You Will Never Make ENOUGH Money | The Sad Truth In Tech
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2022
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You will never make enough money. You will always be chasing the next dollar, the next raise, and the next promotion. But what if you stopped chasing money? What if you learned to be content with what you have?
In this video, I share how my experience as a software engineer has taught me to be content with my income. I hope it inspires you to do the same!
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Mate, I've been watching you for 4 years now, basically since I started to teach myself how to code, now I've been working as a Web dev for 3 years. Just want to say you are a great person and set good examples, keep doing what you're doing! Love from London and hope you enjoy your stay!
You come across as a genuine, transparent individual. Just randomly came across your content and I'm subscribed! Thanks of the transparent feedback and providing expectations for people trying to break into the tech industry.
Thanks for subscribing! 🙏🙏
It's sad to hear that money has an isolating effect with your family members. Appreciate your personal insight, it's strangely inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
Im from Trinidad & Tobago and I watch your UA-cam videos and get motivated to continue learning and growing in tech, so my advice to you is keep pushing & growing as a person and continue to put out more educational videos !
Chris you gotta learn to say no, you’re too nice. Keeping people that only take is never worth it.
Praying for you brother 🙏 thanks for all the inspiration and encouragement and especially the truth.
Always stay humble my dude. The grind never ends. Just 70k in northern california and its paycheck to paycheck with no savings. The struggle is real, the grind is worth it
I remember moving overseas, penthouse top floor, bathroom all black and gold... I was inside my Jacuzzi... Thinking, I've made it from the projects to the top.. is that it? Feeling depressed like crazy... Right there, I understood why so many millionaires and billionaires are depressed. I needed this video thank you!
@Kerimxo The solution is to determine what makes you happy.
@@_.-AAA-._ Yes!
Therapy can really help. Just be grateful and keep creating these great videos 😊
Hi Chris, this is a good video it really encapsulates how life truly can be very complicated especially when we have made the money and we have "Made It". Personally helping people is a great goal so how you feel there is really good. I know what its like to be really poor and I still am struggling but I have improved my financial situation with tech as well but not near as much as yours however I have a beautiful family many children and I love my music and religion as well. Health is another thing that I am into because without it life is very hard to live. Anyways, just try and keep it in perspective its good to not have to struggle I wish I did not have to struggle as much but its okay life has many pains and in many ways embracing the pain can be life changing as well. Money will leave you empty in the end. I have found love, purpose, and peace in my religion, music, career, and family.
Man I love this video! Have a safe flight bro!
good remainder on what's important in life... I needed that for today 💯💯
The money will always come - you gotta be content with the little things in your life 🙏🏾 never worry about getting to the next destination as fast as possible, like the money eveything will come in it’s time
Only found your videos in the last year. Not at your level yet- but the strive to find contentment is something I’m looking for as well . Like it’s always out of reach once I achieve more. Just a little more.
as a black woman in tech industry ... I've been treating like shit all the time ... it's hard to get where some people are but I stay humble haha 🙏
Videos are looking great man even on my thinkpad t460!!! ROFL.
Happiness is relative to each individual. 10k a month would solve a lot of problems for me. I also know if I made a lot of oney a lot of people would try to take advantage of me. A few of them I'd let them get away with it...
Thanks for making these videos man, Really helps motivate me to keep learning. coming up on 2 months since I started learning with Zero to Mastery. Almost halfway done with the react course.
After a certain point, especially when we can provide for our current and future selves (retirement savings), it's important to seek fulfillment and joy in other aspects of our lives. The alienation aspect can make this tough, though 💔
I’ve been in information technology since 1996. Don’t chase after money it’s a empty dream. Work for stability and set goals for what your gonna to do. Bless others give to a cause ext. only seeking money will lead to a deep emptiness and depression. Try to keep your money out of the knowledge to most people. You need and want legitimate friends / relationships
I'm applying for dev jobs right now and wanted to ask of your know if coalition is a good company?
I think you need to get involved projects that help others. Using that money on charities is not enough but rather something that can involve you helping others in a community can help knowing that you’ve helped someone. You can find charities that develop schools for example in third world countries and personally invite you
Oh my god, I should watch this, but I'm not. The title alone says everything, and its so true. It never freaking ends dude. And once you reach a certain point it doesn't even matter anymore, but you still are looking for the next high score. Hamster wheel, sometimes its best to just sit back and enjoy what you grinded for.
Bro, with that ammount of money you could get out of the rat race in like 7/8 years.
You could go live how you want and do what you like! (thats what im aiming at)
Create business, travel the world or do something you allways wanted, you decide! That way you can really chose what you really wanna do, because you need to, but because you want to!
Im into Software development because i love this! I love puzzles and challenges but the main goal is to invest the right ammount so i dont have to work anymore and then create businesses and live where i want and how i want!
If you make 300k and waste 300k you will allways become stuck on this rat race.
Wish you the best man and hope everything gets better and you get a more long lasting and fulfilling goal.
(btw i have to thank you alot for encouraging me and have the right mentality to get into tech)
I watch your videos as a photographer. 😅Don’t know why. I used to work in tech, on the administration side, and left for the artistic world. There’s a lot about it I miss. But what you said here has carried over to where I am today. Success sucks once people know about it.
"only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally, and men are only loved under the condition that they provide something"-
Chris Rock
What I've learned is that having money and buying things are meaningless unless you actually do good stuff with them. I don't care about more money if I don't have time to do things I enjoy and surprise, as a SE I don't want to code more than the 40 hours a week I have to.
If you want to be as content as possible you need to put all of energy into mastering your own mind. You can own the entire world, but you'll still be less content than a roaming penniless monk who has mastered his mind and always lives in the present moment.
Bro! I think its time for a spiritual journey :)
This is what happens when all you’re chasing is money. You need new goals my man!
The Art of Happiness is a good book
Trying to find happiness / fulfillment in the things of the world usually results in this. I felt like this years ago & I didn’t have money, lol. Anyway, Christ is all fulfilling. Once I chose to follow Him, I let all that stress & worry I felt go.
Find out who Jesus is, it matters. I’ll keep you in my prayer for a while sir. I followed you for the tech advice, now I will add you to my thoughts in prayer sir. Have a good one, stay strong brotha.
Exactly, the rat race never ends. Even as an entrepreneur. I tried a small business freelancing and realized to me, it just didn’t feel all that different from a job. You usually just end up providing value to others. Could be that I chose the wrong business too though, but still the grind just doesn’t stop. Look at how hard Elon Musk works for example
I could live on 30k but dev opens up the possibility of earning 5-7x that in one year. I'm more driven to hoard for time off/independence than to make the number go up.
If you work for ur self not good idea, it cause u down. Its literally like selfish. Why money money 😅✌️✌️
Greed = Stress = bad health = Hospital 🏥 = 💀☠
What I have found with other tech/entrepreneurs that I know is that your income has surpassed your dreams/vision.
You made a great point that you realized how much money you are brining in, but you are looking around at what you have or can have and it's... meaningless. It just served to give you a spike of depression. You/others like you need a bigger vision as to what you can do with your life/ do for others.
You only think that making $40k a month is a lot of money, until you try and set up a endowment fund to send under privileged kids to vocational schools at scale. How much do you need to make to boot strap an orphanage from the ground up? How much does it cost to maintain an organization that provides tech visa's to people from Niger so that hey can then come make tech money and repatriate money to help out their families/communities?
Once you stop thinking about what you can do for yourself, and what that income can do for others it really opens up your eyes to what is available for you to give to the world.
You thought that the money 'drug' would bring you happiness but you were wrong, so now that you've confirmed it, all that's left is the emptiness which was always there that your drug could never fill.
Money is nothing more than a tool, and self-fulfillment cannot be bought.
Don’t let the rat race taint your rising star. You sharing helps the rest of us keep pushing and reaching as well.
Thanks for sharing the struggles and the burdens that come along the way
Yep. Money does not buy happiness. It buys margin, allowing you to explore what does interest you and bring fulfillment. Spoiler alert, happiness is found in pursuit of a purpose, and the chief end (purpose) of man is to glorify God.
Always stay humble. Continue to reach goals. But dont make it your life. If you continue to make your goals your life you will never be happy with yourself.
I feel like.....Like you said you thought you we're going to make it in 10-20 years n you did it in 6 i feel ike you should enjoy life n strive for happiness but keep on track with your Source of incomes !!!!!!!
Id rather have those problems than be broke.
I would still want to have the kind of problems that you have rather than being so broke.
Hey Chris,
I'm really sorry to hear about the negative ways that $ has impacted you, especially the part about how people look at you differently. That sounds really scary and so I'm heeding your warning. I am just getting into tech, its been about 2 years of college plus self study and I'm looking to get a job now. One of the hardest parts of my life was 2016-2019ish, and I struggled a lot with feeling happy. I basically had to assess my life and address the main issues that were making me unhappy. I think that one of the main things that helped me was meditation, and I recommend it to everyone. It helped me focus on my personal development and fulfillment, what truly makes me happy, and just generally being content. I feel like I know deep down that money by itself wouldn't make me happy, but what would for me would be to use it to fight climate change, make music and content, and travel to places I've never been. It sounds like you know that helping others makes you happy, which is great. I actually think that money is only one type of wealth. There is wealth in health, food security, time with family, culture, language, access to resources. So my approach is to use money to build other types of wealth so that I can be happier.
I feel identified with you, this world of IT takes a lot of your life and sometimes you think if this is worth it, that's why it is very important to realize that money is not everything in life, thank you very much for your content, it helps me Much, greetings from Peru.
This is like a therapy session, very depressing, you have a bit of success guilt, and tons of emotional baggage, please see therapist get help bro, or maybe YT is therapeutic for you, congrats on your success bro , its not something to be ashamed about , get rid of shitty people in your life , we all know money doesn't make us happy, but it sure as hell makes things easier to manage life's bs, the more you make, their is a point of diminshing returns, where it isn't life changing and/ or you alrdy have everything you need to be comfortable
I hope you’re seeing a therapist…. Don’t burn out bro
Not even close to burning out lol
Me personally... I can’t wait for that wife changing wealth.
"If the son of Adam were given a valley full of gold, he would love to have a second one; and if he were given the second one, he would love to have a third, for nothing fills the belly of Adam's son except dust (of the grave). And Allah forgives he who repents to Him."
-Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
You will never find happiness in material. Find your purpose in life.
Dont tell me you will never....., i tell you ill make millions and even billions, please change the title rephrase it's a different way
Chris if your really looking for peace, Allah says "Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest." Chris i hope you see this ive been following your journey for a year now and i truly feel sad seeing you battle depression and anxiety. Im a muslim, a person who submits his will to the creator of this magnificent World. and my heart finds peace because i know Allah is there. all i have to do is acknowledge he is my creator and that the prophet mohammed is his last messenger and thank him by praying to him. think about it chris there are people less fortunate will never get to have the kind of money you have or will never be in the best accommodation, will never drive a lambo, bugatti, they will never taste the pleasures of this world. and they will die 1. they never lived the life 2. they died and will never will ever exist? what a sad reality. but what if i told you that you get to live the best life here and when you die you live the best life for eternity in the next life. think about it, were we just placed on this earth to live and fight to make money, and die? theres a bigger purpose! i hope you get the best of both!
There is nothing in this world that satisfies, you can get everything and still feel a void within... it is only JESUS that can fill that void bro.. ACCEPT JIM INTO YOUR LIFE.
this is straight crinje bruh
I think the thing you're missing in your life chris is ALLAH (God) atleast you could give some time and study about islam it could change your life ! This ain't bs for sure
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