Advice I would give myself 10 years ago

// Go into IT, but don’t make money from IT        

You’ve probably seen how Bolt drivers have highlighted zones where they’re currently in higher demand.

I see a similar lighthouse in society—it’s considered promising to go into IT. But it seems the pharos points to a cliff.

It’s probably hard to find a larger cemetery of startups than in the IT sector. People are drawn here like ants to spilled jam.

We’re lured by the illusion of no barriers, the possibility to start without investments, and the potential to scale infinitely.

Yes, most IT professionals I know entered the market not because it’s trendy but because they like it—it’s their calling; they are engineers.

As an observant person, I repeatedly notice the enormous advantage of someone who knows IT well but focuses on an offline product.

Many of my non-IT friends think I’m genius when I can set up a mail server, organize parsing, or write a bot in half an hour.

Undoubtedly, the industry has made tens of millions of people super successful. At the same time, we don’t see the hundreds of millions who tried, worked hard, and achieved nothing.

In other words, in my opinion, the likelihood of succeeding offline is significantly higher than online, even though it visually seems the opposite.

And now, as the IT market in Europe starts coughing like an asthmatic, more and more talented guys are stopping with nonsense and starting to apply their IT superpowers offline.

Go into IT, but don’t try to make money from IT.