For over 12 years, spend your days learning programming. Sit at your Stone Age computer during all the times others are enjoying age-appropriate leisure, and spend all the nights others are asleep wrestling with code you barely understand. Spend the days when others share romantic memories reading hundreds of books and thousands of programming articles. Endure others’ mockery for inexperience and knowing nothing else. Dedicate the 4–5 years that other students spend on the thrills of college life to learning programming. Spend two years, the best years of your youth, in military service, enduring indescribable hardships to earn your discharge and ultimately get your passport. Reject every relationship and feel regret until it almost takes your breath away.

Six months after the military, wake up every day at 4 a.m. and practice. Give up on office jobs and their meager salaries for several years to have enough time for learning and practice. Spend all your youthful years tinkering with the cobwebs at the bottom of your pocket. Throughout these years, in both your best and worst moments, never stop learning languages. Do not let a single language-learning book slip from your hands while others stick to their daily routines. Spend the time others use for TV shows watching a film or series repeatedly, memorizing every sentence to learn grammar.

For years, prepare your family for the decision you’ve made. Endure the mental strain of that decision for years and ultimately steel your resolve. Take all your savings, barely enough for a month, and take the plunge. Wear your best clothes, step onto the stage. Now,

Apply, get a reply within two hours, and a few days later, board a plane and emigrate.

Others will say, “Wow.”