Where the Work life
started.
Seasonal gigs through high-school and military service.
00.1Background
Childhood
After the USSR collapsed, my parents immigrated and worked very hard to build a new life. I started picking up work at fourteen. Warehouse shifts, manufacturing lines, construction cleanup, driving, waiting tables on weekends.
00.2Gigs
The labor.
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Personal Assistance 2017 — 2019 · seasonal
Working as a personal driver and household helper for wealthy families. Alongside this, picked up whatever the families and their networks needed done digitally: web development (WordPress, HTML/CSS/JS — landing pages, marketing sites, webfronts), Shopify & WooCommerce store setups, inventory imports from ERP to web (manual extract, transform, load), market research and competitor briefs, spreadsheet automation (VBA, formula chains, dashboards), and business-plan support for founders fundraising or applying to grants.
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Operating a highly automated system designed to mass-produce shaving tools by stamping, heat-treating, grinding, and coating stainless steel blades.
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Construction Labor 2015 — 2016
Construction gigs, painting houses and site cleanup.
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Service & waitressing 2014 — 2017
Working as a waiter on weekends and covering shifts as a security guard in outdoor events.
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Warehouse 2013 — 2014
Stocking goods and inventory, and moving heavy inventory for sports brands like Mizuno and Wertheimer Sports.
00.3Retrospect
Earning money this way was hard, took a lot of time, and wasn't scalable. Our time in this world is limited and I was fortunate to be born in times where advanced tools are highly accessible which can enable me to scale infinitely the value I can bring to the world with my time, and that was-and-still is my END GOAL.