Guides
Articles that connect your result—one of six side-gig types or eight tech directions, your radar, and your four-week plan—to online learning and hands-on cloud practice, grouped by category. Everything here is general information; check each service’s official site for current prices and terms.
How to learn
Picking a course after your result, running the four-week plan, reading your radar, and combining both quizzes.
After your result: how each type should pick an online courseUse the side-gig type or tech direction from your quiz result to choose between video courses, practice sites, official learning portals, and other formats.
Turning your 4-week plan into a study routine with online learningHow to turn the four-week plan from your result—Learn the path, One exercise, A sample, A practice opening—into a routine that fits around work and home, including when free or paid material makes sense.
How to read your radar: weak dimensions and what to learn nextThe radar chart on your result shows how your answers leaned toward each type. Here is how to read common shapes, and how to pick online learning that fills a weak axis.
Doing both quizzes: combining your side-gig type and IT directionHow to combine your Remote Side Gig Type Quiz and Tech Skill Match Quiz results into one four-week plan and one sample, with common pairings.
A calm checklist for a first remote side practiceHow to choose a small practice, check the rules you already live under, and keep the first month inside a sample you can show.
A four-week study plan you can reuseA blank structure for week-by-week practice: observe, make one exercise, keep a sample, and ask for a single check.
Time blocks for remote studyA small system for studying beside a job or a class: one block, one stop, and a note that survives the week.
How to recognize common side-practice trapsPatterns that ask you to pay, to recruit, or to trust a story about easy outcomes. None of this is about lending.
Cloud
Cloud skills and entry certifications by direction, publishing your W3 sample, and tools by side-gig type.
Cloud skills by type: which of the 8 IT directions need AWS, Azure, or Google CloudFor each of the eight directions in the Tech Skill Match Quiz: how much the cloud is involved and where to start. Also covers cloud basics and free-tier safety.
Entry cloud certifications mapped to the 8 directionsA neutral overview of AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), and Google Cloud Digital Leader, and how they relate to the eight directions in the Tech Skill Match Quiz.
Building your W3 sample for each type: hosting and portfolio optionsWhat the Week 3 “A sample” output can look like for each type, which kinds of hosting suit it, and a checklist before you publish.
Remote work tools by side-gig type: cloud storage and collaboration appsFor each of the six types in the Remote Side Gig Type Quiz: the cloud storage, documents, chat, video, and task tools commonly used, plus security basics.
By skill
Tools, courses, and roadmaps for each of the six side-gig types and eight tech directions.
Storyteller, Visual Maker, Builder…: tools and courses for each side-gig typeFor each of the six Remote Side Gig Type Quiz types: tools to try, kinds of courses to look into, and how to use AI tools well.
The 8 IT directions: an online learning roadmap for eachFor each of the eight Tech Skill Match Quiz directions, from The Interface Crafter to The Prompt Pilot: what to learn in the first three months and which kinds of online material help.
How to pick a first technical skillA way to choose one technical direction for four weeks without collecting a list of tools you will not open.
Portfolio basics for a first sampleWhat to put in a first portfolio, what to leave out, and how to describe a small project without inflating it.