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Starting a Side Hustle/Side Project in 2024.

This was taken from Medium when I wrote this post originally

This will be my “first” post on “my” blog. I actually wrote something up and went to publish it, but for some reason, it did not save, and I lost my progress. I was going to say, “F*** it,” but I decided to get it done.

I discussed how I misspent my youth from my late teens to early twenties, finally turned my life around, and, by some miracle, got into IT at 27 years old. At 31, I am an IT Support Engineer with almost five years of experience and multiple IT certifications. I am on the way to getting my B.S. in Information Technology after starting my school journey in 2010.

In my daily work, I use Office 365/Azure for email and Identity Access Management, Intune for MDM/MAM, AWS for EC2 and Workspace administration, PowerShell for system administration, and the list could go on—and I love every second of it.

Now, I have a side project/side hustle because I want to learn more. I want to learn software development, web development, marketing, business, accounting, blogging, and entrepreneurship—again, the list could go on.

Landing Page of NYCITSupport.com which rotates using Unsplash featured images.

Now, what is this project going to be: NYCITSupport.com

I like to always have these grand plans and schemes in my head, so what do I want NYCITSupport.com to be? I want it to be the go-to spot for NYC IT Support, IT Education and Training, Local IT Job listings in NYC, an IT Networking platform, etc. I know it's broad, but that makes this fun. So far, the coming soon has been built and will need to be redone, but it's a start.

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The landing page was built using HTML/CSS and some Javascript. How have I been learning this? A mix of AI (Claude, ChatGPT) and learning how to create a site by going through the foundational section of The Odin Project. I will also continue to go through this course and the React portion.

We are using Click Up for Project Management, Hostinger to host the site currently, ProfitBooks for the bookkeeping/accounting, Office suite for Word, Excel.

Since I have originally posted this article, I have finally started the JS portion of the TOP.

For now, that is all. I will continue to check in, and hopefully, in a year, I can look back and see the hundreds of articles I have written and how far I have come.

It is overwhelming but at the same time I am excited to keep learning more and more.

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Tanuja V

Welcome to dev community 👋

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Rubelefsky

Thank you! Glad I finally wrote my first article.

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Leonard Sangoroh

Wishing all the best in your endeavour!

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Mujahid Ahmed

Well, keep doing....

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Rubelefsky

That’s the plan!