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I have to disagree with this article. Companies as is, particularly larger companies have a lot of fluff. People who do about three or four hours of work a week
by 999900000999 2y ago
I have to disagree with this article. Companies as is, particularly larger companies have a lot of fluff. People who do about three or four hours of work a week, and effectively just sit around so senior management can claim they have so many people working on such and such project.
With AI, you no longer need those employees to justify your high valuations. You don't need as many juniors. The party is over tell the rest of the crew. I wouldn't advise anyone to get into tech right now. I know personally my wages have been stagnant for about 5 years. I still make fantastic money, and it's significantly more than the average American income, but my hopes and dreams of hitting 300 or 400k total comp in retiring by 40 are gone.
Instead I've more or less accepted I'm going to have to keep working my middle class job, and I might not even retiring till my '50s! Tragic.
- pockmarked19 2y agoPeople who look forward to retiring are like people who look forward to heaven: missing out on life due to the belief their “real” life hasn’t begun yet.
- 999900000999 2y agoI want to spend all day making music, and small games. I haven't figured out a way to do that in a manner that supports myself. Every job is ultimately filing out TPS reports. The reports might look a little different, but it's still a TPS report.
- renewiltord 2y agoAmusingly, I spent years making multiples of your target comp and now I’m home sitting around using AI to make myself toy games. The barrier has dropped so low that I think I’d have been more productive if I were still working.
- 999900000999 2y agoNot like it's going to happen for me, but how did you reach such comp. I'm a simple man. If I hit 2 million in net worth I'm done working. I don't plan on having a family, so I'm just supporting myself. If I really made a ton of money I'd fund interesting open source games. Godot is the most popular open source game engine, and they're making it happen off just 40k a month. I'm a bit surprised Microsoft hasn't filled the void here. What's a few million dollars a year to get new programmers fully invested in a .net first game engine?
- renewiltord 2y agoWorked in HFT. But tbh everyone I know in FAANG who stuck it out is doing even better.
- 999900000999 2y agoI've actually worked in finance for a bit, but I'm also content with where I'm at. I don't this have a realistic chance at HFT though. Doesn't stop me from applying and dreaming...
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- weatherlite 2y agoI think we look forward to financial independence more so than the retirement itself. Could be nice not having to worry some Chatbot or younger dude are going to replace me and I'll have to go work in McDonalds (not that there's anything wrong with that).