Make money with coding.. What you're NOT being told!

Hope I didn't discourage anyone with this video. Just trying to be honest about making money with code. Let me know what you think about the video and tell me how you're making money with code!

“Telling people they can make money, makes YOU a lot of money on the internet.” That is the realest thing I have heard all year!! Subscribed! Thank you for this video.

25 years of experience here, and I can tell you, everything he’s saying is 100% on the nose. The waves of burnout are real. The plateaus are real. That said, if you have a passion for learning and solving problems with code… it’s worth it. And it does get easier. Software development is a craft. Even five years isn’t enough to master it. Hell, 25 years isn’t enough. But, that’s what’s thrilling about it. The learning never stops.

wow, this guy can do everything! Plumber, tennis coach, electrician, boss, manager, and now he's a software developer!?

I was in IT for 16 years. Big companies, small companies, a startup, some freelancing. This video is 100% correct. This is the most realistic take on getting into IT that Ive ever seen. I got into IT because of passion, but working for someone else will suck the passion right out of you. Find a job that pays the bills and that you can tolerate, but keep your passion stuff as a hobby and you can keep it fulfilling. That's my 2 cents ... which is essentially what Dorian is saying... It's good advice, from real life experience... fwiw

Retirement for some people becomes their bondage in poverty because they failed to invest with the little they have on their active years of working, this is an error we need to start working on now, I’ll advise that while you still can work and earn also take some money aside and invest in your future after retirement so this classification won’t have to be yours

Thank you for being HONEST AND TELLING IT LIKE IT IS!!!!

It's hard to find honesty on YouTube, thanks and I'm happy to donate my eyes to your ads and contribute to whatever it gives you

Love your honesty. It is always best when someone gets into something knowing what to expect. RESPECT!

Moral of the story: no matter what path you take in life, it will most likely be stressful and difficult. Gotta love the world we live in

After more than 20 years in the industry and having done everything from Freelancing, Corporate Jobs to Game Dev I could not agree more.

I like how real this felt. No fluff. I'm thinking about a game or app based off my tabletop creation, but now I understand even more of what stress and risk there would be. Thank you.

i love this channel just cuz of how real u keep it man, keep going, keep it real

I've spent 30 years flinging code, and Dorian is spot on. It can be a rewarding and lucrative career. For me success came when I had the experience to choose who I worked for, and could use my skills and abilities to work towards both of our goals of building a better world, all while working for a company where there is mutual trust and respect. There is nothing better at the end of the day than to say to yourself, "I've made a huge difference in the world." And don't worry, when you've reached that level you won't have to worry about money. Oh, and the icing on the cake...I don't have a college degree.

I am 48 at the time of writing. I started coding professionally in 1999. After 5 years I transitioned to freelance. I burned out after 17y and stopped coding professionally. Now work in a totally different field and coding is again a hobby, like it was in the early 90's. Every word of this video is true. I've lived it.

Your honesty just gave your channel a new subscriber's. Great content !

Such true words. No youtuber exactly says the pain as you do. I'll be subing you for nice content you made with your experience.

As a professional software developer for 20 years (most of the time freelancing) I can absolutely, 150% agree with all your points. On the internet everything seems to be easy (become rich, become fit, be the next Elon Musk,...), but the reality is different, not discouraging, but you just have to put much more effort into anything than it's proposed in many internet-content-pieces.

As a senior developer (currently in the learning path for software architecture), I think everything you said there is true (I can't really comment about the freelancing portion as I haven't been a freelancer). This job is hard, and the higher you climb and harder it is. Somehow I have climbed pretty quickly in the company I'm working on even though it's pretty big. I joined as a guy with no experience at all that didn't know any of the languages the company used. 3 years later I was a senior dev and tech lead for small teams. Even though I learn extremely fast and have nice ideas, it wasn't easy at all, I worked my butt off and also learned how to make myself shine in front of clients and higher ups, specially since I didn't have a diploma and had to make myself look worth paying more for. The one thing I usually tell people is: Don't just go with the company with higher pay right away. Make sure the company allows you to grow, to learn, that has requirements that will challenge you and force you to be better. That will make you a better developer over time and you will probably be able to land even better jobs with way higher pay. I know people with more knowledge and experience than me who left the company for another one where they were paid more but had really boring work or barely had any work, and at this point it seems I ended up gathering more knowledge and experience than most of them and I'm earning similar or higher amounts. I'm getting job offers with really good salaries but I'm staying in this company as it has and still does help me with my mother who is battling against cancer. At some point I said I had to travel to see and assist her when she was hospitalized and nobody freaked out about the current projects or told me that I had just a couple days for that. They all told me they would cover my work and to take as much time as I needed. I was back two weeks later, still having trouble to get whole 8 hours of work a day as I was still helping my mother and they just told me to take it easy and not go overboard. I'm making over 130K a year (it was about 83K until lkast year). I have to say, I have gotten offers where I can earn a bit more, but I decided to stay with the company that actually treats me like a human being that has personal issues that might affect my job, that might need to leave early on short notice due to emergencies happening, the company that often checks whether I'm burning out and tries to avoid that happening, and also has my back when a client is being overly abussive. Then again, I had some luck landing here and also this company's culture really fitted me as everything here is about helping each other and learning in the process. Try to find something like that, and try to be someone who deserves to be treated like that.

You just earned a new subscriber! Thanks for being real. I am not discouraged one bit.