Do not worry just learn one programming language well and later you can have more merit opinion, since you will have clearer perspective, you are too young to worry

Started programming at 8, became 34, started saving up for quitting, started evaluating a bunch of possible own products and building up the courage, at 36 I quit, and started my own thing. I'm 40 now. Don't make quite as much money (yet) but I've been ridiculously happy ever since quitting. Sure, it involves staring into the abyss and chewing glass quite a bit, but even with that im still happier. Because im building MY thing. Not THEIR thing. My secret trick: don't pick the sensible project. Pick the meaningful one. I was done with being sensible. Being sensible would've stayed at my cushy well paid job. After chasing the unreasonable but meaningful goal for a couple of years I discovered a reasonable angle within that big meaningful thing. I discovered MY thing.

@@enque01 can you share more of your journey? What was the meaningful thing, and how did you find it? Also, how do you juggle that with a family if you have one? Personal question :)

for what?

@ for nothing. Needed tho think if i wanted to leave the whole tech behind. Its not what it used to be 15-20 years ago. Either im old and «everything used to be much better when i was young» or the whole industry is flooded with so much «overhead» that kills all passion and trust/freedom we used to have.

@@ErnaSolbergXXXLike debugging those damn pointers? XD

@@ErnaSolbergXXX what were were some specific things that killed your passion?

Hi Pip, "I'm 40, and I'm not entirely satisfied with my job as a dev. But I don't see the advice you're giving as helpful - to me at least." if you’re open to it, I’d recommend checking out this playlist where I dive into why I believe software engineers have unique advantages when it comes to entrepreneurship: kzbin.info/aero/PLXF6g9GSJulvSai5BQcEcbWehM6dgxOFF&si=3uXWNv13sLTH0FuY It’s not about convincing you, but rather offering a perspective that might be worth considering. And in the meantime, you shouldn't feel bad about building stuff for other people - there’s no shame in that at all. My stance is more about making sure that the work we do, whether for ourselves or others, aligns with our goals and creates meaningful impact (end of the day, we are creators). If that resonates, great. If not, I wish you the best.

is it really "insane" ?

I'm in a similar situation. I live in South Africa, in a very small city. Most of the businesses here don't even have a website either. My only suggestion is to start off with a free option. They'll be more likely to say yes and, if you provide them with enough value, they may even turn into paying customers. At worst they could be experience and referals

@@brendonrichards9118in my town people sell clothes, agricultural products and car parts. The problem is that there are so many car part stores and customers usually have hard time finding the part they need. They have to call each store owner to ask whether they have the part they are looking fir. I go to the gym and one guy shared his frustration with me that it would be awesome to have a centralized platform where store owners would display their products and people would look for the part they want without calling everyone one by one. I asked around to the car part store owners who also train at the same gym I train and they told me that our customers usually call us if they need something and it would not be necessary to have this. I do not know whether I should pursue this idea.

Vro what are you doing right now?? digital marketing or cs ?