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But these companies don't want to pay Tesla for the credits, so if anything good came from it, is that Tesla pushed the rest of the companies to accelerate EV production. For instance, I don't think VW would come with the ID family in 2020 if Tesla didn't exist. Eventually, with such a competitive market it would happen, but I think Tesla accelerated the thing at least a couple of years in advance.

I became an expert in a very niche technology and the only thing I did is do the same for 6 years. For the first project, there was just no one else to do it, so my company hired an extremely expensive contractor and I collaborated with him. After that I supported the product and implemented solutions with the same tool for other lines of business in my company.

After 4 years of doing it, I became probably one of the 10 or even less best experts in the world with this product but I was really tired of it. The technology was already outdated but still alive, so before giving up for more interesting things I became freelance during 2 years and got paid 4 times my previous salary. It was painful and boring to keep doing the same but it helped me to pay my house.

I could have extended it for 2 or 3 more years before the technology died for good, but I was so tired of it that I decided the money was not worth it anymore and I started again to be an apprentice of the technologies I missed during the 6 years period of being an expert in a very single thing.

Now I still struggling every day because I've been learning too many things but I still didn't have the chance of a long term project that helps me become an expert.