Overcommitting and a kind nature can cause burnout with regrets.
Interest and income are the two factors that drive humans to invest their energy into something new.
As a beginner, I was driven by interest, which made me step into coding and document my learnings, and I thought of entering the writing paradigm.
I have always been passionate about building automated and performant solutions at scale.
This passion made me learn distributed computing and scala, which taught me new concepts and ideas.
But no disrespect, today my learnings and knowledge on Scala are making me $0, that is a story for another day.
I started writing about some tech stuff as a hobby. Again, I was purely driven by interest and was in full learning mode.
I was posting intermittently and never thought I could get a task as a freelance writer. Luckily, I did.
This was a turning point in my life. I was doing very badly financially; this small gig kept me afloat during tough times.
No screwups so far, everything was going well.
I was making a decent buck while getting better at writing.
