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The best thing I did for my career was to start blogging. I started in 2017 and today I make all my money with technical writing and open-source development.

• ahelwer 5y ago
  Same for me. Find a niche, make blog posts introducing technical topics, make blog posts explaining your work. As long as you can afford to wait for a couple good contracts a year you’ll do fine. Textbooks are apparently even better but take a lot more work.
  • k__ 5y ago
    Yes. I wrote a book, but it's so much easier to write articles. You get money after 4 pages of text, it's still marketing, and you usually make the same or more money with articles, depending on your rate.
• soylentgraham 5y ago
  Similarly here, word of mouth and people finding github repositories or posts on issues/forums where i typically post a solution to an obscure question. (Maybe helps having a consistent username) But its really dented any marketing/sales skills, and now I wish I spent more time honing those (as I want to make some of my own things)
  • k__ 5y ago
    Yes, it only helps if "your own thing" is related to the readers you already have