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Learn to use AI to assist you. Make it an advantage to you rather than a competition. I got burnt out in my job too, it was too stressful and I developed mental
by orionblastar 1y ago
Learn to use AI to assist you. Make it an advantage to you rather than a competition. I got burnt out in my job too, it was too stressful and I developed mental and physical illnesses that made me miss work by being in a hospital, and getting fired for missing too much work.
- muzani 1y agoI did freelancing for 5 years and the trick for me was just aiming to do things faster, cheaper, better. Well, the trick is really just faster. If you can do things at 2x the speed, you can charge 1.5x and clients will be very happy. And if things are done faster, you can layer on more quality things as well – tests, features, fancy backgrounds and animations, optimizations for low end devices, and so on. People are often afraid that being too productive will make them run out of work. But with software, here's an endless amount of things to do. One of the more valuable things a contractor can do is help a profitable company with tech debt transition out of the tech debt. Eventually they become productive and take on tech debt because there's value to releasing new products as early as possible, and it's an endless cycle.
- gardennoise 1y agoYeah! I am thinking along those lines, will definitely use AI to speed me up where it's possible. I hope you are doing better now health wise! Did you manage to get a less stressful gig for yourself?
- orionblastar 1y agoNot yet, I am still on disability and have a sleep problem. I am working with a doctor to fix it, and I got the Inspire Implant https://www.inspiresleep.com/en-us/ https://www.inspiresleep.com/en-us/ to help fix it. I am not where I want to be, but I am learning AI in my spare time.