Stupid idea?

I've been a designer for 10 years now and I'm stuck and bored. So I want to do something against that. I've tried countless times to learn to code on my own and failed. Now I fantasize of going abroad for 3 months. Hire a freelance full stack web developer to teach me 1on1 mo-fri 3-4 hours on how to make webapps. I've read that Kiev, Ukraine is very affordable and on upwork there are some amazing devs from kyiv.

But I'm not sure if that's a dumb idea?
What do you think? Would you teach someone for money? Any tipps on finding a webdev? Are you or do you know someone from Kiev or Ukraine?

This is a good idea, but the main problem is: it's hard to find a person who are both a good developer and a good mentor.
If you will find such one, it will be great.

Btw, I'm from Ukraine (but from another city, Odessa), and Kyiv is a good choice for your plan.

https://nedap.com/careers/...

Edit: what I mean to say is that you can learn to code in a few months, but you cannot learn to develop software in that time. Really develop, maintain, scale, sell, design, monitor, collaborate on software.

Go big or go home!

"I've tried countless times to learn to code on my own and failed."

You need to analyse *why* you've failed first. If it's because you've got bored and given up, then travelling to another country and paying to be told the same stuff via different means probably won't help.

Youtube tutorials and coffee. Do it. Also learn MEAN stack on VS Code. I'm an android developer and that's what was pretty fun to learn for meeeeee

Maybe we could work together! I'm looking for an experienced ux designer that creates awesome, slick ui's. Sorry can't teach you how.to code, well, I could but.free time is an issue.

I have some great commercial ideas that I need a designer for, one willing to work on basis of revenue sharing. This means that there is always a risk that things don't pay off but well, that's part of being an entrepreneur.

You tube is your friend, seriously costs you nothing with world class instructors.

@cervantes01
Reminds me of this meme.
https://images.app.goo.gl/h43KBwv9J...

Do it. I'm doing something even crazier right now. And the only things that happens is that you grow amazingly more confident each time.

Remember to live the experience and to stay safe. But you should go abroad. Of that. I am certain.

@M1sf3t stuck and bored at my life #midlifecrisis 😄
And yes i need someone who keeps me off procrastinating.

@AlmondSauce
I fail because of my ADS (Attention deficit sydrom) which distracts me quickly and because i'm a visual person. I draw a rectangle in a design programm i get instant gratification with html, css, js it's. ot so straight forward. So after an half an hour of www.freecodecamp.org or similar i get frustrated and drift towards social media.

@CyberXander cool! i always wanted to visit odessa and then take the ferry to Georgia.
What do you think would be an adequate compensation per month for a vue/svelte dev?
I've read the average salery in kyiv is around 11'000 UAH ($450) per month but devs usually earn more. So for 4 hours including prepation time?

@galileopy tell me about your crazy thing your doing 😃

@heyheni lol. I'm taking an express trip. (Using only 3 days leave, joining with the weekend) to go see a small colonial town in Colombia. It's 24 hours flight (including layover time) spend the weekend there, go back to a big city. Spend there the 3 weekdays. And arrive for work next Thursday (job starts at 8am, I arrive at 5am) I'll sleep 2 nights in airports. I'll make 9 connections in 5 days. 2 hostels. And I'll have time to see 4 cities. (2 are destinations, 2 have long layover times so I'll go see something outside the airports. Very quick downtown visits)

@galileopy wow haha 😄

@heyheni if you learn to make friends. You'll learn to be safe. Traveling is making friends and knowing how to make them. And being abroad teaches you that.

@galileopy hell yeah! did you arrive already?
I'm Dreaming up my next adventure. Just discovered that since August there is a brand new night train from Ankara Turkey to Baku Azerbaijan. Some 2000 kilometers for $40.
https://railturkey.org/2019/05/...

@heyheni I've been here one day already.

It was a fun trip. And I'll keep making friends and enjoying it.