Doctor, lawyer, engineer, Bubble developer

When you think of job titles with prestige, you tend to think of the usual.

Doctor. Lawyer. Engineer.

The careers your father or mother might be proud to mention at fancy social events.

“Johnny is doing really well… he’s just passed his final year medical college exams!”

Imagine the sounds of oohs and ahhs from impressed friends and acquaintances.

It doesn’t matter where you live in the world, India, England, Brazil, or Japan… these job titles command a certain prestige.

They are not just jobs. They are identities. Identities that are built upon high levels of expertise and service.

Identities that are (rightly) well compensated.

Enter technology

Outside of these traditional careers, it’s common knowledge that the rate of change is accelerating and that technology is driving this change.

Careers in technology are becoming highly valued because their impact is high and leveraged.

A doctor can treat 5, 10, 15, or 20 patients per day.

A typical software developer (on a team) can write an app used by tens of thousands or millions of people.

And tech keeps moving

It doesn’t stop there. Technology comes and goes. Technology disrupts itself.

Look at me. I took my skills (firstly in nursing, then in data engineering) and learned a tool called Bubble.io, started a business and fulfilled many of my professional/personal dreams.

What is Bubble?

Bubble is a platform that allows a single developer to build a complex, custom, scalable web application.

Bubble takes care of the hosting, cloud architecture, dev-ops, and many aspects of frontend and backend infrastructure and security.

This provides a blank canvas for the Bubble Developer to implement custom user interfaces, workflows, database structures, and API connections.

Bubble developers solve business problems

Traditional software teams solve technical problems before they get to the needs of the business.

The Bubble Developer is primarily concerned with solving business problems by implementing the logic relevant to the business’s goals and objectives.

Want to be popular? Help businesses solve business problems, rather than starting at a dark screen trying to fix syntax errors!

Why is Bubble unique?

Here are some facts to carefully consider:

1. In terms of delivering business value, one competent Bubble developer can accomplish what previously took a team of five “code” developers.
2. Bubble costs many times less than equivalent enterprise no-code low-code (NCLC) platforms, which offer the same value proposition as point (1).
3. Bubble is physically accessible to anyone in the world with an open internet connection* and a (reasonably modern) computer. No need to work on-premises in a high-income country to use Bubble.

Now, a significant percentage of the world’s population can afford to learn and deploy a custom, scalable web application using Bubble.

Think about the implications of this for your job or business aspirations.

*The exception is countries that restrict internet access.

Industry inflection point

Demand for custom technology solutions is high and ever-present, and yet the supply of developers has not caught up.

Bubble offers exceptional value to businesses looking for cost-effective technology solutions.

The barriers to entry in adopting Bubble are low. Just sign up and start!

Business awareness of and demand for Bubble has increased significantly since I started in 2020.

Conclusion

The title “Bubble Developer” may not yet command the prestige of established and tightly controlled professions like medicine, law, and engineering. But soon it should!

Being a Bubble Developer is a fast-paced job in high demand with global opportunities.

Follow our path with Bubble and your mother and father (or whoever’s in your grandstand) will proudly boast about your success to the friends and acquaintances they most want to impress!

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Written By Will Ericksson

Managing Director of MomentumGroup.tech, Founder of Momentum Academy, and former Bubble Bootcamp/Bubble Immerse Instructor, created over 40+ apps with Bubble.io.