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I recently quit my job as a robotics engineer -- and I've been painting a lot more and have noticed the quality of my work has gone up. In the past few weeks I've had more sales than I had in the year prior as I was doing it nights and weekends.
Super cool to read about other engineers-turned-artists and how they approach their work!
If I were to transition from software engineering, I'd prioritize a role that meets the following criteria: 1. Minimizes screen time and doesn't rely heavily on computers for productivity. 2. Allows me to disconnect after work without constant notifications or calls. 3. Offers stability, requiring minimal adaptation to new trends or technologies. 4. Lastly, and more importantly, not easily replaceable by AI in the ne…
p.s : professional stand up comic here, been trying to quit my day job for 14 years :-)
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Instagram is the marketing channel but you still need to put in the work to have something to promote.
fiddling with printers and plotters isn't the hard part, most likely the marketing part is because anything sells if you find the fools. The whole stick of this article strikes me as marketing in the first place.
> Just get started. Start selling in the real world That's all nice, the problem is though that the market is in decline right now
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YC startup idea: AI generated-articles designed to give computer programmers dopamine hits when they get to correct a small error/issue/discrepancy. Like Zyns but distracting. Maybe it’s like a reward. Fix a tough bug and your manager sends you an article where you get to point out that the author is incorrectly using “strawman fallacy.”
This is basically the idea behind various word puzzles. See: https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
Well, he is using code as a tool, as a mean to reach his goals. I believe this is the best way to write code, after all. Should almost be the only sensible way. It's just that in 2024, having a programming job is 90% of times doing things you don't care with tools you don't want to use. The problem is not programming itself.
If I were to transition from software engineering, I'd prioritize a role that meets the following criteria: 1. Minimizes screen time and doesn't rely heavily on computers for productivity. 2. Allows me to disconnect after work without constant notifications or calls. 3. Offers stability, requiring minimal adaptation to new trends or technologies. 4. Lastly, and more importantly, not easily replaceable by AI in the ne…
I think this meets your requirements. It is in danger of AI replacement though. Which would be sad. But reckon there is 20 years of red tape to cut before we get there.
But if you don’t want to talk to people and be on a schedule then carpentry might be a good one. The sort where you make things as oppose to fix architraves in old houses.
AI plus machinery could make “home made” looking stuff but cheapos will keep going to ikea and there will still be a market.
If I didn’t need to make much money and just stay occupied probably do walking tours for free in untouristy places (think the “boring” countryside between cities that ain’t in any guidebooks) or just for a bit of cash walk people’s dogs at the park.
Robots may eventually do these things but to a dog a robot won’t smell like a human so they are the last to be fooled. I imagine in 2050 everyone will have a dog (bred to be small and generally dosile and easy to train) to sniff people for bot detection.
This looks more like pursuing Instagramming full time.
Funny that "always be selling" is a core principle of his art. I would describe him more of a businessman than artist. Maybe designer. But an artist does not care about money. The art comes first. Buyers must wait.