You don't. That is the way to do it. So, weirdly enough, many times I get questions about, oh, look, how do I get a software job? How do I get a job at a Fortune 500 company or Google or Facebook or something? I don't know. Usually people aren't so egregious as to use those demonic companies as examples. But a lot of times I'll get these questions of, you know, how do I set myself up to get a good software job? How do I get a good software job? Blah, blah, blah. Okay. Firstly, yeah, don't do that. That's basically the just of the video. Let me explain why. You don't like people nowadays. They think of everything. They think of making money. They think of everything in terms of me doing what some company wants and getting paid. Okay, jobs. Okay, 100 years ago, most people did not have jobs. They made ends meet because they were all self-employed. And I want to talk about like the digital sphere. All right, let's illustrate how privileged people are nowadays to have digital technology. If you're a computer programmer, the thing is no amount of money is worth your freedom. I mean, maybe if it's like a temporary gig, you know, I'm not against like having any kind of computing job. Absolutely not. But I think it's important if you have any kind of web development skill, real web development skills or like programming skills that you absolutely never think of yourself as an employer. You're always working for yourself. And if you take a gig, it's only something that's temporary. Okay, only for convenience and you could leave it any day. Okay, now the reason that I say that is compare. Now computing is a trade. It's a modern day digital trade. Okay, it works just as well as, you know, I don't know like being a plumber or carpenter or something like that is just digital. Now the big difference is this. Okay, if you let's use the example of carpentry. Okay, if you learn how to do carpentry, if you go work for a guy who's, you know, doing that stuff and you're working in his workshop, you're making money for him, you're an employee, eventually you're gonna realize, oh, I know how to do this stuff. Okay, oh, I've been working here a couple years. I know pretty much all the tricks of the trade. I could start my own business. Now what keeps you from doing that? What keeps you from starting your own business and making your own money? Okay, money, money keeps you from that. Like capital, not having the tools. The thing is, if you wanna be a carpenter, you have to have, I mean, even for a basic wood shop, you basically have to put down, I don't know, maybe if you're doing something very primitive in artisanal a couple hundred bucks, but you'll probably be putting a couple thousand bucks. If it's a real workshop, you know, that you're using for more or less industrial purposes, that's gonna be tens of thousands of dollars, right? So, you know, those are the constraints there. And at that, every project you make, every job you create, that's gonna cost you money, because guess what, you're using this raw material called wood, okay? Which is very expensive, especially after brand inflation. So you are going to be spending a whole lot of money and it's just gonna be, you know, just to do basic things. So, if you make a little error, you can't just fix it. It's gonna cost you out of pocket. Now, that is true of basically every traditional trade. If you're gonna be a glacier or a Cooper, I don't care, whatever. But it is not true of digital things. It's not true of things in, you know, it's not true of computing, right? So, you can experiment with your computer without any common raw material costs. Like, you don't need, I mean, everyone basically has the primitive capital of a computer to work on. So, I'm just considering that as some cost. And it's a very small cost aside from that. Like, you can get a computer for a hundred bucks, pretty easy. And that's really all you need, right? So, computing is this domain where you have every reason to be independent. And if you're working for some kind of company, what really are you getting from that? Okay? Anything computationally that you can do working for this company, you can do on your own, right? If you're writing software for them, I mean, it would be just as easy to work as a freelancer writing it out software and getting paid, you know, depending on what you're doing better and have more flexibility, not have to go in for 40 hours a week or something like that, you know, to do or doing humiliating Zoom calls like all that kind of stuff. Like, you can just skip it, right? So, really what you're getting when you're working for these software companies, you're not getting much. Okay? You're getting, I guess, a big amount of money, enough money to make your freedom seem a little less consequential, okay? They're gonna give you lots of money for that. But again, if you're making yourself worth it at that company, you could make that money yourself, okay? You don't need those raw material costs. But aside from that, you're really just getting like a boss, like someone who tells you what to do, maybe you don't have initiative, maybe that's a legitimate thing, like some people just can't figure out what to do with their lives and I don't know, but that's basically what you're getting. You're basically giving your freedom up just to have a boss because you can't make up things to do yourself, right? So that's the thing, that's the issue, you know, I have with people asking these kind of questions because I think it's, I don't want you to have a software job, I don't want anyone to have a software job. And if you do have one, as I said, you have to look at it as something non-essential to your personality that is something temporary that you could leave it any day, right? Because that has to be how it is. Like you basically have all the power and the negotiations, okay, and don't forget that. And that is why computer programmers are so often paid so well, right? Because most of them, well, I don't wanna say most of them, but at least the significant portion of them realized that they don't actually need the job. And if you're someone young starting out and you're just tinkering on a computer, you have to remember that as well, okay? If you're thinking about things in terms of, how can I jump from job to job and like do these humiliating things like that I don't really wanna do constantly? Oh, I wanna work, no, there is no ladder to work up, you know, in the corporate world, right? When it comes to digital technology. Like this is one of those fields. And I know even when I was in college, which wasn't like that really that long ago, computer science is one of those fields where no one cares about degrees and stuff like that. In fact, if you have a PhD in computer science, that's like, are you a weirdo? And you know, a lot of my friends would go into CS and then drop out before they finish because they figured things out, they can make money on themselves by themselves or they get a job and like then that gives them abilities to do other things. But you have to always look at those jobs as being temporary, okay? So that's just the mindset people need to get it. I mean, this honestly should go for other things as well. Like again, like a hundred or so years ago, people were just self-employed. Like that was how the world worked. And you know, the kind of boomer economy mentality is that everyone like having a job being an employee is the natural state of the world. When it's just not, like a very small portion of the population was like that. And you know, before or before of like World War II or so. And even now, I mean, we really just had a generation or two where this is the case. And hopefully it's not gonna be the case relatively soon, okay? It was just kind of a historical accident. So stop thinking of yourself as a potential employee, stop thinking about your stupid resume, stop all that kind of stuff. And think about things in terms of how can I make, like what kind of things can I offer? People out there, not a particular company, but people out there. If I need to get a job at a company, that's fine. But I'm not gonna view that as the end. I'm gonna view that as like, oh, you know, they're so stupid, they're giving me this money to basically do nothing while I work on my own personal projects. Okay, that is what I consider appropriate. So yeah, that's what I have to say.