My proudest hack was completing my bachelor in 2 years instead of the usual 3 (The Netherlands). I could just enroll into 3rd year courses. I told my study advi

My proudest hack was completing my bachelor in 2 years instead of the usual 3 (The Netherlands). I could just enroll into 3rd year courses. I told my study advisor this. He told me that it could not be done with a very stern face. I told him: I'll prioritize my second year courses over my third year courses, deal? He reluctantly agreed. He told me I'd burn out. He was wrong. Well, at one point I almost did but that was because I did 6 months in 2 months for fun (done that for a whole year, it'd be 1 year in 3 years). I realized that 2 academic years per actual year was my comfortable study rate. He gave me a graduation speech where he expressed his surprise as no one had done it for a very long time. Meanwhile while putting stuff like that on my CV (including stuff like cum laude, TA, teaching as a web development bootcamp instructor, some actual programming experience, hall of fame with computer graphics engine building). No one cared :') Other than Facebook (3 years after graduation), no one interviewed me at a FAANG. No cared about my big achievement that I'm proud of. People don't get it. You think it's only possible in 3 as if it's a set in stone rule (people at my uni certainly believed it) and you defy that and succeed! The disbelief on people their faces. And I shared my exploits and other students were able to do it too! The sheer rebellion of it all! Yea, it was fun :) For anyone in uni, you can most likely do it too. The fact that no recruiter or hiring manager at any hip company I wanted to work at cared, it made me bitter for a few years. I really wanted to work for a big tech company for those few years. In truth, I wanted that because I wanted to earn some good money while being fully immersed in the tech world and just focus hardcore on tech. I never got that opportunity (other than FB, which I failed). Focusing hardcore on tech, I did get that by simply studying at VU Instead, now I work 4 days per week and am mostly working remote living my life as a digital nomad. That's my hack to the question "how do you become rich right now?" If you're single, work 4 days per week and travel. I'm on a Western European salary, so it's doable but I'm not making any savings. Like I said, it's a hack. And if you're like "we meant computer systems!" Well, it wasn't specified, so I could hack my answer ;-) I played a lot of hackthebox.eu and I realized that: hacking is a spirit.