Loved the article Nicola. I think many enginners are in-between - may be suited for both worlds, and are tempted by both :)
At least I am.
My recommendation to every engineer who considers the solo journey is to take a few months break and just see where it leads. I’m currently in my 3rd month, and I understood the I miss many things about the full time job (mainly working with other people and have financial stability). Still, I’ll probably spend 3-4 more months on building a long term project, and I may do the switch later.
Elena Verna had a great article about it - she called it career optionality. Highly recommended!
Thanks Anton! Will check out your recommended article and yes, I can understand how you or other engineers might feel tempted by both. In the end, there's no one size fits all. Oftentimes is the answer to find you instead of vice versa!
Great article! Full of insights and enjoyable to read. I think you are really a very good content creator, so please keep it going.
So what does that mean for myself now? I'm definitely also a generalist. Coding is nice and interesting, but so are a lot of other things. Still a bit puzzled how things will go on for me now. I've lost my drive in pure dev work many months ago. I've thought that's only a phase and I just need a break, but it's quite a while going now.
What starts to work now for me is the vibe coding hype. I was pretty shocked 2 weeks ago how Cursor created an almost finshed Chrome extension for me with just one prompt. I have a big list of projects that I could build and sell. But as you said, 80% is non-dev work as a Solopreneur. I'll just keep it going and see where it leads me. Maybe we have just to wait a few months until there is a "marketing Cursor" that does that job for us.
Btw. if you need a great video for your new Youtube channel, I might be up to create one for you (maybe you remember, I'm a studied filmmaker). I might do it low/no-cost and/or success based. I have also finished music to offer, just maybe as an addition to the videos that you produce by yourself anyhow.
You know, in 2020, I had a similar situation like this one here. I had regular contact to a at that time pretty new influencer in the web hacking space. He was interested in using my music for his Youtube. But I finally rejected, because I felt like giving it away for free. Maybe a mistake, because today, that guy is the web hacking influencer with the most followers on Twitter (90k when I checked last time), and one of the biggest on Youtube, too. He specialized in selling teaching videos, and it looked to me that he now must have made millions with them already.
Well, history repeating lol. But honestly I'm still a bit unsure about all that. So if this might sound interesting to you, just give me a shout, and we'll see if it's going somewhere.
Loved the article Nicola. I think many enginners are in-between - may be suited for both worlds, and are tempted by both :)
At least I am.
My recommendation to every engineer who considers the solo journey is to take a few months break and just see where it leads. I’m currently in my 3rd month, and I understood the I miss many things about the full time job (mainly working with other people and have financial stability). Still, I’ll probably spend 3-4 more months on building a long term project, and I may do the switch later.
Elena Verna had a great article about it - she called it career optionality. Highly recommended!
https://www.elenaverna.com/p/the-future-of-full-time-employment?source=queue
Thanks Anton! Will check out your recommended article and yes, I can understand how you or other engineers might feel tempted by both. In the end, there's no one size fits all. Oftentimes is the answer to find you instead of vice versa!
Great article! Full of insights and enjoyable to read. I think you are really a very good content creator, so please keep it going.
So what does that mean for myself now? I'm definitely also a generalist. Coding is nice and interesting, but so are a lot of other things. Still a bit puzzled how things will go on for me now. I've lost my drive in pure dev work many months ago. I've thought that's only a phase and I just need a break, but it's quite a while going now.
What starts to work now for me is the vibe coding hype. I was pretty shocked 2 weeks ago how Cursor created an almost finshed Chrome extension for me with just one prompt. I have a big list of projects that I could build and sell. But as you said, 80% is non-dev work as a Solopreneur. I'll just keep it going and see where it leads me. Maybe we have just to wait a few months until there is a "marketing Cursor" that does that job for us.
Btw. if you need a great video for your new Youtube channel, I might be up to create one for you (maybe you remember, I'm a studied filmmaker). I might do it low/no-cost and/or success based. I have also finished music to offer, just maybe as an addition to the videos that you produce by yourself anyhow.
You know, in 2020, I had a similar situation like this one here. I had regular contact to a at that time pretty new influencer in the web hacking space. He was interested in using my music for his Youtube. But I finally rejected, because I felt like giving it away for free. Maybe a mistake, because today, that guy is the web hacking influencer with the most followers on Twitter (90k when I checked last time), and one of the biggest on Youtube, too. He specialized in selling teaching videos, and it looked to me that he now must have made millions with them already.
Well, history repeating lol. But honestly I'm still a bit unsure about all that. So if this might sound interesting to you, just give me a shout, and we'll see if it's going somewhere.