 So it was a good place to be and the good things to learn. But when they let me go, I started thinking about like, what, why did I start to learn all this stuff in the first place? Like, why did I want to learn to cut with it so I could get like this job and make a lot of money? Of course, like, who doesn't want to get a good job and make a lot of money? And some people are like, you know, I don't want to make a lot of money. I just want to make enough money. For whatever reason, whatever, we all have our different reasons for doing everything, for doing the things we do. But I ultimately wanted a better job so I could have more money and a better lifestyle and buy more things and bigger things and better things and fancier things. That was the point. So what is the ultimate goal? My ultimate goal is to build websites and applications that generate income so when I don't want to work, like go wake up early in the morning and commute somewhere, I don't have to. What's up team? I'm back, it is your biggest fan, the real Casadero. And in this video, I want to talk about why I learned to code and what the hell is going on. In a previous video, in the previous video, which is two weeks ago, and I didn't realize it had been two weeks, I said that I wanted to post a video, you know, at least every other day. And obviously I haven't done that. This is what's been going on, man. So I set out on this journey, right? The code 365 journey that coding phase put out. Well, actually, it's his challenge where he says, you know, code 365 days, you can win something at the end. I'm not, I don't plan on being a part of this contest at all, but I do want to participate in the 365 day coding challenge, but not to participate so I could win something, but to do it because coding for 365 days, you're bound to learn something while you're doing this for 365 days. And this got me to thinking, right? So I started to put together these tutorials as I was writing code. So I'm writing, I'm in HTML and I remember back to the time before I really knew HTML and I'm like, hey, you know, let me put something together to show people how easy it is to put together a web page. And then I remember when I first heard about PowerShell and this is before I got my job at Microsoft. I didn't know what PowerShell was. I knew how to use the shell, I knew how to use the Unix shell, but I never really thought about system administration and what any of that stuff meant. I mean, it's sort of something that I happened into by mistake just by joining the army and then learning about security policies and all this stuff. And then what I did know about the shell was from what I learned a long time ago when all I had was DOS and then later on when I switched to a Mac and then I really got into the deep web development stuff where you're using the command prompt to create like these build processes and all these things. So I learned PowerShell and I went and I started to apply it on the job and then I learned more and more and more and more about PowerShell and all these different things. And I'm thinking about like while I'm, so while I'm making these videos, I think I start to think about why did I really want to learn the code? Like what set me off on this journey in the first place? Then I started to write down what it is that I really wanted to accomplish. And I've talked about this in previous videos where I've talked about start with the end in mind and then become an idea machine and do all these different things. I've been doing those things to an extent but what happened, right? How I got my job in the first place was I was in the military, I left the military, I went to school for software development, I left school to go into car sales because I have a family and I needed to make money and I need to do all these things. But I was still learning how to code so I'm in car sales and I start making good money and the money's good and I'm like, okay, all right. And then, boom, I have this month where everything just goes all downhill and it's like, bro, like what do I do? I meet a guy and he's building his team and he's like, hey, you wanna come work here? And I'm like, yeah, right. And I've got these tech skills that I've brought from the army and that I learned in school the last time I went to school and then skills that I learned from previous times of school and then everything I've learned from like all these tutorials and all these different things. In all of those jobs that I had in the military, I didn't get to apply any kind of web development stuff but it's all similar stuff. The websites on the front end are just display and then you have all these background things that go on like touching a web server then the web server has to hit the database and then the database returns some data and then there's the server software returns that information to the web page so the user can see it in all these different things. So I had some experience in that sense. Like my mind was fairly wrapped around the basic concepts of how all this stuff works and how you could be able to go out and build a web application. But I thought I was missing something. I was like, there's more stuff I need to learn. So while I'm out selling cars, I'm like, dude, like I don't wanna do this forever. I wanna build my own thing at some point. I want to have applications and websites and stuff that bring in money every month and then I have to worry about that stuff. But it would also be cool if I could get a job in the tech industry where I got to do and learn this stuff all day every day. And so when I got the job, and again, I wasn't doing web development, I eventually ended up doing a lot of development operations type stuff, deploying code to servers, reading error logs, running scripts and doing these other things that weren't directly related to web development. But at some point, you're gonna do those kinds of things. Like you're gonna wanna have some sort of build process maybe, depending on how large your application is. You're gonna wanna know that there's gonna have to be some sort of access controls at some point. So it was a good place to be and the good things to learn. But when they let me go, I started thinking about like, what, why did I start to learn all this stuff in the first place? Like, why did I wanna learn to cut with it so I could get like this job and make a lot of money? Of course, like, who doesn't wanna get a good job and make a lot of money? And some people are like, you know, I don't wanna make a lot of money. I just wanna make enough money. And for whatever reason, whatever, we all have our different reasons for doing everything, for doing the things we do. But I ultimately wanted a better job so I could have more money and a better lifestyle and buy more things and bigger things and better things and fancier things. But then I was like, go and I'm like, hey, like, okay, all right, I could go get another job or I could just live off of the money that I have now and be okay. But what kind of lifestyle would that be? So I felt kind of in this way that like, if I didn't go out and get another job, I would just be sort of giving up on everything. Like all this stuff that I've learned, like it hasn't reached this full potential. That got me to thinking about like, what is full potential? Like, what does it mean to reach your full potential as a coder or a developer or whatever? Is that just getting a job? But what happens after you get that job? Then you go up the ranks, you become a, you go from a junior developer to a senior developer, then to a architect or analyst and then up and up and then eventually you're the CEO. And you know, that was my goal at one point. Like I'm gonna work my way up the ladder. And then I was thinking, I've been looking around. I've been following all these people. I got Grant Cardone, I got Ty Lopez and Gary Vaynerchuk and Joe over at Coding Phase and then a bunch of other self-taught developers who are selling courses and building businesses and doing all this stuff. And I'm like, dude, like up, and I'm sending resumes to apply for other jobs. Cause I'm like, dude, I don't wanna waste all this knowledge. And then at the same time I'm going out and I'm talking to businesses, I started with car dealerships. I'm like, I'm gonna talk to these dealerships and see what problems they have. And I'm gonna work my way in and I'm gonna build a business like that. And I'm talking to these dealerships. And the reason why I chose dealerships is because I know how they work. I know, at least from the dealership I was at, I knew what they were spending on advertising. I knew where they were spending the advertising dollars. I knew how they were using social media. I knew how the business development center works. Like what happens when somebody calls the dealership and the whole process, they get some through the door and the sales process. So I'm like, I know all this stuff. There's gotta be a better way. Maybe I could provide some sort of better advertising. So I get out and I go dealership to dealership, dealership to dealership. And I heard the same thing at every, it wasn't the exact same thing, but pretty much the same thing at every place. Like, hey, look, we already got marketing. We already worked with this company. We're already doing this thing. Now I'm thinking like I need like this better proposition, this better sell, like, you know, something that's gonna really wow them and make them wanna, you come work with me and all this stuff. And I'm like, man, like this is, it's hard, right? So now you've got, so you're in this situation where you're a self-taught developer, you've been through all these tutorials, you know a lot of stuff, but you're not exactly sure what you know. Like in my case, I'm not exactly sure what I know. I know HTML, CSS, JavaScript, I can build a page from the ground up. And then if I have to build in the back end, then I know where to look. I know what questions to ask. I know what people to contact. I know what, I know how to read the code that I see on Stack Overflow and all these other places online. So I could piece something together and I'm thinking like, okay, so I could go out and get another job and work for a place and do this thing for them. Then I could come home at night and do this thing for myself. They're like, dude, like, why don't you just build something that's yours or just build five things that are yours or just build 15 things that are yours. But with the specific focus of making them make money. So you could do whatever it is you wanna do. And in a previous video, I talked about that, right? Like, hey, I'm gonna build an application from the ground up and then I'll walk people through that entire process. And it turned out to be hard. Like, it's hard. Like, cause there's a bunch of stuff. Like, I go into a tutorial and I'm following the tutorial and he's doing these things. Okay, I'm like, so I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that. And I know I can implement this stuff because I understand what's going on. But at the same time, it felt like I could be doing more. Like there's something that people out here maybe want that everybody else isn't doing and maybe I can do it. That's when I was like, this is it, right? Like, instead of putting together tutorials like everybody else, which is fine. Like, because I take those same tutorials, this is how I learned a lot of this stuff. Why not start where you are with what you know and then sort of document that and teach people along the way why you're doing it, right? So what is the ultimate goal? My ultimate goal is to build websites and applications that generate income. So when I don't want to work, like go wake up early in the morning and commute somewhere, I don't have to. I can just let the business do what the business does. Now, this doesn't mean the business is 100% on autopilot. It's just running itself 24 hours a day. What this means is that I get to choose when, where and how I want to work. And there's a bunch of developers out there that have achieved this. And there's definitely bunches of non-developers, regular business people that have done this, but there is no documentary of any of this stuff. It's like, okay, so I've learned HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I know these things. I've been a part of a small startup. I've tried to start a startup. I was in the startup where we're like going out and like we've got a contract and we're installing routers and switches and cash registers and scanners and all this stuff. There's nobody who's saying, look, this is the body of knowledge that I had when I started and this is the process that I took in order to build this thing that generates X amount of dollars a month. And then I did that over on this thing and now they both together generate this much. I'm gonna flip the whole thing on his head and document the entire process of just building stuff, but not just building stuff for the sake of building stuff, but building stuff for the sake of putting it online and having it bring in income. So I can continue to learn to build more stuff, but on my time on my terms, like I'm not looking at a job board and it's like, yo, I see 50 jobs that are looking for react developers. I'm like, oh man, dude, like I gotta go learn react now. All right, so I put react on my resume and it's like, how long have you known react? It was like, I've known react for five minutes, but next week I will have known react for a week. And then I'm constantly updating my resume then boom, I get a job and it's like, what do I do after I got the job? Work my butt off, I try to be the most productive employee I can so I can work my way up the ranks and get these raises, but what if they don't need me anymore at some point? For whatever reason, maybe they hire somebody who knows react better than me and they can pay them less. So then they let me go and now I gotta go look for another job. And as I was thinking through this process, I was like, if I can be let go any time, I should be looking for a job at any time, all the time to look for a higher pay, right? So the goal is to beat them to the next step. So if somebody offers me more before they decide they don't need me anymore, then I go to the other people and I make some more and I do the same thing with them. And I keep going up this ladder and ladder and ladder until I get to the income I want and that gives me the ability to buy the things I wanted to live the way I want. But why not just be like everybody else and just cut out the middle man? But then also why not be like everybody else and show everybody else exactly what I'm doing? To show everybody that like you can be an average guy which I am with your body of knowledge and some basic knowledge of a few things and then share that knowledge with people. So they get to learn from what I know and I don't think it's a lot. Maybe it's more than I think. Maybe it's less than I think, I don't know. But to teach them the things that I do know and then show them how I'm applying those things no matter how unskillful or skillful they are to build something that's gonna produce income and eventually produce the lifestyle I want. So that is a path we're going down, folks we're going down that path and what I've done and what I've done is I've registered the domain name coding365startuplab.com. Coding365startuplab.com. I registered the domain name and if you don't know how to register a domain name if you go to codemarketsale.com and here in a little bit the coding the code365startuplab, then you'll see what I'm talking about but I'm gonna have a course, a little course on how to register a domain name to show you how easy it is, how simple it is where I register my domain name. So that'll be there for you but I've registered the domain name and then I'll have another course on how I set up the pointers to go through to go through Cloudflare and everything to point back to where I'm gonna have this, not course, this course slash documentary slash thing. Think of it as like computer files, meets Tai Lopez, meets Gary Vaynerchuk, meets Grant Cardone all rolled into one and we're in this like startup environment where we're like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and whoever at the beginning of whatever but my goal isn't to build like some huge tech company, my goal is to use what I know about HTML, CSS, the world in general about business, about markets, about selling, about contractors and all this stuff to build a business that probably anybody could build. Like I'm not gonna invent some kind of new technology or anything. I'm just gonna take the basic knowledge that everybody can get everywhere and use it to build something. And if it's something you wanna pay for then you can pay to watch me build this thing. So I'll have these videos here where I'm talking but inside of this coding 365 startup lab is gonna be a lab where we're gonna like get an idea and build the idea and then try to monetize the idea. And the first thing I was thinking about was while I was looking, I was looking at how to evaluate businesses because I have like this big dream in my head and that there's no business valuation calculator that I could find at least on the first page of Google. So why don't I just build a business valuation calculator? So anyway, so leading up to the code 365 thing I'm gonna be, I'm gonna walk through me trying to build this little calculator thing. And then, but then on January 1st, right? The goal is 365 days to build a business or series of businesses, websites and applications whatever we can build with the skills we got and end up at an income of $100,000 a month. Which sounds like a ridiculously, a lot of money to a lot of people but that's the whole point. Like I want it to be a goal worth achieving. Like imagine if you aim for $100,000 and you only hit 10, like you still kind of won. And if you did that 10, then you know you could do the other 20, 30, 40 all the way up to 100,000. So that's the goal, that's the goal we're going down. If you guys wanna be a part of that mission then just head over to codemarketsell.com and that is the, I have a course there. It's gonna be called the Code 365 Startup Lab and there's not gonna be any courses in there because what it's gonna be is me uploading videos and content as I go through this whole thing. And what I'll do is the actual technologies that I'm using, the ones that I really, really, really understand, I'll take those and I'll put them in free courses. So you can come in, so if you're like, hey, he's using PowerShell, like what is that? How do I use that? You can just go to a free course and learn PowerShell and then understand PowerShell, at least what I know about PowerShell. And then as I go along in the course, if I need to learn some sort of advanced concept or something, then I'll walk you through. You'll see that process of what I'm learning and why I'm learning it and stuff like that. And sometimes, like some things I may start, but I'm like, I'm not gonna finish this because this is derailing me. If the goal is to build a site or series of sites or app or series of apps or just a business in general, like a service business where customers hire me to do this, that and the third, then it's not beneficial for me to wait for me to spend a bunch of time learning this brand new thing because I'm trying to get to $100,000 in 365 days. So that's the deal. And then once that's all done, like it's done, like it's this whole complete package documenting how you can take basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PowerShell, the things that I know, and then go out and build your own thing. Then have and make money. Instead of getting on the treadmill of tech America where you find, you update your resume, you put it out to a bunch of places, you apply for a job, you get the job, and then now you keep doing this to other places while you're adding the skills you're gaining at this place, and then you move to another job. And then you do the same thing all over again, all over again in hopes that eventually you reach whatever it is your end goal is, the amount of money you wanna make so you can live where you wanna live and do what you wanna do. So it's been close to 20 minutes here team. And for those of you who stayed to the end, you're freaking fantastic. Obviously this is something you're interested in. So you need to check out codemarketsell.com and sign up for the Code 365 Startup Lab, where I will code 365 or attempt to code 365 and walk you through the entire process. Every line of code, everything I'm doing, every contract, every piece of paperwork, everything, right? So we're gonna build a startup business from the ground up together. You can, and when I say together, I mean like you can pick your idea and build yours right alongside of me and we can share information or whatever. Ultimately this is me doing this for myself for me because I wanna apply all this stuff that I've learned but I wanna bring you on the journey because if you sign up and you're supporting my progress then that's like kind of a push, right? And it makes life a little easier. So anyway team, I appreciate you hanging out with me here for those of you who stayed to the end, fantastic. If you're here to the end, subscribe because you came all this way, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment, let me know you care, let me know you're giving them and we're gonna move on with this journey. Code Market Cell and Code 365 Startup Lab, we're gonna get it. And if you don't know how to register a domain name or PowerShell or HTML or CSS, all that stuff, keep an eye out on codemarketcell.com while I have free courses to teach you at least what I know about those things, right? Maybe eventually we'll get into like advanced stuff but I don't wanna go past my point of complete understanding. So everything you see is gonna be right up to the point that I understand what's going on in no further. So if you see it, it means that I understand it, I could probably help you if you have problems with it. But again, right, I'm just a regular guy, I'm not like some super genius or anything. And if I can do it, anybody can do it. And so I'm gonna document me doing it because I believe it's doable. I've seen it done hundreds, maybe thousands of times. And I'll be talking about that in the startup lab too when I need some motivation and some inspiration. I'll be talking about that here on this channel when I need some motivation and some inspiration and the same for you. So just stay tuned. Again, if you're here to the end, subscribe, hit the notification bell, check out Code Marketcell, sign up for the Code 365 Startup Lab because on January 1st, we're gonna hit the ground running and we're just gonna be coding 365 and building startups and building businesses and making money and coming up with new ideas and really chasing them down. All right, team, I will see you in the next episode.