How LONG does it take to become a blockchain developer?

how long does it take to become a blockchain developer well that's exactly what I'm gonna be talking about this video so before we get into that if you're new around here hey I'm a Gregory from DAP university on this channel I teach you how to become a blockchain developer so if that's something that you're interested in then click the like button down below and click subscribe and if you want real-time help becoming a blockchain developer don't forget blockchain mastery University opens on January 29th you can click the link down below to sign up so let's get into this how long does it take to become a blockchain developer and one of the reasons I'm making this video is I got this question over email in response to an article I just released about the average blockchain developer salary in that article I talked about the average blockchain salary being well over a hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year for experienced developers and how beginning developers with zero to one years of experience can even earn six-figure salaries so you can check out that article if you want to I'll put a link in the video description but after I published that I got a question in my email inbox that I want to read to you right now so Kyle says I loved your video really appreciated it these salaries are so sexy and enticing I need to know what kind of buy-in there is for a developer to be hired as a brand-new developer to blockchain are people hiring these folks is there a year or two long journey to practicing blockchain developing unpaid before you can get paid for this I want to take my salary and double it or triple it by becoming a blockchain dev it's a great question Kyle do I think it's possible to double or triple your income by becoming a Bloch and developer I definitely think it's possible depending on what your income was before well let's dig into this and get an in-depth explanation so that you know you can set some realistic expectations and that other people watching can benefit from this and try to set a plan together for themselves we'll get off the hype train for a minute and be brutally honest because it's important right if people are trying to change their careers they don't want to just go down a dead-end they want to have realistic expectations and that's what I want to do in this video so first and foremost I'll clarify I think all this salary data is legit I know there's some haters and skeptics out there but I think it's totally possible for relatively new developers to earn six-figure salaries but there's one catch you actually have to get hired and in order to do that you have to have the skills to pay the bills in order for anyone to hire you but that's one of the main reasons I created DAP University in the first place so how long does it take to get those skills well let me give you a range I don't want to give you an exact number because there's so many factors involved like what's your experience level how much free time do you have to learn in practice you know how much money can you spend on learning resources etc etc so let me give you some ranges that are based on what I've actually seen happen in the real world so I'll include some examples of people who became regular developers not necessarily just blockchain because I don't think blockchain is significantly different from other types of software development in terms of the amount of time it takes to get viable skills it might be a little bit harder than some things but not significantly so so let's start with the upper end of the range and I'll actually use myself as an example here so I'm a self-taught programmer I didn't get a computer science degree I didn't go to a coding boot camp I taught myself software development the hard way from scratch all on my own and it took me about six months to land my first paid freelancing job after teaching myself programming from square one and that's about as fast as anybody that I've ever met and I've heard of other people doing it in less time maybe like three months but I have a feeling that they started in really beginner developer roles and let me clarify I'm not saying any of this to brag I just want to use myself as an example to show you what's possible and also I'm not a genius or anything like that I worked really hard during that six-month period to really make sure that I was gonna get good enough to earn a job and I did have a few key mentors along the way who were instrumental and me getting some of those early development jobs you know this was not a casual affair but I do want to show you what's possible and I think a similar type of thing is possible for someone who wants to learn blockchain programming from scratch with zero coding experience and actually get a blockchain developer job I think a total beginner could do this realistically in six months if they worked really hard and the right doors open and maybe even less time but it's probably a stretch honestly so that's what I would consider maybe the upper limit alright so your mileage may vary and it probably will not everybody has a ton of free time to learn on their own and not everybody just wants to learn as fast as they possibly can so what if you wanted to take longer or what if you just wanted a really conservative estimate okay then I would say double it but if you set a year timeline for yourself don't think you can just take your sweet time no I would say still learn as much as you can as fast you can just adjust your timeline for what your expectations are on when you might get hired because think about it here's what has to happen you need to learn the skills and then you need to find the work all right so if you take a year timeline it might take you five to six months just acquiring the skills to be able to build your own projects then you have to spend the next three four or five months you know looking for work and actually landing the deal so you gotta factor all that into play so another thing I'll say is that this year timeline seems to be a lot more realistic for people okay I remember a quote from somewhere that says basically people overestimate what they think they can accomplish in a day but they underestimate what they think they can accomplish in a year so if your goal is to become a blockchain developer in 2020 it's actually more time than you think it is probably and yeah I think this timeline seems to fit the bell curve of more closer to the average for people to learn the skills and actually get hired and what you may not know is I've helped a lot of people become software developers before I started DAP University and even outside of it I've coached a lot of people to help them learn coding and also get developer jobs and a lot of their lives have completely changed by going down this path I get a lot of messages and texts and emails from people just saying like hey you know my life is completely changed since I've done this you know thank you so much so a lot of them have fit a lot closer to this one-year timeline but a lot of these people were still like working really hard they were super diligent they didn't slack off alright so honestly I wouldn't set a goal for yourself that's much more than a year there's another quote from somewhere that says basically you know work takes up the amount of time that you give it so I wouldn't arbitrarily just set a quota for yourself of two years because you don't think a year is long enough don't just give yourself permission to take up more time because if you do it's just gonna take longer and you might not even meet the two year goal so if you want my advice and you're thinking about taking longer than a year just don't do it shoot for one year and if it takes longer than that do you really care as long as you get there eventually you know I can't really think of anything that's great that's also easy will it be hard yes it will be hard but will be worth it absolutely what if you could earn a six figure income would that be a life-changing amount of money for you do you really care how long it would take you to get there as long as you actually got it and sustain that for a long time you know some people ask this question how long does it take to become a developer or a blotching developer because they're doing some kind of cost-benefit analysis in their head they're saying do I really want to spend all this time just to get this result and some of them start thinking about a year or two and they just say nice not worth it but think about the long term like what if you actually got a six-figure job just paying $100,000 per year and you kept it for ten years without getting a raise that would be a million dollars now ask yourself do you really have an alternative that's gonna provide you with that I think there's a ton of opportunity to do that right now as a developer especially in blockchain and it's so early there's a developer shortage that you're way more likely to earn this six-figure income as a beginner in blockchain probably than you would somewhere else at least that's what all the data shows if you start now and you get really good and you stay in blockchain for the long term you're gonna have all this upper mobility it might take a few years for you to get to that you know $150,000 plus salary range but again who cares how long it takes you as long as you actually got there so that's how long I think it takes to become a blockchain developer so Kyle hope you're watching this video I hope you found that helpful I hope everyone else found this helpful so leave a comment down in the comment section below are you trying to become a blockchain developer are you setting a timeline for yourself what is it and if you're on that journey then be sure to subscribe to the channel and click the like button down below that really helps you videos get found so that more people can become blockchain developers and also don't forget 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Length: 8min 36sec (516 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 22 2020