After graduating from university in four years, Fang Xiaobo did not continue to be admitted to graduate school, but walked out of the school gate directly and entered the vast sea of people in society.

After leaving the campus, Fang Xiaobo looked for a job for a while, but did not find a position that satisfied him.

Finally, under the recommendation of his brother Luo Yufan, he came to work in his current company. The following conversation happened when Fang Xiaobo first arrived at the company and just started working.

"Brother, I see that you are always busy. Busy at work, after work, you are still busy! What are you busy with after getting off work?" Fang Xiaobo met Luo Yufan during his lunch break, and he raised questions about Luo Yufan's very abnormal life.

This is the conclusion that Fang Xiaobo came to after observation in the process of working in the company.

"When I get off work, when I have extra energy and time, I will pick up some personal work. After listening to Fang Xiaobo's words, Luo Yufan explained to Fang Xiaobo the reason why he was usually busy.

"You still make extra money! Isn't it very profitable to take on private work outside? I have heard from colleagues that it is not easy to make money from doing private work. Hearing Luo Yufan say that when he was taking private work, Fang Xiaobo asked curiously.

In the real world, there is nothing that can be done without hard work. When he heard Fang Xiaobo say that it is not easy to make money for private work, Luo Yufan knew that he definitely didn't know that there was no free lunch in the world.

"Then you must have made a lot of money. Hearing Luo Yufan's words, Fang Xiaobo said as a matter of course.

"As I said just now, it's not easy to make money for private work. In fact, in the past few years, I have not made much money from private work. It's only in recent years that I've improved my ability and experience, and I've earned a lot more. In the first few years, either I couldn't do it and gave up, or I spent a lot of time and energy, and in the end I made money, and it was better to pay a good salary. After listening to Fang Xiaobo's words, Luo Yufan said that he had done private work in the past.

"You can't make much money, so why do you continue to do it?" After listening to Luo Yufan's explanation, Fang Xiaobo's heart became more confused. Since you can't make any money doing private work, why don't you go to work hard, but you have to make yourself so tired.

"I usually do private work, not just to make money. In fact, it is more to exercise your skills, as well as the ability to communicate with others, and by the way, expand your own network. Hearing Fang Xiaobo's words, Luo Yufan continued to explain why he continued to do private work when he didn't make much money.

"What should you do if you encounter something that you have to do with the other party, or if you are deceived by the other party? When Fang Xiaobo heard Luo Yufan's words, the first thing he thought of was what he would lose.

This is usually the most instinctive reaction of a short-sighted person. They don't think that far or as deeply as long-sighted people.

"Senior brother, if you think so, then I'm going to talk about you. You look at things and you can't just see what you lose and ignore what you gain. Seeing Fang Xiaobo, who was not deeply involved in the world, and listened to his words, Luo Yufan hurriedly corrected his thoughts.

"In the process of doing private work, every trouble encountered will be a good opportunity to exercise. If you are doing private work, there is a difference of opinion with the customer, and there is a dispute. The most important thing you should do is to reflect on yourself, where you are and what you are not doing well. Reflect on what you did wrong or didn't do well enough, and then talk to the customer. If the customer doesn't understand, you have to find a way to make the customer understand, and this process is the improvement of communication skills. Don't have it, the customer gives you money, and you want the customer to follow your ideas in everything. This kind of thing, only your parents have that obligation. Except for your parents, no one else can do this to you. Luo Yufan continued to explain to Fang Xiaobo that programmers can not only make money by doing private work, but also exercise their own benefits.

"Senior brother, have you ever been deceived?" After listening to Luo Yufan's words, Fang Xiaobo asked with great interest.

"I've had that experience. However, at that time, it was not that I was deceived, but when I was communicating with the customer, due to my lack of experience, there was a rift. At that time, I and the client, we were both more emotional, and in the end, we had to break up unhappily. Since Fang Xiaobo was very interested, Luo Yufan told him about his old past.

"That's a shame, half of the project is done in vain. Listening to Luo Yufan's words, Fang Xiaobo said with a smile.

"At that time, I was also just starting to do it. I am not very confident in my skills and experience. There is no such thing as making a deposit with the customer before doing it. In the end, the customer may feel that since the deposit has not been paid, it is better to change people, so when the customer goes very simply. After listening to Fang Xiaobo's words, Luo Yufan was very generous and shook out his ugly things.

"When you first started doing private work, did you ever have the idea of giving up?" Hearing Luo Yufan's tragic incident, Fang Xiaobo instinctively thought that since he was so unsatisfactory, how did he survive.

"At that time, I was doubting my life, and after it made me, I was depressed for a long time. After that, I had given up. However, after thinking about it, I felt that the problem was mainly with me. It's that I didn't do things well, and I didn't plan carefully before doing things. When you encounter a problem, you get in a hurry. Luo Yufan recalled himself at that time.

"I'm going to take orders, I'm going to do private work. After hearing that doing private work can not only make money, but also get exercise, Fang Xiaobo also has a plan to do private work by himself.

"I think you can try. If you are tired from doing private work, take a break for a while. Don't be like some short-sighted people who think that they feel that they work privately, work more and have less money, and are tired! When you see your colleagues around you, you are recognized by the leaders, appreciated by the leaders, promoted and raised, and have an annual salary of at least three digits. It's stupid to think that they just work hard, and they can easily do it if they only know the people who accompany their wives and children after work. In the IT industry, technology is everything, and the more you do it, the stronger your ability will be. If you have the ability, the company leaders will naturally see it. Besides, if you have the ability to earn extra money, you will also have an additional source of livelihood. There is no need to worry about the company going out of business, being ostracized by your colleagues, or being fired from the company, because you are the one who speaks by strength. Luo Yufan continued.

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Soon after this conversation. Luo Yufan was successfully promoted to become the project manager of their company.

At Luo Yufan's suggestion, Fang Xiaobo will also take on some private work when he has free time.

Among programmers who do private work, some people, after being deceived, feel that it is a thankless task for programmers to do private work. Because they have not received due monetary benefits after paying their time and energy, and even the fruits of their labor, many people tell their programmer friends who have the idea of doing private work that doing private work is a thankless task.

However, for Luo Yufan and Fang Xiaobo, they have another idea.

Especially for those who want to become architects, your growth will be huge in the process of doing private work. As the chief designer of the software, the level and ability of the architect directly determine the overall performance of the software system.

At present, the certification of architects is basically blank in China, and there are neither professional training institutions, nor special certification guidelines and authoritative educational certification institutions.

The growth of an architect lies in opportunity, personal effort, and talent. The opportunity in this can be accessed by doing private work, rather than standing in place and waiting for pie to fall from the sky.

When it comes to personal effort, it is even more necessary to exercise more, and you can get a lot of opportunities to exercise by doing private work. For example, this time to make a website for the gluttonous cat, as well as a background database, is a very good opportunity to exercise.

Talent, in fact, sometimes, is also usual, cold, idle chess. Suddenly, one day you used it, and the people who usually didn't pay attention thought that it was brought out by themselves in the womb.

What they don't know is that many things are causal. If you don't usually accumulate in a certain aspect, you will not have the wisdom of a genius at critical moments.

A software architect is a programmer's experience and ability that will emerge after he has fully mastered the basic skills required by a software architect. How to get such an opportunity, how to use the skills mastered to apply a reasonable framework, how to constantly abstract and summarize their own framework model, how to go deep into the industry to become an elite talent who can competently analyze and structure.

This is entirely the result of self-cultivation.

Why? Because they're an art.

Just listening to professors on a university campus can't learn or understand.

The word architect is derived from architecture. Architects in software engineering have something in common with architects in architectural engineering, and they are both responsible for macro, overall, and global architecture design.

In a team, the architect plays the role of the technical leader, not only to complete the overall design and planning of the project, but also to lead the technical team to solve practical problems and overcome technical difficulties, so that the software design, development, testing, and release processes can be successfully completed.

In the IT industry, architects can generally be divided into two broad categories: one is the front-end architect, which is mainly the architect for the user experience, and the other is the back-end architect, also known as the software architect, who is mainly for the back-end application execution.

Front-end architects can be divided into: information architects and website architects, or they can be divided into: PPT architects and application architects.

Software architects can be divided into: infrastructure architects and middleware architects.

To become an architect, in general, programmers must have a high level of emotional intelligence, because anyone who is engaged in art needs emotional intelligence. If you don't have a lot of emotional intelligence, you can't do art well, because you don't have the spirituality that art needs.

It is precisely because of emotional intelligence that no school can move to the classroom, so the training of architects has become a worldwide problem. And of course China.

Perhaps, this is talent!

What does it take to become an architect when you have talent?

First, let's talk about the specific work of an architect. In fact, the work of an architect can be summed up in two words: choice.

This choice is not something that can be done casually with your eyes closed. In order to make a series of choices, the architect must take into account every detail.

There is a saying: the devil is in the details. In this sentence, the work of an architect is the most appropriate.

So, how can architects do their jobs?

Architects must have strong skills. Whether it is the depth of technology or the breadth of technology, it must be understood and known, and it is not necessary to be proficient.

Knowledge of the customer unit and its environment. The understanding of the customer's business is the origin of all the architect's work, and to talk about the architecture without the business is to play hooliganism and nonsense! This is also the starting point of understanding the customer's needs, and if you don't understand the customer's business, it will be difficult to understand the customer's substantive needs.

Good communication skills. This ability is not exclusive to the IT industry, and almost all industries, as long as it is a job that deals with people, this is a necessary ability.

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Architects, playing with art.

What is needed is emotional intelligence, as well as spirituality.