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Mine is the same! Good luck!

Leonardo.ai is much better in this regard. I hated midjourney, and if they don’t change this ridiculous way of interacting with the app they will fail.

Ruby, Java, Typescript, Javascript

I wanna see those trains crossing the ocean

Exactly. Or if you need to learn 9 years to start earning, that is not easy.

Usually these only get paid out if they actually hire the person. This will never be a stable monthly side money

I'm not sure I understand this comment. Could you elaborate? If you look at Show HN posts, it's clear that people do build a lot of stuff. I also want to build stuff, I just miss the good idea of what to build

How do you get into security from other parts of IT without downleveling and having a huge pay cut?

I wanted to get into security, but as a Senior Software Engineer I earn twice as much as I would get as a Junior Security Engineer. Anywhere I tried, they don’t hire into senior positions if you dont have relevant security experience (understandably)

And based on my experience certifications are not enough

That is interesting, thanks for sharing. I guess it makes sense, if they think I am cheap they might also think I produce low quality.

Yeah, facts. So how to overcome this?

> That said, boringcashcow.com has inspired me to try to come up with a simple programming project that could turn over 4 figures a month. It made me realize in software you can just go for base hits, not home runs, and still make plenty of money.

Would you mind sharing more details? Story? What is the app? I am really curious :) If no, that's fine, thanks for the tip anyways. I will definitely check out the website. My biggest problem is coming up with ideas for an app/business.

Without changing career path, no I don't think so. I'm mostly in web development. I can't think of any skill that would significantly up my salary.

Now learning stuff like AI, or Cyber Security could, but that's a very long process, and basically a change of careers. (I'm not against that, but wouldn't call that "easy")

I don't think I'm a good writer. But this is actually something that can be easily improved over time, I guess.

Thanks for the tip. I might give this a shot. This is something that fits my needs, you can do it in your own pace, remotely, gig work. would be perfect if I was a good writer (and native English speaker haha)

Not sure why would this be an unpopular advice. I think it's a good advice.

I tried this before, but the problem is, the reason many people/businesses have shitty websites is that they are not willing to spend money on it. I approached a few local shops (e.g. a comic book store) to create a cool website for them for a few hundred bucks, but they wanted it for free. If I would be a junior developer looking for stuff to my portfolio, sure. But I'm not, and not willing to work for free for anybody.

However, I might have given up too easily. I think I'll give this another shot

Funny you say that, I actually started learning iOS/MacOS development recently, my goal was to release some apps on the App Store.

I don't have problems with learning and building the apps, my problem is how to come up with an app idea that people would actually use, and I could monetize it somehow.

I would love to come up with a business idea, and slowly grow it to be profitable.

My problem is I am very bad at coming up with a business idea in the first place. (or app idea, or website idea...) I am not sure why, probably my brain is wired differently.

Unfortunately I have no experience in any of them. (mostly in Web app development, mobile development)

AI would interest me, but it would take many years of learning I guess. I am not very good at math, so I would have to re-learn that.

This would require that at least one of the jobs basically have no meetings, and also that you can automate the sht out of one of them (and not to tell it to your boss).

I can't see it working in any other way. I've heard about this before, but I think you need a huge amount of luck to make this work.

Edit: I mean yeah, if you are willing to work 14-16 hours you can make it work, by landing the jobs in different time zones.

Wow this is a very interesting idea, thank you.

Unfortunately I am living in a house with a very small yard, so at the moment it is impossible for me to pursue bee keeping.

But, where can I learn more about this? What are the best resources?