Quote: (03-20-2013 03:22 PM)RichieP Wrote:
Great post, and I totally agree with respect to core Hustler skills like marketing, sales, negotiation, basic accounting, language skills.
But I'm not at all sold on the value of coding, at least as a transferrable "Hustler" skill, unless you really do want to be a programmer.
I think it takes a long time to really get good (to the point you can earn money from it), like 1-3 years, and you end up with something that's not very transferrable. In contrast, if you were to learn PPC or Web Analytics, then yes, you've got something technical but also very transferable to future businesses because you'll also learn general marketing, tracking, analysing and testing skills that can directly improve the bottom line and be used in any business.
Coding is like engineering - Very skill intensive and not transferrable to other areas of business. (and it's getting more specialised and less necessary to "know a little code" - the "under the hood" side of things gets further removed from users over time)... (It is frikkin cool though).
One of the benefits of coding is that once you complete the app it becomes an asset that cna produce income without much more active involvement, unlike being a doctor, accountant, attorney, etc. who are generally only making money when they are working.