Why You’ll WASTE The Next 3 Years…

Time passes, FAST. If you want anything significant to happen in your life or your career, you need to do it now. And there needs to be a SPECIFIC plan of action to follow. And you NEED to zoom out to see the significance it will have in your overall life.

In this video, I want to encourage you to do just that in your coding journey, or really whatever goals you are pursuing. Zoom out to see that the sacrifice is actually smaller than you think, and the benefits are much bigger than you think.

Tune in...

Resources

** Career Path Coding Tracks **

** My Coding Blueprints **

** I write regularly **

** FREE EBOOKS **

LET'S CONNECT!

#selftaughtdeveloper #careerchange #aiprogramming

** Some of the links in this description may be affiliate links that I may get a little cut of. Thank you.

[johnpricejoseca]

When I was in college, I met a woman who went back to school to become a lawyer at 36. A friend of mine asked her, "Won't that take 3-4 years? -- You'll be 40!" She said, "Yup. In 4 years, I'll be 40. This way though, in 4 years I'll be 40, AND A LAWYER!"

[waynelast]

My HUGE mistake. Be BOLD. Make BIG changes quickly. But be able to pivot into something different quickly if necessary. After having some failures early in life I became hesitant to make BIG changes. Trust me regrets is a lot worse than at least saying you tried.

[KeithTharp]

I started a coding bootcamp at 50 years old, 4 years ago during COVID. I now have a great software engineering job.

[LeonC]

I’m 31 and I feel so hopeless, man. Even at the beginning of the video I thought “oh, he’s talking to those in their early 20s…” when you said you started at 34… I literally teared up. If feels so hard to break into the industry

[andyandroseadventure]

I'm 26 years old with a community college diploma in photography because I slacked off in high school and college. 2 years ago, I decided that I would go back to university to get my bachelor's degree. Funny enough I chose one of the hardest major to get in: Engineering. They told me I needed to repeat 5 required high school credits with mid to high 90s average to get in. After 2 years of studying part-time, I am now accepted to the Computer Engineering program and I am going back to University this September. I'll come back to look at this comment 4 years from now when I'm 30 and an Engineer (hopefully). Wish me luck!

[surajmandal_]

Very Good video. I wasted my last 5 years in depression after my graduate school.
But now I am on a plan and mos important I am in action. 🎉

[traezeeofor]

3 years! Very realistic time frame. I like how we have shifted away from the "1 year" buzz word of the past. Thanks very much for this.

[qepsvmo]

TLDW: spend 3 years investing in yourself and it will pay off for the rest of your life.

[jaml]

I am 36, I have been learning native Android development and software engineering for a bit more than 2 years, before that I had a good background in many fields, so it was a bit easy for me to learn a lot of stuff. Here where I live is a dead market (Algeria), there are almost no opportunities, it's hard to get a job, I have tried looking abroad (remote or reallocation) but it's not easy to get a job if you are not at a seniority level, If I were living in let's say for example 'Europe', I would have landed my first job after no more than one year (as a junior).
Anyways, I am not giving up yet, and I really hope that another year(the third year) will do it for me 😄

[seanpayne]

I started at 28. Got my first software engineering role at 30. Now at 33 leading development for finance apps, know around 7 languages and teaching myself Operating Systems development in my free time.

My life changed, not just from an income standpoint but I’ve gained so much self-respect from getting highly competent in something.

All the best to others on the journey.

[DataTranslator]

I restarted from zero at 27 years old. I quit a great job at Merck, sold all my possessions, and moved to the USA to start a doctoral degree.
It was hard but 100% worthy.
Seventeen years later I have the benefit of looking back at my own decisions.

[shamsularifeen]

means, the time shall pass no matter what. We should make the time productive instead of complainaing about stuffs which are out of control. Thank you for the video

[harshavardhanworkspace]

The one thing I want to add is, btw great content, sometimes people ( I'm one of them) think that after a certain point in life they see a certain set of actions and decisions that lead them here, and think I could have taken it way beforehand, and think I've wasted a ton of time. Overlooking the fact that, those Hits and misses were what made them to be, where they are. It's not about taking 3 years to have the right decision, but the will to act on it the moment it is born.

[irishpanda]

I read The 12 Week Year and I'm already blowing past my goals by just splitting them up over 3 months. This was the cherry on top.

[ikehawk]

Was making $40, 000 at 27 years old, finished a 3 month coding bootcamp, got my first job 4 months later as a front-end developer. Now, I'm a senior software engineer with a total comp of $193k at 35 years old.

[juliaifrank]

This video resonated with me a lot! Thanks for publishing it, Travis!
I am 40 now, and I changed careers from finance to computational physics by returning to university as an undergrad at 33, all while being a mom of four. It was a daring and bold move; people thought I was crazy, and at times, I doubted myself too. Yet, today, I am in the last month of my MSc and about to start a PhD. I’m also building my YouTube channel to document my journey and develop a whole new set of skills.
Thankfully, my husband was patient with the temporary sacrifices we had to make to our lifestyle during the last few years. We made it through with his support and the decent Student Aid in Canada. I do not regret going back to school to pursue a career that builds me up, even though it has been challenging at times. It's much better than feeling stagnant and stressed in a job that didn’t fulfill me and had a cap on how much I could earn, no matter how hard I would have tried.

[ash]

I lost my shop and went bankrupt in 2017 after 5 years of trying to make it work, retrained as a graphic designer at 27 and now it’s 7 years later. I have a new degree, a couple years experience and a tangible portfolio that has just landed me a new job with the highest salary I’ve ever earned; I started last week. People give up on that path because they expect it to feel good and it doesn’t. Nobody thanks you for it until you can look back on it and thank yourself for having your own back, dragging yourself through years of being broke, unhappy and stressed. I’m still not where I want to be in life but it’s got to a point now where I can see that my consistency pays off I have proof, that real progress fuels my further efforts.

[oooooooooOoOoOo]

i went to college late at 24 and graduated at 28. Wasted three years doing nothing, I actually tried to become a lawyer but failed getting into t100 law schools, so I gave up. Now I am studying for SWE. it has been a year since I started learning and going back to school. Many of my friends got married, have job, and have children but I am just here by with nothing. Hope I make it.

[Lexwiththeflex]

Thank you for this. Im 29 years old and I have felt nothing but regret looking at the last few years of my life. I regret it because I see all of the time I wasted being hard on myself and upset over things that happened to me. I matured, and grew alot more confidence in myself by building good habits and skills that helped me finanicially. I convinced myself for so long that my life is over. 30 is around the corner and that i should've started so long ago. But after watching this, I am inspired to start my youtube channel and instagram page again. Thank you again for this video!

[joangavelan]

This was the mistake I kept making since I turned 22, I wanted things to happen so fast or otherwise I'd quit, last year I realized that is not how it works. You must designate a realistic amount of time for a goal (it usually takes years for something worthwhile) and you must be patient and committed to it. Time will pass anyway, that's not in your hands, what is in your hands is the power to decide what you will be after that period of time. This year I decided to become an actual software engineer and entrepreneur to build projects and businesses that I am passionate about instead of trying to fulfill those checkboxes in job postings just to get the job. I am now 27 and I am grateful to God because despite of my mistakes I still have the opportunity to continue pursuing my goals, and so I will.