How do you make money as a Python developer? 💰💰💰

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how do you make money as a Python developer this is kind of the ultimate Python career question well because we all got to make some money to to survive right and to have some fun so this is a great question that was sent to me by a newsletter reader and I just want to give some thoughts here so I think generally as a developer how do you make money the main avenues I see for that and those are also the ones that I've tried personally or experienced personally are well number one you can work for something else in a salary position join a company as a software developer write code for them kind of climbed that career path you know take on more responsibilities if you want to start as a junior engineer become you know like a like a staff engineer or whatever the path there is a senior engineer and make get raises make more money climb the career ladder in there maybe you'll you go down the management path you become elite developer and you manage other engineers and who knows we're just kin and so you know number one option join a company do the corporate thing number two become a contractor a freelancer and in this case you're not gonna get a month-to-month paycheck but you're gonna have to go out and and kind of market yourself or market your own skills as a developer and then try and find clients and they're gonna pay you money in exchange for you building software for them or extending existing software fixing bugs in existing software and this is certainly something you can do as a Python developer as well right there's there's a ton of opportunity out there and this can be a little bit more scary because you never really know what's gonna happen next month right you you always kind of start at zero and you've got to look for ways to find new clients to find new work so that's option number two the third option is you could start your own company right if you have programming skills you can start your own tech startup or become a founding member of a tech startup and make money through that that's certainly an avenue that's open if you if you know Python you pretty much have all the skills you need to go out there and do this if you're trying to build a web application for example like a software-as-a-service application you can totally do that with Python and web development skills alone and you can go out there and create value and then sell it and basically have a product that you can offer to other people so that's another option then one more option that's I'm not sure if this is cheating but you know definitely if you're a Python developer you have a knack for teaching your stuff to other people you can do something like what I started doing and that is teaching other people how to work with Python you can either do that online through courses and and videos that you can sell to people or you can do it in person and do workshops go to companies offer training teach people how to work with Python and kind of spread the gospel of Python so that's another option and these are kind of the main things that I can think of when it comes to making money as a Python developer all right I hope this was helpful I hope you make some money using Python and if you want your own question answered then throw it into a comment below and I'll try and cover it in one of my future videos