{"id":128638,"date":"2022-10-05T17:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.finxter.com\/?p=755876"},"modified":"2022-10-05T17:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:48:18","slug":"about-me-when-the-going-gets-tough-keep-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/05\/about-me-when-the-going-gets-tough-keep-going\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me \u2013 When The Going Gets Tough, Keep Going"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Welcome to the Finxter blog! My name is Chris, and I started this coding venture a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

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Over the years, I have chatted with tens of thousands of Finxters who shared their stories and struggles with me. <\/p>\n

\"\ud83d\udc49\" See here<\/a> and here<\/a> to read a lot of feedback from the community.<\/p>\n

Today, allow me to share my story<\/em><\/strong> about why I started teaching freelancing.<\/p>\n

It may inspire you to take control of your life if you’re in a tough spot right now – for example, struggling with the economic, military, and energy crises that are happening right now.<\/p>\n

If you’re not interested in my personal story, now would be the time to stop reading. I won’t blame you!<\/p>\n

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Once upon a time, when I was a timid and naive 20-year-old dreamer, my 18-year-old girlfriend unexpectedly got pregnant. \"🤰\"<\/p>\n

She was still in high school, and I had just started studying computer science.<\/p>\n

At the time, we had zero income and maybe $900 in savings.<\/p>\n

I was living in a cheap 15-square-meter room with a desk and a bed and not much else.<\/p>\n

As young and poor parents without any education or degree, we constantly felt judgment and pity from society.<\/p>\n

We couldn’t even rent a flat because no landlord was crazy enough to take us in.<\/p>\n

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During all the struggle, we had love and dreams and the belief that everything would get better eventually: I was going to be a computer scientist in five years.<\/p>\n

That is if I found a way to support my family on a shoestring – and avoided screwing up my education.<\/p>\n

The first ten years, money was tight as hell. Little time. Lots of hard work. No TV. No Games. No Saturday night partying.<\/p>\n

Well, maybe a little…<\/p>\n

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I am not a wunderkind. But I have good work ethic, and long-term goals, and I don’t give up easily. Finally, after ten tough years, I got my Ph.D. in computer science “summa cum laude”.<\/p>\n

I now had a steady paycheck from my government job. But I eventually learned that the academic degrees didn’t help in improving our financial situation. <\/p>\n

People made far more money and had far more free time coding in the private sector and without academic degrees.<\/p>\n

I decided to take matters into my own hands again by creating my own coding business as a freelance developer.<\/p>\n

In little time, I reached six-figure income levels. And I had much more free time compared to my government job that I held before.<\/p>\n

My second child – now five years old – knows his father to have infinite time playing soccer, video games, or watching the Tesla Bot taking his first steps on YouTube. <\/p>\n

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(He plans to become CEO of Tesla – stay tuned @Elon).<\/p>\n

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Becoming a freelancer was a pivot point in my life.<\/p>\n

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To share all I know about creating a thriving coding business online, I have set up our freelancer course<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It focuses on the fundamentals: <\/p>\n

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  4. take massive action.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Simple, but sometimes not so easy…<\/p>\n

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    If you want more from life and you love coding, feel free to subscribe to my free email academy<\/a>, I’d love to have you in our community of ambitious coders who have not yet lost their ability to dream of a better life! \"\u2764\" <\/p>\n

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