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Author here. The reason I call out the money is to emphasize that everything was going great with my career. And despite that, I realized that a career as an em
by DVassallo 8y ago
Author here. The reason I call out the money is to emphasize that everything was going great with my career. And despite that, I realized that a career as an employee wasn’t the ideal one for me.
I’m very risk averse, but not in the traditional sense where I’m paranoid about losing anything. I protect the (few) important things aggressively and then I feel free to speculate with the rest (savings, time, reputation, etc).
- abc_lisper 8y agoWhy am I seeing this post again? I remember seeing this or something very similar a few months ago. To me this feels like a humble brag than anything. Its great you were able to pull 500k but it isn't very useful to read an article like this. Most of us aren't making 500kpa, and we are not you, thus most of your thought process doesn't apply to us, so why should we care? Now, if you did do something cool technically (or) served users, we are all ears.
- DVassallo 8y agoSomeone else posted it here. I noticed it because someone told me about it on Twitter. I realized that climbing the career ladder wasn’t my ideal career, despite everything going very well by most traditional metrics. What I hope readers can take away from the story is that succeeding as an employee is not necessarily the most satisfying career path. It can be, but it wasn’t for me.