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Senior developer with experience as a former director of engineering, but yeah, $199k last year, tracking for $205k this year.
Nice job! Good to know it's atleast possible to break the 120k-ish mark.
To be fair, for most of my career it has been my current job: Whenever it got to a place where I wasn't happy (mind you - not even unhappy, just chronic normalcy or lack of exciting work), I usually left either the team or the company. It has worked out so far :)
Sorry to digress - What I want from life keeps changing over time. Maybe evolving as I grow/change as a person. While I was happiest at certain roles/companies in the past, I don't think I would be as happy there now.
Yeah, and memory is a fickle thing. I want to say "job X" but then as I really think about it, I realize I am disregarding some bad times there, too.
I was happiest when I was working for someone who I really liked as a person (that's only happened the once, though)
Justin.TV during the first 3 years or so. Honestly, because we were in "cowboy mode", and that's what I enjoy the most. The site was growing and changing so fast it was often hard to keep up, and we were all just doing whatever it took.
Cowboy mode sounds horrible to me (no offense). What did you enjoy about it?
I also worked in a hypergrowth unicorn from the early days and I would also call those first couple of years there my happiest job, even though it was tons of work and full cowboy mode.
That was when I was in my mid-20s and single. I am 100% sure that I wouldn't enjoy that right now in my current stage in life. (mid-30s and married now)
Best full-time job Consultant for embedded systems software, mostly prototypes, short projects (2-3 months), jack-of-all-trades work, often going to cool places. Long hours and often in horrible places, away from family and friends, too though.
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Nice job! Good to know it's atleast possible to break the 120k-ish mark.
he's a contractor, it's different.
My second job with Snappydata Inc. Best work environment and great people
I have never been happier than I was in grad school (the Space Systems Lab at the University of Maryland). Which might sound surprising, given the pay and work hours... but there's a lot to be said for working with a group of people you love with all your heart, who have your back, in a field you are passionate about and have been since you were a kid. Grad school was incredibly hard work, and the pay sucked. But I w…
Probably PhD work for me, too. It's a slightly different experience in the UK, I think, but did afford me quite a bit of autonomy. Has been hard to match since. (I get the impression that the trend has been gradually towards more structure and less autonomy in "doctoral programs" -- from my point of view, that's sad). PS. did you follow Akin's Laws?
37. (Henshaw's Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.