Dinh Tin Tran
Buried in a pile of homework for this semester. The last semester is still in class during university. Next semester is the last semester but only for internship and capstone project. Most of the homework this semester revolves around course projects as well as group presentations. I am quite interested in course projects because I can learn other new technologies, but the presentation exercises revolve around researching and making slides, I have no interest in it at all. But no matter what, it has to be done…
Recently, I often see articles on X related to quitting university and quitting 9-5 to become a full-time indie hacker. I think quitting 9-5 is quite normal because I think that when they have a period of time working 9-5, they will more or less have a reserve fund for the next few months to start a new journey, as well as in-depth work experience. The clearest case study is *Tony Dinh, *he quit 9-5 at the time when he had saved up a sum of money that could be used for 2 years. He was really careful. I think that was more or less influenced by his starting point as an Asian, Asians always prepare for the worst before doing something. Coming back to quitting university to become a full-time indie hacker, I find this quite risky, even I my self have never thought about it (maybe because I am in my final year or because Asian parents have a hard time accepting their children dropping out of school).
Next week I will start a new internship for the position of Data engineer. I have never done this position before, only revolving around AI and Software engineer. Why did I choose Data engineer even though I have no experience? I think I am still in the learning period so I want to try all IT-related positions. Many experiences to know where I belong. Just like building my own products, before I always thought that I would build products really fast to hope that one day my app would suddenly reach users and accidentally make money. I just built from one product to another but I did not really pay attention or feel that it really solved the user’s pain. I have changed my mindset.
As for my current number of followers on X. It's stagnant around 250 followers. I've stopped commenting around to get new followers, I think it's no longer necessary, having a lot of new followers but no one really interacts with you as a human is like zero. I really realized this since I met a friend on X, he only has around 50 followers but he earns revenue of ~500usd, this proves that it's not too important.
See you tomorrow.