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Laid off in October. Was making $130k as a mid-career embedded/C++/Python guy in LCOL USA. Supposed to start new job this Monday for $80k as an IT backend Java
by runnerup 4y ago
Laid off in October. Was making $130k as a mid-career embedded/C++/Python guy in LCOL USA. Supposed to start new job this Monday for $80k as an IT backend Java software developer at a University.
Been a very, very rough few months. The new pay will be difficult to service my debt properly.
- dieselgate 4y agoWhat does starting a new role this coming week mean for you looking for jobs - will you continue searching or just hunker down for a bit?
- runnerup 4y agoWill stick with this for at least a year. I can take classes for free at a top tier university, which I love. Planning to use it to try to get into a well ranked masters program and then maybe FAANG? Pipe dream maybe, I went to a third tier university for a different engineering degree and got about a 2.9 GPA there. But I absolutely love learning and am excited to take courses. Just hard to decide which 1 course per semester to take. Maybe also see if I can help with some research in EE or CS or computational biology.