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Getting into coding or forget about it?

by thet
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He guys.

My situation:
- 29 years old
- No particulair skills
- At the moment intern recruiter with a IT company
- Want to become entrepreneur

In short, i am a creative guy. I love developing things for others. I have been in a band for some years, decided later to do something with my life with more future. Went to college, did a minor that had a lot to do with marketing.

I found the fastlane millionaire. It opened my eyes. Now I am doing an internship, which even more opened up my eyes. I see as a recruiter how long it takes to make money that matters. I also see how long it takes to climb the ladder.

I rather do that for myself.

Now, I don't have any particulair skill set. I do like to develop.
Would it be worth it to start learning web development?

I do have some insights about it. Front end: HTML5, Css3 + Javascript.
I would then probably need to learn PHP, but Python/Django and/or Ruby on rails might work well too.

At this point, I am not sure what I would want to develop. The thing is, that I just see that with the skills I am developing now, I am only learning to hire great talent. Which is a great skill to have, but in the early days of a start up.. I probably won't be hiring

Learning to code will take me.. 5 years? I don't know. But, I will be able to talk better with clients (when I get deeper in the IT recruitment) and I will be able to talk better with the software engineers may I get an idea or a company that involves development.

I have love for marketing, like I said. I am also good at copywriting and all that. So, maybe I should just stick with my strenghts. Maybe it's just a bit too late since I am already 29 years old and learning to code seems to be a lifestyle where you need to focus hard on to become good at it.

On the other hand, if I am able to create prototypes..that might be enough.

Bit of a rant, but I just can't find a good answer on google how to approach this question.
#coding #forget
  • Profile picture of the author Code Conquest
    Learning to code won't take you 5 years. There are endless coding resources online now: The New Boston, Codecademy, Treehouse - I think you could get good at HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and even a back end language or two within a year, even less if you really worked hard at it. Getting experienced will take you a bit longer though of course.

    I wouldn't think you'd need to quit your job to learn to code either. I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions about learning to code - that it's a huge undertaking that will take a long time. You can continue your job and learn to code in your spare time.

    And if you want to launch a tech startup, ideally you wouldn't be doing any of the coding yourself - you'd hire others to do that. Of course money is an issue but that's in an ideal situation.

    Hope this helped.
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  • Profile picture of the author thet
    The reason I am going back and forth with this is because of the huge debate on the internet about learning to code and outsourcing it. Especially since I am not sure what I will be making (web application.. webpages.. not sure).

    What makes me want to do it is:
    - Even outsourcing costs money. Money I might have to spend on rent and such.
    - Eventually I want to have a passive income stream. With my particulair skill set I am more heading towards a job where I can call myself CEO. Making a product that could leads to passive income tickles me + Designing, coming up with new things and being able to make something for people interests me

    What makes me not want to do it:
    - I might be spending time on something that is completely useless.
    - Bringing the customer to the door is the nr 1 skill in business, maybe I should focus 100% on learning that skill.
    - If I could hire a freelancer who is capable of doing something in a night while I spend a year on learning it.. It might not be the best use of my time
    - I have no idea what I want to do with the skill

    You say
    I wouldn't think you'd need to quit your job to learn to code either. I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions about learning to code - that it's a huge undertaking that will take a long time. You can continue your job and learn to code in your spare time.
    Well, you are right. That scares me. When you read all the comments on articles it really seems like it will cost me every free time I have to become good enough to develop. Quiting my job is not an option anyhow, so then it would be really a waste of time.

    Also, a 'tech start up' sound..Idk.. a bit like a word that just sounded cool. Which it does haha What I meant with it, is, the passive income stream I talked about earlier.
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