Re:Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?
by marcomonteiro on Monday April 11, 2011 @02:27PM
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I fell on this path by accident. I started hacking when I was young. I always loved tech and programming. Between 18-20 I went through two jobs as a software developer while still going to school but this was circa 2000 and the market tanked. I got into real estate because I didn't want to depend on someone else to give me a job. Along the way realized I hated doing real estate sales everyday and the technology really annoyed me so now I'm creating the software I always wish I had as an agent. If it weren't for the experience of being an agent I would have never understood the pain.
Personally my advice would be to quit your job and go and work in an existing industry you think you might be able to disrupt with software, it's the only way you'll learn the real problems.
I did this the other way around by working as a hardware engineer for 10 years then getting into web dev. I spent some time thinking I'd wasted the start of my career but now realise it's the best thing I ever did.
If anybody is looking for a problem to solve I've got one so get in touch. This isn't the next Twitter for Groupon, I'm working through some hard problems so please dont waste our time ;-)