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yep, i did. i found out that you go from $ to 0. And it's very hard to make the first .01 cent. But you will learn a lot, so take it as having fun for a year and learning more than you learned in Univ. and you will be ok.

Actually I wish our profession wasn't just 0 or big chance payout but had some in between too.

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>Actually I wish our profession wasn't just 0 or big chance payout but had some in between too.

It's not. I mean, if you don't take on investors or debit, it's pretty easy to setup a sub-minimum wage business for yourself. I've set up more of those than I care to remember.

Now, getting yourself up to ramen profitable from that is a little more work, (I can live on $15/hr, but not on $5/hr) and getting yourself to opportunity cost profitable is a lot more work. But if you are bootstrapping, there is a whole continuum between zero and 'big payout'

I havent even taken up a job yet. But I envy Isc for the satisfaction he gets out of running Prgmr. Wow wondering how it feels to be like a hero running the most affordable vps services and getting all those thanks for supporting people at such low prices.

P.S: he also wrote a book on Xen which is in my ToRead list.

thank you for your kind words. Prgmr.com is, right now, somewhere between ramen profitable and opportunity cost profitable. My net worth, if my understanding of standard industry prices, is going up significantly faster than if I were to work a regular job, spend what I'm spending, and save the rest, but I'm still living on 1/4th to 1/3rd what I'd make as a SysAdmin elsewhere, so I feel like I'm on the right path, but I haven't arrived yet.

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