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Work at a valley company, live in a shoebox, bank maybe $500 a month, if you are lucky. Please explain to me your equation for making a lot of money.

shigawire 10y ago
Step 1: don't live in the valley.
- gabrielcsapo 10y ago
  apparently this is where all the stuff happens, It has been a year and I have realized how backwards life is here.
shogun21 10y ago
Save that $500 a month, and you'll have enough within a year. It's not a LOT of money, but enough to travel if that is what you want to do.
- gabrielcsapo 10y ago
  I travel, I just think that saving money is difficult to do for 80% of America. The gap widens as you expand to different countries worldwide.
unethical_ban 10y ago
Move out of the most expensive real estate in the country. Remote work is a thing in many organizations.
- gabrielcsapo 10y ago
  I have been begging my management to let me work remotely, but they have been pretty negative towards the idea. "We would like to keep our team close" -- Management "Half of our team is in India" -- me ":shrug: go back to work" -- Management
clevernickname 10y ago
Invest wisely and the equation will be "the exponential function."
stuff4ben 10y ago
> Please explain to me your equation for making a lot of money It's easy, "live beneath your means". Move away from the valley and give up that lifestyle. If you're a decent-ish programmer, you can make a bunch of money in any of the other medium sized cities in the US with a reasonable cost of living.
TulliusCicero 10y ago
If you can only bank $500/month working as a programmer in the bay area, something is very wrong (or you're just not living frugally at all). I bank way more than that as a mid level developer, granted I work at the big G, but I also support a non-working wife and kid.
Cerium 10y ago
I work in Santa Clara, live in rental townhouse in San Jose. I have a 20 minute commute and reliably save 15% of my take home income. I have a wife who works part time and goes to school. She saves all her money. Its about budgeting. We each keep a budget for our hobbies of about $100 per month. We spend about $200 at restaurants (eating out less than once per week). Most important is keeping a tab on your spending. UsBank has a download spreadsheet function that keeps track of your last export so it is very easy to download one month at a time.

shigawire 10y ago

Step 1: don't live in the valley.

gabrielcsapo 10y ago
apparently this is where all the stuff happens, It has been a year and I have realized how backwards life is here.

shogun21 10y ago

Save that $500 a month, and you'll have enough within a year. It's not a LOT of money, but enough to travel if that is what you want to do.

gabrielcsapo 10y ago
I travel, I just think that saving money is difficult to do for 80% of America. The gap widens as you expand to different countries worldwide.

unethical_ban 10y ago

Move out of the most expensive real estate in the country. Remote work is a thing in many organizations.

gabrielcsapo 10y ago
I have been begging my management to let me work remotely, but they have been pretty negative towards the idea. "We would like to keep our team close" -- Management "Half of our team is in India" -- me ":shrug: go back to work" -- Management

clevernickname 10y ago

Invest wisely and the equation will be "the exponential function."

stuff4ben 10y ago

> Please explain to me your equation for making a lot of money It's easy, "live beneath your means". Move away from the valley and give up that lifestyle. If you're a decent-ish programmer, you can make a bunch of money in any of the other medium sized cities in the US with a reasonable cost of living.

TulliusCicero 10y ago

If you can only bank $500/month working as a programmer in the bay area, something is very wrong (or you're just not living frugally at all). I bank way more than that as a mid level developer, granted I work at the big G, but I also support a non-working wife and kid.

Cerium 10y ago

I work in Santa Clara, live in rental townhouse in San Jose. I have a 20 minute commute and reliably save 15% of my take home income. I have a wife who works part time and goes to school. She saves all her money. Its about budgeting. We each keep a budget for our hobbies of about $100 per month. We spend about $200 at restaurants (eating out less than once per week). Most important is keeping a tab on your spending. UsBank has a download spreadsheet function that keeps track of your last export so it is very easy to download one month at a time.