I was broke and I started Coding Seriously in 2020 and now…

Adarsh Gupta
6 min readAug 18, 2024
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I’m just like the other 90% of developers who are not in the top 10%. Maybe because I’m too young (24 y/o) or because I’m too lazy.

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At this point, you are someone who is learning to code for 1 month, 6 month even an year. But you feel like you are not doing good in life like others.

Are you Someone like me?

You have skills like web development and app development and feels like you are not doing your full potential. Welcome to the Club.

Somebody who is your same age, is getting funded, got an internship at a FAANG or remote company and you feel like you are not doing great.

Yes.. Accept the fact, You s*ck at coding.

I don’t mean to be harsh but if you doubt yourself, you are not good in that.

But wait, that doesn’t mean, you tech career is over. The first principle that you should know is, if you can only do it in pen and paper but not on systems, you don’t know that yet.

I mean, hear this out, You have learned about React from Clever Programmer, FreeCodeCamp, NetNinja etc but you could hardly know how to use it. If you are not using something, you don’t know the mechanism.

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Adarsh Gupta

Software Engineer | JavaScript developer | Technical Writer . Work with me? adarshguptaworks@gmail.com Connect with me? twitter.com/adarsh____gupta/