so learning to codee is not really enough anymore you know I always thought that when you become a developer and you work for a company or especially if you build something on your own it's all about being the best programmer but what I've realized two and a half years into my life as a developer is that Beyond a certain point no one actually cares about your coding skills and this is set to become even more true in 2024

you're supposed to know how to do rather than this super special skill that people are going to pay a lot of money for so I wanted to explore this
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argument and I'll give you my conclusion or whether that is going to happen in a second but what is certainly clear that simply learning the code and then getting getting a job that's going to pay you enough to like build wealth and build an amazing life is not as easy anymore as it used to be before especially now in 2024 and I think there's three reasons for this first is simply because learning to code is easier than it has ever been like I could probably teach my dad some basics of programming in like 2 hours a

The Stereotype of a developer is just some nerd coder who's sitting in his mom's basement and coding some like weird projects that no one cares about and when you get into the real job like this is legitimately what most devs in the job are like like I'm not kidding most of them literally look like they've never interacted with a real human in their lives they might be good at coding but when it comes to communicating to explaining what they're
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doing to like teaching someone else in the team how to do something they just can't do it and it's really annoying to work with these kind of people so if you can be the one developer who actually has real communication skills like you can just be personable be charismatic someone who's nice to work with

good software most people think that the job of a developer is to write code and that's nonsense that's actually not what your job is about like let me be clear no one gives a about your code like when we built our first app boxio do you think any single user who

is it something that I want to be using so now that you understand that how can you use this information to help you like businesses are very logical entities they only care about one thing and one thing only making money and the only reason you exist as an employee is to make that company more money so what your job should be to understand very precisely how your job and your work contributes the company making more money and then
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do things that actually help the company make more money by understanding things like user experience which is about like forgetting what the code actually looks like and just like thinking about the apps that you're building from the perspective of the user when the user opens up this checkout page for example what's going to make this flow of entering the card details and whatever as easy as possible and as nice for the user as possible when we built the first version of our app boxio the user experience was absolutely terrible so

lmost everyone when they're learning code has in mind is like okay I'm just going to get a job at a big company and then I'm just going to clim the corporate ladder get promotions and then eventually I'm going to be rich and all these kind of things but let me tell you this path is becoming less and less and less appealing and effective as time goes on and what I'm talking about with this first thing is something called Geographic Arbitrage thanks to the internet nowadays there's actually no
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need for you to live in the same location as where your employer is so what you can do is work for a Western High income company like a company in the US for example as either a freelancer or remote worker and then instead of you yourself living in this high cost country with crime and all these problems you can move to a much cheaper country with much higher standard of living actually people don't realize that there's so many places around the world you can get more for much less I'm talking Eastern Europe I'm
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talking Malaysia I'm talking Thailand and what this mean is that instead of having to work for 40 years

hy I have a problem with the traditional corporate career path the second reason is that you just don't know how long your job is going to become relevant and so to address the quote that I presented to you in the start of the video no I don't think that programming will just become like a commodity I don't think like in 10 years everyone just going to know how to code I don't think AI is going to replace programmers or anything like
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that I think is largely overblown but while this is what I think like we have to remember that I know absolutely nothing I'm completely clueless so seeing as you have one life do you think it's really worth it for you to just put all your eggs in this one basket of you're just working with this one company and having all your income be dependent on this one employee when they can literally just fire you at any time so that's why my goal is always to learn the code to get a job yes as you should
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in the beginning but as soon as possible to start building side income to start building side hustles to have this multiple streams of income coming in so even if one of them ends even if I get fired I can still make money I'm not going to have to wo