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> I realize I'm not doxable so you can consider my comment "fake" but I am a contractor SE making $83K/yr in midwest, no degree. You are making half of a new g

> I realize I'm not doxable so you can consider my comment "fake" but I am a contractor SE making $83K/yr in midwest, no degree. You are making half of a new grad salary at a FAANG, if that. They have offices in the Mid West. Please consider boning up on LeetCode or Elements of Programming Interviews or Cracking the Coding Interview and getting paid much, much more.

ge96 7y ago
thanks for the suggestion > grad salary at a FAANG I need that mindset, plenty of work/opportunity/more pay I actually was hit by Amazon/Google but I think that's just recruiters on Linked In looking for "software engineer" matches in profiles. I just thought with my "no degree" thing and that I'm not a heavy algorithm guy, I didn't really see myself as a FANGULTAD person. The $83K is nice with my means(single/midwest) but I'm still trying to get out of the debt that I have/wasted from school that I didn't use with my "savings"/credit. Since I don't have nice savings/investments I'm not really secure. It would suck if I lost my job but I have a burn rate of close to a year. > boning up on LeetCode Yeah I was doing some. I know you should at least know the big O/sorting... mainly so you don't make poor architecture choices. I am making sure that I have value by learning a lot(granted I have stayed away from Microsoft stuff as I never personally used it eg. setup an IIS server) and I'm sold on React. I don't know. I also think I'm aware I need to be on some meds or something to be "truly performant" so I'm also looking for freedom as well(my own SaaS products) but I don't have ideas currently and so I'm just a do-er at this time. I also suck at all the scrums/meetings I feel like I make an ass of myself all the time... so idk. I'm also not a super maths guy eg. linear algebra/ML/AI stuff. But yeah I know it's up to me "I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, etc..." so I won't haha. And it is all about mindset as you pointed out, it's not a lot of money elsewhere. The rent is insane there(SF) that's my monthly salary ha. last edit: I would like to break 6 figures, that would be cool.

ge96 7y ago

thanks for the suggestion > grad salary at a FAANG I need that mindset, plenty of work/opportunity/more pay I actually was hit by Amazon/Google but I think that's just recruiters on Linked In looking for "software engineer" matches in profiles. I just thought with my "no degree" thing and that I'm not a heavy algorithm guy, I didn't really see myself as a FANGULTAD person. The $83K is nice with my means(single/midwest) but I'm still trying to get out of the debt that I have/wasted from school that I didn't use with my "savings"/credit. Since I don't have nice savings/investments I'm not really secure. It would suck if I lost my job but I have a burn rate of close to a year. > boning up on LeetCode Yeah I was doing some. I know you should at least know the big O/sorting... mainly so you don't make poor architecture choices. I am making sure that I have value by learning a lot(granted I have stayed away from Microsoft stuff as I never personally used it eg. setup an IIS server) and I'm sold on React. I don't know. I also think I'm aware I need to be on some meds or something to be "truly performant" so I'm also looking for freedom as well(my own SaaS products) but I don't have ideas currently and so I'm just a do-er at this time. I also suck at all the scrums/meetings I feel like I make an ass of myself all the time... so idk. I'm also not a super maths guy eg. linear algebra/ML/AI stuff. But yeah I know it's up to me "I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, etc..." so I won't haha. And it is all about mindset as you pointed out, it's not a lot of money elsewhere. The rent is insane there(SF) that's my monthly salary ha. last edit: I would like to break 6 figures, that would be cool.