusheng, the governor of Liangguang, with both customs and humanistic beauty.
However, Wei Zhen's "retreat" is not in the mountains to form a grass house, and now that science and technology are so developed, "guiyin" can also be full of modern atmosphere.
Fortunately, Wei Zhen had enough funds to support the broad blueprint in his heart.
Therefore, the couple of them carried out extremely meticulous planning of the hundreds of acres of mountain forests that were taken over, such as homestays, gardens, vegetable fields, orchards, pastures... There is no shortage of everything.
After more than three years, a natural farm called "Valley of The Wind" was built in this remote mountain village in Anhui.
And his son, who has been suspended from school for three years, is particularly comfortable here, and his favorite is the playground that his parents have set aside three acres of land to design for him - Hobbit Cottage.
Anyone who has seen "The Lord of the Rings" knows that the protagonist "children" are actually a group of petite special races of "hobbits", who live in the paradise of the Shire, self-sufficient and comfortable.
There, the hobbits lived in harmony with nature, living like elves in "wooden doors, wooden windows, wooden fences, flowers, berries, green vines".
And the child is the parent's elf.
The elf sometimes shuttled back and forth between the hobbit hut and the tree house, sometimes chasing the chickens and ducks on the farm, sometimes grimacing at the mooing cows and sheep, and having a lot of fun.
The son finally became a little more cheerful, and even made a lot of friends.
When he told his friends what he had learned on the farm, the friends were amazed and praised, and even some admiration.
This gave him a sense of pride and accomplishment.
Wei Zhen and his wife watched their son return to normal and bloom with self-confidence little by little, and the big stone in their hearts finally fell to the ground.
It seems that the paradise close to nature is far better than the urban paradise made of plastic and metal with dazzling colors.
In addition to preparing playgrounds for children, Wei Zhen also designed a huge European-style garden covering an area of more than ten acres for himself.
He copied and pasted all the flowers and plants he saw in his world travels to the "Valley of the Wind".
Here, you can see hundreds of famous flowers and plants from foreign countries, which are always in full bloom throughout the year and endure for a long time.
The wife likes to take care of the berry orchards and vegetable fields in the "Valley of the Wind", and during the epidemic, the delicious fruits and vegetables produced here are also transported to the city for emergency.
Therefore, the "Valley of the Wind" is famous, and many people come to the "Valley of the Wind" and linger on the "Valley of the Wind".
As you walk into this "Valley of the Wind" farm, step onto winding cobblestone paths, pass by fragrant rose fences, shade the vines and leaves, and listen to birds chirping and flowing water, many of the dream scenes that have flashed in your mind seem to come true.
Hobbit's small and delicate wooden house, Alice's dream wonderland, the warm wilderness in Miyazaki's movies... Countless dreamy, distant scenes are all embodied here.
"I really want to stay here forever." It was Wei Zhen's son who uttered these words, but how could this sentence not be the voice of many people who were working hard outside?
However, such a life also requires a lot of financial support, and only a person with a rich family like Wei Zhen dares to make such a decision, can bear such a cost, and can calmly live a "lying flat" life.
By 2022, it has been 5 years since Wei Zhen left the magic capital and returned to the countryside, but his actual age has just passed the age of confusion, and others are continuing to work outside at this age, but Wei Zhen has already lived a somewhat comfortable "retirement" life.
In the ordinary people who are wandering in the metropolis, it is not easy to work, and life is even more difficult.
To borrow the classic phrase "go slower, let the soul keep up with your steps", dream a little smaller, aim a little closer, don't worry about it, don't suffer yourself anymore.