I do some freelance but that’s a very broad term, is there anything else I can do besides find customers and providing programming services? Maybe some more niche thing I’m not aware of?
I don’t want to go back to the corporation area. Also, I don’t want a lot of money, I live a very minimalist life with very basics, no travels, no girlfriend, no friends, always in my home.
I’d be happy earning $300-400 a month, does anyone has any suggestion?
I’d like to work with REAL programming, not devops, not cloud, not managing containers, I want to write code as a living.
Wtf … which country is that? That’s not even a quarter of my rent.
What about working for small IT companies? That way you don’t have to deal with finding and dealing with customers yourself but you can also avoid the big corporate structures and practices.
Minimalist anti-consumption life, I don’t need too much. Where I live $400 is a minimum wage, I can live with that.
I could elaborate if you want to, I’m a year or more in this anti-consumption lifestyle, it was tough, learning to ditch “things” I loved to spend money on, now I just spend with the very basics, still a work in progress, but I had a good progress already.
I have to say, as someone who is currently living in a van
This sounds terrible. Enjoying the basics is very nice. No travel, sure. But no friends or girlfriends? Never leaving the house? That has nothing to do with living a minimalist anti-consumption lifestyle. Surely there are some nice people you can find with similar interests and lifestyle goals around, who spend time together riding bikes, dumpster diving, and volunteering at a CSA or something. I suppose everyone is different, but based on everything I’ve experienced and all the science I’ve read, social interaction is a basic human need.
So you’re saying your way to live is the correct way?
I’m good at my home, I read my books, play some video game, watch some series.
I don’t need social interaction. I’m anti-social since I was born probably.
Greatest philosophers lived a quiet life: Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche.
And I don’t miss it at all. Quite the opposite, it feels good to not need such things to feel satisfied in life.
Like I said, everyone is different, and if this makes you happy I won’t try to dissuade you.
I’d be more concerned about stability than the individually variable things.
If OP doesn’t need the same social things as you or me, that’s for him to determine.
Things like health, injuries, etc (unpredictable stuff) causing destabilization are what we all try to mitigate.
Recluses have existed since humans walked upright.
You will find it challenging to freelance while living this lifestyle. Looking wealthy implies you are successful; being successful implies you’ve been hired by other companies; being hired by other companies means you’re safe. A bit like why the bank has marble floors.
That’s probably the worst bullshit I read today (and I use Reddit).
You’ve never heard the term “dress for the job you want to have”?
That’s what this is. People who interview you are significantly more likely to hire you if you don’t dress poorly.
Your attitude also really sucks. We can tell you use Reddit.
If everywhere you go it smells like shit, check your shoes.