Hello, World! Diego, 29, failed at everything...

Beforehand I want to apologize because of my bad english. English is not my native language but I strongly encourage you to comment and correct me so I can learn and you can teach! Both win.

This is not a success story...

I am not a travel blogger but I am traveling at this moment. I am not a software engineer but I code while travel. I am not an entrepreneur but I work at my best. I am not a photographer but I love to take good pictures. I have a great girlfriend and she is all I need. It sounds like I am the typical 'digital nomad' guy but I am not.

how there is no success on doing what you like with the person that you love while travel to amazing places?

I haven't achieve something in life, I have dropped college three times so I am a big failure. I have no talents but the will to learn. I used to have a pretty normal life, went to high school, then college and drop out due lack of motivation. Mom sent me to work and I obeyed. Then rolled in another college program and dropped out again by same reason. Same situation same mistake, obey mom again. Then I realized that I can't do things that do not motivates me so much.

Long story short... not too short

I got my first PC at age of 6 (1994). At that age in my country nobody has one. I do really felt in love with that weird machine with a screen an a thing to move and a board with letters. My mom took some computing home classes on weekends. Every single class I was standing behind my mom learning what she was learning. From that moment I loved computers and everything involved with it. Learned to code at age of 12~13 but just some basic html, visual basic, c++ stuff. Then the PC switched from 'my learning source' to 'my distraction source'. I got deep into MMO's (Massive Multiplayer Online kind of games) and spend way too many time playing Tibia, WoW, Counter Strike, Starcraft2 and Poker but never stopped dreaming about being a good coder.

Flashforward to my second college drop out. At that time I was enrolled into a Business and Administration program, things went really good at the beginning because economics are really interesting and challenging but I reached the point that the things that I was doing at that time didn't make me feel happy. Inside of me I always asked 'What would happen if I had chosen to be a coder?'. So one day I faced my parents told them my dream of childhood to be a coder. They were unhappy about that because in Chile (my country) there is no way to make a life just being a coder and not an engineer but at the same time they were happy because I was on my way to accomplish a dream.

Switched career to 'Analista Programador' (Analyst Programmer). Choose it because I wanted to learn TECHNICAL skills, I wanted to be a proficient programmer who writes excellence code. In Chile, everyone wants to be professional, managers, engineers so even at technical schools they teach things above what you want 'to fit the market'. I just wanted to code, code, code, thousand hours of code. Instead I got involved in a c&s program that they teach me a very very basic code approach and a lot of managing skills. Meantime I decided to take action and get involved as quickly as possible in the chilean tech industry. I got hired as 'Truck Monitor' in a GPS company and in no time I was working within the IT department of the company. When moved to IT I started working for free. I just wanted the opportunity to work in a real production environment. Suddenly my first real challenge was on my desk. To build the company's android mobile app for my own. In less than 3 month I learned how to code and publish android apps and finished the project! This was the very first small accomplishment in my life!

Then a startup hire me as 'ninja dev'. On my responsibilities was to develop a new android app, maintain legacy code, rewrite the whole API and lot of tech stuff. Worked a lot with the community manager so also I learned a lot of cm, growth hacking and related things. By this time I have already decided to drop the college again! I was learning too much things that was impacting my career way more ahead than college technically speaking. When the CTO left the startup they proposed me as the new CTO to the board but I did not accept because the company was financially unhealthy so I have to move to another startup on its early days, looking for fundings and bootstraping.

And here it is me now, traveling South East Asia trying to succeed for first time in my life! Building my first startup with all the knowledge that I learned from previous experiences.

Me working on this post!

STEEMIT...

I think Steemit is a great tool to build communities, share and learn! Everything that I know related to programming, it, software development, startups, etc. I learned from people who likes to share their knowledge. I love to learn and I like to teach and Steemit is such a great platform to share my knowledge.

What I am looking for? I want to share with you my travel experiences and I want to teach YOU how to code. Yes, I want you to code! So I am going to make a full 'tutorial' on how you can design, code and publish your own web app! So if you are interested on this and you want to learn top notch techs like React, Meteor, Mongo I am going to keep you informed!

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P.S: I have decided to write in english to improve mine and reach more people!