Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
#2You motivate yourself, step by step. Start to make money, do freelancing.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
#3I couldn't add more than 2000 characters, so I hosted the writing on my site: http://cabada.mx/mylife.html
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#4You've clearly got good design and programming skills. If you need money, and you keep applying to jobs, you will get one.
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#5There are 40 things listed in OP's site. And he claims to have written 40M loc. So approximately 1 mil loc per program, (or 2.5M loc per year)? Honestly can someone write that many lines of code?
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
#640 million lines of code is a lot of code to have written. Is this number exaggerated a bit? Exaggerated a lot? Just doing the math: to code that much in sixteen years (assuming a start of age 10) would require writing 6,800 LOC, every single day.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
#7For me the most eye-opening lesson about the business world was the realization that you are not an entrepreneur just because you can build something. You become an entrepreneur when you build something that people are willing to pay for.
You may be good at writing software, but are you writing software that solves a problem for anyone? If not, you're going to be hard-pressed to find external validation.
You don't say what your family business is, but is there something there that can be made better -- more efficient, more profitable -- with technology? Some aspect of billing? Shipping? Inventory control?
I'm not suggesting that you acquiesce and go to work for your father if you don't want to. The fast track to misery is following the path that some else chose for you.
But at 26, you don't have a lot of years of hands-on experience in a profitable business. So your father's company may be a quick way to get your foot in the door and expand your skills for a while.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
#8There are 40 things listed in OP's site. And he claims to have written 40M loc. So approximately 1 mil loc per program, (or 2.5M loc per year)? Honestly can someone write that many lines of code?
They may not have listed every piece of code they wrote since they were 10 years old.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
#940 million lines of code is a lot of code to have written. Is this number exaggerated a bit? Exaggerated a lot? Just doing the math: to code that much in sixteen years (assuming a start of age 10) would require writing 6,800 LOC, every single day.
Yes, remove a 0 to that 40. Did the maths wrong. Fixed.
Re: Ask HN: How do you keep motivated if nobody supports you?
#10I think this solves most of your problems: only accept bitcoin. You can convert them to dollars when you want and the taxes on that are extremely simple.