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As a personal experience share: Consider becoming a consultant, either sharing your unique skills (marketing, programming, design, strategy) or if you don't ha
by ericskiff 5y ago
As a personal experience share:
Consider becoming a consultant, either sharing your unique skills (marketing, programming, design, strategy) or if you don't have directly marketable skills, going to work for a larger firm and learning their process.
My partner and I started our (software development) consultancy because we wanted to LEARN. We wanted to work with lots of different founders on lots of different ideas. We wanted to know what made companies succeed and fail and how to avoid the classic failures.
In the years since, we've built nutrition apps, apps that help people manage end-of-life situations, 3d printing and scanning, made-to-measure clothing businesses, dog toy and cat food companies, social networks, real estate apps, a project that combined AI/ML and gaming, and a hundred more.
Between all the different projects and all the books we've read (we've also read dozens of business and self help books together over the past 10 years), we've grown and learned a tremendous amount. We've also built a business and a reputation that is now creating a fruitful future for us and the people who work with us.
Whatever you do, harness that love for learning and find a job that compensates you for being willing to dive into anything and get up to speed quickly. It's a rare passion and skill!