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Re: Ask HN: What to learn to earn a little on the side

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You should really be looking for "Where can I get work for what I already know?" The single most important element of business is paying customers. Feeling like you need to learn more before you can get paying customers is a potential infinite loop of excuses for why you can't go to market yet . After high school, there is college. After your bachelor's degree, you can pursue a master's. After that, you can get a PhD…

While I mostly agree in principle, there are some counter-examples as well - people who mostly just played with personal projects who got hired at $300k jobs for the niche skills they've gained. These people are top-notch though.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1424

I want Sven's life. But most of us don't live like that. We have to work at figuring out how to make money.

Re: Ask HN: What to learn to earn a little on the side

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I mostly agree in principle, there are some counter-examples as well - people who mostly just played with personal projects who got hired at $300k jobs for the niche skills they've gained. These people are top-notch though.

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1424 I want Sven's life. But most of us don't live like that. We have to work at figuring out how to make money.

The people I think of weren't playing WoW all day, but rather coding/working through papers etc. all day, for years. For most people digging up this kind of intrinsic motivation without any external rewards in sight is hard.
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