[scarface_74]

Actually I am. When I get off of work, I don’t think about work. I am either exercising, hanging out with my family or friends, traveling (I work remotely and I could very well be working during the day and doing something at night in a different city).

This discussion was about creating a business instead of working for someone else.

I bet you that you could make more money by spending your time doing interview prep and changing jobs than you could selling potatoes on the side.

[greenie_beans]

you obviously have not heard a word i said.

btw spending time marketing yourself is much more effective than interview prep in my experience. i got every single one of my jobs because i know how to sell myself. all the jobs i've gotten did not include an algorithmic interview. i can only think of one algorithmic interview i've done in my career, and it was early in my career and helpful to learn my knowledge gaps as a mostly self-taught developer. i did not spend any time doing "interview prep" after that, but simply learned the CS fundamentals that i was bad at. that has helped me so far. not 1337 code or whatever the fuck.

but that doesn't matter. i work 4-6 hours a day selling my time at a high hourly rate. this gives me more free time to do all the things i want to do. i chill hard as fuck. walk 90 minutes a day, sell sweet potatoes on the internet, grow my food, write books, and work on my saas app.

i recommend doing this if you are like me. don't work a 9-5, unless you use it to help get you to this point.

[scarface_74]

Check my other comments on this submission - I got into BigTech without doing any coding too - AWS ProServe.

But I am self aware enough to know that isn’t a repeatable process that most people can do anymore than “selling potatoes online”.

I don’t have to “market myself”. My job at AWS fell into my lap more or less then after leaving, with that on my resume and LinkedIn profile along with my other experience, people reach out to me. I don’t spend time trying to be a “thought leader” online.

[greenie_beans]

> do anymore than “selling potatoes online”.

actually selling sweet potatoes. if you would listen!

> I don’t spend time trying to be a “thought leader” online.

i have 139 followers on twitter. i don't tweet about tech. "marketing" is simply one html document on the public internet that clearly communicates to technical and non-technical people what you can do for them. not what skills you have.