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My name is Jack Lot Raghav, I'm a tech industry professional (ex Amazon) & growing YouTuber (35k @themoderncoder) building an online business (LearnGit.io). In this newsletter, I'll be sharing monthly technical & business insights as I strive for self-employment.
You are receiving this message because you subscribed to The Modern Coder newsletter. Unsubscribe with the link in the footer. Last month I wrote a newsletter so raw and visceral I asked my wife "should I actually send this?". She replied "it's your truth", and so I sent it. The gist of that last newsletter was that, 2.5 years after leaving my career at Amazon and 1.5 years after starting LearnGit.io, I've landed at a point of uncertainty. Thankfully, I now have a bit more clarity about the...
Two and a half years ago, I quit my full-time job as a software engineer at Amazon. Since then, I've been recovering from burnout and attempting to start a business teaching Git to people on the internet. If I could sum up this past year, it would be the seemingly endless exercise in convincing myself that everything I've worked on this past year wasn't a complete waste of time, and that my life choices weren't a huge mistake. I gather this feeling is fairly standard among self-employed...
Along with some big updates on my small business, LearnGit.io, this month I share the story of why I moved to NYC, and the bumpy ending to my 7-year-long career at Amazon. Thanks for reading! Change In the past 6 years, change has been a reliable companion. To recap, I moved to NYC, quit my job of 7 years at Amazon, got married, started a small business, and (just this month) got kicked out of my apartment... Our old 430 sqft, 1bd Brooklyn apartment. We're smiling in this picture, but on the...