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At that point your unlikely to take the plunge for various reasons: Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitt

At that point your unlikely to take the plunge for various reasons: Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitting some version of FIRE. You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away from. You've lost skills having worked with some internal tech stack your entire career and don't know how to do anything. Skills you learn at your FAANG equivalent job don't transfer over to entrepreneurship its just a different domain. You've never actually 'worked hard' and it's just going to seem plain silly to quit your 250k+ job to work all the time when the chances of success are low. People who get into entrepreneurship generally can't stand their jobs and have ideas running through their head all the time to the point where going to the job is pure torture. Why not work at a FAANG equivalent company for long enough to give you 2-3 years of runway and then take the plunge? The longer you wait the less likely you are to do it.

cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitting some version of FIRE. > You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away from. > You've lost skills having worked with some internal tech stack your entire career and don't know how to do anything. > Skills you learn at your FAANG equivalent job don't transfer over to entrepreneurship its just a different domain. > You've never actually 'worked hard' and it's just going to seem plain silly to quit your 250k+ job to work all the time when the chances of success are low. Can confirm all of the above (except lifestyle inflation, I watch that carefully). At this point, it really does make more sense to grind for a few more years, go have a nice FIRE and then maybe work on something on your own just for fun. So, essentially, golden handcuffs all the way.
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DSingularity 6y ago
Maybe some people don’t agree with the ethics of FB/amz/google/Netflix and are not interested in a career with Apple? I think for a lot of people money isn’t everything in life.
wombatmobile 6y ago
Spot on, rvn1045. Your brain will be bent into the wrong shape, your engineering and product management skills will have become too specialised, you won't realise what you took for granted in the workplace until it isn't there, and then you'll have to split your time between your start-up, your new partner, and your new children, with less than half the income and no security. Nevertheless, some people will do it better at 29 than at 22, and others will excel at another age. We're all different. When the time comes for you, if it ever does, you'll know.

cyberdrunk 6y ago

> Once you have saved that amount of money your only going to be a 'few' more years from hitting some version of FIRE. > You've grown accustomed to a certain lifestyle and friend group that will be hard to walk away from. > You've lost skills having worked with some internal tech stack your entire career and don't know how to do anything. > Skills you learn at your FAANG equivalent job don't transfer over to entrepreneurship its just a different domain. > You've never actually 'worked hard' and it's just going to seem plain silly to quit your 250k+ job to work all the time when the chances of success are low. Can confirm all of the above (except lifestyle inflation, I watch that carefully). At this point, it really does make more sense to grind for a few more years, go have a nice FIRE and then maybe work on something on your own just for fun. So, essentially, golden handcuffs all the way.

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DSingularity 6y ago

Maybe some people don’t agree with the ethics of FB/amz/google/Netflix and are not interested in a career with Apple? I think for a lot of people money isn’t everything in life.

wombatmobile 6y ago

Spot on, rvn1045. Your brain will be bent into the wrong shape, your engineering and product management skills will have become too specialised, you won't realise what you took for granted in the workplace until it isn't there, and then you'll have to split your time between your start-up, your new partner, and your new children, with less than half the income and no security. Nevertheless, some people will do it better at 29 than at 22, and others will excel at another age. We're all different. When the time comes for you, if it ever does, you'll know.