Applying advice to myself

I was thinking . . . .

This is usually bad 🙃 but I was doing it anyway.

The topic: how does someone start from zero? Minimal skills, no idea how to get a first customer, etc. How do you start?

I imagined someone with minimal web dev skills, for example. Maybe they like it, maybe they don’t. The point is, it’s uncharted territory so how the hell would you know? What would this person do?

Best thought I had: go on Upwork and just look. Use Jordan Peterson’s advice, especially how he tells you to clean your room. First, just open a drawer and look at it. Don’t do anything, just look.

I did this long ago, pre-internet. I opened the newspaper and looked at jobs. Eventually I worked up the courage to send a resume. Then another. And another. And soon enough I had a job.

Back to my mythical person. I would say “just look at Upwork.” Or some other site.

Eventually there is something that my mythical person could do. I would tell this person to take on one job. No more. Just one. Get it done. get paid.

Only then, pick up the next job.

Now for me. I have a huge backlog of work. Let’s apply the sequential attack. One at a time. It would work. Don’t take on anything more until the backlog is gone.

The point is to not get overloaded.