Sell yourself, sell your work

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449 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 25 Mar 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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stocknoob ◴[25 Mar 25 23:52 UTC] No.43477361[source]▶

My standard advice:

For any young programmers: live within your means, invest the difference, become independent, and work on what you enjoy. It’s the best (work related) gift you can give yourself. Skip the self promotion politics unless you enjoy it.

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avmich ◴[26 Mar 25 00:32 UTC] No.43477628[source]▶

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I'm sorry, but this advice can sometimes sound like "sell one of your kidneys so you can eat". What if your means are not sufficient to avoid hunger? Investing negative difference? What if on top of that you're trying to do the work you enjoy and your means - incomes - stop completely? Do you see the problem with advice?

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1. mhss ◴[29 Mar 25 16:05 UTC] No.43516521[source]▶

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> What if your means are not sufficient to avoid hunger?

Not all advice is applicable to everyone. It's up to you to decide if you can and want to follow it. The advice was for young programmers and it is solid advice, but again, not applicable to everyone. It is applicable to a majority (probably even large majority). If you are young and earning a sw engineer salary it is very rare to not be able to cover your basic needs and have something left. Most people spends what is left in luxuries, lifestyle creep, etc; which is what the advice is trying to warn people about.

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