You would pay little to no taxes if you completely removed yourself from society and lived deep in the wilderness, but I but you aren't going to do that. I wonder why that is?
Looking at the employment report that came out today, tech seems to be doing better then most sectors...
"Other professional, scientific, and technical services" grew month over month and year over year
"Information" took a hit, but the bulk of that was "Motion picture and sound recording industries"
"Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services" modestly shrunk, but "Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information service" is the only area to grow under information.
This seems different then what the post says. They also said worse then 2008, but didn't post any information. I would imagine the total market was much smaller, so the while total jobs lost was probably smaller, percentage was probably larger. When I started in 2012, tech would take any with a science degree.
I don't understand the job titles being propose in the post, are the using different BLS data then me?
I would recommend Khan academy, but I don't think the resource is that important.
What is important is consistency, if you grow by 1% every day for a year will be 37X where you started(1.01^365 =37). So do a little every single day and you will be fine. I find this to be better than to do something every week. It is easier to get in rhythm if you do it every day, you can find fifteen minutes every day, on your way to and from work, during lunch, heck you can even do it while you're in the bathroom.
I always tell myself the Bruce Lee quote “Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” Take your time and be consistent.