A person cannot choose where he is from: a poor family or a wealthy one, but he can choose his own career and work hard for it, thereby achieving success. Wen Tao is such a person: in order to relieve the burden on his parents, the impoverished Wen Tao resolutely chose to drop out of university. After relentless efforts, he grew from a computer novice into a network engineer.
Wen Tao was born in an ordinary farmer's family in Yinchuan, Ningxia. The income from the family's dozen or so mu of land was their sole source of income, but he studied very hard and in 2006, he was admitted to China University of Mining and Technology.
As the start of the school term approached, the tuition fees for Beijing Daqing NIT became a pressing issue: with an annual tuition fee of more than 5,000 yuan, this was a significant burden for the ordinary farming household. The smiles on his parents' faces gradually turned into helplessness and sighs. On enrollment day, as Wen Tao watched his father carefully count the tuition money that had been painstakingly saved, he felt a twinge of pain amidst his excitement.
After much deliberation, after the freshman military training ended, Wen Tao finally made a decision: to drop out of school.
After returning home, despite his parents' disappointment, Wen Tao remained optimistic. Through an introduction, Wen Tao found his first job: a car washer.
Being a car washer wasn't difficult; from six in the morning until two in the morning, as long as there were cars, they had to be washed. This exhausting and arduous work only earned him a meager income of four or five hundred yuan per month. Despite the fatigue from working every day, Wen Tao couldn’t fall asleep easily. How should he navigate his life? Should he live like this forever? He kept asking himself these questions.
This job made Wen Tao realize that if he wanted to find an ideal job, he needed to master a skill.
In 2007, carrying his dreams, he came south to Guangzhou. By chance, he visited Guangzhou Beijing Daqing Xiangji Lide. After interacting with the consulting teachers, he developed a dream to learn IT. He enrolled in the Benet 3.0 (Network Engineer) training course, hoping that in the future he could also become a network engineer.
Since he had never touched a computer before, at the beginning, Wen Tao didn't even know how to turn it on. In the computer lab, watching classmates type swiftly, Wen Tao felt envious. The teacher's profound knowledge and superior skills made Wen Tao feel that this was what a true computer expert looked like. To become such a computer expert sooner, he once again put forth the same effort as during his college entrance exam preparation. He got up at seven every morning and went to bed at one in the morning. Except for class time, all his daytime was spent in the school's computer lab. Hard work pays off. In over a year of study at Beijing Daqing, Wen Tao, who initially had no computer foundation, became a "computer expert" who had written nearly ten thousand lines of code, obtained a network engineer certificate, and gained rich practical experience.
In September 2008, upon returning to Wuhan, Wen Tao was hired by Wuhan Shengke Network Co., Ltd. due to his outstanding performance. He finally entered the IT industry he had longed for and became a network engineer. Now, Wen Tao serves as a platform R&D engineer at the company, mainly responsible for the basic B2C system architecture and development based on search engines, as well as multiple projects including games and B2C websites. He realized that in the IT industry, there are many experts, and he still has a long way to go to become an IT expert. He set himself a goal: to become a true computer expert.