Hey folks,
Used to come around here a few years ago. Here's a brief resume:
Things I've done:
- Grown a youtube channel to 12k subscribers, organic only
- Sold courses on Udemy (fully passive, few hundred dollars a month)
- Self-published a book on KDP (customer service)
- Learned coding essentially from scratch to a FAANG company offer in ~18 months
Things I'm currently working on
- Building a new Youtube channel from scratch (~100 subscribers currently)
- Self-publishing a much better book (about happiness, near final edits, design in progress)
- Building small software side projects to practice particular skills.
- Outsourcing work to contractors to free up more of my time (YT editing, SEO)
- Investing the surplus from my software job (Currently holding some index funds, considering buying real estate this year)
It's been a fairly slow, jagged journey for me. My projects are probably a bit more varied than they should be and there are certainly faster paths to financial independence. On the other hand, I make 5x what I did a few years ago, have some income on autopilot, and many coals in the fire. I'm not exactly where I want to be financially for how long I've been on this journey, but even if none of my projects work out, I'm on track to retire in a few years anyway from slow investments. Then I can work full time on what I want anyway, so feeling pretty good about life and my position but still looking to improve.
I consider my main strengths to be in habit change, communication, happiness, and psychology. I've written 25 book reviews, 750 instagram posts, and 75 blog posts on those topics along the way, as well as the full-fleshed book I'm finishing up.
Too much rambling. Too much about me. If anyone has any questions, happy to elaborate or help however I can. Cheers!
Used to come around here a few years ago. Here's a brief resume:
Things I've done:
- Grown a youtube channel to 12k subscribers, organic only
- Sold courses on Udemy (fully passive, few hundred dollars a month)
- Self-published a book on KDP (customer service)
- Learned coding essentially from scratch to a FAANG company offer in ~18 months
Things I'm currently working on
- Building a new Youtube channel from scratch (~100 subscribers currently)
- Self-publishing a much better book (about happiness, near final edits, design in progress)
- Building small software side projects to practice particular skills.
- Outsourcing work to contractors to free up more of my time (YT editing, SEO)
- Investing the surplus from my software job (Currently holding some index funds, considering buying real estate this year)
It's been a fairly slow, jagged journey for me. My projects are probably a bit more varied than they should be and there are certainly faster paths to financial independence. On the other hand, I make 5x what I did a few years ago, have some income on autopilot, and many coals in the fire. I'm not exactly where I want to be financially for how long I've been on this journey, but even if none of my projects work out, I'm on track to retire in a few years anyway from slow investments. Then I can work full time on what I want anyway, so feeling pretty good about life and my position but still looking to improve.
I consider my main strengths to be in habit change, communication, happiness, and psychology. I've written 25 book reviews, 750 instagram posts, and 75 blog posts on those topics along the way, as well as the full-fleshed book I'm finishing up.
Too much rambling. Too much about me. If anyone has any questions, happy to elaborate or help however I can. Cheers!
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