Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
How to Get a Tech Job with a G.E.D
I have never been one to hold a job for long. I don’t have a degree. About two years was my limit. It has not been the pay as much as the boredom. Once I could do the job in my sleep, there was not much keeping me there. The internet has been the only thing that has held my interest for this long.
And the degree thing. I am still sure to this day that if I would have had a degree, it would have been the same. I would have spent four or more years to get a job writing obituaries for the local news or writing the same algorithm over and over in my cubicle. But I would have been paid more and been stuck longer because of it.
Lessons Learned at Low Paying Jobs
I didn’t quit a cush job to start making money online. I did it while I was making $12 an
hour and realized the ceiling was right around $16. I am a lazy person. I refuse to work that hard for that much pay. Of course, I couldn’t refuse right away. It took two years before my efforts here started paying bills. It took the same amount of time to realize it was possible.
Now I think it’s easy. Well, maybe not easy, but achievable. And that’s all I really need to know. Just one chard of light at the end of the tunnel.
My Home Town, The Old Meth Capital
I have come to the conclusion that every era and paradigm in history is still alive and well in one part of the world or another. Well, not every one but quite a few.
I moved from Phoenix to Kansas City and moved back in time somewhere between 20 and 50 years. Not literally of course, but it’s the feeling I get. While some of you can say older generations grew up differently and had different values, the whole mass here still lives there.
A Constant Brain Change
After I finished high school I made it a goal of mine not to ever stop learning. I wasn’t going to be able to afford the college degree, but I was willing to take the risk that learning itself would have value even if I didn’t have the official paperwork to prove I learned something.
At first, I wasn’t picky. I had a lot of time and no social life. I read whatever I felt like. Sometimes a subject would interest me to the point that I exhausted every book I found that referenced the field. Other times I would not finish the first book.
I Don’t See the Difference Between Design and Purpose
I see everything as connected. I don’t see different fields and I don’t believe in specialization. Specialization is for employees. If you want to be a employee, than get a doctorate. You will find a good job.
To do more than that, you need to have a bigger picture.
I see everything I do as putting information in the right order with the right emphasis. Whether I write an article, write software, or design a site. Not that I met that goal every time, but I try. There are bumps and bruises, but I learn from them.
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