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Highly-paid jobs? Would be good to hear some examples.

planarhobbit 4y ago
- dang 4y ago
  You can't do this here, so we've banned you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - planarhobbit 4y ago
PheonixPharts 4y ago
Sure! You can build infrastructure for companies that sell advertising or social media (which is... also advertising) Alternatively you can work for one of the companies burning through VC money selling products/services at a loss who need to advertise those services so they can sell more and more quickly to create the illusion that one day they will be able to generate more than they spend! Don't worry too much about the loses the VCs will just make it up in their investments in advertising companies and companies selling infrastructure to advertising companies. Huh, something sounds weird about that setup, well good thing money is cheap!
- jacquesm 4y ago
  I think that's the opposite of what the GP was asking for.
  - brazzy 4y ago
    Yes, it was pretty obvious sarcasm. Well, just goes to show that sarcasm is always bad for factual debates.
buscoquadnary 4y ago
I make around $120ish working for a non-profit. I mean it's not SV money but no matter how much money I make I am eventually be lying on my death bed and the only thing I will have to comfort me will be the memories of good I left in this world, so I do it and am grateful I make a very comfortable living doing something positive. I'll also say that the idea of "Make lots of money now and then I'll give back later and retire early and enjoy my life" is a very risky proposition, you never know what tomorrow might bring a car crash, cancer, who knows? > And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee - Luke 12:15-20
- xxpor 4y ago
  >I make around $120ish working for a non-profit. I mean it's not SV money but no matter how much money I make I am eventually be lying on my death bed and the only thing I will have to comfort me will be the memories of good I left in this world, so I do it and am grateful I make a very comfortable living doing something positive. Not saying this is your job of course, but there are PLENTY of non-profits in this world that are actively making the world worse off. Non-profit == good is just as bad as Profit == bad. For an example, just look at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in LA. Some of the worst people in the country.
colechristensen 4y ago
Sure, my current gig is making software for banks. Previously I’ve worked on managing medical records. There are people working on robotics, working on medicine, biology, rockets, software for people’s real problems, tools to enable other businesses, all sorts of things.
- dinvlad 4y ago
  High salaries though? :-)

dang 4y ago
You can't do this here, so we've banned you. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- planarhobbit 4y ago

Sure! You can build infrastructure for companies that sell advertising or social media (which is... also advertising) Alternatively you can work for one of the companies burning through VC money selling products/services at a loss who need to advertise those services so they can sell more and more quickly to create the illusion that one day they will be able to generate more than they spend! Don't worry too much about the loses the VCs will just make it up in their investments in advertising companies and companies selling infrastructure to advertising companies. Huh, something sounds weird about that setup, well good thing money is cheap!

jacquesm 4y ago
I think that's the opposite of what the GP was asking for.
- brazzy 4y ago
  Yes, it was pretty obvious sarcasm. Well, just goes to show that sarcasm is always bad for factual debates.

buscoquadnary 4y ago

I make around $120ish working for a non-profit. I mean it's not SV money but no matter how much money I make I am eventually be lying on my death bed and the only thing I will have to comfort me will be the memories of good I left in this world, so I do it and am grateful I make a very comfortable living doing something positive. I'll also say that the idea of "Make lots of money now and then I'll give back later and retire early and enjoy my life" is a very risky proposition, you never know what tomorrow might bring a car crash, cancer, who knows? > And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee - Luke 12:15-20

xxpor 4y ago
>I make around $120ish working for a non-profit. I mean it's not SV money but no matter how much money I make I am eventually be lying on my death bed and the only thing I will have to comfort me will be the memories of good I left in this world, so I do it and am grateful I make a very comfortable living doing something positive. Not saying this is your job of course, but there are PLENTY of non-profits in this world that are actively making the world worse off. Non-profit == good is just as bad as Profit == bad. For an example, just look at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in LA. Some of the worst people in the country.

colechristensen 4y ago

Sure, my current gig is making software for banks. Previously I’ve worked on managing medical records. There are people working on robotics, working on medicine, biology, rockets, software for people’s real problems, tools to enable other businesses, all sorts of things.

dinvlad 4y ago
High salaries though? :-)