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Posted by Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

Business/Programmin/Money

HI,

Just a little question and surley im interested .

I read that most programmers, think they will be millionaires, most of them .

Having that in mind, i say that ill earn one point a million. Thogh, close people, like family , say to me in a kind of negaitvie way ' He think hes going to be the next Bill Gates or Mark from Facebook etc...' well, they started as programmin right?

What i say i want to do in life is buiness and programming. Starting of programmin plus i really like it. In my mind is, programming as providing a webiste or anything you want, and because of that, you can customise the webiste and stuff as u like and test strategies right? so having that in mind, i want to do business. Business is an Idea right? but sayin my idea is on the website, though e.g sport idea, that doesnt necessary means that im a programmer that thinks im gonna be a millionaire right? or does it?

Also, as you beeing or to be a programmer, will you think you will surpass the financial goal you want ?

Plus, what do you think, can you earn a million per year , or is it luck ?

I allways say that the harder you work and the more effort you put and realy on good educaton like treehouse, good articles or seminars like Tony Robinson or Brian Tracy makes ? readin gbooks like about the field ur in, e.g if you read every week a book a=involved technollogy, thats like 50-60 books per year , that means extra knowledge right? people that say that they want to be e.g millionaires, but they e.g dont read books , that means they have less knowledge and less , secret tricks like readin one book every week :p or eating a healthy breakfast e.g eggs instead of bread, all tis has an effect on your body.

So if there are a lot of people thinking they want to be millionaires as well, it doesnt necessary means they actually believe in in or have the right mindset to make it ? as well as there are different paths and its just u never know as wel right?

What do you think about all this? what do you think about this?

Plus what do you think about jobs?

My opinions is that you can be wealthy by anything you have passion for or like to do .

If thats a priest, a programer, a bin man ( there was actually dragons den guy that i think earned a lot while he beeing a binman id say lol ) , making sos, whatever. Plus you can re-sell everytihng you know on books, online, paid-online, CD's, audio etc.. the same content .

1 Answer

Gary Calhoun
Gary Calhoun
10,317 Points
Gary Calhoun
Gary Calhoun
10,317 Points

I think part of it has to do with creating a product people really want. It's like art anyone can learn how to draw and paint, they could make something that could blow your mind but will it sell? Has it been done before? What is the target audience? In your case what will this program/application help accomplish? Reading books is great but you won't get better by just reading books, or watching videos, or going to programming seminars in person. What will make you better at what you do is application, and how many hours you put into working on perfecting your craft. So it sounds like you have some good positive ambition going, so take what you know and start creating and go through the process of trial and error. With any profession there is failure and learning before success and wealth.

Konrad Pilch
Konrad Pilch
2,435 Points

The idea i have is actually from me. I do martial arts/sport for 4 years and not mentioning other things , i was looking on internet something. There isnt one website, thats any good. I asked other people in real life, family, and ppl i don tknow, if they would like ( i told them a brief idea of my idea of the features etc.. ) and they said theyd like that but they havent seen it.

SO im very positive about this. I know it will need a lot of marketing and it would be quite a big system ish if id need to make it. And im a newbie. Im just aboout to understand OOP PHP ish . BUt byt the end of this year i should be maybe ready to understand it all and try to make soemhting in production . As well as i would probably get help from a programmer when securing the site .

The last sentence, when comparing it as close as you did , actually , even if i knew that failture is experience , this is way better . I know i need to put more , as learning is wealth and failiture is success . ANd both together.

I talked with some people why they say its unrealistic to be a millionaire or billlionaire. They said that because there isnt enough time. Though there are like 10k of them , i told. And i got this answer " Maybe this is fake " . UHhh. im sure its not .

Thank you for the answer.