I'm 50 years old and still working on the front end

Hello everyone! I'm Miss Xiaoqian

There is such a joke in the programmer circle: After the age of 35, go to the front end to deliver food; go to the back end to open Didi; buy insurance for operation and maintenance...

Don't recruit 35-year-olds, lay off 35-year-olds, I don't know when to start, 35-year-olds have become a turning point in my career, and the mid-life crisis has gradually spread and has become an anxiety topic in the entire circle.

Many young people also follow the trend and become anxious. They are obviously not yet 30 years old, and they start to lie down or even rot before they have written a few lines of code.

But in fact, there are quite a few older programmers at work.

Xiaoqian recently saw this post on the forum:

"I'm 50 years old and I'm still working on the front end. I just learned ast and jscodeshift today. I'm very anxious."

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50 years old and still writing code, this is definitely a real big guy who has practiced "living until you are old and learning when you are old" ! So, netizens came to watch and worship the big guy! There are also "older" programmers over 40 years old in the comment area.

* The source

Although the landlord put up the topic of age anxiety in the post, but in the comment area, the landlord expressed his true thoughts - we just want to prove that the older the front end, the more popular it is.

* The source

Programmers after the age of 35 can't do it? This senior gave a powerful rebuttal and was an example for us on the road to technology.

In Xiaoqian's view, programmers can become more popular as they get older. The experience of older programmers is a valuable asset, and the industry needs these "old drivers" to lead the way.

Duo Long, a partner of Ali, who has never really led a team, is one of the three founding engineers of Taobao. At the age of 46, he is still immersed in code, and he has made it to the rich list by writing code. He is called Ali 's "sweeping monk". .

Some time ago, AWK, a very old tool in the "Linux Three Musketeers", suddenly appeared on the GitHub hot list, and its 80-year-old original author Brian Kernighan submitted a new pull request to add to AWK Unicode support has not been able to do so.

The name may be unfamiliar, but when it comes to "Hello World!" , you must be very familiar with him. He is the founder of "Hello World!" . The old man is 80 years old and is still changing the code.

Programmers in their 40s and 50s who are still struggling to code on the front line can be found everywhere. The experience accumulated over time makes them invincible in the workplace.

Software development at Google at age 51: "Some people on my team are older than me. Have been programming all my life and have invaluable experience."

42-year-old engineer who entered Amazon: " Yes, there is a lot of ageism in the industry, but there are also a lot of companies that recognize the combination of technology and experience. "

58-year-old data engineer at Microsoft: "My professional age is 36 years old, and no one here cares how old I am, and no one asks."

360 founder Zhou Hongyi also said:

" Now many people are saying that they will retire at 35, which is very unacceptable to me. Many professionals, including programmers, should be more valuable with age."

Therefore, age is not a boundary, unless it is used to embarrass yourself.

The main reason for age anxiety in the workplace is that the public's definition of talent is still at the time dimension, and age, energy, physical quality, etc. are used as the criteria for judging the value of talents.

But with the passage of time, and with the changes in the age structure of society, the boundaries of age are gradually changing.

CSDN "2021-2022 Chinese Developer Survey Report" shows that the proportion of 30-year-old developers in 2021 is declining compared with the previous two years, while the overall number of 30-40-year-old practitioners is increasing year by year.

Moreover, from the salary growth curve of programmers, the salary of programmers has shown a trend of increasing year by year in recent years, and with the increase of working years, the salary of programmers has increased tremendously.

In addition, talent reports in recent years show that technical talents in the Internet industry are still the core demand. The demand for recruitment of software R&D, front-end development, test engineers, operation and maintenance support, data engineers and other positions is increasing, and there is a shortage of 3 million talents in front-end development alone, which shows that the market is eager for talents.

The economic level is changing with each passing day, and the standard for measuring talents is not only age. The core of the crisis is whether personal ability can continue to improve with age.

As long as you keep it updated, who said that programmers will not be a lifelong career, instead of worrying about the future, it is better to seize the present!

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