Thx! Good advice! I did similar stuff 35 yrs ago and found it beneficial, set goals. AAS/BS/MS degrees & various certs too. However, after being Sr Dev many years, then team leads, got into multiple Manager roles only to find it mostly sucked and preferred being a Dev. LOL. Then after being forced into the job market again for past several years, I really really hate the "Where do you see yourself in 5yrs" type of questions. I tell them I did all that and just want to be a good programmer until forever. But they seem to dislike that answer. In my opinion it sux that everyone is always coerced into being a leader, "everyone" can't be a leader or else there will be nobody to lead. Its like too many cooks in the kitchen Lol. Anyway, most people should be encouraged to be decent followers, cuz most folks seem to be bad at even doing that. .... 57yo guy says.
I can relate to you, I jumped to the ladder pretty fast, then realized sr lead is not what I thought it would be. Of course exp is something that most junior didn't have and I was there to guide them, but the drive the core fun I had years ago for coding is vanished, so quit everything, got into investment to make a living and only learn or do stuff that I really enjoy, sessioned programmer who doesn't enjoy what they do, don't expect anything from them, they are useless dumb to do the bidding very worst way.
Perhaps u will never read this but Thank you Travis. I’m 36yo with 2 kids under 2yo. No background in tech, and currently self studying Python. I will set and use this method and scale it up. Hopefully to get back to you in 2 yrs and update u with better results. God bless!
Love your content Travis, currently using your 6 month blueprint to learn web dev, and I gotta say its been rough. I dont have kids or a S.O. but its still been hard to make time after work to learn something new. Im grateful to have the blueprint to hold me accountable for my progress because life can get in the way real quick but having a plan helps keep me on track.
Really appreciate this content, want to accomplish the goal of becoming a junior JAVASCRIPT developer in a startup company, and this has increased my willpower to continue pushing. Again, this is very much appreciated, thank a lot🙏🙏🙏🙏.
I’m a 36 yr old welder and started an AAS in Software Development at my local community college. Been super stoked as the structure is great. Always looking for more tips and advice!
@@MrTactics26 yessir. About 8 months ago I started to learn html, css, js, and python. Did a couple of personal projects from tutorials like a speech recognition ai assistant. Just for querying data when I didn’t feel like typing. And messed with some GUI stuff. I found that I was jumping around way too much between languages. Hahahaha. We got this fellas! One step at a time!
I would add just one thing. And this thing is advice to add one extra step in planning stages. Planning stages should not start from goal in five years, it has to start with questions such as what is the aim in your life, what is the main thing you want to accomplish in lifetime. Because person who could not answer it in the beginning of their journey could find themselves to be in the wrong place after five years of strictly moving by his initial plan.
Great video thanks Travis. Really enjoyed hearing your story and feel like I resonate with it a lot. Got the goal of securing a junior backend role in 2 months and this way of thinking really helps with decision making and planning. Much appreciated!
Praise God! I used this exact method to set a one-year goal to earn a specific amount of money, and thankfully that has been accomplished, and I start the new job this Monday!
Currently, I'm 34 and making that intentional move to learn to code. Have to keep moving even when it gets frustrating and motivation is low 💻 I look forward to digging through your videos 👍
Cool plan. Two questions. How do you actually decide if your daily/weekly/monthly plan is too hard/too easy/just right? Please don't tell me "from experience", you gave the example of learning something new, your experience is limited. Second question: do you immediately sit down and do all weekly plans for the whole 2 years? If not, how do you make sure that your weekly goal pace is adequate to achieve the 2 years goal?
I always struggle to make a decision and take action. The plethora of online information & the commercialisation of everything makes its difficult. It’s overwhelming!
You said when you were in your teens worked at a fast food restaurant i want to get my first job so i can buy s setup to share my coding journey... Did you go to the restaurant and asked for a job? I like it because i hsve have a goal with it but im a bit lost..
i'm 22 years old college dropout. i already learnt html, css, tailwind and JS and right now i have a job as VA and the company is using php and wordpress so i'm slowly learning those two so i can become a full time developer for the company i'm already working for. wish me luck :)
WOW, i'm impressed with that video, i'll do the same. I'll try to replicate this "sheet" in the Obsidian calendar. ill back here when i get my dream job
Congrats but this is survivorship bias in action. The true hindrance for most people is not the fact that they don't have goals (or even broken down goals), it's the hard part of sticking to them
Love this channel. Was so motivated to get into SWE and starting to learn Python, but the use of AI is making me think whether there will still be freelancing jobs and careers in 2 - 3 years time, to justify the investment?
No, with AI coming, there won't be any jobs period. Might as well just start working as a janitor now. Robotics has a long way to go before it catches up with AI.
They will always need human supervisors for the AIs. Can a company trust an AI has completed the task it has been assigned? A human will always need to verify this.
I choose AWS-DevOps . 1.Learning Ubuntu -Linux right now. (silently learning Python too from Tim Buchalka from Udemy) 2.Next is Bash scripting.........
Travis, you are Gold ❤️ As a 27 year old who really wants to be a programmer or cloud Engineer your advice really helps. I watch your videos to keep me motivated. Thank you!
The great fallacy is - how do you know the steps? Second, no plan ever survived meeting the enemy. Things will happen, often even catastrophes, to mess the heck outta your life and your plans. Third, because we are all different, this might work for you, depending on you - your experiences, strengths and weaknesses. Fourth, Never Give up - be who you want to be, who you are meant to be - find your vision. Fifth, F8 and be there! (good luck!)
Does it really make sense to set a goal you can't control? If you don't set your own salary, it shouldn't be a goal. Set a goal that you can achieve, and the bi-product might be the salary level but not the goal itself.
Great advice. However, I'm looking forward another guide how to choose the one thing PROPERLY. I believe we have many things that make us overwhelm and fluctuate in the road to the goals.
38 yr senior android dev freelance but with some trouble to find clients in the USA as I’m based in the French West Indies I will use that frameworks to divide a plan of action to properly prospect find ans secure contract with a USA company thanks
Let me save you some time, Gist of the video is "Backtracking to the one thing that you can do daily " in order to achieve the goal that you set for yourself.
Me, read The One Thing book. Me, working on my goal of making X amount of money as a full-time Y developer in Z years. Me, reading the news and online chatter that AI will take away my job soon. Me, changing my goals. And this cycle keeps going until I find something to do that can't be replaced by AI.
Not trying to discourage anyone, but this is somewhat the reality. Also, I am almost the same age (will be 36 this September) like Travis, and also having the same kind of goals like Travis.
Thanks for sharing this book! Could you recommend alternative courses for the ML path that are equally good if not better than ZTM and geared for beginner to expert?
Right, I'd be easy if we where unidimensional. But most of us have three or four goals at the same time. Time is the key. I guess we should stick to one or two
You will end up missing all 5. Sadly this is how it is. You will waste 2-3 years only to realise you should have just doubled in on one thing. Write all your goals down and ruthlessly eliminate all but 1-2.
Move to North Korea. I heard that it is completely anti capitalism too. Or Venezuela is also a good choice. I have friends who left cuz they really prefer capitalist countries and now can send money back to help feed relatives and friends.
Move to a communist country like China then. Just be ready to spend the rest of your life doing hard labor in a gulag though for uttering the phrase "oh god"
Thx! Good advice! I did similar stuff 35 yrs ago and found it beneficial, set goals. AAS/BS/MS degrees & various certs too. However, after being Sr Dev many years, then team leads, got into multiple Manager roles only to find it mostly sucked and preferred being a Dev. LOL. Then after being forced into the job market again for past several years, I really really hate the "Where do you see yourself in 5yrs" type of questions. I tell them I did all that and just want to be a good programmer until forever. But they seem to dislike that answer. In my opinion it sux that everyone is always coerced into being a leader, "everyone" can't be a leader or else there will be nobody to lead. Its like too many cooks in the kitchen Lol. Anyway, most people should be encouraged to be decent followers, cuz most folks seem to be bad at even doing that. .... 57yo guy says.
I can relate to you, I jumped to the ladder pretty fast, then realized sr lead is not what I thought it would be. Of course exp is something that most junior didn't have and I was there to guide them, but the drive the core fun I had years ago for coding is vanished, so quit everything, got into investment to make a living and only learn or do stuff that I really enjoy, sessioned programmer who doesn't enjoy what they do, don't expect anything from them, they are useless dumb to do the bidding very worst way.
Perhaps u will never read this but Thank you Travis. I’m 36yo with 2 kids under 2yo. No background in tech, and currently self studying Python. I will set and use this method and scale it up. Hopefully to get back to you in 2 yrs and update u with better results. God bless!
you go boy...cheers to your journey
good luck brother
Keep us updated! And thanks for sharing
Lemme guess 2 weeks later you’ve been bumming around lol
Proud of you brother!!
Godspeed!!
Love your content Travis, currently using your 6 month blueprint to learn web dev, and I gotta say its been rough. I dont have kids or a S.O. but its still been hard to make time after work to learn something new. Im grateful to have the blueprint to hold me accountable for my progress because life can get in the way real quick but having a plan helps keep me on track.
Really appreciate this content, want to accomplish the goal of becoming a junior JAVASCRIPT developer in a startup company, and this has increased my willpower to continue pushing.
Again, this is very much appreciated, thank a lot🙏🙏🙏🙏.
My favorite part of this book was the phrase, “what is the one thing I can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary.”
I’m a 36 yr old welder and started an AAS in Software Development at my local community college. Been super stoked as the structure is great. Always looking for more tips and advice!
I have my own company and just like you I found that the local community college had coding classes. Best decision I made. Keep going.
@@MrTactics26 thank you brotha! I will!
This motivates me! Let’s do it bros!
@@ericmwai1149 yessssir!
@@MrTactics26 yessir. About 8 months ago I started to learn html, css, js, and python. Did a couple of personal projects from tutorials like a speech recognition ai assistant. Just for querying data when I didn’t feel like typing. And messed with some GUI stuff. I found that I was jumping around way too much between languages. Hahahaha. We got this fellas! One step at a time!
I really appreciate your content. I want to get a job in devops soon and this video is really helpful
Thank you for this Travis... I'm working through your Cloud DevOps blueprint right now... I really enjoy Python...
Born and living in America is definitely the greatest advantage
I would add just one thing. And this thing is advice to add one extra step in planning stages. Planning stages should not start from goal in five years, it has to start with questions such as what is the aim in your life, what is the main thing you want to accomplish in lifetime. Because person who could not answer it in the beginning of their journey could find themselves to be in the wrong place after five years of strictly moving by his initial plan.
Great video thanks Travis. Really enjoyed hearing your story and feel like I resonate with it a lot.
Got the goal of securing a junior backend role in 2 months and this way of thinking really helps with decision making and planning.
Much appreciated!
I like your video but hate these overly optimistic time goals. You won't get far coding 1 hour a day.
Much further than an hour a week though, right?
Praise God! I used this exact method to set a one-year goal to earn a specific amount of money, and thankfully that has been accomplished, and I start the new job this Monday!
Congrats!
Currently, I'm 34 and making that intentional move to learn to code. Have to keep moving even when it gets frustrating and motivation is low 💻 I look forward to digging through your videos 👍
Cool plan. Two questions. How do you actually decide if your daily/weekly/monthly plan is too hard/too easy/just right? Please don't tell me "from experience", you gave the example of learning something new, your experience is limited. Second question: do you immediately sit down and do all weekly plans for the whole 2 years? If not, how do you make sure that your weekly goal pace is adequate to achieve the 2 years goal?
I always struggle to make a decision and take action. The plethora of online information & the commercialisation of everything makes its difficult. It’s overwhelming!
You said when you were in your teens worked at a fast food restaurant i want to get my first job so i can buy s setup to share my coding journey... Did you go to the restaurant and asked for a job? I like it because i hsve have a goal with it but im a bit lost..
i'm 22 years old college dropout. i already learnt html, css, tailwind and JS and right now i have a job as VA and the company is using php and wordpress so i'm slowly learning those two so i can become a full time developer for the company i'm already working for. wish me luck :)
i'm 37 years old and in middle of the career transition.
again, another gold level content.
thanks.
Sounds like Obama. Buttery smooth voice. Dig it haha. Great advice.
WOW, i'm impressed with that video, i'll do the same. I'll try to replicate this "sheet" in the Obsidian calendar. ill back here when i get my dream job
Congrats but this is survivorship bias in action. The true hindrance for most people is not the fact that they don't have goals (or even broken down goals), it's the hard part of sticking to them
List learn todo:
+ redux-saga
+ lodash
+ ant-design
+ regex
+ authen
+ role
+ migrate
+ seed
before even starting i feel like this would really help me that i am struggling now, thankyou
Love this channel. Was so motivated to get into SWE and starting to learn Python, but the use of AI is making me think whether there will still be freelancing jobs and careers in 2 - 3 years time, to justify the investment?
No, with AI coming, there won't be any jobs period. Might as well just start working as a janitor now. Robotics has a long way to go before it catches up with AI.
They will always need human supervisors for the AIs. Can a company trust an AI has completed the task it has been assigned? A human will always need to verify this.
Thanks, Travis
Man, I was wondering what this book is going to be. And turned out it's my fav. book that also changed my life and habits.
In search for Gold, I found Diamond.. Thank you! ❤❤
for all young dudes out there, this guy did that in 37 years old !! yes 37
I choose AWS-DevOps .
1.Learning Ubuntu -Linux right now. (silently learning Python too from Tim Buchalka from Udemy)
2.Next is Bash scripting.........
I don't know how Tim is but Colt Steele is a total beast at python
@@seetsamolapo5600 I picked Tim bcoz he took his time to explain details. It's a solid 55hrs course (70 if include old parts).
@@manojkumar-jt3fw all the best in your journey! If it's working for you it must be good 😉
Hey, Travis! Awesome content. Thank you so much.
great strategy, thanks for the video!
Its practical videos like this that make a difference!
Love it! Thanks Travis. Good material.
My someday goal is reading the book
How much money do you get to promote this book?
Hei thanks man, really helpful.
A great piece of advice💯
Being in my 20s, worrying about the job landscapes changing faster than ever... I really needed a youtube channel like this!
Travis, you are Gold ❤️ As a 27 year old who really wants to be a programmer or cloud Engineer your advice really helps. I watch your videos to keep me motivated. Thank you!
The great fallacy is - how do you know the steps? Second, no plan ever survived meeting the enemy. Things will happen, often even catastrophes, to mess the heck outta your life and your plans. Third, because we are all different, this might work for you, depending on you - your experiences, strengths and weaknesses. Fourth, Never Give up - be who you want to be, who you are meant to be - find your vision. Fifth, F8 and be there! (good luck!)
Does it really make sense to set a goal you can't control? If you don't set your own salary, it shouldn't be a goal. Set a goal that you can achieve, and the bi-product might be the salary level but not the goal itself.
Great advice. However, I'm looking forward another guide how to choose the one thing PROPERLY. I believe we have many things that make us overwhelm and fluctuate in the road to the goals.
38 yr senior android dev freelance but with some trouble to find clients in the USA as I’m based in the French West Indies I will use that frameworks to divide a plan of action to properly prospect find ans secure contract with a USA company thanks
A stable relationship and kids, taking in account that I'm worthy in that country 😁🤗
Let me save you some time, Gist of the video is "Backtracking to the one thing that you can do daily " in order to achieve the goal that you set for yourself.
This book is... duuuuh. I just wasted my time reading through almost half of it.
Hi Travis, Really nice approach and advice. Nice video, again. Thanks.
HEY. QUICK QUESTION WHICH ZTM COURSE DID YOU PAY FOR MOUTHLY OR YEARLY???
Starting at the desired end goal and working backwards stepwise is a pretty good problem solving algorithm in general
Feeling so motivated and energetic after watching this video. Thanks a lot; I am jumping in...
Thank you
Overall...if you have a goal, "JUST DO IT!"
Thank you.
Awesome Concept. Thanks for sharing.
Stay Blessed everyone. You have a great life Travis🙏
That really was one of the better self-help books. Wish you all the best on your journey, sir. Thanks for sharing.
Nice
Great advice. Will implement this technique.
thank you Travis for the good advice!
Oh thanks for the great video and the great course.
Me, read The One Thing book.
Me, working on my goal of making X amount of money as a full-time Y developer in Z years.
Me, reading the news and online chatter that AI will take away my job soon.
Me, changing my goals.
And this cycle keeps going until I find something to do that can't be replaced by AI.
Not trying to discourage anyone, but this is somewhat the reality. Also, I am almost the same age (will be 36 this September) like Travis, and also having the same kind of goals like Travis.
It's really funny. I just finished the book and youtube is recommanding me tyour vidéo !
Great vidéo and yeah I then still have to set my clear goal !
Ha scary!
Thank you for sharing this great approach!
Thank you for the videos. They are very helpful for a someone who is starting off as a new dev
Thanks for sharing this book! Could you recommend alternative courses for the ML path that are equally good if not better than ZTM and geared for beginner to expert?
Coursera has good specializations on Deep learning, Bayesian methods, Reinforcement learning, and more
I can't make income goals sadly :( In Japan wages are locked so even if you switch positions you remain at the same income level.
Is there a reason for that? And how does anyone receive an increase in pay?
This has got to be worth a try. Many thanks.
It's funny I thought he said he was 7 when he read the book and learned himself to programm after that LOL
😂
Thanks for sharing your success kickers with us .
Great stuff thank you very much
Thank you for the content. 😊
What book ? The link is broken
Great advice,
Thanks
Great content. Thank you!
Awesome. Thank you
great explanation!
❤ This is amazing.
You exaggerate
Weldone sir
Thanks Brother
awesome video!!
What if you have 5 things instead of 1?
Right, I'd be easy if we where unidimensional. But most of us have three or four goals at the same time. Time is the key. I guess we should stick to one or two
You will end up missing all 5. Sadly this is how it is. You will waste 2-3 years only to realise you should have just doubled in on one thing. Write all your goals down and ruthlessly eliminate all but 1-2.
You read this book a year ago?
I first read it 4-5 years ago (2018)
@@TravisMedia I don't believe you. You don't look a day older than 38
oh god, i hate capitalism
It's better than the alternatives.
Ok be ready to start begging in Subway
Move to North Korea. I heard that it is completely anti capitalism too. Or Venezuela is also a good choice. I have friends who left cuz they really prefer capitalist countries and now can send money back to help feed relatives and friends.
Move to a communist country like China then. Just be ready to spend the rest of your life doing hard labor in a gulag though for uttering the phrase "oh god"
I hate rampant corporatism and paid-off governance. FTFY
If your whole goal as a dev is to make money, I duuno what to say.
Ah this is just a big ad for his product curse.
Hello sir. ,i need ur guidance, how to connect you , pls pin ur email.
This is Gold!🪙
This is exactly what I needed; you are a godsend 😭 tysm sir 🙏🫡