Hello everyone, I'm Paul
A professional software developer from Russia. Recently I lost my job and that is the best thing that happened to me in a long time. Because I do not have to rely on my salary to help me fund my dreams.
I started working as a freelancer on Rentacoder, modeled top coders and was 25th in top 100. Eventually I got a job offer from one of my clients and started working as a remote employee.
Over the years I tried several times to create and sell my own products. First one was RescueTime inspired desktop application for Windows. As a developer who loves his craft I fell into the trap of thinking that I'm going to strike on my own when in reality I was more interested in learning new technology and building my skill set. I built the app and quickly lost interest in it, without even trying to market it.
Next was real estate listings web site for small city around 900K people. Me and my partner decided to build it using our own guesses what real estate brokers need and subsequently failed to acquire any customers. Again my motivation was not fixing customer's pain, but stroking my own ego, by getting to use shiny new technology. Partly that happened because of my remote employee contract that paid me about $62000 a year after tax, which quite good sum to live on in Russia relative to cost of living and gave me a lot of comfort.
All this time I was feeling like a balloon tethered to the ground, trying to escape and always falling back to the comfort of steady paycheck.
I read TMF last summer had numerous aha moments and nodded my head all the way trough. Tried to find a pain but didn't persevere cause the draw of cushy paycheck was sabotaging all my attempts and I didn't give 100% of myself to the things I tried to start.
Thanks to MJ's book, and countless others that gave me direction I now know which road to take.
I joined the forum to be surrounded by the community of like minded people. I want to learn and grow in the right direction.
My plan is to build a business preferably SaaS web site that gives me income stream allowing the freedom of time, money and location to travel, move to the other country, and snowboard all over the globe. I have an uncle who owns auto repair shop, and will talk to him to find a pain. I remember he was asking me to build something several years ago, but I was too "successful" in my freelance carrier and I didn't pay attention.
I'm no stranger working hard, I just need to make it smart, putting in hours in low leverage activity is what got me where I'm now in the first place.
As a first step I decided to learn copywriting and test demand for the ideas I have before building anything. Also made a contract with my friend to port to iOS an app he built for Android and working on it right now.
I plan to do my best and correct the rest.
A professional software developer from Russia. Recently I lost my job and that is the best thing that happened to me in a long time. Because I do not have to rely on my salary to help me fund my dreams.
I started working as a freelancer on Rentacoder, modeled top coders and was 25th in top 100. Eventually I got a job offer from one of my clients and started working as a remote employee.
Over the years I tried several times to create and sell my own products. First one was RescueTime inspired desktop application for Windows. As a developer who loves his craft I fell into the trap of thinking that I'm going to strike on my own when in reality I was more interested in learning new technology and building my skill set. I built the app and quickly lost interest in it, without even trying to market it.
Next was real estate listings web site for small city around 900K people. Me and my partner decided to build it using our own guesses what real estate brokers need and subsequently failed to acquire any customers. Again my motivation was not fixing customer's pain, but stroking my own ego, by getting to use shiny new technology. Partly that happened because of my remote employee contract that paid me about $62000 a year after tax, which quite good sum to live on in Russia relative to cost of living and gave me a lot of comfort.
All this time I was feeling like a balloon tethered to the ground, trying to escape and always falling back to the comfort of steady paycheck.
I read TMF last summer had numerous aha moments and nodded my head all the way trough. Tried to find a pain but didn't persevere cause the draw of cushy paycheck was sabotaging all my attempts and I didn't give 100% of myself to the things I tried to start.
Thanks to MJ's book, and countless others that gave me direction I now know which road to take.
I joined the forum to be surrounded by the community of like minded people. I want to learn and grow in the right direction.
My plan is to build a business preferably SaaS web site that gives me income stream allowing the freedom of time, money and location to travel, move to the other country, and snowboard all over the globe. I have an uncle who owns auto repair shop, and will talk to him to find a pain. I remember he was asking me to build something several years ago, but I was too "successful" in my freelance carrier and I didn't pay attention.
I'm no stranger working hard, I just need to make it smart, putting in hours in low leverage activity is what got me where I'm now in the first place.
As a first step I decided to learn copywriting and test demand for the ideas I have before building anything. Also made a contract with my friend to port to iOS an app he built for Android and working on it right now.
I plan to do my best and correct the rest.
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