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While I was coding for my uni class test, I asked myself this simple question: "am I playing to my strengths?". I realized I'm the kind of dude who prefers learning 5 different things and getting good results instead of focusing on one single topic and getting excellent results. I noticed my uni coding tests have been just about average (if not slightly below average) and there are 2 reasons why. The first one is because I admittedly study just enough to pass. In my free time, I study things completely unrelated to CS.
The second reason I think is the core problem, hence I sometimes wonder whether I should be in uni. The only reason I'm studying in university is that I wanted to acquire skills to build web apps or fastlane projects, but the more the time passes and the more I wonder whether I've done the dumbest decision ever, aka getting into university instead of working at menial jobs, saving and hiring experienced developers to develop the web apps I planned to develop...years ago. I got the latter idea by realizing that learning a skill takes years, and if the goal is the fastlane, hiring someone else should be a no-brainer. But as a 21y/o kid with no money and no job, I thought getting in uni instead was the only way for me.
I realized time is passing and I feel like I'm going nowhere. Timing in business is incredibly important and I feel like my business ideas are now worth shit because there is a lot of new offer in the same niche I was planning to build my app. While some people brought their business to the market, I was in uni studying textbooks.
Also, I might be getting a little biased because when I see people in my uni course, they are the proverbial "nerd slowlaners" who have no ambitions and only care about videogames, so for some reason, my brain starts making the same association on my own self, making me doubt whether I should be in uni in the first place. I try to detach from those people as much as possible (not in an a**hole sense, but in the sense that I force myself to realize I don't need to be like them and that the only purpose of university is to acquire a skill I can then use however I like).
After this wall of text someone may say "what stopped you from starting a business?". It's the fact that my country isn't ideal at all for business so I was "waiting" to graduate and move abroad. That's also why I feel bad about myself...because I feel like I'm stagnating. Making university and grades the main purpose of my life is the most depressing thing for me.
In conclusion, I can say coding isn't my main strength (because I chose so). My main strength is probably the ambition and vision I have in business. Apple's Macintosh wasn't created by Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was just the visionary, the leader, while Wozniak was the one who actually did the technical work. Hence, both Jobs and Wozniak actually played to their own strengths. In this regard, I see myself more like Steve Jobs. I can code, but I'm in no way the best coder in the world and I have no interest in becoming one. I see coding just as a tool to build something, not as my main craft. I see coding as ONE of the many skills I'll require to build a business that is more sophisticated than the average, but not as the main skill.
That said I'm looking for opinions and general thoughts. Thanks.
The second reason I think is the core problem, hence I sometimes wonder whether I should be in uni. The only reason I'm studying in university is that I wanted to acquire skills to build web apps or fastlane projects, but the more the time passes and the more I wonder whether I've done the dumbest decision ever, aka getting into university instead of working at menial jobs, saving and hiring experienced developers to develop the web apps I planned to develop...years ago. I got the latter idea by realizing that learning a skill takes years, and if the goal is the fastlane, hiring someone else should be a no-brainer. But as a 21y/o kid with no money and no job, I thought getting in uni instead was the only way for me.
I realized time is passing and I feel like I'm going nowhere. Timing in business is incredibly important and I feel like my business ideas are now worth shit because there is a lot of new offer in the same niche I was planning to build my app. While some people brought their business to the market, I was in uni studying textbooks.
Also, I might be getting a little biased because when I see people in my uni course, they are the proverbial "nerd slowlaners" who have no ambitions and only care about videogames, so for some reason, my brain starts making the same association on my own self, making me doubt whether I should be in uni in the first place. I try to detach from those people as much as possible (not in an a**hole sense, but in the sense that I force myself to realize I don't need to be like them and that the only purpose of university is to acquire a skill I can then use however I like).
After this wall of text someone may say "what stopped you from starting a business?". It's the fact that my country isn't ideal at all for business so I was "waiting" to graduate and move abroad. That's also why I feel bad about myself...because I feel like I'm stagnating. Making university and grades the main purpose of my life is the most depressing thing for me.
In conclusion, I can say coding isn't my main strength (because I chose so). My main strength is probably the ambition and vision I have in business. Apple's Macintosh wasn't created by Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was just the visionary, the leader, while Wozniak was the one who actually did the technical work. Hence, both Jobs and Wozniak actually played to their own strengths. In this regard, I see myself more like Steve Jobs. I can code, but I'm in no way the best coder in the world and I have no interest in becoming one. I see coding just as a tool to build something, not as my main craft. I see coding as ONE of the many skills I'll require to build a business that is more sophisticated than the average, but not as the main skill.
That said I'm looking for opinions and general thoughts. Thanks.
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