 You don't that is the way to do it So weirdly enough many times I get questions about oh do oh Luke How do I get a software job? How do I get a job at a fortune 500 company or Google or Facebook or something? I don't know usually not that people aren't so egregious as to use those demonic companies as examples But a lot of times I'll get these questions of you know How you know, how do I set myself up to get a good software job? How do I get a good software job blah blah blah blah, okay? Firstly Yeah, don't don't do that. That's basically the just of the video. Let me explain why okay? Do you don't like people nowadays? They think of everything they think of making money They think of everything in terms of me doing what some company wants and getting paid. Okay jobs, okay? A hundred years ago most people did not have jobs They made ends meet because they were all self-employed and I want to talk about like the digital sphere I mean let's let's let's illustrate how Privileged people are nowadays to have digital technology if you're a computer programmer The thing is no amount of money is worth your freedom. Yeah, I mean maybe if it's a like a temporary gig You know, I'm not against like having any kind of computing job absolutely not But I think it's important if you have any kind of web web development skill real web development skills or like programming skills that you Absolutely never think of yourself as an employer. You're always working for yourself and if you take a gig It's only something that's temporary. Okay only for convenience and you could leave it any day Okay, now the reason that I say that is Compare now computing is a trade. It's a modern-day digital trade. Okay, it works just as well as You know, I don't know like being a plumber or carpenter or something like that. It's just digital now The big difference is this okay, if you let's use the example of carpentry Okay, if you learn how to do carpentry if you go work for a guy who's you know doing that stuff and you're working in his workshop You're you're making money for him. You're an employee Eventually, you're gonna realize. Oh, I know how to do this stuff. Okay. Oh, I've been working here a couple years I know pretty much all the tricks of the trade. I could start my own business now What keeps you from doing that? What keeps you from starting your own business and making your own money? Okay? Money money keeps you from that like capital not having the tools the thing is If you want to be a carpenter you have to have I mean even for a basic wood shop you basically have to put down I don't know maybe if you're doing something very primitive and artisanal a couple hundred bucks But you'll probably be putting a couple thousand bucks if it's a real workshop You know that you're using for more or less industrial purposes. That's gonna be 10 tens of thousands of dollars, right? So, you know that those are the constraints there and at that every project you make, you know, every job you create That's gonna cost you money because guess what you're using this raw material called wood. Okay? It which is very expensive, especially after brand inflation So you are going to be spending a whole lot of money and it's just gonna be you know Just to do basic things. So, you know, if you make a little error, you can't just fix it It's gonna cost you out of pocket Now that is true of basically every traditional trade if you're gonna be a glacier or a cooper. I don't care whatever But it is not true of digital things. It's not true of things in uh, you know, it's not true of computing, right? So you can experiment with your computer without any kind of raw material costs Like you don't need I mean everyone basically has the the primitive capital of a computer to to work on So I'm just considering that a sunk cost and it's a very small cost aside from that Like you can get a computer for 100 bucks pretty easy. Um, and that's really all you need, right? So computing is this domain where every you have every reason to be independent And if you're if you're working for some kind of company What what really are you getting from that? Okay? Anything computationally that you can do working for this company you can do on your own, right? If you're writing software for them, I mean it would be just as easy to work as a freelancer writing that software and getting paid You know, you know, depending on what you're doing better and have more flexibility not have to go in for 40 hours a week or something like that You know to do or uh doing humiliating zoom calls like all that kind of stuff like you can just skip it, right? So really what you're getting when you're working for these software companies, you're not getting much Okay, you're getting I guess a big amount of money enough money to make your freedom seem a little less consequential Okay, they're gonna give you lots of money for that But again, if you're making yourself worth it at that company, you could make that money yourself Okay, you don't need those raw material costs um, but aside from that you're really just getting like, um A boss like someone who tells you what to do. Maybe you'd like don't have initiative Maybe that's a legitimate thing like some people just can't figure out what to do with their lives And I don't know but that's basically what you're getting you're basically Giving your freedom up just to have a boss because you can't make up things to do yourself, right? So that's the thing that's the issue Um, you know, I have with people asking these kind of questions because I think I don't want you to have a Software job. I don't want anyone to have a software job And if you do have one as I said it had you have to look at it is something non essential to your personality That is something temporary that you can leave it any day, right? Because that has to be how it is like you you basically have all the power in the negotiations Okay, and don't forget that and that is why computer programmers are so often paid so so well, right? Because most of them are really well, I don't want to say most of them But at least the significant portion of them realize that they don't actually need the job And if you're someone young Starting out and you're just tinkering on a computer You have to remember that as well Okay, if you're thinking about things in terms of how can I jump from job to job? And like do these humiliating things like that I don't really want to do constantly Oh, I want to work. No, there is no ladder to work up, you know in the corporate world, right? When it comes to digital technology Like this is one of those fields and I know even when I was in college, which wasn't like that really that long ago Um Computer science is one of those fields where no one cares about degrees and stuff like that In fact, if you have a phd in computer science, that's like, are you a weirdo? And you know a lot of my friends would go into cs and then drop out Before they finished because they figured things out. They can make money on themselves By themselves or they get a job and like then that gives them abilities to do other things But you have to always look at those jobs as being temporary. Okay, so that's just the mindset people need to get I mean this honestly should go for other things as well like um Again like a hundred or so years ago people were just self-employed like that that was how the world worked and You know the kind of boomer the boomer economy mentality is that Everyone like Having a job being an employee is the natural state of the world when it's just not like a very small portion of the population was like that um, and uh, you know before before like world war two or so and even now I mean, we really just had a generation or two where this is the case and hopefully it's not going to be the case Uh relatively soon. Okay. It was just kind of a historical accident So stop thinking of yourself as a potential employee. Stop thinking about your stupid resume Stop all that kind of stuff. Um, and think about things in terms of how can I make like what kind of things can I offer? People out there not not a particular company but people out there if I need to get a job at a company That's fine, but I'm not going to view that as the end I'm going to view that as like, uh, you know, they're they're so stupid They're giving me this money to basically do nothing while I work on my own personal projects Okay, that that is what I consider appropriate. So yeah, that's what I have to say