A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
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A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
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Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#2Old, from 2015.
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#3Old, from 2015.
Where is Brandon now?
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#4Old, from 2015.
Thanks for pointing this out. I was about to say that Google doesn't offer corporate housing to their interns (anymore; the 2014 cohort may have ruined it for the rest of us). They do offer a generous relocation stipend which covers flights and rent for the summer though.
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#5Old, from 2015.
Where is Brandon now?
According to his most recent blog post[0] (last week!) he is working on a different team in a different Alphabet subsidiary.
[0] https://frominsidethebox.com/post/the-switch-up/567040587648...
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#6Coworker at Fortune 500 does this. Old housemate at different Fortune 500 did basically this (slept on the floor, only owned cardboard boxes, one week of clothes and a car).
Both of these people are incredibly rich. One came from parents with oil and financial sector money. The other has multiple real estate properties. Both have six figure incomes.
Other people I know in the tech sector are less extreme, but nonetheless have various plans for exiting the corporate world so that they can feel financially independent enough to retire early and then work on problems they find enriching/bring value to people rather than shareholders/etc.
Though one of them was obsessed with immortality and saving up for when cryogenics and Kurzweil's singularity were figured out. So I guess it's not all about the rat race for everybody.
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#7Local computer wiz digs food out of a dumpster and saves 100% on food. Walmart hates him!
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#8Coworker at Fortune 500 does this. Old housemate at different Fortune 500 did basically this (slept on the floor, only owned cardboard boxes, one week of clothes and a car). Both of these people are incredibly rich. One came from parents with oil and financial sector money. The other has multiple real estate properties. Both have six figure incomes. Other people I know in the tech sector are less extreme, but nonethe…
I would add that they are incredibly lucky as well. If given the choice I would live like this. I do not have that choice.
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#9I'm not sure I'd want information like this public. Doesn't seem safe.
Re: A Google employee lives in a truck and saves 90% of his income (2015)
#10I'm not sure I'd want information like this public. Doesn't seem safe.
I doubt he keeps his savings in the truck, and very few people are going to risk going to prison over stealing a bed and dresser.