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As someone who never prioritized money but instead gravitated to mission and a career supporting my family life, my biggest recommendation is to keep earning th

As someone who never prioritized money but instead gravitated to mission and a career supporting my family life, my biggest recommendation is to keep earning the high salary as long as you can. Money represents options and time in a storable, transportable form — I didn’t realize that when I was younger and just figured I could live within my means. I make more than 5x my parents did in my rural town, but in an urban city it’s a different calculus for a family and I wish I built up enough money to exercise different options in life. Further, as you get older, becoming an IC has ageism risks, and returning to age appropriate leadership roles maybe hard with the “drop” on your resume.

floor2 4y ago
> age appropriate leadership roles This fallacy is so common, but so obviously illogical. By definition, "leadership" roles require a larger number of "followers". Corporate structures are inevitably pyramid shaped, with a tiny number of executives at the top and then more middle managers below and still more ICs at the base. But unless you're in a country with exponential population growth happening, that structure clearly doesn't represent the populace. There are going to be way more older workers than there are spots at the top of the pyramid. As a society, we really need to embrace reality and stop pretending like the 5% of people in the upper ranks succeeded and the other 95% of people failed, if they don't rise to the top and then stay there for the rest of their career.
- nytesky 4y ago
  I don’t make the rules, I just know that when people are older it’s more acceptable to be in management or leadership. One other thing in tech, I feel like there is a feeling that if you don’t have FU money by 40, and are still working in the coding weeds, you actually aren’t any good and are vulnerable when layoffs etc come around.
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floor2 4y ago

> age appropriate leadership roles This fallacy is so common, but so obviously illogical. By definition, "leadership" roles require a larger number of "followers". Corporate structures are inevitably pyramid shaped, with a tiny number of executives at the top and then more middle managers below and still more ICs at the base. But unless you're in a country with exponential population growth happening, that structure clearly doesn't represent the populace. There are going to be way more older workers than there are spots at the top of the pyramid. As a society, we really need to embrace reality and stop pretending like the 5% of people in the upper ranks succeeded and the other 95% of people failed, if they don't rise to the top and then stay there for the rest of their career.

nytesky 4y ago
I don’t make the rules, I just know that when people are older it’s more acceptable to be in management or leadership. One other thing in tech, I feel like there is a feeling that if you don’t have FU money by 40, and are still working in the coding weeds, you actually aren’t any good and are vulnerable when layoffs etc come around.

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