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most of us live so shortsighted let's
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say you have your Prime working years
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from say 20 to 50 that's 30 years and at
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25 years old you fall in love with
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coding or data science or machine
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learning or building a YouTube channel
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based around your personality or a blog
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or really anything maybe going back to
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school for a PhD and you decide that
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you're going to do what it takes to
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shift careers and leave a job you hate
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it's a big life decision but it's one
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that will greatly benefit you in the
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long run so you a lot three years of
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learning sacrifice and study you have to
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cancel plans and cancel trips maybe time
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with friends late nights to make it work
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and you do it you spend 3 years learning
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to code building projects Making
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Connections getting certifications maybe
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internships and then after 3 years
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you've gained the skills to become very
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marketable you know your algorithms
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you've picked up Real World experience
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and you land the job well guess what at
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that point you're still under 30 in fact
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you're just 28 years old it only took 3
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years out of your 30-year window but now
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you're making three the salary and you
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have the Baseline by which to increase
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that from here on out now instead of
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doing something like this we want quick
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results we don't want to spend 3 years
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doing anything we want to complain about
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the problems we have about the economy
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we don't create any plan of action we
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spend our time leaving critical YouTube
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comments jumping around to different
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tutorials criticizing others and guess
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what 3 years passes You by 3 years of
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completely unproductive and wasted
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effort now you've spent 3 years out of
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the 30 but you're in the same spot that
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you were before there's 3 years years to
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change your life three out of 30
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remember or 3 years wasted still at the
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starting point if you've ever read this
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really helpful book The Almanac of Novel
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riant there's a quote in it that says we
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waste our time with short-term thinking
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and busy work Warren Buffett spends a
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year deciding in a day acting that act
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lasts decades or in a case 3 years of
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hard work and then a day of life
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changing action changing careers
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changing your life increasing your
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salary and that change has a lasting
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impact on your life for years and
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decades to come when I learned a code
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over 7 years ago yes it was easier but
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it was still hard for a person with no
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technical background outside of being
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good at computers after 10 years at a
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job paying me a Max of $37,000 a year I
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woke up I put in the work and was able
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to instantly triple that as a result
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immediately and that set a baseline
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salary that all subsequent jobs would
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have to match or increase for me to take
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the role now it took me about 6 months
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of hard work then I would say it's more
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like a year of hard work now but I
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started at 34 and I was still 34 when I
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made the transition I actually have a
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video on that story I link to it above
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make some coffee one day take a drive I
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think you'll find it encouraging but my
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point is is that we see 3 years as this
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long drawn out period of time we think
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of it in terms of all the things we miss
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out on in that period of time but I'm
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here to say that if you don't create a
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game plan for what you want in life and
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put it into action those three years
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will pass without having made any
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significant Improvement in your your
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position people work decades moving up
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the corporate ladder and then when
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they're 50 they finally become a manager
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or have taken some significant step that
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they're happy about in all those many
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years of hard work has paid off they're
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so thankful and they celebrate but I'm
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here to say that that's a foolish way of
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thinking for many and I say that because
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we don't really live in that period of
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time where you can keep a job for that
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long but instead of increasing your pay
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by a th000 a year for 30 years take some
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time and learn a hard technical skill
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that will put you in a new Financial
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brand especially with this growth of AI
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many see this as a threat I see it as a
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bunch of new opportunities not just in
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coding or software development or
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engineering but many new doors opening
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in the broad scope of Technology choose
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a path and become the best added but
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Travis the economy is hard now it's too
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late it's too much work the chances are
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slim I can barely pay my bills I hear
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you but I respond in that the
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opportunities are actually endless you
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won't land a Fang job you probably won't
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hit six figur years in your first job
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you'll have lots of rejections and
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frustrations but you could land a job at
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the local College IT department or the
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local Factory or a small web agency or a
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freelancing role or perhaps you carve
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out your own path with some app that you
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build or a YouTube channel that you grow
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or whatever we all look to the same job
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boards but that's like 1% of the
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opportunity in the world especially with
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the world at their fingertips or
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literally in their pockets take time to
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learn the foundations that allow you to
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do a vast number of things in a
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particular particular field what if in
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addition to learning programming you
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learned how computers work and sharpened
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up your math skills and then applied
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those to how programming actually works
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in doing so you're not just a JavaScript
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developer or a python developer but a
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technician who can shift around as the
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industry changes and evolves learning
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the actual programming is easy learning
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to solve problems making decisions and
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conveying ideas well those are harder
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but if you spend additional time on
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these skills skills that can't be
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automated then who really cares about AI
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taking over you're able to pick up
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whatever you need along the way and say
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it takes 3 years again if you're 30 and
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it takes 3 years you're only 33 when
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you've achieved what you want now I'm
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not saying you need to do this I'm not
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saying it will take exactly 3 years but
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I am saying stop living so shortsighted
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expecting things to happen so quickly
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without putting in the hard work or
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taking the time needed to do it first
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make a plan what do you want second how
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do you get there you need to create very
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specific steps that you can stick to
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that progressively guide you to your
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goal and third how long will it take you
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to get there this is the step where you
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need to actually zoom out and look at
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the big picture spend more time in the
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big picture than the immediate State
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you're in when it comes to career
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planning in life goals I'll leave some
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resources below that may help you out
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