What is your 28-year-old doing? Graduated with a master's degree? Waiting for an offer from a big factory? Some people, 28 years old, have already retired honorably. The cause of the
incident started with the question of the last tens of millions of readers on Zhihu, "How do you think Guo Yu, who is only 28 years old, announced his retirement from ByteDance?"
and the story’s protagonist Guo Yu who is he? Is he the kind of kid from someone else's family? Like every envy, jealous, and hate crowd onlookers, the editor went to pick up his Weibo. He wrote on the top Weibo in February: I chose to retire at the end of 28 years old and embrace the breeze of the clear springs and valleys in the mountains. , To feel the spring, autumn, winter and summer. People who are destined will meet again, friends, I hope we will meet again in a wider world!
Yes, you read that right. He is 28 years old and is about to retire.
Below that Zhihu question, there is an answer article by Guo Yu’s friend Luo Lei. From Luo Lei’s answer, we can learn about a real programmer’s growth path. The high school studied in a prestigious Shenzhen school and a national key high school. , And four of the five founders of Tencent, a high school, graduated from it.
After the college entrance examination, he was admitted to Jinan University , but his major was politics and administration.
major was chosen by himself, but he didn't go to class very much. He didn't sleep and play games like ordinary students during absenteeism. He used this time to teach himself programming and stayed up late in the dormitory to learn to code. He was already looking for internships since his sophomore year. He was able to clarify his goals early without being bound by the constraints of university studies. Sophomore interview with Tencent, hanging on the third side, the junior finally got an internship with Alipay.
Not a computer professional background, and relying on self-study to achieve this degree is called guarding the sky. Naturally, Guo Yu has a very rich experience in a large factory. In 2011, he went to Alipay as an intern in his junior year and stayed as the front-end development engineer of . It was during the three years of Alipay that he accumulated profound Internet experience.
After he started his own business by accident, he was acquired by ByteDance. Since then, his ByteDance career has started.From 2014 to 2020, in the six years of Bytedance, his position has been a senior technical expert. During these six years, the valuation of Bytedance has skyrocketed, and he obtained the option of Bytedance. At the time, Guo Yu said that An option is enough for him to buy a house in Beijing. One can imagine where his financial freedom started.
He has become a role model for programmers. Luo Lei has this paragraph in his article describing Guo Yu: "He is a person who loves programming and has a clear goal. Compared with my original intention of joining the Internet industry, It’s very much because when programmers pay high salaries, this kind of naked look at money makes Guo Yu more like a true love of programming and believes that code can change the world."
Some people say that Guo Yu chooses more than his strength, but just happens to change on the Internet. The world’s wind greeted him and said that he was lucky. The editor wanted to say that his success is indeed inseparable from choice and luck, but I want to ask everyone, the same choice is given to you, how would you choose? Before choosing, should you ask yourself, do you have the strength to choose?
According to Luo Lei, in 2013 and 2014, Guo Yu's statistics on Github showed that Guo Yu was active in the Github Ranking and reached the top 5 in the Chinese region. These commits of Guo Yu are basically the contributions of open source projects.
So, when the choice is given to you, do you have the ability to choose, take over, and undertake? There is no doubt that Guo Yugan, because he has the courage and strength, we can not ignore his hard work, his love, and the love of coding, so he became Guo Yu who retired at the age of 28.
He himself also said that he left from Byte, not resigning or retiring, but bidding farewell to his Internet career. His 28-year-old ideal is to travel to Tokyo to open a hotel, soak in hot springs, and there are countless number of people achieving financial freedom on the Internet. But Guo Yu dared to call a stop in time. He is an idealist and chose the life he wants to live after financial freedom.
A successful life is often impossible to copy, and there are different criteria for success. For Guo Yu, of course, it is to chase the freedom he wants.With the right to choose, for us, of course, it is to learn the programming skills at hand, dream steadily, and type code diligently.
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