Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Jobs are created by entrepreneurial people who start businesses > (or who start bureaucracies within government). They usually > have goals that have little or nothing to do with what kind of > software they are using. They just need tools that do their > job, preferably with low risk. > > If you can't "get a job", perhaps that means that you should be > creating them. Finding a real-world problem that people will pay > to solve, and solving it. Then hiring others to help you. Chances > are, you don't want to go through that difficult and risky process. > Well, welcome to Portland, where nobody else does either. > > Open source software creation offers a great path to do this, > because you can write programs that solve problems and put them > out there for others to use and improve. If you do it right, > you will develop the entrepreneurial and managerial skills and > the demonstrable track record that others are looking for. > You might have to push a broom for a few years while you do > the software work for free. That is, earn the same amount that > Linus Torvalds earned over the first five years of Linux. > > So - learn how to sell yourself. There are books about that. > It involves replacing a lot of bad habits. Once you learn how > to do that, perhaps you can develop an open source app that > trains others out of their job-repellent habits. Programmer, > program thyself. > > Keith Well said Keith! Sage advice. Stepping out of the zombie worker assembly line and cutting my own path is exactly what I need to do...;-)
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