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People paid him to speak on the vagaries of daily job? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linkedinlunatics@sh.itjust.works
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The money is in INR (Indian National Rupee) and 45 thousand will approx get you a Pixel 9a. So,there is that for comparasion :p

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[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"People got it all wrong, they think they need

  • Something to offer.
  • To be good at anything.
  • To help people by fixing an actual problem.

Nonsense! Basically all you need is:

  • A lack of shame.
  • An understanding of something people hate like 9-5 grinds.
  • A willingness to complain-ramble about that complaint in like an inspiring way for a long time.
  • A payment portal where you offer expensive courses of vague individual-centered, probably-contradictory, not-solutions to fundamental systemic issues of modern life.
  • More bullet points.

So E-Z guyz. I'm creating so much value."

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, I'm just a short circus of your trump on He Who Remains.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Beg your pardon but I've tried to parse this comment for a little while now and don't understand what it means. Sorry? 😟

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's like a card game on a computer that show's the Yes Men working for Loki after his replacing the TVA's OP to do a speel on a card that wasn't a game until some ego specialist took the role to mock the whole shindig. I can't tell if he's failing on purpose or was even aware of his setup. Kind of like SMBC's recent comic on why and how Hitler gets into Heaven.

[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dunno bout y'all, but I'm still lost.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm not a guide. I'm a cartographer for dimensionality. Close, I know, but not the same. Parallel dimensions are not parallel. They're a bit wibbly wobbly timey wimey. It's kind of like taking a piece of paper out of the printer and editing it, then throwing it back in. If you know which Who said that, you're like 1/3 of the way. Skip the first ninth before that anyway, take the 11th and thirteen and you might get it when the 10th comes back and hands it the 14th.

We *really need NPH back. That was the fucking best ressurection for him to do Thanos on every sense of humor. Fucking facepalm. Wtf, lol.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This a speel of selling a speeling speel, or, in other words, a speeling speel of a speeling speel...x^x^...^...etc. ad infinitum...like Thanos or even than us.

Edit: Don't go to heavin' now, Hanuman. We found your r...

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I don't get what exactly he even sold 😭

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He "Texted friends, families & communities I'm in." I'm assuming his friends and family paid him a nuisance fee.

So, he created a need (him to go away) and then sold a solution (him going away).

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like a sixty dollar course where he tells you how to make money without a 9-5

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

"do like me" hon hon

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Solutions!

But honestly, this isn't actually bad advice for developers. Even if you have an amazing product, if your execution or marketing sucks it'll do mediocre at best. Meanwhile, there's real money ready for the taking if you go about solving problems that people actually have.

Example: a YouTuber I follow had some software read out text from a screenshot on his stream; he said he'd had that program built for that purpose. OCR and TTS model, output to audio source of the user's choice. Quite simple, an experienced dev could make a few hundred bucks on that.

Example 2: I'm pretty technically capable but I want a text to video generator and can't be bothered learning to set it up. I'm far from rich, but I paid someone $250 to build a simple prototype with a web interface and a model downloader.

Anyone can do this, the real work is finding those opportunities in the first place, and this guy is just saying to look closer to home for small simple jobs. Those small simple paycheques add up in the time you might have spent chasing a unicorn.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

solving problems that people actually have

he didn't solve anybody problems

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah problem-solution oriented business is great. But also as we see with the LinkedIn lunatics, there's an obsession with being a business owner/entrepreneur that honestly hinders it. You're better off working ordinary jobs until you see a problem you're particularly suited to solve. Well unless you're an American with an engineering degree, in that case you can just bid on military contracts they have rules and stuff to make it easy for small businesspeople to soak their hands in blood, and they'll even usually give you plausible deniability. But yeah if that's not an option and all you want is to be an entrepreneur, save yourself some hassle and don't get a degree in cs or engineering or even business, get one in psychology/social work, medicine, or law or go to trade school. Way easier to make a living after founding a plumbing business than a software one

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kinda assuming pyramid scheme

[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 1 points 6 days ago

Every time someone mentions X money over Y days on social media this is my immediate first thought. Second is that they're just lying for clout.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Premium, grade A bullshit.

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Dude, what problem did you solve that net you 45k rupees in a week?

No verifiable info, just wild claims that seem too good to be true. Yeah, it's LI alright.

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 week ago

He has multiple posts shilling the same each in a different tone. As if someone gave ChatGPT a draft and asked it to product a different output each time. And of course the proper selfie at the end of each post, as the icing on cake.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago

But 45k rupees isn't a ton? Maybe it is in India, but in the US, that's about minimum wage ($12.50/hr).

It really just sounds like he scammed several friends who probably felt bad for him and wanted him to have some success. I highly doubt they felt the product was worth the price.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I think he deleted the "business idea goes here" placeholder instead of filling it in.

[–] Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

According to google just now, that's around $507 usd

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

€428.95

I make more than that in a week, and I work on an assembly line.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's a bad assembly line job in a low cost of living part of America. Non union. Like bad enough you need a roommate

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I wouldn't even make rent if I was making $500 a week

[–] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

PPP is different depending on countries. He is living in India. So, 45k INR a week is great in India and will very easily make rent for him here.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

After a quick search, a dollar goes ~4x further there, so it's closer to $50/hr. But these are likely one-time sales, and replicating that to anyone other than close contacts is unlikely.

Whether this is a good ROI depends on how long it took to make and sell the product and how many sales it can get. If it took him a month to make the product and these 8 sales are the only sales he'll get, that's still pretty bad by Indian standards.

[–] androidul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

the dog was the CEO! 😱