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I'll do whatever I damn well please. People like you are why San Franciscan locals like myself hate techies.

I was first inspired by this video that a friend of a friend made for a boutique frame builder in California. http://soulcraftbikes.com A decade later I sold a company and spent 3 …

I agree with you on the stress. I only visit the USA for funerals now. I just had 3 root canals and crowns done last year, it cost me $750 at a high-end dental office. I think that…

Funny, this is my plan to get out of tech. I've been welding bicycle frames for five years (cumulative, over maybe a 10 year period). I'll probably leave tech for good at the end o…

I would rather have a garbage resume, than be a garbage human being like yourself.

It was a small company, 8 people including an office admin and an intern. I was simultaneously doing conference marketing and managing our infrastructure. Dad died, I told them I h…

I'm not sure about great. If I had family beyond my wife, sure I think Western Europe would be incredible. Since I don't, I choose to live in a poor country instead of a Western Eu…

Good for you. I am not in a field where being a "specialist" is being a generalist who sort of kind of gets to choose what he works on. Just to be employable I have to have strong,…

Yes, you're right. After 25 years of mostly being treated like shit by start-ups with an average weekly work rate of 60 hours, my attitude is probably kind of bad. Do I really need…

The best I ever did with a startup was in 2002 when everybody went under. I made about $200k in 10 months buying routers and switches from startups and selling them to VARs. I have…

"Your aversion to learning new things every 2 years sounds like a limiter. Even 2 years is too slow for this industry and probably why you feel capped. " You failed to read my comm…

I wish I had your enthusiasm. I've been unemployed 90% of the time since Covid. Ironically, I've given at least 5 people their start in this industry who are all now worth 8 figure…

I feel you on this. I live in the 3rd world (Turkiye) and have been itching to buy a motorcycle lately. The $26k BMW 1250RT I want costs $35k here, and another $20k in taxes.

Well now I have a better idea of how much my friend makes (she's an exec at a big company). I just lost my sympathy for her.

> The you have to factor in $0 in health costs (gratis hospital and doctor visits), no payments for kids attending university, 32 weeks of paid maternal leave, and 5 weeks of manda…

I think you might slightly underestimate the sheer # of companies and tech jobs in the Bay Area? I think Hacker News is an echo chamber when it comes to this because there are so m…

As a Sysadmin/DevOps engineer, I am expected to be an expert in some new paradigm every 2 years which I have done consistently for 25 years. Working hard and doing solid, consisten…

A few years ago a Danish friend of mine said she'd hit a point where it wasn't worth taking a raise because of the progressive taxation system, and so instead she would negotiate f…

Personally I've only ever gotten close to making $$ off of stock once, but got fired 2 weeks before my first vesting period because I took 2 weeks off after my father's death. Ever…

I have a cousin who makes $220k as a crane operator at a port. I'll never make that much in my career.

I'm not sure I can believe that. The companies who hire for average senior engineers like me do not compete with FAANG. They hire the 90% of us who aren't rockstars and have accept…

Sadly outside of FAANG this is not the case at all. Total compensation out of non-faang is: Salary + worthless stock option and maybe a 3% 401k match if they're more than 5 years o…

So 3% per year, or just a little bitover inflation. Still, better than the US where we don't really get inflationary raises.

Oof, European salaries are absurdly low. When I first left the USA I was thinking "OK I'll get a nice job in Amsterdam or Denmark" .. Then I saw the cost of living and the low sala…

I keep reading "DevOps Engineers make $250k+ in San Francisco". Which parallel universe is this San Francisco in and how do I get there? 15 years ago, any job ads I looked at or an…