Getting started in the blockchain space professionally
I’m working for Cyber Capital an Investment fund @Amsterdam doing fundamental analysis and building apps to keep track of our portfolio, optimize trading and analysis performance. Also during my fundamental analysis I check code, run testnets, Install wallets, study consensus protocols, etc
I’m still working as a IT Consultant which I will quite soon to focus fulltime on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. In my current job as an IT Consultant I had quite a good position but I decided to trade this in to focus on something which I belief has the future; Blockchain!
But how did I get started and how did I mange to get the time from to learn all this besides having a fulltime job? I was lucky enough to already be involved in the space for quite some time but I was still mainly focusing on my main job as an IT Consultant … around June 2017 I decided to also understand blockchain not from only an investment/hobby prospective.
What I did was study blockchain every day for 2 hours and followed many courses on Udemy. What was also important I started going to many meetups and spoke to many people in the space. True all these meetups I came in contact with Cyber Capital and they offered me a job. I got this offer because I know what I was talking about true all the courses that I did. Soon I will be working full time in the blockchain space and I’m still as excited about doing what I do as the first day when I started the deepdive … it seems the better I understand blockchain the more I want to learn.
So button line.
Just do it! Go-to: https://www.udemy.com/user/ravinderdeol/ sing up and start learning… Everyone is capable of way more then they think and the key to success in more complex matters like blockchain or programming is consistent motivation and work!
You can do it! If any one needs some personal help in getting deeper into blockchain pleas let me know I would be more then happy to help.
Very nice concept. I appreciate you and your activity.
Thanks for sharing
I find myself starting to make the same transition. I was a software dev using the windows API indirectly through the VCL of Borland/Embarcadero. Then I went to cross platform FMX. Still own my own business, but then I started studying Andreas Antonopoulos Mastering Bitcoin text. Python and C++ aren't my main language though.
This time it's a bit different. I had a problem to solve in the mid 90's and nobody was willing to do it so I had to do it myself. Now I just find this space so much more important and the world I leave behind so small and insignificant.
@zoidsoft I feel ya :)
Same here mostly owrking with lagecy systems wich is booring and most stuff working on is just hacking around lot of strange bugs ... the blockchain space is new but has much more potential! I would prefere to hack new solutions in a new technologie than work with lagecy systems.
I have also been interested in learning more about the blockchain, since it is necessary to be well informed to invest, especially in the cryptocurrency market. Do you think Udemy is good enough to start with?
Udemy is how I got started my self.
I think it is verry important to have a good fundation before diving deeper into the space :)
I think the same, that's why I'm interested in learning more about the blockchain.
Just do it ;)