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I would gladly take a $350K/yr paycheck for a decade, then retire and do social work for free.

jondwillis 3y ago
You and tens of thousands of other smart people who could be doing something other than maximizing attention and shilling trash products. Good luck undoing 3.5MM of damage with social work.
- lesuorac 3y ago
  I mean stick with math for everything. Value of a human life is ~10M [1] so it's pretty easy to undo 3.5M of damage if you spend decades helping people. [1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agencies-determine-the-dollar-value-of-human-life https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agen...
- scarface_74 3y ago
  Do you work for a non profit?
zht 3y ago
you might net 200K a year if you're lucky, and assuming you live like a miser and save/invest 150K a year, that's really not enough to retire on
- JohnFen 3y ago
  Doesn't the depend on where you live and how old you are? In my part of the US, you can live like a king on $200k/yr and such jobs aren't rare. You can live better than 90% of the people here on $100k, and putting 100k/yr away for retirement is genuinely more than enough unless you're in your 40s or so. But I know there are other parts of the US where what you say is 100% true.
  - zht 3y ago
    and OP was saying that he'd like to work for 10 years and retire. it's not really retirement if you only stop working for 10 years. I just mean that you need far higher incomes than 350K for 10 years (gross) to be able to stop working entirely
    - JohnFen 3y ago
      Oh, I missed that part. Yes, if you want to shoot for that goal, it requires a huge sacrifice and a lot of misery.
- a_and 3y ago
  I have to disagree. In the Bay/Seattle/NYC, 200k is new grad range for most FAANGs. If the parent commenter does well, they can easily hit the 350k within a few years of work. If they job hop and optimize, 500k+ is attainable at Senior(L5/L6 at AMZN). That will cut down your retirement estimates heavily especially if you're willing to relocate to LCOL down the line.

You and tens of thousands of other smart people who could be doing something other than maximizing attention and shilling trash products. Good luck undoing 3.5MM of damage with social work.

lesuorac 3y ago
I mean stick with math for everything. Value of a human life is ~10M [1] so it's pretty easy to undo 3.5M of damage if you spend decades helping people. [1]: https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agencies-determine-the-dollar-value-of-human-life https://www.npr.org/2020/04/23/843310123/how-government-agen...
scarface_74 3y ago
Do you work for a non profit?

zht 3y ago

you might net 200K a year if you're lucky, and assuming you live like a miser and save/invest 150K a year, that's really not enough to retire on

JohnFen 3y ago
Doesn't the depend on where you live and how old you are? In my part of the US, you can live like a king on $200k/yr and such jobs aren't rare. You can live better than 90% of the people here on $100k, and putting 100k/yr away for retirement is genuinely more than enough unless you're in your 40s or so. But I know there are other parts of the US where what you say is 100% true.
- zht 3y ago
  and OP was saying that he'd like to work for 10 years and retire. it's not really retirement if you only stop working for 10 years. I just mean that you need far higher incomes than 350K for 10 years (gross) to be able to stop working entirely
  - JohnFen 3y ago
    Oh, I missed that part. Yes, if you want to shoot for that goal, it requires a huge sacrifice and a lot of misery.
a_and 3y ago
I have to disagree. In the Bay/Seattle/NYC, 200k is new grad range for most FAANGs. If the parent commenter does well, they can easily hit the 350k within a few years of work. If they job hop and optimize, 500k+ is attainable at Senior(L5/L6 at AMZN). That will cut down your retirement estimates heavily especially if you're willing to relocate to LCOL down the line.