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Why would I pick up my family and move without a guarantee on the other side that I will have a job for X amount of years. It's too much of a risk and too much

Why would I pick up my family and move without a guarantee on the other side that I will have a job for X amount of years. It's too much of a risk and too much stress for everyone involved.

raw_anon_1111 1y ago
The alternative is staying where you know there aren’t any jobs. I didn’t move from small town south GA because I knew I wanted to stay at my job as computer operator making $11/hour in 1996 in Atlanta. I moved because I knew there were better opportunities to get another job when I wanted. I have never in 30 years had the mindset that I need my current job to get ahead. I needed a job. I’m now on my tenth. 7 of them were in Atlanta until 2020 and the last three were remote and we moved from Atlanta to state tax free Florida after COVID.
shortrounddev2 1y ago
especially since moving for work usually means moving to somewhere more expensive. If I live in a lower COL city and get laid off, my savings would carry me a lot further. If I move to San Francisco or New York for a job and get laid off, I'd have to find a new one immediately
- raw_anon_1111 1y ago
  It’s not that simple, if I were young, single or even married with no kids, even if my expenses went up to double from living some place like Atlanta to San Francisco and your income went up $75K - $100K+, you should still be able to save a lot of money to increase your savings. The average mid level to senior developer[1] in Atlanta and most other 2nd tier cities working in enterprise dev makes between $130K to $170K and that’s been surprisingly stagnant and hasn’t kept up with inflation since 2016. Compare that to a developer working in any of the major public tech companies or competitive private companies wheee you can make $250K+ easily. I don’t live in Atlanta anymore and I’m no longer officially a developer. But most developer jobs that come to me are still from there and that’s where I know the most non BigTech developers from. No you won’t be buying the big house in the burbs. But even if you rent a place twice as expensive, you’ll still come out ahead. What if you have a house? If I were young today and no kids, I wouldn’t buy a house so I would have the mobility. I would live light so I could move easily. [1] no matter what your title is, you will be leveled as a mid level developer in any nsjor tech company if all you do is pull well defined tasks off of the board

Why would I pick up my family and move without a guarantee on the other side that I will have a job for X amount of years. It's too much of a risk and too much stress for everyone involved.

raw_anon_1111 1y ago

The alternative is staying where you know there aren’t any jobs. I didn’t move from small town south GA because I knew I wanted to stay at my job as computer operator making $11/hour in 1996 in Atlanta. I moved because I knew there were better opportunities to get another job when I wanted. I have never in 30 years had the mindset that I need my current job to get ahead. I needed a job. I’m now on my tenth. 7 of them were in Atlanta until 2020 and the last three were remote and we moved from Atlanta to state tax free Florida after COVID.

shortrounddev2 1y ago

especially since moving for work usually means moving to somewhere more expensive. If I live in a lower COL city and get laid off, my savings would carry me a lot further. If I move to San Francisco or New York for a job and get laid off, I'd have to find a new one immediately

raw_anon_1111 1y ago
It’s not that simple, if I were young, single or even married with no kids, even if my expenses went up to double from living some place like Atlanta to San Francisco and your income went up $75K - $100K+, you should still be able to save a lot of money to increase your savings. The average mid level to senior developer[1] in Atlanta and most other 2nd tier cities working in enterprise dev makes between $130K to $170K and that’s been surprisingly stagnant and hasn’t kept up with inflation since 2016. Compare that to a developer working in any of the major public tech companies or competitive private companies wheee you can make $250K+ easily. I don’t live in Atlanta anymore and I’m no longer officially a developer. But most developer jobs that come to me are still from there and that’s where I know the most non BigTech developers from. No you won’t be buying the big house in the burbs. But even if you rent a place twice as expensive, you’ll still come out ahead. What if you have a house? If I were young today and no kids, I wouldn’t buy a house so I would have the mobility. I would live light so I could move easily. [1] no matter what your title is, you will be leveled as a mid level developer in any nsjor tech company if all you do is pull well defined tasks off of the board