Engineers to 35 years old how to cope with the challenges of daily work

Some people say that engineers are a very tough job. When they are young, they need to spend a lot of time and energy to cope with the challenges of daily work and to constantly learn new knowledge and skills. Overtime is even more common for Chinese electronics engineers.

As you age, your tolerance for this high-intensity work will diminish. Therefore, if an engineer cannot reach the position of team leader by his own experience and ability at the age of 35, but is trapped in a specific job, he will inevitably feel the competitive pressure from the more energetic young people.

Another important reason is that the fast-growing electronics industry is full of opportunities. Many young engineers hope to have their own startups and become their own bosses. And they usually think that simple work, even in multinational companies, will limit their horizons. Therefore, many young engineers will use sales and marketing as the next step in career development, hoping to gain more experience in business and company operations before the age of 35.

Let's take a look at the views of netizens:

Netizen one

This is a question I have been thinking for a long time. Many people have asked me if you are going to do this industry for a long time. I have not been able to say a clear answer for a long time. I have some ideas recently.

There are a lot of projects during this time. Although I insist on working overtime and doing some work, I can’t help but think about how to do more tasks next time. After all, people have limited energy and will inevitably make mistakes. Moreover, the project cycle is very short, basically one week. It will be won in half a month, otherwise the business opportunity will not wait for people. After the exhaustion, the state is obviously not very good.

It should be said that as the age increases, the speed of the hands-on is slower, and the ability to stay up late is not good. However, the experience is rich, and the problem is comprehensive, the success rate is higher, and the space for expansion into other fields is greater.

I don't understand a bit. Why do you still have to work on MCU software until the age of 35? Is it difficult for you to undertake work such as ARM, DSP, FPGA?

As far as my understanding of DSP is concerned, the DSP software alone, if it is on the RTOS operating system, the programming technology used on the MCU will have a big change. If you self-learn and complete a DSP software project, half a year I am afraid it is not enough. If it is a person, it is basically difficult to meet the requirements of the construction period - even if you are a master of microcontroller software.

I mean, there is no end to learning, and there is no end to the need for work. If you have been copying and pasting code for more than a decade, I would like to say that you should have given up on this job. Unless you are a software engineer who doesn't like challenges and doesn't want to change.

The software industry itself is a kind of work that is full of changes and changes. It is always pushing new business. If you still feel bored with the software, you have to worry about what you should do. This is something I can't understand anyway.

In the end, I don't think there is anything wrong with it, but we must pay attention to advancing with the times. Many people will become lazy when they are older. Of course, they will not admit it because of laziness. Others are just excuses.

Netizen II

After 35 years old, it is not impossible to do it, but there are few people who do development after the age of 35. There are several reasons for this:

1. After 2 or 3 years, there will be nothing new. Every day, I am doing some repetitive work, so many people say that they are senior blue collars.

2. After having a certain experience, many people will turn to the direction of system architecture or project management, and the work of writing code is left to the young people to do.

3. After a certain period of time, the wage growth level will slow down. For example, an inexperienced monthly salary may be around 2,000 yuan, while a monthly salary with 3 years of work experience may be around 8,000, and a monthly salary with 5 years of work experience may be around 10,000, so say, from the developer's In terms of position, a company can't open too high a price for a senior blue-collar, so many of them turn to the system architecture or project manager, because this is a place that can both connotate and make money.

And if this problem is said in previous years, it is really true. However, if you get it now, the number of people over the age of 35 is gradually increasing.

Netizen three

I want to talk about my current situation.

First of all, I have worked for more than 3 years, graduated from master's degree, and currently 29 years old.

In a year and a half, he was promoted to the head of the R&D team. He was promoted to the head of the front-end team a few months ago, with fewer than 10 people in the group.

After sitting in the supervisor position, there is basically no duplication of development tasks. I have new requirements, participate in the review and check, and assign tasks to the younger brother.

Because it is necessary to dock the front end of multiple projects, it is usually to control the development time and quality.

The team is straightened out and I am free. Look at the news every day, research new technologies, and brush headlines. If you encounter a problem, your own public relations for a while, make a plan, write a demo to the younger brother. It is completely pension.

I was bored, I went out to interview a few companies, and the offer was also issued. But now the company is trying to retain, and the salary increase to the stock will leave.

It is still very leisurely.

I didn't have a say after the age of 35, but at that time I was still developing a line, not the ability to do it, or the programmer who loved programming very much.

If you are still engaged in IT, there are two kinds of promotion routes: management; technology. Technology to the final architect, management to the final R&D director.

The average age of Internet companies has been maintained at 24-28 years old for a reason. High-intensity mental work, the age is too big to live up to, and the family has to take care of.

Why do companies still have a bunch of idlers like me? Very simple, our experience. These experiences are all when you are young, working overtime and staying up late to pay a lot of money.

Netizen four

This duty is still quite promising. After all, it is a technological era. After the age of 35, it is already a senior development engineer. According to the development of the current era, it is entirely possible to start a business on its own.

I am also a development engineer. Sometimes I really don't want to say to others, because too many people have deep misunderstandings about this profession, such as sitting and dying. In fact, it is to eat young people's meals. The longer they are, the more senior they are, because every time they have to learn a lot of advanced hot things to keep up with the trend and improve efficiency, 35-year-old is generally not a company boss, or a state-owned enterprise, many of them are in management. Floor.

Because he is thirty-five years old, his qualifications are very old. The average company can't afford Mao's grandfather, he can't accept it, and if he says that the 35-year-old developer is unemployed, then his idea is generally to be a monk. After seeing the code and looking down on the database, there is nothing that can make him interested in learning. Of course, it is really tiring and not very negative.

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