Re:Ask HN: I'm 24, coding since 14, and I don't know what to do
by gigatexal on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @01:49AM
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Find a niche and start a company -- solve something you hit as a programmer for example. Expose an API and call it good. You seem uniquely qualified being extroverted and competent. It's a crazy long shot I know but I found that only when I was day-tading (not the same thing) I was happiest because I was earning for myself and making my own hours and best of all trying to see if my hypothesis (or in your case your company) could pass the test in the market.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm 24, coding since 14, and I don't know what to do
by gigatexal on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:56PM
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I should add that I lost almost 100k day trading but I learned a few things: 1) my hypothesis didn't work; 2) I loved doing it even given the losses; 3) finance wasn't for me - trading stocks always will be given that it's more-or-less gambling, and who doesn't love gambling -- but it helped me figure out what I wanted to do. The best part was I was my own boss. I woke up at 5AM (willingly!), was often up a few grand by noon, and then left my multi-monitor setup to go have fun for the day. I never felt more in control of my destiny than I was at that time, and I imagine it's the same running your own business
Re:Ask HN: I'm 24, coding since 14, and I don't know what to do
by paulcole on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @05:26PM
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>was often up a few grand by noon
couldn't have been that often
>lost almost 100k day trading