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- Feb 6, 2024
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Hello, everyone!
I'm currently in the process of finding a different path in my life, especially when it comes to my main source of income. I wouldn't consider myself as a skill-less person, but I'm sure there is much room to improve. I have a little SEO background as I had a pretty successful project 6-7 years ago with a blog site, but I understand this stuff moves fast and what I knew back then It's probably worth zero today. Also, I'm bilingual and I currently work in the customer support field and in the product translation/localization field. This is allowing me to live an okay life here where I live, but I'm completely aware of the fact that it's not the top of the line either.
To be clear, I'm not even looking for a 100k/year job, here where I live even half of that would be more than enough. Of course, the more the better, but I think you get my point. I always aim to work less and enjoy life more, so if a specific role can make 100k/year for a full-time position, I would be happy cutting it in half and getting it part-time.
Other than that, I'm a tech-savvy person, I do small jobs here and there locally. I don't advertise myself for those, it's just that I'm known in the area and people reach out. For instance, I fix phones, computers, and any kind of electronic device (even home appliances) on a board level. I'm not the best since I learned everything myself, but replacements are expensive so people are more than happy to reach out to me to trace a short and just replace a capacitor instead of the whole board.
Now, this is basically to give you some context about the fact that I'm someone who's willing to learn and put a lot of effort into it. Nothing stated above was learned in school. In fact, while in school I was actually studying programming languages and how to code with them. I know how computer and stuff works on both a logic and hardware level, but since I always hated the coding part itself, I never went much past the bare minimum during school and I basically forgot anything besides variables and cycles for the languages that I studied during that time. To be even more precise, I have most of the programming logic already, I would just need to put the time into learning the syntax of one or more languages.
Now, as I stated above, I don't love that. It's not something that I enjoy doing, but I always see friends and others pursue good careers in this field. They make the amount of money that I would like and they also work from home (which I do as well at the moment, and I'd like it to stay this way).
Now, the reason I created this thread: If you were in my position, would you start putting much time into learning coding on a strong enough level to work? I'm asking this because I also take very much into consideration the fact that AI might very soon kill this job. I'm kind of scared of this. However, if you would recommend it, which languages or specific coding fields would you recommend to have a higher chance of being hired, generally speaking?
This has been rolling in my head for months now, but I think it's the right time to pull the trigger if this is actually worth it. If there is someone here who actually took this career path (and I bet there are many), I would much love your opinion and your experience on the topic.
Thanks everyone in advance.
I'm currently in the process of finding a different path in my life, especially when it comes to my main source of income. I wouldn't consider myself as a skill-less person, but I'm sure there is much room to improve. I have a little SEO background as I had a pretty successful project 6-7 years ago with a blog site, but I understand this stuff moves fast and what I knew back then It's probably worth zero today. Also, I'm bilingual and I currently work in the customer support field and in the product translation/localization field. This is allowing me to live an okay life here where I live, but I'm completely aware of the fact that it's not the top of the line either.
To be clear, I'm not even looking for a 100k/year job, here where I live even half of that would be more than enough. Of course, the more the better, but I think you get my point. I always aim to work less and enjoy life more, so if a specific role can make 100k/year for a full-time position, I would be happy cutting it in half and getting it part-time.
Other than that, I'm a tech-savvy person, I do small jobs here and there locally. I don't advertise myself for those, it's just that I'm known in the area and people reach out. For instance, I fix phones, computers, and any kind of electronic device (even home appliances) on a board level. I'm not the best since I learned everything myself, but replacements are expensive so people are more than happy to reach out to me to trace a short and just replace a capacitor instead of the whole board.
Now, this is basically to give you some context about the fact that I'm someone who's willing to learn and put a lot of effort into it. Nothing stated above was learned in school. In fact, while in school I was actually studying programming languages and how to code with them. I know how computer and stuff works on both a logic and hardware level, but since I always hated the coding part itself, I never went much past the bare minimum during school and I basically forgot anything besides variables and cycles for the languages that I studied during that time. To be even more precise, I have most of the programming logic already, I would just need to put the time into learning the syntax of one or more languages.
Now, as I stated above, I don't love that. It's not something that I enjoy doing, but I always see friends and others pursue good careers in this field. They make the amount of money that I would like and they also work from home (which I do as well at the moment, and I'd like it to stay this way).
Now, the reason I created this thread: If you were in my position, would you start putting much time into learning coding on a strong enough level to work? I'm asking this because I also take very much into consideration the fact that AI might very soon kill this job. I'm kind of scared of this. However, if you would recommend it, which languages or specific coding fields would you recommend to have a higher chance of being hired, generally speaking?
This has been rolling in my head for months now, but I think it's the right time to pull the trigger if this is actually worth it. If there is someone here who actually took this career path (and I bet there are many), I would much love your opinion and your experience on the topic.
Thanks everyone in advance.
