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RubyMotion #Inspect 2015 - How to quit your job and love every minute of it
- 1. How To "Cut Away", Live Your Dream, and Program RubyMotion Full Time or: How to Quit Your Job and Love Every Minute of it! Presented by Mark Rickert
- 2. Mark Rickert “The Bad Boy of RubyMotion” - Gant Laborde
- 3. INSPIRATION: GTFO FTW: Hacking Your Lifestyle for Fun and Profit https://youtu.be/tIXZrmtNpYw
- 4. “If you don’t step out of your comfort zone and face your fears, the number of situations that make you uncomfortable will keep growing.” – Theo Pistorius
- 5. @markrickert What I Wanted: • Travel • Skydive • Meet new people • Live more simply • Live greener • Have awesome adventures • Make a good living doing what I love • Skydive
- 6. @markrickert A Quitter? How do I quit my job to achieve the lifestyle I want?
- 10. @markrickert Make a Plan: Hope is not a plan & a goal without a plan is just a wish.
- 11. @markrickert A SMART Plan: Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time-specific I will quit my job and consult full time. I will do this when I am making $X a month. NOT: I will quit and start making $1MM/yr NOT: I will quit tomorrow I will do this within 6 months.
- 12. @markrickert My Plan: I want to travel the USA in a converted van full time and skydive.(Specific) I’m going to do this when I’m billing 10+ hours a week on the side and have my emergency fund at $20,000. I will continue to stay debt-free. (Measurable/Achievable) I’m going to leave my apartment in 3 months to go out on the road. (Realistic/Time-specific) May 22, 2014
- 13. @markrickert My Plan: June 25, 2014
- 14. @markrickert My Plan: August 15, 2014
- 16. @markrickert Execution: • Start moonlighting while still working full time • My own products (2011…) • Consulting (2014….) • Engage with open source community • Community recognition • Portfolio of reusable code • Goodwill • Likeminded clients find YOU! • Take the leap
- 17. @markrickert Become Prolific! • BubbleWrap • ProMotion • ProMotion-map • sugarcube • ib • rmq • cdq • redpotion • … • motion_print • reset-sim • motion-takeoff • motion-imager • motion-csv • motion-duration • …
- 18. @markrickert Open Source: author:markrickert is:public is:pr is:merged created:>=2013-07-02 304 merged pull requests in the last 2 years
- 19. @markrickert Help yourself & help others at the same time!
- 20. @markrickert Pick a technology/stack and run with it
- 28. Landing Area Active Gun Range
- 29. @markrickert
- 32. @markrickert Lather, Rinse, Repeat: Have a dream Make a plan Execute the plan Be Happy Happy? NoNO YES
- 33. @markrickert FIN
Editor's Notes
- BSides las vegas 2013 there was a talk by Beau Woods and Taylor Banks. One worked 6 months and then traveled for 6 months. The other was working on building his business so he could live with his wife full time in Costa Rica. And it got me thinking about what I wanted to do. So i thought about it for a while…
- 40 hours a week would be way too much do do all those things.
- Let me tell you… THIS is not the correct way to quit a job. It’s more like getting on a boat.
- You don’t get on a boat by JUMPING in with both feet. You put one foot in and then the other. Otherwise you’ll risk rocking the boat so much that you tip over and fall in the water. So I’m going to talk to you today about how to transition from the dock to the boat without getting wet.
- So I start out to make a plan.
- Also - planning to make a plan is not a plan.
- Multiple sources of income create income stability and variety. I now have 10 apps in the app store that generate passive income.
- At whatever you’re good at and whatever you want to work on. I wanted to work in RubyMotion full time so I started working on opensource RubyMotion.
- This doesn’t include direct commits to my own projects or to gems I own like motion-print or motion-imager
- I contribute to opensource out of selfish motivations. Pure and simple. And you should too. Use the hard work of other people to make your apps and when there’s something you need that it doesn’t do, MAKE it and give it back to the community!
- mine was RubyMotion. Yours might be something else but I hope it’s RubyMotion
- I’ve been traveling full time in my van for almost a year with no signs of stopping.
- Because I have the microphone.
- I’ve gotten to have a lot of awesome adventures. Like jumping out of a hot air balloon on Thanksgiving Day last year.
- Side note about skydiving - there are a few unofficial rules:
- I also achieved a goal of mine to start wingsuiting… you know: the “squirrel suits”
- Notice the sign above the airport sign.
- and you get to have friends take badass photos of you hanging off airplanes. Yes, I do have the InfiniteRed logo on my helmet. (Todd, you can give me the cash after the presentation.)
- I hope my story and these images inspire you to follow your dreams and do what makes you happy. Whether that’s quitting your job or not. But if you’re NOT going to quit your job, please still contribute to open source.