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>That's a survivor-biased anecdotal example, not a widely-applicable strategy There's what, half a million or more engineers at these companies? You think the
by VirusNewbie 1y ago
>That's a survivor-biased anecdotal example, not a widely-applicable strategy
There's what, half a million or more engineers at these companies? You think there are just as many software consultants or entrepreneurs making it rich? I think both cases are not widely-applicable strategies.
If you can get rich being an entrepreneur, congrats, that's great. Making ~40k a month doing tech consulting is fantastic, good for you.
But saying "you'll never get rich working for someone else" when many of us have half a million to a million unvested shares (or many more, if at Meta or Nvidia) we are waiting on is just false.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoBut not all in the US. 300k tops. 1.3M SWEs in the US. That's 1M SWEs and a few million more other kinds of engineers and knowledge workers who don't have the luxury of being in MS+MAANG. I did some work for a civil engineer who did ASME boiler and pressure vessel code consulting who made $60k (2000 dollars) for 1-2 hours worth of work. He did between 30 and 50 of them a year. Top talent turning a side-hustle into a sellable business can easily double one's lifetime income. I think you're just stuck that your way is "right" and cannot accept contrary data.