How to Become a Digital Jetsetter:

Francois Gaudreau
Aug 28, 2017 · 3 min read

The Way of Nerd

There once was a man known as Nerd.

An interesting man I once heard.

Socially lacking,

Faux pas-ing, wisecracking,

But good with a number or word.

Some people said he was young, some said old. But no one said he was wise. Rather, he was a polymath, eating up science, music, business, coding, and all manners of serious culture. Decades ahead of the curve, he built a robot for fun and studied Artificial Intelligence at McGill, the same AI and robotics we still use today.

Every day, he lived his little rich nerd life. He avoided unpredictable humans except his avowed friends: these relationships he cultivated passionately. Connoisseur of the finest foods, he could whip up French cuisine himself. He lived in in a 1921 Arts & Crafts classic home with stunning woodwork, in the finest neighbourhood, with his ideal wife and their ideal daughter.

One grey night it happened, greenback paper came no more. His platforms were obsolete. His family suddenly wondered who was this loser. His wife gave the home to some lawyers, and their daughter’s University fund too. He was homeless, destitute. …the harder they fall.

Dead broke, he tried several strategies to prime the money pump. He built an application to collaborate on highly complex data. It was way ahead of its time, but he couldn’t sell it. He never missed a software development group meeting, but he looked too old to be any good. He tried outsourcing. That did not pan out either. He worked in real estate. Ended up in debt. He looked into drop shipping or selling on Amazon, listening to the hollow promises of Youtube channels. $20,000 a day !! Sure.

He dreamt of becoming a digital jetsetter, living and working anywhere on the planet. Heck, everybody else is doing it… So he decided on a rational approach: find a service in great demand with stupendous growth, something that he could lean quickly. Study that diligently. Be ready to apprentice for next to nothing if that was what it took. Until the money faucet eventually turned on again.

To achieve this lofty goal of a part-time, comfortable and mobile life, he looked into what schools were the best to study digital marketing, a field that fit all his requirements. He tried to learn Youtube, but who were the great teachers and who was just selling air? Plus the knowledge was too fragmented. On Udemy the best were hidden among the amateurs. He checked out Udacity, an online institution founded by major digital advertisers. They offer a certification: the Digital Marketing Nanodegree. And job guarantees no less! That clinched it. He chose Udacity and never looked back.

Check out the next episode of How to Become a Digital Jetsetter : Nerd Learns Digital Marketing, in which Magic Merlin saves the day…

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