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I'm about an inch away from quitting my job today with no backup. The impossibility of finding a new way to pay rent is the only thing stopping me.
If i knew any way on earth for me to make as much as i do programming doing something else, i would.
If you live in a modern 1st world country and have a family, at least 1 child or some old relatives and at least minimal ambition to eat good food and have okay level of life - 10M is not much at all. It’ll get you okayish to allright property (depending on the region), will cover all basic expenses and (if you don’t have anyone with serious illness or financial problems) some non basic ones. For up to 10 years max.…
No, capital NO. And I think people who do continue, are engaging in a sociopathic mental illness, that is the primary cause of income inequality, and authoritarian hierarchies in general. Some people just feel driven to dominate others...
How do you know people wouldn't quit their jobs and then take that $10M to start a sweatshop?
I'm way more concerned about the latter than the former. Work is just work; leveraging capital to exploit people is the sociopathy you're talking about.
I believe that unless one manages to regress to our primal animal state the brain has a need to think about something in order not to think about self and the possible dark existential stuff which should absolutely be ignored and avoided. In this scenario the best possible way to occupy the brain is to set goals and build discipline towards reaching such goals. Even pleasurable stuff like music or social connection o…
Doing things you find fulfilling is nothing remotely like working for a profit driven enterprise, unless you choose to make it that way.
No, capital NO. And I think people who do continue, are engaging in a sociopathic mental illness, that is the primary cause of income inequality, and authoritarian hierarchies in general. Some people just feel driven to dominate others...
Working as a programmer is dominating others? How do you know people wouldn't quit their jobs and then take that $10M to start a sweatshop? I'm way more concerned about the latter than the former. Work is just work; leveraging capital to exploit people is the sociopathy you're talking about.
All these "NO" answers haha... makes sense why there are record layoffs and zombie/dead startups. I think Claude Code will save many small businesses.
The money would affect that in the sense that the additional assets and guaranteed income would allow more investing in my business.
$10M in the bank is very different for a family of 4 staying in VHCOL (Bay Area/ Manhattan) vs single person staying in Bangkok. The answer to this question depends on a lot on that versus job satisfaction etc.
But even so, just going by the 4% rule, that’s still $400K a year. The median household income in SF Bay is $130J
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I’d rather have an engineering manager who does nothing rather than one who wastes everyone’s time and runs around trying to get credit for everything under the sun while throwing people under the bus if anything goes sideways.
I’ve had over a dozen managers and they were useless. Every few quarters there’d be a re org as the company grew and we would shuffle teams. It was a mess and the common point was a useless Eng manager who never remembered shit and usually contributed jack shit. But I had one cool manager who was old and rich. He was cool and harmlessly incompetent.
I worked at two companies before I got into consulting where I was recruited to lead major hairy initiatives, the conditions of employment for both was that I wanted to report to the director/cto - someone who controlled budgets.
[1] no matter what your title is, if you are just pulling well defined tasks off the board, you’re a mid level developer.