A manifesto
I’ve been working as a professional coder for almost 20 years and still love it. My problem is I want to code for the love and not the money. I like money but it cant be my direct incentive for coding otherwise I’m miserable and don’t like doing it. I’m not saying I couldn’t work at a company where I might get fulfillment but it hasn’t happened so far. I’ve been quite disappointed with my past employers for lack of follow-through and not taking my advice on crucial moments. Yet I’m still geared towards startups for some reason. I guess it roots from my love of starting from the ground up. So for now, I’m taking some chances and trying to get some things out there with the little funding I’ve got available.
I have an artistic side and want to express this through the web in some way. I want to make something that goes beyond being simply a cool idea or technically better than something else. What means the most to me is having people using and benefiting from something I’ve made. There are people who say that I’ve done a good job, and then never really use what I created. I find it funny but I don’t mind, I just really want that people are able to benefit from something I made in a very tangible and evident way. If I don’t have that then I want to leave it out in the cold because I need this on a basic level. I’ve been putting my life towards this and I don’t take it like a joke so I’m trying my hardest to get to the dream with the resources I have available.
I work so hard at this sometimes I almost feel like I’ve made it. Success is almost always on my mind, I spend most of my time working towards the next goal. Life has so much to offer and I’m just trying my hardest to experience the world while at the same time expressing myself in my own way. Once I have achieved something great I plan to make it last a lifetime. I refuse to believe that just because I haven’t made it yet doesn’t mean that I don’t have that potential in me. I’ve been working on this since I was a kid, I was actually always in trouble back then but managed to teach myself to code. My family didn’t have a lot of money but we did usually have a computer so that was a big advantage to me and got me out of trouble.
I believe one day I will have something that will be big. Development and design come naturally to me and I’ve been working on combining that with marketing and entrepreneurship. It’s my opinion about myself but it may be wrong and I’m not really out looking for other people’s opinions about it. It’s just my personal self-view and if anyone thinks there’s a problem with that then maybe they should self-reflect on some of their own problems. It’s impossible to look into someone’s life and truly understand what’s going on in their head. I’m living my life the way I feel is right and wish to continue doing so free from scrutiny either positive or negative.
The only thing that matters to me is the impact I manage to make in an honest and beneficial way. This is why I’ve taken on marketing and entrepreneurship, it’s better than me spending my life making software that almost no one sees. I don’t want to look back with the regret that I didn’t do what it takes to make my dreams come true. I have been planning this my whole life and have so much up my sleeve to offer. Nothing I say here may apply to anyone else’s life just my own. I think life is so valuable you need to do whatever seems right for you and never try to emulate anyone. My personal goal is to have fun with life, get inspired, stay motivated, be disciplined and have a positive impact on the world.
There are so many people who are trying to tell everyone how to ‘make it’ in this world but how can you do that when it’s not the same for everyone? In a way, I see this as evil and is delaying progress through the spread of misinformation. People are eating it up because they are trying to feed off the success and energy of other people instead of doing it for their own reasons. I don’t see that as a sustainable way to be motivated or succeed in what you’re trying to do because it runs out fast. Just analyze what you want in life, and do it for yourself.
