I have long told recruiters that I'd need something in the $250k range to even consider working as an engineer for a corporate tech shop. The work is brutal.

I have long told recruiters that I'd need something in the $250k range to even consider working as an engineer for a corporate tech shop. The work is brutal. You sell your mental life to hippie robber barons who write emails in all lowercase while siphoning enough energy out of you to buy second-hand nuclear icebreakers for personal yachts. None of them has yet taken me seriously, but thankfully this reduced the number of calls I was getting.