Why I learned to code instead of pursuing a career in finance

Re:Why I learned to code instead of pursuing a career in fin... by Mediterraneo10 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:32PM (#15443119)

> In fact, I am hard pressed to think of a profession that offers more personal freedom.

As a translator in Eastern Europe, I feel like I have a lot more freedom than the software devs here. I can work as little as 2-3 hours a day and pay all my expenses and save for the future. The job is remote by its very nature, so it doesn’t matter whether I am in my own country, or I am traveling in Patagonia or Madagascar. I am able to dictate deadlines to my clients, I don’t have to work to their schedule. For example, If a job will only take me half an hour to do, I can tell the client that I can return it in one week, and in the meantime I can travel or whatever.

I do some coding as a hobby and occasionally visit the programming language etc. meetups in my hometown. The software devs there make around the same amount of money I do each month, but they complain of the 9 to 5 routine, office politics, and how unhealthy it is to spend all day sitting in front of a computer.

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Re:Why I learned to code instead of pursuing a career in fin... by weeksie on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @12:47PM (#15443266)

That's a fair point. My feelings on this might be very US-centric since we get paid a lot more than our counterparts elsewhere.

Translators def have a solid situation, I met a translator last year when I was traveling and she lives that digital nomad lifestyle, works a charm.

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Re:Why I learned to code instead of pursuing a career in fin... by 20170319 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:03PM (#15443418)

Budapest?

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