How to become a wealthy IT specialist is another thought
I read articles by respected authors, and decided to write something on my own. What motivated me to do this? I don’t know, rather a desire to share my experience and some concrete examples from life.
So what else, apart from assets, liabilities and everything already described?
Yes, all that the author of the first article writes correctly. It immediately becomes clear that the author associates himself with Petya, and tries to be like him, describes himself in fact ideally. But what is missing in this wonderful story?
The first thing I really want to understand when reading is the goalsyoung people. After all, in order to become a rich person, first of all, you need to set this goal for yourself. And on the way, to what extent this goal will be ambitious, first of all, the size of future "millions" depends.
Unfortunately, at a young age, many cannot formulate the right goal for themselves, are in constant search, and here luck is already included .
It is enough to get into the right school, university, acquire an environment of thinking people, and luck gets closer. After studying, or during, you need to join the stream of practice, where a person can see how successful people work, form ideals for themselves, and this will greatly bring luck closer.
But successalready heavily dependent on the person himself, how he will use what was described earlier.
The author of the second article successfully noted that sometimes it is just necessary to use some tools to attract other people. In his example, this is a car that he bought on credit in order to look more solid in front of the same customers. Well, a person is so complex by nature that he "meets by clothes", and therefore "show-offs" will be sold for a long time.
I will not use accounting terminology (just a little), since in the previous articles the ideas are fully disclosed, I will give only a number of examples from my own life.
At the age of 17, after graduating from school, I got a job in a company that was the first Internet provider in our country, and at that time was a fairly serious IT company. Unfortunately, the goals that were just before it were not destined to come true for health reasons, when I practically went to SP-BSTU for a specialty that was very interesting to me (FTK), I just could not go there. And then I really wanted to get knowledge , here is the main Asset!
But what were the goals of getting a job, even before graduation then? First of all, there was no goal to make a lot of money, and even millions. Getting a good education in my country seemed very vague to me, and I decided to go the other way. I did get a higher education (I won’t say that it’s good, but still in my own country), but the truth is in the field of economics, more so that it exists, but this is not about that now.
Since from an early age I was drawn to computers, and God gave such an opportunity, I understood them quite well, despite the fact that the “dashing” nineties raged in the yard.
The whole point here is luck, rather, when in the 6th or 7th grade (I don’t remember, to be honest) I got to the CPC for computer science, instead of auto-making, where the majority got. Immediately ZX-Spectrum, then it was lucky when, at work, my father had the opportunity to "feel" IBM.
In general, at school, I, like many here, was a participant (sometimes even a winner) in many olympiads, because as I believe, I did not sit and did not play from morning to night, but studied.
By the way, when I read an article here (I can’t find the link) about how the author developed his program for teaching schoolchildren, and their success, tears came to my eyes. After all, a good developer, creator, could have grown out of me, if I had the opportunity to learn from such teachers. But it was not and what happened? Huckster? :)
So, returning to goals, first of all I had a goal, by all means, to get knowledge in practice. After several months of work, I grew from an obscure assistant engineer to the head of the technical department. For me, a boy of 17 years, it was the height of dreams. In addition to the fact that at work there was someone to learn from, I began to acquire acquaintances and connections . The income level has grown markedly, plus there were some side jobs that began to bring very good money for that time. So somewhere in that moment the goal began to form to earn more money to realize their ambitions, needs, etc.
But that's not all. Here, luck was included, which helped to move to another, more reputable company, but the truth is that it is no longer working in the IT field. And here, the acquisition of experience in a rather narrow specialization related to automation helped a lot. I think, while continuing to work in IT companies, I would never have gained such experience. You can be a very serious consultant, architect, etc., but having no idea how the customer’s business works from the inside, it is very difficult to be a truly valuable specialist.
Further, I almost inherited another, even larger company. So by the age of 22, he already worked as the director of the IT department of a very large company. What can I say about what my life was more like? For the life of Vasya or Petit? I think not one of them. I had to work for months without days off, and for years without holidays. At the same time, I had to spend at work at night, and at home I dreamed about working tasks in my dreams, and by the way, there were solutions! Hellish labor, perhaps. On, this is one of the indisputable details in achieving success! The only question is what goals do you pursue?
While still working in the field of the above-described company, I began to think about creating my own small company, which would concentrate on the narrow specialization that I know, would provide its services to a wider circle of companies. Fortunately, the owner, and he is the boss of the company for which I worked, was and is quite a smart and successful businessman, he understood me and did not dissuade me. True, I had to work a year more after my application, to assemble a team, to leave a man behind me, but this not only did not stop me, but also helped me to stay in good relations with the former boss. Now we are friends, and this friendship helps me seriously. What is it? Luck? Friends by the way, one of the most powerful assets!
In addition, a year earlier I started a family. I believe this is one of the important success factors, since it was my family that taught me that making money is not enough, it is more important to save it! By the way, I consider the family one of the most important assets in life, like health and knowledge. You understand this with age. I know people who have a lot of money, but do not have a family, and they would be ready to give all this money in return, and later ... Well, okay, let's go further.
The first 2-3 years of the work of our own company came with a big creak. The most important thing that I think is right at that time is that I did not go into debt. Start-up capital was some, but it was not big. Yes, money was sorely lacking for anything. Neither for the family, nor for the salary of a few employees. I even had to at some point sell the car (very good by the way), and invest the proceeds to maintain the pants in the company. I had to tighten the straps again, reduce the costs, which are already used to, working "for uncle." What do you think? I regretted that I left a stable and quite good income? Not! It was not up to these thoughts, it was necessary to work!
The growth of the company's assets in the first 3 years was 100% per year! Whether this depends a little or a lot on the starting capital, I think in our case everything was very successful.
So, slowly, but surely, the situation began to improve, and our company met the crisis of 2008-2009 without losses, and even with a profit. Of course, there was no 100% increase in capital, but nonetheless. Rather, luck worked here.
By the way, I would like to emphasize this fact. Repeatedly faced with a situation where it was necessary to implement new directions, and it would seem, nothing complicated and costly, everything can be launched in a period of 2-3 months, and projects lasted for a year or more. And believe me, nothing can be done about it! It seems that they should have "matured"! After that, the development of these areas was much more successful.
Here is another very important point. thanks to which I did not lose what I started from the very beginning - you can never get into someone else’s pocket! Never spend your money until the project is at least 90% complete. Otherwise, failure may occur, as a result of which it will be very difficult to correct the situation! I know many talented people who have sinned and continue to sin by this, and fate does what they deserve with them.
Now I have achieved the goals that I set for myself then. Yes, you can increase the turnover a year by 2 times, and the staff is 3 more, but this is enough for me. I do not want to refuse to rest 1-2 times a year in Thailand, 1-2 times in Bali and another 1-2 times in Europe. I think I did a good job as a teenager. I have everything for a normal life, including liabilities for my beloved. Yes, how can they be without them? Why money if you buy only assets on them? Now I am formulating new goals based on new realities, and this will be a new motivation, a new asset.
By the way, my opinion is about such things as a car, which is getting cheaper and costly, household items, rest and more. Repeatedly, I came across situations where you just need to pamper yourself with something! Several times I was depressed, called it a “black” stripe when nothing happens, and everything falls apart. So, the recipe for overcoming the peak for me was the acquisition of something that I might have wanted for a long time, but the “toad crushed”, or there was not enough money stupidly! And now, after this wonderful moment of acquiring this, everything by itself was decided and "resolved." Here, I think, a question of mood . It must always be lifted by something (to control so that it does not fall).
Solely, you will most likely fail to become a millionaire, and you will have to use the concept of “motivation”, not only to subordinates and employees, but first of all to yourself.
About managing your time: yes, if you set yourself to earn a lot of money seriously, be prepared to work hard like Papa Carlo, and then you can’t get anywhere without things like Time Management, and the like. But here, in my opinion, the savings on e-mail checks and telephone conversations are unlikely to help. Without operational information, it will only get worse, but it’s also not worth it. By the way, I often want to drown my phone, and I think this is normal.
And as for the social. networks, so I don’t understand them at all, unless of course we consider Habr as social. network. The same with online games and others like them. Forget about them. If they cheer you up, play for 10 minutes (per month).
What conclusions can be drawn from what I wrote here? Well, it's up to you. I just wanted to say that in addition to the undoubtedly correct things that the respected authors of previous posts wrote about, there are also those that I tried to recall.
I will be glad if someone will be interested in my story, and even better if it helps to structure my life plans.
So what else, apart from assets, liabilities and everything already described?
Yes, all that the author of the first article writes correctly. It immediately becomes clear that the author associates himself with Petya, and tries to be like him, describes himself in fact ideally. But what is missing in this wonderful story?
The first thing I really want to understand when reading is the goalsyoung people. After all, in order to become a rich person, first of all, you need to set this goal for yourself. And on the way, to what extent this goal will be ambitious, first of all, the size of future "millions" depends.
Unfortunately, at a young age, many cannot formulate the right goal for themselves, are in constant search, and here luck is already included .
It is enough to get into the right school, university, acquire an environment of thinking people, and luck gets closer. After studying, or during, you need to join the stream of practice, where a person can see how successful people work, form ideals for themselves, and this will greatly bring luck closer.
But successalready heavily dependent on the person himself, how he will use what was described earlier.
The author of the second article successfully noted that sometimes it is just necessary to use some tools to attract other people. In his example, this is a car that he bought on credit in order to look more solid in front of the same customers. Well, a person is so complex by nature that he "meets by clothes", and therefore "show-offs" will be sold for a long time.
I will not use accounting terminology (just a little), since in the previous articles the ideas are fully disclosed, I will give only a number of examples from my own life.
At the age of 17, after graduating from school, I got a job in a company that was the first Internet provider in our country, and at that time was a fairly serious IT company. Unfortunately, the goals that were just before it were not destined to come true for health reasons, when I practically went to SP-BSTU for a specialty that was very interesting to me (FTK), I just could not go there. And then I really wanted to get knowledge , here is the main Asset!
But what were the goals of getting a job, even before graduation then? First of all, there was no goal to make a lot of money, and even millions. Getting a good education in my country seemed very vague to me, and I decided to go the other way. I did get a higher education (I won’t say that it’s good, but still in my own country), but the truth is in the field of economics, more so that it exists, but this is not about that now.
Since from an early age I was drawn to computers, and God gave such an opportunity, I understood them quite well, despite the fact that the “dashing” nineties raged in the yard.
The whole point here is luck, rather, when in the 6th or 7th grade (I don’t remember, to be honest) I got to the CPC for computer science, instead of auto-making, where the majority got. Immediately ZX-Spectrum, then it was lucky when, at work, my father had the opportunity to "feel" IBM.
In general, at school, I, like many here, was a participant (sometimes even a winner) in many olympiads, because as I believe, I did not sit and did not play from morning to night, but studied.
By the way, when I read an article here (I can’t find the link) about how the author developed his program for teaching schoolchildren, and their success, tears came to my eyes. After all, a good developer, creator, could have grown out of me, if I had the opportunity to learn from such teachers. But it was not and what happened? Huckster? :)
So, returning to goals, first of all I had a goal, by all means, to get knowledge in practice. After several months of work, I grew from an obscure assistant engineer to the head of the technical department. For me, a boy of 17 years, it was the height of dreams. In addition to the fact that at work there was someone to learn from, I began to acquire acquaintances and connections . The income level has grown markedly, plus there were some side jobs that began to bring very good money for that time. So somewhere in that moment the goal began to form to earn more money to realize their ambitions, needs, etc.
But that's not all. Here, luck was included, which helped to move to another, more reputable company, but the truth is that it is no longer working in the IT field. And here, the acquisition of experience in a rather narrow specialization related to automation helped a lot. I think, while continuing to work in IT companies, I would never have gained such experience. You can be a very serious consultant, architect, etc., but having no idea how the customer’s business works from the inside, it is very difficult to be a truly valuable specialist.
Further, I almost inherited another, even larger company. So by the age of 22, he already worked as the director of the IT department of a very large company. What can I say about what my life was more like? For the life of Vasya or Petit? I think not one of them. I had to work for months without days off, and for years without holidays. At the same time, I had to spend at work at night, and at home I dreamed about working tasks in my dreams, and by the way, there were solutions! Hellish labor, perhaps. On, this is one of the indisputable details in achieving success! The only question is what goals do you pursue?
While still working in the field of the above-described company, I began to think about creating my own small company, which would concentrate on the narrow specialization that I know, would provide its services to a wider circle of companies. Fortunately, the owner, and he is the boss of the company for which I worked, was and is quite a smart and successful businessman, he understood me and did not dissuade me. True, I had to work a year more after my application, to assemble a team, to leave a man behind me, but this not only did not stop me, but also helped me to stay in good relations with the former boss. Now we are friends, and this friendship helps me seriously. What is it? Luck? Friends by the way, one of the most powerful assets!
In addition, a year earlier I started a family. I believe this is one of the important success factors, since it was my family that taught me that making money is not enough, it is more important to save it! By the way, I consider the family one of the most important assets in life, like health and knowledge. You understand this with age. I know people who have a lot of money, but do not have a family, and they would be ready to give all this money in return, and later ... Well, okay, let's go further.
The first 2-3 years of the work of our own company came with a big creak. The most important thing that I think is right at that time is that I did not go into debt. Start-up capital was some, but it was not big. Yes, money was sorely lacking for anything. Neither for the family, nor for the salary of a few employees. I even had to at some point sell the car (very good by the way), and invest the proceeds to maintain the pants in the company. I had to tighten the straps again, reduce the costs, which are already used to, working "for uncle." What do you think? I regretted that I left a stable and quite good income? Not! It was not up to these thoughts, it was necessary to work!
The growth of the company's assets in the first 3 years was 100% per year! Whether this depends a little or a lot on the starting capital, I think in our case everything was very successful.
So, slowly, but surely, the situation began to improve, and our company met the crisis of 2008-2009 without losses, and even with a profit. Of course, there was no 100% increase in capital, but nonetheless. Rather, luck worked here.
By the way, I would like to emphasize this fact. Repeatedly faced with a situation where it was necessary to implement new directions, and it would seem, nothing complicated and costly, everything can be launched in a period of 2-3 months, and projects lasted for a year or more. And believe me, nothing can be done about it! It seems that they should have "matured"! After that, the development of these areas was much more successful.
Here is another very important point. thanks to which I did not lose what I started from the very beginning - you can never get into someone else’s pocket! Never spend your money until the project is at least 90% complete. Otherwise, failure may occur, as a result of which it will be very difficult to correct the situation! I know many talented people who have sinned and continue to sin by this, and fate does what they deserve with them.
Now I have achieved the goals that I set for myself then. Yes, you can increase the turnover a year by 2 times, and the staff is 3 more, but this is enough for me. I do not want to refuse to rest 1-2 times a year in Thailand, 1-2 times in Bali and another 1-2 times in Europe. I think I did a good job as a teenager. I have everything for a normal life, including liabilities for my beloved. Yes, how can they be without them? Why money if you buy only assets on them? Now I am formulating new goals based on new realities, and this will be a new motivation, a new asset.
By the way, my opinion is about such things as a car, which is getting cheaper and costly, household items, rest and more. Repeatedly, I came across situations where you just need to pamper yourself with something! Several times I was depressed, called it a “black” stripe when nothing happens, and everything falls apart. So, the recipe for overcoming the peak for me was the acquisition of something that I might have wanted for a long time, but the “toad crushed”, or there was not enough money stupidly! And now, after this wonderful moment of acquiring this, everything by itself was decided and "resolved." Here, I think, a question of mood . It must always be lifted by something (to control so that it does not fall).
Solely, you will most likely fail to become a millionaire, and you will have to use the concept of “motivation”, not only to subordinates and employees, but first of all to yourself.
About managing your time: yes, if you set yourself to earn a lot of money seriously, be prepared to work hard like Papa Carlo, and then you can’t get anywhere without things like Time Management, and the like. But here, in my opinion, the savings on e-mail checks and telephone conversations are unlikely to help. Without operational information, it will only get worse, but it’s also not worth it. By the way, I often want to drown my phone, and I think this is normal.
And as for the social. networks, so I don’t understand them at all, unless of course we consider Habr as social. network. The same with online games and others like them. Forget about them. If they cheer you up, play for 10 minutes (per month).
What conclusions can be drawn from what I wrote here? Well, it's up to you. I just wanted to say that in addition to the undoubtedly correct things that the respected authors of previous posts wrote about, there are also those that I tried to recall.
I will be glad if someone will be interested in my story, and even better if it helps to structure my life plans.