 What's up time for a interesting chat and addendum to my video? How do I get a good tech job that I actually put out a couple days ago? So of course the title is Ironic or I don't know some would call it clickbait, but thankfully I dispelled that clickbait within the 0th second of the video In that my recommendation is that people not Look for tech jobs. I'm not against people having tech jobs. You can have one But for people starting out the goal is not to work for some fortune 500 company writing software The goal is basically passive income because you know as I say in the video I'll repeat in a different way like Software like being able to write software. Okay is the closest thing that mankind has ever achieved to magic okay, it really is a kind of magical spell that can do the equivalent of moving mountains and I think a lot of people undersell or they don't understand how valuable that can be so I'm gonna talk about what I mean Now I want to clarify one thing Some people misunderstood this video to mean that I'm for what is falsely called freelancing Okay, now I am for freelancing in the truest definition of the world But a lot of people misunderstand that term to mean oh instead of working for a company as a wager as someone who is getting you know You know a w2 in America like an employee I'm gonna work for a company as a freelancer. All right now. I don't have any opinions about that I've never done something like that. I don't know how different it is from working as a wager as a w2 employee Maybe there's an advantage. Maybe there's not but that's not what I'm talking about because I'm not talking about you doing exactly the Same job you would work as an employee, but you're just like independent. I don't know Maybe that's better. Maybe that's worse. Some people in the comments had their own views of how that is, but that's not what I'm endorsing I want to be totally clear What I actually endorse is I know I'm just gonna say this when I when I say that tech people Especially those even starting out undersell themselves most Money-making websites on the internet nowadays Can be just a simple web page that is connecting two different API's You're just connecting two services, right? And what I mean by that I mean like the the the site that I have Okay, so I have a site Lindy Press Why am I typing in Greek? Lindypress.net, right? So this site is a glorified joining of API API's that gives gives me basically passive income. Okay, so what this site is you can go here now I make these books. I type set them. There are out-of-print books that I think some of them are out of print Some of them are I think I think you can still get meditations and consolation These are sometimes you can find them in print all the other ones are definitely out of print Well, maybe you can find the book of Enoch. I'm not quite sure Either way, so this site is a glorified linking of two different API's so Stripe which handles all the payments They do all the difficult stuff, you know sales tax in some cases and all this other stuff You know, they hold debit card information all that difficult stuff And then Lulu is a company that you can they have an API where they can print and ship books They print the books they decide how to bind them based on your settings. They decide where they ship them all over the world I don't have to think about any of that because their API takes care of all of it all the value-added tax all that other stuff Right, so this site is actually just a glorified linking of two API's right and it does something that isn't is novel Right. Okay. So, you know, I couldn't I was looking for a copy of Isidore of civilians etymologies and I couldn't find one So I made one myself, okay And it's not that difficult and you can buy one here yourself if you want and this this the software that's running on this server is actually forked from code of a subscriber of mine who when I was I was You know wanting to set up the site. He's solely not sold it He shared it with me and what his site does which I think he has some kind of business Where he does this or I might be misremembering this but his site takes like You can get it give it a like text message history, right? And you can print that out in the book You want to give your wife like her text message history or your text message history or something like that, right? That's something I want to say that's what his site does if it doesn't I know that I've seen a site like that now Computationally that is an easy thing to do. This is something like okay, so you're type setting like maybe you don't know law tech But it's a simple thing to do, but there are even easier examples. I was talking to a Normie friend of mine Normie acquaintance and what she said is you know her grandparents are hooked up with this site now all it does This is all it does is that you know You have you can be a paying subscriber and what it does every week is it just sends an email It's for like creating memories for like grandchildren It like sends an email to the old people in question that just asks them like some kind of personal thing like oh You know the question in a week could be like oh, you know, how did you meet your spouse or? How was it when you first learned to drive or something like that, right? that's the kind of it's very simple stuff and it just takes the input that they give and it then You can put it in a book you can type set it you can format it like it it basically Computationally it's an easy site and that's the kind of stuff that I'm talking about I will say there were there were some people who said, you know, oh, you know I'm people who are self-employed and they have businesses and you know a lot of times when you are self-employed Depending on what you're doing you can be doing lots of work. That is true, right? It might be work more work your work. I mean that that's really even how I am for the stuff that I do There's never a time that I'm really off. I'm okay with that. I'm a little peeve by that sometimes I do take days off, but Sometimes like weeks off but You know that depends on what kind of things you're doing there might be stuff that's like more work intensive and there's you know Drop shipping sites that you can set up Pretty easily to sell people. I don't know different things and you basically put no work once you set it up There's no work involved. So that's the kind of stuff. I'm recommending to people. I'm not I am not saying oh Instead of working for a business do what a business does Which is I mean the reality is like a lot of people in the comments again I'm not gonna scroll to I pulled the comments up, but I'm like I'm not gonna scroll down I'm not gonna read while I'm talking, but You know, there are a lot of people misunderstood this to mean do the exact same work that a corporation does as an individual No, do not do that and there are two reasons for that firstly There are some things that you need massive organization for but you don't need to participate in that like if you're trying to make It as an individual you don't need that right Secondly, there are a lot of things that you you quote-unquote need Lots of corporates, you know, lots of people working on the lots of sub projects and stuff like that But a lot of it shouldn't be done in the first place Realistically speaking a lot of enterprise software I mean if you're on this channel and you care about free software free and open-source software Unix philosophy I don't care. I expect you already kind of have a Have a feeling for this but a lot of the software that companies write should not even exist It's them real rewriting the wheel They want to have their own Implementation or protocol for a chat service or doing something super basic that exists that exists in free software But I don't know they want their own proprietary equivalent and a lot of it is just reinventing the wheel So there's a lot of stuff that you're gonna be doing in companies that And this this actually I've had this in the past where there are a lot of people who are I mean really Think about the the schools and the companies and like the people that you've known in the past year Who are past couple years who have started to use things like zoom and all this proprietary stuff that of course They're they're existing equivalents that that work well and are more extensible and stuff like that But anyway, I don't want to ramble too much But I will just say that the goal is not being a corporation to yourself It is finding a need that people want maybe like no one There are some needs you can create There are some goods you can provide and people won't even realize they wanted them before then But I guarantee you the thing about sending emails to old people That's actually a good example because I will say especially girls. Okay, it is very it is very easy to woo girls with Sim technologically simple things that are cute. Okay, you provide them a little service like that That's a kind of thing that a lot of normies will get behind And so, you know, I said somewhere else in these comments I think it was down here and this was less about software, but it's more about like hardware in general I want to say to this comment Actually now looking at this. I'm embarrassed of it because it sounds like a motivational thing but like when when you like a motivational poster or whatever, but You know in hardware in hardware This is true as well Like if you want to start your own shop or not even a shop if you don't want to buy business But if you want to be at home computer, you know repairs men It is infinitely easier than you think right because most of the stuff you're gonna be doing you need You know, you basically need this to hook up to a hard drive so you can back up data Like this $5 thing and that's you making hundreds of dollars off of boomers who want to recover their data off their Laptops like people come up to me because they know I know stuff about technology in my real life and ask me to do that Kind of stuff all the time. That's the kind of thing like that's what computer repair shops do in real life it's the kind of thing that you can act on and You know the printout flyers and do whatever you want and you know Just do basic things that we do like we take for granted we as people who know stuff about technology That's what I'm talking about like replacing just simple things on a computer right you know merging together Just simple APIs. That's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about being a freelancer for a corporation If that works for you for the time being that's fine, but I will just say you know one thing about how the one thing that You know, I'm not telling anyone to quit their jobs right now if you're if your boss if your work environment is great You know, that's fine, but the one thing that I think you if you're in technology You got to make sure that you have is free time free time to tinker because you're gonna be able to run across things Oh, I could do this. Oh, I really want to learn how to do this language or whatever, right? And some companies that are smart Google is known for this Google is known for you know that what they give their employees like free time to work on whatever project they want at work right, that's a good idea and The only thing you know the only job that I would quit right now Was one that either you know makes you do like a wagey humiliation rituals, obviously Of course now it's July. So you probably have less of those But so I quit something like that and also something that suffocates your time to such a degree that you don't have time To work on your own projects or at least tinker with things that you don't even have to call it a project Just learn how to do things. Okay, you need free time. You deserve free time if you're working in technology That's basically your best investment. Okay, right? All right, I've rambled on I think I've said everything I wanted to but yeah, take it easy Don't freak out. Don't and don't also don't always think about the money, you know There are a lot of what especially when it comes to tinkering. There are a lot of things that don't seem You know as long as you are doing cool stuff and you're learning how to do cool stuff You won't necessarily see immediately how you can make money off of that. Okay? I mean that was the case when I was learning la tech, right? I didn't think I'd have a little side hustle here But you know the wider message is to make sure that your side hustle is not really a side hustle You should really view it as your main hustle, even if you're making a fraction of the income on it, right? That's really what I'm telling like don't do like you are more valuable than a wage slave if you have these kind of skills okay, that's what I'm trying to say and Startup costs are much lower because you're again, you're not buying wood You're not buying raw material you have a freaking computer and you can write any software on it, right? That's what I'm talking about All right. Goodbye