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You should really be looking for "Where can I get work for what I already know?" The single most important element of business is paying customers. Feeling lik
by Mz 9y ago
You should really be looking for "Where can I get work for what I already know?" The single most important element of business is paying customers.
Feeling like you need to learn more before you can get paying customers is a potential infinite loop of excuses for why you can't go to market yet. After high school, there is college. After your bachelor's degree, you can pursue a master's. After that, you can get a PhD. Still not making money? Get another PhD!
Sites like Craig's List, Reddit, and UpWork will let you go ahead and start making a few bucks in the here and now with what you already know. (Yes, they have crap reputations. You aren't much of a developer. You won't become much of one without working. Just start where you are.) Making money that way is the single best way to figure out how to further develop yourself and also find market fit for yourself.
Participating in the market is how you find out what people are actually willing to pay money for, what skills you currently have that are worth money to someone, etc. It also exposes you to what "extra" stuff you should be learning. Some of that extra stuff will be learned in the course of completing small projects that you are already mostly qualified to handle.
- taway_1212 9y agoWhile I mostly agree in principle, there are some counter-examples as well - people who mostly just played with personal projects who got hired at $300k jobs for the niche skills they've gained. These people are top-notch though.
- Mz 9y agohttp://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1424 http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1424 I want Sven's life. But most of us don't live like that. We have to work at figuring out how to make money.
- taway_1212 9y agoThe people I think of weren't playing WoW all day, but rather coding/working through papers etc. all day, for years. For most people digging up this kind of intrinsic motivation without any external rewards in sight is hard.