Editor's note:
Life is rekindled, like spring willows sprouting, after the tempering of the cold winter, it is finally rejuvenated.
Everyone is a voyager, and in the journey of life, we will inevitably encounter difficulties, setbacks and failures. In the face of the baptism of wind and waves, we constantly adjust our course, move forward firmly, and find our own other shore.
The rekindling of life is also a re-understanding of self-worth. We must learn to appreciate our own strengths, such as the harmony of the piano, and accept our own shortcomings, just as the jade needs to be pondered before it can be revealed.
Although this road is not easy, it is like a clear spring in the stone, accumulating over time, and finally gathering into the sea.
On the occasion of New Year's Eve, Sohu Finance and Sohu Technology jointly launched a planning report, focusing on the life rekindling journey of individual little people and bravely facing life challenges together.
Produced by | Sohu Technology
Author | Zhang Yating
Operations Editor | Zhang Lezhou
Post-00 Chen Yue (pseudonym) is a fresh graduate this year, through self-study front-end, she got a programmer offer from Tencent, Kuaishou and other companies in the just-concluded autumn recruitment, with an annual salary of about 400,000 yuan.
She is a typical example of "liberal arts transcoding", she has not studied any computer science degree, and her bachelor's and master's degrees are respectively in the literature major of a 985 university, which is considered a "pure liberal arts" that is not touched at all.
"I was most excited when I got an offer from Tencent. On November 9, Chen Yue was still Xi at the front-end position of Kuaishou, and the workload was not much that day, and it was almost dark in Beijing at 6 p.m., and Tencent's offer notice suddenly reached her mailbox, "the whole person was shaking."
Not only Chen Yue, under the temptation of the high salary of the programmer profession, "liberal arts transcoding" has become a new trend in employment. For many liberal arts students, in a workplace where they can't pick up "sixpence" or "moon", transcoding has become a way to take the initiative in their own lives.
Xue Xue (pseudonym), who graduated from the Department of Chinese, was instilled with the concept of "girls should study liberal arts" since she was a child, and only saved tens of thousands of yuan for seven or eight years of copywriting and teaching and training, and did not get married and have children, and at the age of 33, she used her parents' savings from selling houses to try to study abroad and transcode, which became a rare rebellious act since she grew up.
However, smooth sailing is not the norm, and the inferiority complex and timidity of non-majors, boring and obscure professional knowledge, the language barrier of studying abroad and transcoding...... "persistence or giving up" have also become the questions that I often face.
And even for those who have successfully transcoded, the frequent layoffs of tech companies are something they have to face when the economic environment is cold.
tortuous
After the transcoding, the annual salary of one million was laid off
I want to give up after selling the house and transcoding
Lin Ling (pseudonym), who successfully turned from a journalist to a programmer, and his salary rose from 10,000 yuan a month to 1 million yuan a year, was laid off in December last year, and this job was only done for about half a year. Not long before she was laid off, she was intensively looking at the house and was about to sign a contract, and the people around her were living in a big house and driving a good car. "The tech industry is all over the place right now. Lin Ling said that the industry itself is strongly related to the economic cycle, and the current large number of layoffs means a large number of expansion in the upward cycle. This is the second time she has been laid off since she started her career. Previously, in 2022, Lin Ling worked as a programmer in a financial institution at that time, and after 5 months of work, the company laid off employees, and his project team was wiped out. Even if she has been laid off once, Lin Ling still feels uncomfortable when she is first laid off - we "old Chinese people" rarely have such moments since childhood, there is nothing waiting for us to do, and we don't know what to do next. Not everyone can become programmers like Chen Yue and Lin Ling, and 34-year-old Xue Xue is stuck in the process of applying for computer-related master's degrees across majors. She graduated from a general university in Nantong with a major in Chinese language and literature, and has been engaged in copywriting, teaching and training and other related work. With the sudden change of policy and the annihilation of the education and training industry, she decided to transcode by applying for computer science majors in American universities. From the end of 2021 to 2023, she was preparing to apply for related jobs, which was originally planned to be one year, but in fact it was delayed for two years, because her visa was rejected three times. "At that time, I took an offer from a school in Texas, but this school has to go to the preparatory department, which is equivalent to a language school. In the process of preparation, Xue Xue spent more than 200,000 yuan, including intermediary fees, preparatory fees, etc., which came from her parents' savings from selling the house, and was originally intended to be used to buy a bigger house. At the end of 2023, Xue Xue just finished reading the preparatory department online and received an official offer, but Xue Xue's idea of going abroad to transfer codes is not so firm. "I couldn't keep up with the progress of English class, the content in class was very basic but I couldn't do homework, and I found that I didn't love the work of a code farmer. ”
plight
As a media, a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan requires family subsidies
985 masters, editors, monthly salary 4000
Before becoming a million-dollar programmer, Lin worked in a financial media outlet in Beijing. She thinks that the working hours at that time were very inhumane, and there was no way to see any success in this job, with a monthly salary of only 10,000 yuan, and there was no way to achieve self-sufficiency, and she needed subsidies from her parents. She remembers that when she went to work at 10 a.m. and left at 8 a.m., the group leader would say, "Why are you leaving so early?" The week before she left her job, she could only sleep six hours a day. Once, when the manuscript was submitted a day late, the leader would say, "It seems that my little whip is not tight enough." There are also leaders who send red envelopes in the work group at 4 o'clock in the morning, and they are gone in 10 seconds. In addition, Lin Ling has also encountered sexual harassment in the workplace. "The leader took me and the investor to play Texas Hold'em, and the investor, who was older than my father, took my hand and taught me to play Texas Hold'em. I was so sick that I left early. When the leader sent me downstairs, he also said that this investor was very powerful, and I should learn more from him Xi. It was also during these two years of work that Lin Ling completely disenchanted the work of reporters. Choosing transcoding, Lin Ling uses the method of elimination. At that time, Lin Ling wanted to go to Australia, and the skilled immigrants only had accounting, preschool education, nursing, and computer science, because she really didn't like the others, so she chose to study for a master's degree in computer science and a bachelor's degree in business. Although it is equivalent to getting in touch with a brand new discipline, Lin Ling didn't think too much about it, and at that time, a friend from a related professional "fooled" her, "As long as you study hard, there will be no problem." She looked back and thought, fortunately her friend didn't say that it was difficult to change majors, otherwise she would have backed down at the time. Xue Xue recalled the decision to transcode, and the low salary of liberal arts majors was also the most important reason. For about 7 or 8 years as a teacher and a copywriter, my savings are only tens of thousands of yuan. She also has friends with better resumes, graduated from Sichuan University with a master's degree and worked as an editor at Zhonghua Book Company, with a monthly salary of only 4,000 yuan, and she needs family subsidies every month. Combined with her own experience and that of her friends, Xue Xue believes that "I can't sit on the cold bench, and I have to eat." Previously, Xue Xue was admitted to the university to major in applied physics, but at that time, teachers said that "girls should still study liberal arts", and the family also felt that it was more stable to study liberal arts and return home to become a teacher, so she switched from physics to Chinese. At that time, her thinking was also quite traditional, believing that girls still had to get married and have children. And now, she thinks that she doesn't need to be ashamed of not getting married and having no children for the rest of her life, and that having a good life is the most important thing. For Xue Xue, making the decision to transcode is like another growth in her life. Those seemingly unbreakable notions are not the truth, and no matter what the outcome is, it is a proof that she is looking for herself. Chen Yue was in graduate school, only considering some of her editors and teachers' Xi experience, did not really want, she found that she was not good at writing and interpersonal relationships, and the internal friction was very serious. Including liberal arts, the employment direction is very small, and the best way out may be to go to Shenzhen to become a teacher. Therefore, Chen Yue began to seek other ways out, and she found that computer science was a major that she was interested in and had high operability, and only needed a computer to learn and Xi. At that time, she saw a post on Douban that was successfully transcoded, only to find that there were really people who had the same idea as her, which gave her a lot of confidence and inspired her to start the road of transcoding.
disability
When traveling to drowning, it is found that transcoding is not important
I cried and did my homework for two days and one night without sleeping
Cross-bank transcoding is not a simple matter, and only they know all kinds of ups and downs, hesitations, and hesitations. Lin Ling through interdisciplinary computer science master's transcoding, a year about 200,000 yuan of tuition, the process of learning Xi is very difficult, the first semester is completely listening to books, crying and writing homework, and have to drink some wine, otherwise it will completely collapse. Once when she was doing her homework, Lin Ling didn't sleep at all for two days and one night, and then she fell asleep and dreamed that she died on a war-torn battlefield, and what she thought to herself at that time was: It's good to die, you don't have to do your homework. However, although studying Xi is much more tiring than working, and often stays up all night, she feels that life is full of hope, but before working in the media in China, she would feel hopeless. In the second half of 2020, two months after graduating, Lin Ling found a job as a programmer for a game company, which was also her first job since changing careers, with an annual income of 65,000 Australian dollars (about 320,000 yuan), plus a 10% pension. Chen Yue transcodes through self-taught computer knowledge and practical Xi. After studying for the semester, it was the turn of spring and summer, and she couldn't leave school during the epidemic, so she was taking online classes every day without commuting, and Chen Yue officially began to use her spare time to learn programming on her own. Chen Yue is not a person with a regular schedule, sometimes from 11 o'clock in the evening to 7 o'clock in the morning, and then sleeps during the day, basically ensuring 4 hours of Xi study time every day. In her second year of graduate school, Chen Yue found that she needed to put into practice the knowledge she had learned Xi, so she began to look for practical Xi in Guangzhou. From October to December 2022, she started her first Xi as a programmer in a small company with only eight people, responsible for front-end development. Although her salary was only 1,000 a month at that time, and there were difficult moments when she wanted to give up at the beginning, she felt that she had grown up quickly and really digested the knowledge in the books. It was also this real Xi that really made Chen Yue firmly transcode, "and there was no more hesitation and swaying after that." Because of the foundation of the first Xi practice, Chen Yue's second and third Xi also made Xi offers in larger companies such as Kuaishou, and the Xi salary also rose to 10,000 yuan a month. In about 1 year of practical Xi, she obviously felt that her ability had been greatly improved, not just writing pages or adjusting APIs like before, but doing challenging and more logical projects, which also laid the foundation for the subsequent autumn recruitment. And Xue Xue almost died when she was traveling in Laos, and realized that she didn't seem to be so firm about transcoding. Last September, she watched a waterfall in a nature reserve in Lam Prabang, Laos, with its lush green vegetation and beautiful scenery. The waterfall is only about 10 meters long, and there are wooden planks under the waterfall that allow visitors to swim. Xue Xue carried her skirt into the water to tread water and play, but she didn't notice that there was a deep pool next to her, so she stepped into the air, and the water depth was directly topless. Defenseless, she didn't hold her breath and choked on several mouthfuls of water. On top of that, there is no one around. She thought to herself, maybe she was going to stay here. The instinct for survival made her grab on the rocks on the shore and climb ashore with a rolling belt, and her shoes were washed away by the water. After going ashore, she thought that if her life ended on that day, her biggest regret was that she hadn't seen the world properly, and it would not be so important to study abroad.
choose
If he was laid off twice, he was not discouraged from recoding
If you don't transcode to buy a house, it may be difficult to turn over
After being laid off, Lin Ling gave up the decision to buy a house, and at the same time did not rush to find a job. She is going to stop for a while, give herself half a year off, and travel to Japan first. Without a mortgage or children, Lin Ling found himself fascinated by this feeling of relative freedom, and the savings in hand could also live without a job for 10 years. Even after being laid off twice, Lin Ling still does not regret transcoding, and he will not dissuade anyone who wants to transcode. She believes that it was after becoming a programmer that she really had the "courage to turn her face". She recalls that in the past, being a journalist was a profession that required a lot of interpersonal relationships, but writing code is different, knowledge follows people, and no one can deprive you of the tools of production. "There is no aunt here, there is a place to stay for aunts". Lin Ling said that she is not afraid of conflict with others at work, and she has full confidence to defend her rights when she encounters sexual harassment or racial discrimination in the workplace. Chen Yue believes that the reason why she can successfully learn transcoding by herself is because of a good time arrangement and a clear growth path. Since the end of August last year, Chen Yue began to prepare for school recruitment when he was Xi in Kuaishou, and he invested in two companies a day on average, in addition to the actual Xi, he also needed to prepare for the resume, written test, interview, an interview was about 1-2 hours, "the whole person is floating every day", generally go to bed at 2 o'clock in the morning and get up at 9 o'clock in the morning. In the process of preparing for the autumn recruitment, Tencent's interview was the most impressive to her, "it is rare to ask me to cry on one side", the interviewer does not ask those basic "eight strands", but a lot of principled things. At the beginning, she would also ask the interviewer if the major had become an obstacle for her, and many interviewers answered that it had no impact, mainly based on technical ability, and later she would not mention the major, because it could be more proof of her ability to learn Xi. After a series of efforts, she got autumn recruitment offers from Kuaishou, Tencent, Xiaomi, and ZTE. Next, Chen Yue is ready to join Tencent, continue to work on the front-end road, and continue to work hard to learn Xi computer-related knowledge. Using her parents' money from the sale of the house to try to transcode, and even give up in the end, Xue Xue did not regret her decision. "At that time, it was actually sold at the high point of housing prices in Nanjing, and it is estimated that it will lose millions if it is sold now. She said that if she listened to her parents and used the money from the sale of the house to replace a bigger house at a high price point, she would now be burdened with a heavy mortgage, and it may be difficult to turn over. Xue Xue is preparing to apply for a visa to study in the United States for the fourth time, and she said that if this visa is no longer possible, there will be no way, but even if the visa is passed, only about 40% of them may be willing to study and change codes.
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