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Let's take a look at a few places that you can use Python,

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and it's actually not a few places because Python is actually so popular

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It is deeply embedded in every single corner of software these days.

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And as of recording this, Python is actually the third most

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popular programming language in the world.

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And I'm just loading up a website here that says the 'TIOBE',

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I don't know how to say that, index for April 2020, and we

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can see some growth here.

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So last year Python was number four,

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this year it is number three, and its ratings are 9.31.

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It's changed, it's gone up by 1.15%, which doesn't seem like a lot.

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But look at Ruby, Ruby went down by 0.02, Go went up by 0.35%,

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and even JavaScript.

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JavaScript is a really hot language, but year over year,

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it doesn't seem to be growing so far,

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not between 2019 and 2020.

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JavaScript is still the seventh most popular language in the

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world, which is huge.

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It is a very, very popular programming language, but Python

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is number three. It is significantly more popular.

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So just as an example, a few places that you can use Python,

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and again, these are just a few places.

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But let's start off with some of the cooler stuff, right?

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Python is used in machine learning.

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Python is used in artificial intelligence.

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Universities are all teaching Python these days because it

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is simple, like it's easy to learn.

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It doesn't come with all sorts of crazy things to look at.

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It's just you can read it like a book, but it's also super,

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super powerful, so it's simple and powerful,

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and that's why universities are teaching it these days.

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You can also use it in data science, Raspberry Pi.

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You can use it in things like automation and robots.

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You can use Python for things like image detection and machine

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vision, so like self driving cars, for instance, which is

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absolutely the future.

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But also you can use it in things like web development or

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small little programs or web scraping programs or automating

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anything in your house. Literally anything to do with software

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you can use Python.

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Now, one other thing to really think about here, and I know

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this is not a big motivator for a lot of people, but it

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is worth mentioning.

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Python programmers make more money than most other languages.

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So for instance, if you are a web developer and you already

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know PHP, while Python developers tend to make two to three times

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more money than a PHP developer, Python developers also tend

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to make 50% up to two times more money than JavaScript developers

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than front end web developers.

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So you can see right away that Python already wins when it

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comes to economics.

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Now, that number actually gets even higher when we start

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talking about machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science.

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So if you have any sort of mathematics background or any

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sort of interest in machine learning or artificial intelligence

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or data science,

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when we talk about annual salaries, we could be looking at

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$120,000, $150,000, $180,000 a year.

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Those are US Dollars, and most of that these days is Python as well.

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There's also a ton of different jobs for Python, like a lot of different jobs.

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So as an example, I'll just go into my browser here, go to

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'indeed.com', and I'm just going to type in Python.

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Let's just do a regular one,

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here, something they suggest, let's do Python developer, find a job.

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Okay, there are twenty-five and a half thousand jobs in the United States

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for a generic Python developer right now.

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That's very impressive because as of recording this last

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week, the United States had a record 6.6 million people file

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for unemployment.

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And that's because again, as of recording, this is in the

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middle of the Corona virus pandemic.

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So people are losing their jobs very quickly, and there are

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still a ton of Python jobs out there.

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That's crazy.

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Let's look at remote work because nowadays everyone wants

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to work from home.

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I work from home, and it is a fantastic lifestyle.

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In the US there are 4,600 Python remote jobs.

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These are just jobs that actually say remote, either in the

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title or somewhere in the description.

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There's probably actually way more than that.

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There are entire companies like GitLab that are 100% remote as

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well, so you can work from home.

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Let's look at Python web development.

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Look at this one,

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In the US, there are almost 16,000 jobs for Python web development.

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Now let's look at some of these salary estimates.

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I'll just zoom in here.

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'Salary Estimate',

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this is for the Python web developer.

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We've got over 2,000 jobs here, 2700 jobs that are paying

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over $135,000 a year.

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The lowest bracket here is $90,000 for 13,000 jobs.

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Isn't that crazy?

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What about if we just went back to the generic one,

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Python developer?

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21,000 jobs paying $90,000.

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And there are more jobs in here.

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Lots of full-time jobs,

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some contract jobs, part-time jobs, internships, temporary

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jobs, commission jobs.

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I don't actually really know how you do a commission job

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with software.

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That's interesting, but full-time, contract, part-time, internship

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and temporary.

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There are jobs to fit your needs.

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So whether you just started a family, or you're sick, or you

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have a disability and you can't go to an office, Python is

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a programming language that can give you a lot of opportunity in your life.

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And again, I know that money is not supposed to be the biggest

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motivator out there, but for most people, making a hundred

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thousand dollars a year is a lot of money, and that can provide

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for you and your family, and can provide a lot of comfort in your life.

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So when people say things like, "Hey, Caleb, should I really

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be learning Python?

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Like, maybe I should be learning Go, or Rust, or something

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else". My answer is, "Yeah,

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you should be learning Python first".

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It is easy to learn. It is powerful. It pays well.

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It is a great entry language into programming.

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You can literally do anything with it.

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So my answer is Yes, Yes, Yes.

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A million times, Yes.

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Learn Python.

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There's so much opportunity out there for it.

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Stick with it, and you will break into the industry.

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I can guarantee you that.