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HN has a wide distribution of folks at different career stages, employers, career tracks in the tech industry (and a substantial contingent outside), geographie
by patio11 8y ago
HN has a wide distribution of folks at different career stages, employers, career tracks in the tech industry (and a substantial contingent outside), geographies, etc.
Well-compensated engineers at AppAmaGooBookSoft do quite well for themselves. I hope we can temper “This is not a situation everyone has” without swinging over to the common “... they must be lying about that then” because knowing true market conditions is instrumentally useful to many, many HNers.
Many here started businesses with substantially less; I think I had maybe $2k to my name when I went full time.
- cm2012 8y agoI was at a tech company that went through a round of layoffs 2 years ago - I took my 3 month severance ($24k) and started my consulting business with that. Getting fired actually worked out really well for me.
- standardUser 8y agoI doubt people jump to "they must be lying", but rather wonder why they would listen to the person in the first place? The decision-making process of a person with $1 million is relevant to a very tiny number of people.