Casson: The 30-year-old programmer chooses to lie down

Hello everyone, I'm Casson.

I remember that when I interviewed Sohu, the director had already finished the interview. I could see that he was very satisfied with me. Before finishing the interview, he asked me:

"Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Maybe I was out of my mind at the time. I asked: "I'm a little anxious now. They all say that programmers are in crisis at the age of 35. Do you have any good solutions?"

The director raised his head and stared at me.

Many years later, I can't remember what he said at that time. I only remember that I was 27 years old, and Mian Sohu hung up.

Embrace change

I learned early on what it means to embrace change . When I just graduated, I worked as a mechanical engineer in a power generation equipment state-owned enterprise.

At that time, the president of a small African country visited our company with members of his cabinet, preparing to build a hydropower station with all the strength of the country.

Although this is a small country and the orders are not large, it is the president of a country, so the company attaches great importance to it. As a front-line engineer, I am naturally excited.

When I went to work with high enthusiasm, ready to do my part for the well-being of the people of the Third World, the country was undergoing a military upheaval and the president was overthrown.

Yes, our customers are disrupted. It was also the first time I experienced firsthand what it means to embrace change .

In the following years, I have experienced many Internet companies and encountered many strange projects. There is no business line adjustment anymore. The reason why the project was cut can surprise me.

Choose to lie flat

Life is always about having some fun, and my first joy was making money.

When I was a mechanical engineer, the factory manager assured us: "Everyone will be superior in the future, and you can buy a one-square-meter house with one month's salary."

After receiving the first month's salary, I found out that there are cities with such low housing prices in China...

After switching to the Internet, the monthly salary of the first job was 2w, which was N times more than the previous salary. This unpretentious happiness has always guided me to constantly change jobs, raise my salary, enter the middle factory, and enter the big factory.

Until one day, I stepped out of the company in the early morning fog as usual, and suddenly thought of a question:

When I was old, if my grandson asked, "Grandpa, what did you do when you were young?"

I told him: "Grandpa has done various promotion activities and new activities"

Thinking of this, I suddenly felt unhappy at work and lost my thoughts.

PS: I was at home during the Chinese New Year this year, and I saw my mother playing short videos on the coffee table on her mobile phone all day. I asked her what she was doing, and she told me that "you can get 2 yuan per day". Isn't this what I did back then, hey, self-inflicted...

However, on the other hand, since I wrote my first article on the Nuggets in April 2020, I have written 121 articles on the Nuggets platform alone.

Later, I started to write the React technology reveal . During the process, some friends added me on WeChat, hoping to communicate together React源码 .

So I successively built more than 10 500 people React源码交流群 .

Although doing this in my spare time did not bring me any income, I met developers from all over the world and helped many friends who were interested in React .

It's more fun than going to work.

In addition, the publisher contacted me to issue a paper book about React , I was too busy at work and kept delaying the manuscript.

Finally, I thought about it, do what I want to do, so I resigned naked, and then I lied down to this day.

flat capital

The capital that lies flat is nothing more than two points: open source and throttling .

throttling

I'm not encouraging people to quit, even when I was at my highest income, my material desires were very low. I have few hobbies growing up:

• Do magic (the main place to spend money is to buy all kinds of poker)
• play basketball

Can't spend any money.

I have no obsession with Beishangshen. Although I live in Beijing and earn a first-line salary, I bought my house in Sichuan, so there is not much pressure.

open source

Even after resignation, income did not decrease. There are several main sources of income:

• Course income

SegmentFault Business found me and hope to cooperate in a video course. I took this seriously and recorded a lot of demo animations in the course with keynote .

Although the two months of recording were very painful, it also gave me a stable monthly income after sleeping :

• No public

I have a small official account, because I often post original in-depth articles, so the level of fans is relatively high. Some ad revenue per month.

• Corporate Training

Some big manufacturers will invite me to train React related knowledge. The cost of this customized training is quite high.

• interview coaching

I saved a bureau with friends from several other big factories, and did interview counseling for friends who wanted to get high salaries. In half a year, I helped more than 80 friends get satisfaction offer .

• royalties

The book is almost finished, and there should be an extra piece of manuscript fee income this year.

There are also some miscellaneous income, but not stable, such as B站广告 , 顾问咨询 , 打赏 .

One notable difference between freelancing and working is that working is selling time for income. And a freelance time can be sold many times.

For example, for a course, the pre-recording will take a lot of time, but after the launch, it does not require much additional energy, and the time can be spent on other things. But the course has a fixed monthly income.

This kind of thing has accumulated a lot, and the monthly income is not lower than the income of technical experts.

do something fun

With no work pressure and more time, I began to ponder some interesting things.

There has always been something that bothered me before: after a long time, some technical groups will gradually degenerate into groups of blowing water, talking about pictures, and talking about current affairs, so I have always wanted to maintain a pure technical community.

With this original intention, I became a fe-hunter front-end bounty hunter .

This is a front-end learning community maintained by purely monetary relationships , rewarding questions + answering questions to make money.

At present, the average profit of the best answer to a question is 10 to 20 yuan, and the highest can reach 300 yuan:

For the onlookers, you can get some front-end problems every day 高质量答案 .

For the big guys, you can earn a cup of coffee every day.

And I, experience the joy of throwing coins. There are some friends who feel like me that this is a meaningful thing to sponsor some bounties, and I would like to thank them too:

Summarize

In short, while reducing material desires and reducing expenditure, doing things that I think are helpful to everyone makes me feel happy every day.

If you also want to:

• Join Fe-Hunter
• Talk to me about programmers for a side business
• Looking for career development advice
• Exchange freelance life

Welcome to communicate with me (kasong999).

This is a 30-year-old lying flat report handed over by an old front-end worker.