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 t

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.