简历项目与年龄焦虑:一次深入的职业发展对话 Peter Pang 2025-10-12

项目经验与简历吸引力

提问者: Can I write my own project in the resume? Because I didn't have any projects before. It feels like I don't have any attractiveness or place to be promoted.

专家: Yes, why not? As I mentioned earlier, it's not a fixed thing. The content you express has only one purpose: to make the interviewer interested. So, to some extent, you still need to adjust each one. But if you don't consider such detailed operations, from a macro perspective, it's a way to showcase yourself. For example, let's set a limit, say two pages. Within the scope of two pages, it's a zero-sum game. If you have it, I don't. So, everything is put on the table. One goes in, the second goes in, the third goes in, and finally, there's not much space left. Who is more attractive than whom? Then put them in first, and discard the rest. So it's not that your work experience must be prioritized over your personal projects, or your education must be prioritized over a small competition you won. I think that education is quite embarrassing. I'd rather put my award from that competition. Or if you have education, try to write it a bit shorter to leave space for the award. Because for general interviewers, there isn't much difference between schools, unless there's a big difference in ranking. For ordinary schools, is there a difference between being ranked 123rd, 125th, or 118th nationally? No difference. No one even cares about this point. But I know some people directly look at the school, directly look at the beginning. If you have a connection, or something else, or a common topic, right? You have a topic. See, I'll go back to this. You need to pique their interest. You need a topic. Look at those resume templates, except for the name, there's really nothing else that's necessary. Make it two pages. One page is too ridiculous. Really. You can put out the two-page paper you have experienced and then cut it out. You can put out more than two pages of paper. You can sleep well. It's impossible not to have enough.

年龄焦虑与职业心态

提问者: The last question is about age. Considering that I am now really old, I feel I'm getting a bit old. When facing younger colleagues, I also sigh. At the age of 29 or 28, the future seems a bit confusing. Should I continue to compete? I'm still quite interested in this. If I'm not interested at the moment, that's fine. I'm waiting for that sentence. That sentence is not about pushing. In this case, I'm quite interested. In the past two months before the new year, I've also encountered some things I like, for example, graphics, wishing... these things I find interesting. Regarding languages, like the video you posted a couple of days ago or today, saying language isn't that important. I feel the same way. I've seen it, and it's opened up a perspective for me. I also think C# is not bad and feels more comfortable to write than Go. But the premise is that it can't be too pushy for me. Because I feel quite anxious right now, and sometimes it's hard to shake that feeling after work. But this anxiety and this technology are two different things, they just happened to overlap. Your anxiety is not caused by it; your anxiety is a matter of emotional level. Another point is the one brought by age, the age aspect. I didn't have a good grasp of it after graduation. It's like wasting or wasting. So now technology is not compatible with the year line. So I'm a little anxious. Think like this. No one says how many experiences you need at a certain age. This is the first one.

专家: You haven't reached a certain level. In fact, as you mentioned about Xisha, that's a good mindset. From the perspective of a social person, your career has just begun, okay? You're still far from retirement. So in such a long timeline, you can't just stick to one thing and work on Go for a lifetime. Yes. In this situation, it's better to start early to contact more technologies and enrich your knowledge. In a sense, it gives you more options. Including, you think about applying for jobs, you can only apply for Go positions. The Go circle is not small, but looking at the whole big picture, it's actually a very small piece. It's a good opportunity to learn something new. Why shouldn't I do it? If I don't have this opportunity at work, I would have to spend my spare time, or even spend my own money, to do a personal project to practice this skill. Now I have an opportunity to learn and practice this new skill while being paid. This is like going back to school, but without paying tuition, and even getting a subsidy. In the process of accumulating your career, your strength doesn't grow linearly. It's really compressed. When your ten years of life are squeezed into two pages, many subtle one or two months may be directly ignored. They can no longer occupy any space on the resume. It's not that every minute, every day, every week, every month, you have to achieve something that makes you proud for your next interview or job application. Some days will be ignored by time. As you said, my career has just started. This is just the beginning. Unless you think about it now, some years may be particularly valuable, and some years may be worthless. I'm also... I'm counting it as 12 years now. There are some... There's a whole year of... If you look at my previous video "The Bride of October," I talked about my own... The most final... I talked about this in 4 minutes. I erased that entire year from my life. The only thing I've left is to harshly scold the person who was parachuted in at that time in this video. I haven't let him leave any trace on my resume. I think your main issue now is a mindset issue. First, get the mindset right. I think you're a bit too concerned about past details. As I said, consider these things yourself.

提问者: I feel I'm still a bit lacking in confidence, perhaps I need to accumulate more. Because you're not 55 or 58 yet. You haven't reached a point where there are no options. You still have plenty of options. Think about it this way: for example, I've met many PhDs who, at your age, haven't even left campus and are completely bewildered. Thank you, thank you. OK OK, thank you.

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