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I'd appreciate the opinion/insight of any level-headed members.
I taught myself programming about 8 years ago and ground away for 5 years freelancing until I decided to go get a 9-5. I've learned a massive amount in the last few years working among a team of 50 other developers, but I always knew this wasn't for me. I'd already tasted freedom when outsourcing towards the end of my freelancing journey.
I've been planning to quit my job for the last 8 months and handed my resignation in last month and am moving to Thailand (one-way with onward flight at end of Oct). I have enough savings to survive for 6 months without freelancing, though I'll likely do that part-time to keep funds topped up. The company I left have offered my job back if it all goes tits up.
I'm now in a position where I can build pretty much any kind of application I can think of. I'm experienced on every level of the stack, front-end, design, back-end (Ruby/Rails), systems, architecture, devops. I did originally deep dive into marketing way way back about 10 years ago but never took action! Fell into programming due to it better aligning with my personality and offering immediate returns.
This has put me in a great position, but I'm unsure of where to go next. Considering the above, what would you do? I have a few software products I've done some research on and am confident I will find *something* if I commit to failing/learning as quickly as possible.
But I do also have an option to lean on my strengths full-force and build a consulting business and scale that up THEN invest money/time into a more passive form of income. But that just seems like I'm going round the houses to get where I want to be. I'm 30, I can't really be bothered doing something I know I don't want to end up doing.
I'm well aware that my programming skills are not enough on their own, so I've been thinking of merging them with marketing skills by building services/tools for marketers - though haven't thought much beyond that.
That pretty much leaves me with building products. Any thoughts? Does this sound sensible? Any developers here who have any advice on a direction to go?
I taught myself programming about 8 years ago and ground away for 5 years freelancing until I decided to go get a 9-5. I've learned a massive amount in the last few years working among a team of 50 other developers, but I always knew this wasn't for me. I'd already tasted freedom when outsourcing towards the end of my freelancing journey.
I've been planning to quit my job for the last 8 months and handed my resignation in last month and am moving to Thailand (one-way with onward flight at end of Oct). I have enough savings to survive for 6 months without freelancing, though I'll likely do that part-time to keep funds topped up. The company I left have offered my job back if it all goes tits up.
I'm now in a position where I can build pretty much any kind of application I can think of. I'm experienced on every level of the stack, front-end, design, back-end (Ruby/Rails), systems, architecture, devops. I did originally deep dive into marketing way way back about 10 years ago but never took action! Fell into programming due to it better aligning with my personality and offering immediate returns.
This has put me in a great position, but I'm unsure of where to go next. Considering the above, what would you do? I have a few software products I've done some research on and am confident I will find *something* if I commit to failing/learning as quickly as possible.
But I do also have an option to lean on my strengths full-force and build a consulting business and scale that up THEN invest money/time into a more passive form of income. But that just seems like I'm going round the houses to get where I want to be. I'm 30, I can't really be bothered doing something I know I don't want to end up doing.
I'm well aware that my programming skills are not enough on their own, so I've been thinking of merging them with marketing skills by building services/tools for marketers - though haven't thought much beyond that.
That pretty much leaves me with building products. Any thoughts? Does this sound sensible? Any developers here who have any advice on a direction to go?
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