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Sounds very similar to my story, also left home and started work immediately, only doing my degree in late 20s. Now 30, I've worked in 8 countries, developed o
by heresy 16y ago
Sounds very similar to my story, also left home and started work immediately, only doing my degree in late 20s.
Now 30, I've worked in 8 countries, developed on Linux, OS X, Windows & iPhone, for web, desktop and mobile.
First salary was $200/month (in South Africa) :) Happily, that has improved by a few orders of magnitude.
It really is a great experience to have had, though sometimes I wish I had gone down the academic route and aimed for some place like MIT/Stanford.
But fuck it, one life.
- karmawhore 16y agoWhat are you doing now that earns $200000/month?
- swaits 16y agoI wondered the same. Or it may be a case of not knowing what "orders of magnitude" means.
- burgerbrain 16y agoGoing from 200/month to 20,000/month is not terribly unrealistic, _and_ "a few orders of magnitude" more.
- mzl 16y agoBeing a programmer one might like to think in base-2 orders :)
- eru 16y agoAnd as a physicist or mathematician, he would probably do base-e orders.
- blaix 16y agoOr "few". Maybe he meant "couple"?