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I have been struggling with this concept myself. I have a CS degree and am currently reading CA$HVERTISING while trying to figure out how to proceed.
Both skills are clearly quite valuable. But I agree with the assessment that to actually be competent enough at coding you really need to have many years of experience doing it regularly, and ideally professionally. I'm definitely not that, since despite getting a CS degree (and having a decent talent for it) I rested on my laurels and not only didn't improve my skills but let them nearly atrophy away altogether. I've been looking into re-learning code and getting a code monkey job (I need an actual income to start...seems like it would be wise to leverage my degree & modest experience), but if I could hit the ground floor writing copy for profit that seems like it would be a more attractive route. After all, you need to market/advertise to sell just about anything, and just about anything doesn't necessarily have to be code. A lot of times, you can have a business that only needs prebuilt solutions like Shopify, Clickfunnels, or Salesforce. Or hell, just throw it up on amazon and market through social media or something (where 'it' refers to an actually valuable marketable product).
I'm still clueless how to break into copywriting on an entry level, though. My copywriting resume would consist of 'I read a book about it once.' Not exactly an attractive hire on that front. Nor do I have anything to sell on my own at the moment, and I doubt I will so long as I don't have an income or the coding skills to build anything of note. So unless I can figure out a way to jump right into copywriting for profit, the only decent path I can see going forward is the code monkey wage cage. Which itself would probably require I spend a good chunk of time coding some personal project so my resume doesn't look like a$$. Alas, life is difficult and confusing.
Both skills are clearly quite valuable. But I agree with the assessment that to actually be competent enough at coding you really need to have many years of experience doing it regularly, and ideally professionally. I'm definitely not that, since despite getting a CS degree (and having a decent talent for it) I rested on my laurels and not only didn't improve my skills but let them nearly atrophy away altogether. I've been looking into re-learning code and getting a code monkey job (I need an actual income to start...seems like it would be wise to leverage my degree & modest experience), but if I could hit the ground floor writing copy for profit that seems like it would be a more attractive route. After all, you need to market/advertise to sell just about anything, and just about anything doesn't necessarily have to be code. A lot of times, you can have a business that only needs prebuilt solutions like Shopify, Clickfunnels, or Salesforce. Or hell, just throw it up on amazon and market through social media or something (where 'it' refers to an actually valuable marketable product).
I'm still clueless how to break into copywriting on an entry level, though. My copywriting resume would consist of 'I read a book about it once.' Not exactly an attractive hire on that front. Nor do I have anything to sell on my own at the moment, and I doubt I will so long as I don't have an income or the coding skills to build anything of note. So unless I can figure out a way to jump right into copywriting for profit, the only decent path I can see going forward is the code monkey wage cage. Which itself would probably require I spend a good chunk of time coding some personal project so my resume doesn't look like a$$. Alas, life is difficult and confusing.
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