What's going to happen after 30 is terrified by the programmers
"thank you for
" English often says "30." but this is not always right - in fact, when you meet the people in the software development industry The situation seems to be the opposite. Although many outstanding people have just reached the top of their career at the age of 30, for most ordinary programmers, the future after 29 looks very miserable. The issue of
has recently caused a lengthy discussion on Hacker News, and many programmers have expressed concern about what will happen after the age of 30.
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for the 30 year old programmer "too old" problem, someone even simply suggested: programmers should retire at the age of 40.
the reason why young programmers are partial is that old programmers will be tired of learning new technologies. What's more, more importantly, companies like to recruit young, inexperienced programmers to do the same jobs as they do, but pay less.
this allows some experienced programmers to choose to be promoted to management positions and become managers of other programmers, instead of actually participating in coding. Creativity is much less than developing an application with bare hands.
"if you're going to 'write the code' all the time, you're going to be ready to write the same code several times in different programming patterns and different programming languages." A commentator called ChuckMcM wrote.
"it's been a few years to relearn most of the technology you need, and things that have to be done are sometimes annoying," another person called bane commented.
this is not a new problem in the software development community. Vivek Wadwha, an entrepreneur who has made speeches at the Stanford University and the Duke University, wrote in 2010 that technology companies like to hire inexperienced young programmers. According to the labor department's data, a book called "Chips and Change", published in 2009 by Professor Greg Linden and Clair Brown, said that in the silicon electronics industry, workers' salary increases began to slow around the age of 40. The problem of
has gone beyond the preferences of today's technology companies in recruiting employees. As a blog of game designer Michael O. Church said, some programmers who reach the age of 30 feel suffocated.
"by the age of 30, many of us are planning to do something else: management, finance, or start-up companies," he wrote.
it's not clear what the future trend will be, but for young programmers, their advice is: get ready early.
as soon as it gets older, say, 35 years old - programmers suggest that the most important thing to do is to prepare for retirement at the age of 40:
it is estimated that in 5-10 years I will be eliminated, and I can't keep up with the times. But I think it's nothing. I don't have any further motivation to improve. I can do that because I am making money with my life, and then I have the capital to withdraw from my full-time job.