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How Solo Consulting Frees Developers From The Grind
Having a Technical Guide offer overcomes every frustrating aspect of grinding it out as a tech employee.
Click Here To Learn About The Technical Guide Offer Workshop
After nearly three decades in software, I've learned a hard truth: most developers never actually escape the grind—they just upgrade to a slightly nicer cage.
I hit that realization years ago when I opened my laptop to track my hours and suddenly saw it for what it was: the same deadlines, the same pressure, the same feeling that no one really cared what I thought.
I wasn't consulting… I was just coding for a different employer.
I walk through the GRIND acronym to show why the industry keeps you stuck as a task-runner, and how shifting into a specialized, technical guidance-driven way of working gives you autonomy, stability, and respect.
(00:00:00) Welcome To Developer Reborn (00:00:34) I Was Doing Fake Consulting (00:01:47) The Low Value Generalist Trap (00:04:19) The Delusion Of Employee Stability (00:06:24) Communicate Your Value Or Stay Invisible (00:07:50) Don't Normalize Being A Victim (00:09:31) Technical Guides Never Defer To Clients, They Lead
Want to Build Your Technical Guide Offer? Join me and other software professionals inside the 4-day Technical Guide Offer Workshop where you'll identify a technical capability to guide companies towards achieving, create a solo offer (at least $300/hr effective rate), and practice pitching it in a supportive group. Sign up at the link above.
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By Jayme EdwardsHaving a Technical Guide offer overcomes every frustrating aspect of grinding it out as a tech employee.
Click Here To Learn About The Technical Guide Offer Workshop
After nearly three decades in software, I've learned a hard truth: most developers never actually escape the grind—they just upgrade to a slightly nicer cage.
I hit that realization years ago when I opened my laptop to track my hours and suddenly saw it for what it was: the same deadlines, the same pressure, the same feeling that no one really cared what I thought.
I wasn't consulting… I was just coding for a different employer.
I walk through the GRIND acronym to show why the industry keeps you stuck as a task-runner, and how shifting into a specialized, technical guidance-driven way of working gives you autonomy, stability, and respect.
(00:00:00) Welcome To Developer Reborn (00:00:34) I Was Doing Fake Consulting (00:01:47) The Low Value Generalist Trap (00:04:19) The Delusion Of Employee Stability (00:06:24) Communicate Your Value Or Stay Invisible (00:07:50) Don't Normalize Being A Victim (00:09:31) Technical Guides Never Defer To Clients, They Lead
Want to Build Your Technical Guide Offer? Join me and other software professionals inside the 4-day Technical Guide Offer Workshop where you'll identify a technical capability to guide companies towards achieving, create a solo offer (at least $300/hr effective rate), and practice pitching it in a supportive group. Sign up at the link above.