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[Tut] About Me – When The Going Gets Tough, Keep Going - xSicKxBot - 10-06-2022
About Me – When The Going Gets Tough, Keep Going
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<p>Welcome to the Finxter blog! My name is Chris, and I started this coding venture a couple of years ago.</p>
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<p>Over the years, I have chatted with tens of thousands of Finxters who shared their stories and struggles with me. </p>
<p class="has-global-color-8-background-color has-background"><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/1f449.png" alt="?" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> See <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://blog.finxter.com/what-our-users-say/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://blog.finxter.com/what-our-users-say/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://blog.finxter.com/finxter-feedback-from-1000-users/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://blog.finxter.com/finxter-feedback-from-1000-users/" target="_blank">here</a> to read a lot of feedback from the community.</p>
<p>Today, allow me to share <strong><em>my story</em></strong> about why I started teaching freelancing.</p>
<p>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>
<p>If you’re not interested in my personal story, now would be the time to stop reading. I won’t blame you!</p>
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<p>~~~</p>
<p>Once upon a time, when I was a timid and naive 20-year-old dreamer, my 18-year-old girlfriend unexpectedly got pregnant. <img alt="🤰" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/14.0/1f930/32.png"></p>
<p>She was still in high school, and I had just started studying computer science.</p>
<p>At the time, we had zero income and maybe $900 in savings.</p>
<p>I was living in a cheap 15-square-meter room with a desk and a bed and not much else.</p>
<p>As young and poor parents without any education or degree, we constantly felt judgment and pity from society.</p>
<p>We couldn’t even rent a flat because no landlord was crazy enough to take us in.</p>
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<p>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>
<p>That is if I found a way to support my family on a shoestring – and avoided screwing up my education.</p>
<p>The first ten years, money was tight as hell. Little time. Lots of hard work. No TV. No Games. No Saturday night partying.</p>
<p>Well, maybe a little…</p>
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<p>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>
<p>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>
<p>People made far more money and had far more free time coding in the private sector and without academic degrees.</p>
<p>I decided to take matters into my own hands again by creating my own coding business as a freelance developer.</p>
<p>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>
<p>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>
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<p>(He plans to become CEO of Tesla – stay tuned @Elon).</p>
<p>~~~</p>
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<p>Becoming a freelancer was a pivot point in my life.</p>
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<p>To share all I know about creating a thriving coding business online, I have set up our <a href="https://blog.finxter.com/become-python-freelancer-course/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://blog.finxter.com/become-python-freelancer-course/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">freelancer course</a>. </p>
<p>It focuses on the fundamentals: </p>
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<li>find your niche, </li>
<li>build your skills,</li>
<li>create value for your customers, and </li>
<li>take massive action.</li>
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<p>Simple, but sometimes not so easy…</p>
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<p>If you want more from life and you love coding, feel free to subscribe to my <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://blog.finxter.com/email-academy/" data-type="page" data-id="12278" target="_blank">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! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2764.png" alt="❤" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> </p>
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