Aite Tribe Stories (8): Following the Dream and Starting a Business

[51CTO.com original article] The fish who longs to breathe is a greedy technical guy. He has a strong curiosity about technologies in various fields of IT and aspires to become a full-stack engineer.

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Fish that longs to breathe·CTO

Don't forget to do something because there are too many things to do, and don't do it wrongly because there are too many things to do.

Fish who longs to breathe is one of the many IT migrant workers. He graduated with a master's degree in 2012. He accidentally embarked on the path of coding, and then he went all the way without hesitation. This technology enthusiast loves programming and is fascinated by Linux.

He has worked as a programmer in a foreign company for more than 4 years. When he first started working, he devoted most of his time to the company. He had a resolute attitude towards overtime and did not have much time to doubt his life. In large companies, the division of labor is detailed, and the development he did was relatively diverse. He did Linux, Windows, and Android development. He mainly maintained the code and added new features. He usually learned the technology he was interested in. After starting his own family, he needed to make a good trade-off between work and family life and find a balance. After working for many years, he was able to stand on his own and had time to doubt his life. In the current domestic environment, he realized that he could not do technology for a long time and could not rely on technology for his life. He once worried about this: If I don’t become a programmer, what can I do?

Stop and think about life

When the fish, who was eager to breathe, felt that there was not much room for advancement, he gradually realized that he did not like this kind of work. In the dead of night, he lay in bed and summed up his work and life over the years. He often struggled with many decisions of the year, wondering if he was too cautious, afraid of this and that, worried about many risks, and not as bold as when he was young. After struggling for a long time, he decided to follow his heart and choose a job he likes.

However, there are too many temptations at work. When a headhunter invited him, Yu, who was eager to breathe, successfully got an offer from a certain company H after many interviews, but he eventually gave up the offer due to salary and transportation issues. This was the second time in his life that he gave up an offer from the same company. He was very cautious about job hopping, because job hopping has costs, unless there is a big salary increase (in his opinion, no less than 30% increase), or the ability can be improved, there are more opportunities...

Follow your heart and start a business with hard work

A man is independent at 30 and free from doubts at 40. The fish that longs for breath is in the rising period of life. At 30, he was fooled by investors in the wave of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and resigned to start his own business, serving as CTO of a startup company as a technical partner.

At the beginning, he was ambitious and full of hope to do something big. Before starting his business, he mainly used C/C++ language and had never written an APP, so he found a book and ran the example program in the book. In half a month, he was basically familiar with APP development; he had no experience in server backend development, so he followed the developers he recruited to learn from PHP syntax, PHP operating mechanism to PHP engine. Although the fish eager to breathe is not Guo Jing, he does not know martial arts, let alone the Eighteen Dragon Palms, and he does not have three heads and six arms, but it is enough to have a heart that loves technology and insist on continuous learning and progress.

Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long. Soon, the fish, eager to breathe, found that they had been cheated by various people in the process. The investors did not follow the agreement. The product was produced on schedule, and the marketing was also the responsibility of the investor company. The investor promised that his connections could handle the market, so they did it according to his requirements, but the investor’s connections betrayed him, making it very difficult for the company to operate now. In the end, the business failed. The investor did not inject capital according to the agreement. Without funds, the company is difficult to operate.

After calming down and thinking carefully, he felt that he was not suitable for starting a business yet, and he had not accumulated team management experience and entrepreneurial experience. Secondly, the team should not have differences in entrepreneurial ideas and thinking. It is very important for entrepreneurship to have consistent goals and actions. This is the result of his hasty entrepreneurship. Perhaps he thought too simply at the beginning. But the experience during this period of time is something that he could not get as a programmer in a company. Since he has chosen to start a business, he has to stick to it. He has to go on the road he has chosen even if he cries.

The fish that longs to breathe once watched an inspirational speech, and one of the points had a profound impact on him: We are still alive in the world today because there is tomorrow, and the reason why tomorrow is attractive is that it is unknown. Unknown means you can have dreams, and dreams mean you have passion. Life is a journey, every day is unknown, and every day is so short. If you don't pay attention, time will steal a day from people. The fish that longs to breathe will be more diligent, cherish every day, and make the unknown life more exciting. He has always believed: "If your dream has not been realized, it means that your desire is not strong enough." I hope every programmer who pursues his dreams will encourage each other.

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