The highest-paid profession in contemporary Chinese society is undoubtedly programmers. After all, even if a programmer has a bad academic background, as long as he can do his job clearly, he can also earn a monthly salary of about 20,000 yuan. However, the most feared of the 35-year-old problem is also the programmer community. Because proportionally, programmers generally face the problem of 35 years old.
So, how should a 35-year-old programmer plan for the future?
Personally, I think that programmers belong to technical workers, and they don't have any concept of the business field. Therefore, as a programmer, you should test a problem of promoting your strengths and avoiding your weaknesses: that is, don't engage in some unfamiliar fields that you are not familiar with + invest a large amount of money.
Although many programmers have savings of 1.8 million yuan when they leave their jobs, there are also many people who start their own businesses indiscriminately after leaving the programmer industry, which leads to the destruction of their savings. I remember last year, a programmer group had a lot of friends talking to each other: it's about to be 35, and when you can't do program development, what industry should you engage in?There are advocates of entrepreneurship, but many people are also worried: there are too many examples of entrepreneurial failure, which is likely to lead to the loss of the money accumulated in writing for so many years.
In fact, I know that a brother, because of starting a business, he lost more than 400,000 yuan in a year - he thinks that the catering industry has a low threshold and is easy to start a business, but he never thought that the catering industry in 2023 itself will be similar to a minefield. As a result, the losses were enormous.
Therefore, it is believed that even if a 35-year-old programmer is facing an unemployment crisis, he should not start a business blindly, otherwise it is very dangerous.
After all, the Internet industry belongs to the technology industry. Therefore, programmers can also be regarded as practitioners in the technology industry, so in terms of secondary employment, they should also consider some jobs that suit their own advantages - such as transforming according to their own science and engineering accumulation, so that it is safe.
For example, the electrical industry. The difference between electrician and other types of work is that a qualified electrician needs to have a certain amount of physical and electrical theoretical support in addition to hands-on ability. In addition, many enterprises often require electricians to be competent for the job, not under the age of 35. So, if a programmer is unemployed, consider working as an electrician.
Of course, the salary of an electrician is only a few thousand yuan a month, which is not comparable to the monthly salary of a programmer of 20,000 yuan. But I personally think that since I am facing unemployment after the age of 35, it is better to have a job like an electrician to do than to eat the old capital. Moreover, electricians have technical barriers and can stay until retirement, which is perfect for middle age and the years before retirement.
Of course, if you have a strong sense of dedication and are not satisfied with the electrician, you can also use the electrician work as a starting point for long-term development.
For example, on the basis of electrician, electrical engineering and weak current engineering can be considered. There is also no problem with the age of 35 in the electrical engineer industry, and the age limit is not strict, and the same is true for weak current engineering. And if the electrical engineer is more technically competent, then the salary is only slightly lower than that of a programmer. Of course, in terms of working environment, the environment of an electrical engineer is a little worse than that of a programmer - because an electrical engineer needs to think about the shop floor.
If the weak current project can be developed to a certain business network, it can also be started through the weak current technology.
So, as long as you are down-to-earth and patient, for programmers. The problem of 35 years old is not a problem, and there can be many opportunities for a second take-off after the age of 35.