WordPress as a careerALINA KAKSHAPATI

@ALEENAK19

A little about me

Project Manager at http://codepixelz.com

Been using WordPress for almost 4 years

Paying my bills, thanks to WordPress

So what is WordPress?

But why settle on a niche?

WordPress on Stats

Powers around 23% of all the websites

CMS of choice for various big names

Of 33K people surveyed, 25% make their living through WordPress

Over 90% have built more than 1 Site

Stats

5,426+ Jobs on oDesk

2,300+ Jobs on Elance

Millionaires from a single theme

Second most happiest job in the world – carrerbliss.com

Career option

There's one for almost all of us.

Career option

Designer

Developer

Support Expert

Setup Expert

Theme / Plugin Developer

Quality Analyst

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Designer

Developer

Support Expert

Setup Expert

Theme/Plugin Developer

Quality AnalystUAT - User Acceptance Testing

Not easy as it seems

Jobs at first are tough to come by

Passion

Patience

You may need to at least be a Jack of all

Developing Yourself

Attend Meetups and WordCamps

Create free themes/plugins

Participate in Forums

Success Stories

Chandra Maharzan – A top WordPress Theme Author In The Market

Sakin Shrestha – Catch Themes

Theme Developer

Theme review team admin - wordpress.org

Pawal Agrawal – WordPress Plugin Guru

Muhammad Haris

Simple

Tutorial SiteAVADA

Helen Hou-Sandi

Don’t run after success,

let it come to you.

Thank You!