Bury a seed, take care of it, and wait for it to grow and grow

In a thread on the V2 forum “The most important thing to be a programmer is to have your own work”, the author wrote:

To have a work with your name, should be clear in the early stage of the career of the direction The work is not your company project, also is not your friend asks you to project, more not connect you avoid It is dominated by you, also by you to the project - your own work Regardless of size, regardless of the number of users or star, Keep it up, and one day it will be the most legitimate reason to change your life, change your role.Copy the code

Posts under the vast majority of people expressed approval, at the same time, there are quite a few people posted operating personal projects, these projects or has achieved certain results, or is also iterative development started slowly, which makes me feel happy and make their own products not only to its own comprehensive ability has a great deal of ascension, And there’s a good chance it’ll get you a good job

In my opinion, personal works will not only have a positive impact on our work, but more importantly, they can help us break out of the curse of exchanging time for income, as teacher Ruan Yifeng said in his article

The host asked, Nowadays, many people drive online car hailing. How much money can they make? Can they make a lot of money?

That’s an easy question to answer, and the answer is no. The income of taxi drivers is mainly determined by the length of business hours. Basically, if you drive 12 hours a day, you get twice as much money as if you drive 6 hours a day. There are only 24 hours in a day, so income is capped and cannot deviate far from the average.

Taxi is a typical industry of “time for income”. The more hours you put in, the higher your income will be. Many industries are time-for-income, and none of them make a lot of money. Because you have only so much time to trade, and once you reach middle age, you don’t have much more to trade. Driving a taxi is fine for pocket money, or as a short-term transition, but terrible as a career for life.

In our profession, although to some extent we can rely on our talents or efforts to surpass others in terms of ability level, so as to obtain higher remuneration, it is easy to reach a bottleneck when we look at the value of unit time based on our actual situation. After all, we still have to work all the time and cannot stop selling time to obtain income

We needed to find a way to consistently generate revenue from a single investment, and building our own product provided that way

If you are not a programmer, you may not be able to write great products, so it is a good choice to write articles and maintain your personal blog or official account. Ruan’s article also contains such a paragraph:

There is one thing that all lucrative careers have in common: scalability, where a single effort can serve thousands of people.

The software, film and game industries are all scalable, with fixed production costs and unlimited consumption, so there is huge potential for profit, creating millions of millionaires. On the other hand, barbers, cooks, and taxi drivers can only serve a few people at a time, so they are not scalable and hard to earn huge profits.

Writing is the most extensible activity. You write an article, and every time it’s seen, it expands.

I carefully look at the following their abilities, want to write the product to change the world I’m afraid it’s difficult to finished, so flattering chose to write, as their products to the public, conscientious output, steadfast to do operation, planted a seed, in a short period of time may not have the result, but insist to do, maybe can bring the unexpected harvest ~