I fucked up big time

After 6 months of like 7 hours every day of learning front end every day i took a 3 months break and now i feel like i'm starting from scratch again.I think i was so burnout because all i did was only trying to learn and not take advantage of what i learned and make some money.

I was to scared to start freelancing because i always told myself that i don't know enough, i don't have any chance of making money out of this because there are A LOT of developers out there that know a ton more than me and i was to scared of fucking up and fail at my first gig...probably this is the most important reason i didn't even tried.

But i want to start again and this time i want to end up making some money out of this i just don't know where to start.

How did you guys start making money from what you learned?

If you want to learn something, you have to practice what you learn. To cement it even better, you should ask yourself questions on what you learned and give yourself different scenarios in which you can use what you learned.

I committed the same mistake when I learned HTML and CSS.

I first made money as a graphic designer on freelancer.com platform.

If you wanna make money with html css just clone an website if you can do that go for PSD to css

Internship for low wage in an office where you can ask questions and get help from more experienced people. Of course COVID makes this more difficult right now, but I think that's the best option when it becomes possible. I did a temporary job in a tech startup just doing basic data entry, and I knew almost as much as many of the entry-level programmers without any programming background. Once you become more confident in your skills, the money will come, but getting comfortable is the key and working for low wages can be the path.

Those people who are better than you.. studied and learned.. Are you lazy?!
Well.. I started making money on freelancer platforms by studying and learning.. You should try that.

nimeni16 said:

After 6 months of like 7 hours every day of learning front end every day i took a 3 months break and now i feel like i'm starting from scratch again.I think i was so burnout because all i did was only trying to learn and not take advantage of what i learned and make some money.

I was to scared to start freelancing because i always told myself that i don't know enough, i don't have any chance of making money out of this because there are A LOT of developers out there that know a ton more than me and i was to scared of fucking up and fail at my first gig...probably this is the most important reason i didn't even tried.

But i want to start again and this time i want to end up making some money out of this i just don't know where to start.

How did you guys start making money from what you learned?

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Every single Proccess Has a Certain time to Learn it. And until unless we are not giving time to Process how come we can Be Successful and How come Even We think about Success without Patience, Practice & effort

No worries, what you learned back then is still there.

Programming takes more than one go to really settle in.

I'm doing software for more than 17 years now and I still google simple functions or API calls.

Switching between projects and languages does not help either, but development is more about overall understanding than knowing the language perfectly, so do not take your time as wasted, it still was worth your time.

Just keep going and start to learn again, this time you will feel it will go much easier.

I would suggest going for local dev agencies and ask for a remote internship, you will get free education, a real project to work on, and perhaps even a low-paid position.

nimeni16 said:

After 6 months of like 7 hours every day of learning front end every day i took a 3 months break and now i feel like i'm starting from scratch again.I think i was so burnout because all i did was only trying to learn and not take advantage of what i learned and make some money.

I was to scared to start freelancing because i always told myself that i don't know enough, i don't have any chance of making money out of this because there are A LOT of developers out there that know a ton more than me and i was to scared of fucking up and fail at my first gig...probably this is the most important reason i didn't even tried.

But i want to start again and this time i want to end up making some money out of this i just don't know where to start.

How did you guys start making money from what you learned?

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It is simple as this, If you do not try what you learned, that is the biggest f***up mind.

Do you speak Java? No.
You will not become fluent at translating ideas to instructions for dumb machines.

Most of the jobs are rip-offs anyways.
It depends on where you live, but generally making money with programming is not as cool as it seems to be.
I would do something else all day, not think how to glue my APIs and translate ideas into those instructions.
It feels like you need to do 100s of little things to get something delivered.
And then you get $1000. And it's not much.
You feel like it was huge effort and only $1000.

I could be a pizza delivery guy and get $1000. And I would be enjoying whatever I would like to enjoy all day haha.
I am a huge fan of music, so when a pair of headphones is near me, I basically can have great time on demand.

Get a high ticket client or f**k this. This is my honest opinion. I've been fucking with different technologies for 2 years and I came to the conclusion it's all useless.


The only point in this is to create business solutions. And nothing else matters.
No matter how messed up your code is, with time you will learn OOP and how to use different patterns.
With time you will be a master of a framework and that's where the money is.
People lie they know frameworks and they get jobs. Just get real good at some shi* like Django, Laravel or anything that sounds "self-employeed friendly".

I mean the easiest and fastest frameworks are those which allow you to make full stack apps.
Make some real bot. But first figure out how to make it behave like a real user. And you have your programming up and running.
No shitty scripts and native bs that is slowly becoming forgotten.

Work on real solutions or don't f*k with it cause you will run in circles and "waste" years of your life. (Actually no time in this is wasted, just that you could have been guided better and know what to do first, so you wouldn't leave it for months.)

Start applying with what you have learnt. You will slowly and steadily succeed.

It's all about experience.

You should be able to know your own limitations about which jobs you can develop and which not.
Think of a surgeon doing his/her first surgery, or a lawyer trying to win his first case, etc. Everyone starts at some point.
Your advantage is that in programing there is a functionality and the program either does work for what it was programed or not.
If you are learning to swim and you already know how to swim, go as far as you can swim and don't pretend to get a gold medal in the olympic games. That's all about it.

Find a niche, develop the product, sell.

greed_senpai said:

Find a niche, develop the product, sell.

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Provide a cool modification to some software. Make use of unique selling proposition in sales and push it to the market.
I've seen dozens of successful people doing it that way.
Hundreds of thousands to be made.
Just remember to provide good customer support.

Just on BHW (only this one place), you could sell virtually anything that streamlines processes characteristic for money making.
It can be virtually anything!

Sometimes I am overwhelmed by the number of choices. You can sell the same thing in 20 different implementations. It's really big.

Hey Op,

quick tips on this one. Lately I've been reading the book limitless by Jim Kwik (he knows a lot about brains and using it efficiently, fucking phenomenonal book. Helped actors as well)

In short, here is what I think will help you when to comes to learning and memory:

1. Only read 40 minutes at a time and take a 5 minute break (if you continue past this then you risk forgetting. Humans forget 50% of what they learn in the first hour, and 75% of what they learn within 24 hours)
2. Be involved creatively and don't just read - i.e take notes, use calendars, post it notes etc
3. link something new that you just learned, to something you already know (it helps with neuroplasticity. when you link it something you already know its harder to forget)
4. recall method - after your 40 minutes of reading and doing and during your 5 minute break, recall EXACTLY what you learned. Our brains to a better job holding onto things if you do this recall method.

Hope this helps

Basic things I've learned in school, and put them in practice while at home, instead of going out with friends or playing football like everyone else. I think you lack a motivation here and you only try to learn programming so you can make money (bad idea). You should learn programming if you like/love to do this for a few years starting as of now or until you retire.

You should try and do basic things, and learn the algorithms first because those apply to any language you will learn from now on. Then you do basic things and practice everyday. If you just read a book you will go nowhere.

I remember that the first job I've done as a freelancer was a $10 CSS job that took me 5 minutes back then to fix, even though I've learned something else, but I researched on Google and managed to do it. And you should learn how to put your question, to ask Google, so you can get the best links for your problem. Every programmer searches on Google when he is stuck or when things don't work as expected.

Good luck!

TomTheCat said:

Basic things I've learned in school, and put them in practice while at home, instead of going out with friends or playing football like everyone else. I think you lack a motivation here and you only try to learn programming so you can make money (bad idea). You should learn programming if you like/love to do this for a few years starting as of now or until you retire.

You should try and do basic things, and learn the algorithms first because those apply to any language you will learn from now on. Then you do basic things and practice everyday. If you just read a book you will go nowhere.

I remember that the first job I've done as a freelancer was a $10 CSS job that took me 5 minutes back then to fix, even though I've learned something else, but I researched on Google and managed to do it. And you should learn how to put your question, to ask Google, so you can get the best links for your problem. Every programmer searches on Google when he is stuck or when things don't work as expected.

Good luck!

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Srsly? Programming is not art. This is not even close to it. It's just about writing instructions to the computer.
I realize you may want to make some whacked out insane stunning visuals in JS, but you really don't have to be ultra passionate about it.
If you are just passionate, you may let someone f*k with you. You know, working for free isn't any cool.

The first programming job I got was $10k annually. And guess what. It was about fixing someone's else mess.
And guess the next thing. I would spend 10 hours a day thinking and still not being able to fix everything.
What comes next? My conclusion you will be easily f*ked if you are desperate to do it.

Regarding Google, you better stand up and take a 3 - 4 minute walk. Then the answer will appear without googling it.
And this habit is freaking useless. Like you get 30 different answers to your question.
But you need to solve a very common problem, alright? First follow documentation and google only if it's really tough one like debugging.

crnack said:

Srsly? Programming is not art. This is not even close to it. It's just about writing instructions to the computer.
I realize you may want to make some whacked out insane stunning visuals in JS, but you really don't have to be ultra passionate about it.

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If he is not passionate about this, why do it? He should do something else that is passionate at, even if he gets less money from it. We should do what we love to do in life. At least this is how I'm built.

TomTheCat said:

If he is not passionate about this, why do it? He should do something else that is passionate at, even if he gets less money from it. We should do what we love to do in life. At least this is how I'm built.

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Well. Living under the bridge is not that good of an alternative.
I loved drinking alcohol and smoking cigs in my room. Should I follow?

crnack said:

Programming is not art.

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oh, but it is.

a well-developed project is like an artwork.

lucky.sparks said:

oh, but it is.

a well-developed project is like an artwork.

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Art vs artwork.