eliquid
( Jason Brown )
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If I could replicate what I'm making from my day job, with a product that I developed I would be extremely happy. What I think we're all after here is more control over our lives and at a 9-5 that's not there.
As for expert, I'm not so sure. I'm new in my career and as a software developer, your not exposed to much outside your domain. Virtually all the problems I discover are outside my work.. and then I find someone else has done it better.
Being an expert or "domain authority" does not mean you are the best at something, the top dog, the most famous, or the most degreed person in that topic.
It just means you know more than the next person, which could be a lay person.
What is your age and your hobbies?
Your profile pic looks like you are a skater, could you build something to teach to new skaters?
Also:
I'm an engineer by trade and excel in building products. Over the years I've accumulated skills that I thought would be relevant to my eventual entrepreneurship journey, from web development to PCB Layout and CAD design.
What could you build for new engineers?
What could you build for new web developers?
What could you build for PCB layout or CAD designers new to the topic?
In just scratching the surface barely, I've picked out potentially 5 things you could dive into where you would have some domain authority over a new person in that field ( skating, engineering, web dev, PCB, CAD ).
Surely you can think of 10 more, if not 30 more examples on your own of things you have not shared with us.
Don't get expert mixed up with having to the be the best.
Do you think everyone out here building products and making millions ( or just a living ) are the best at what they do?
Nope.
Am I the best expert on digital marketing? No one knows me, I've never won an award, and I don't have legions of followers.
But I have built 7 SaaS products in the digital marketing space, building even more atm too.
I'm not a top end expert with 7 degrees and followers who quote me all the time. I can barely spell and I hate dealing with people ( customers).
HOWEVER, I know more about my topic than the common person, and I probably know more than some other digital marketers.
More importantly, I know what the market needs because Im scratching my own itch since Im a customer of my own products.
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