That is the saddest self-realization post I have ever read. Boils down to accepting being a tool and proceeds with optimizing ROI on said tool.
A very well-paid tool that can probably retire in a few years and never have to work again.
Changing jobs during the Great Resignation
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99% of people in tech aren't changing the world. They are building accounting and metrics and shopping and add platforms to get marginal increases to marginal revenue so some business can make a bit more money than they were making before. I'm honest that I trade my time for money. There are many times when I'll prioritize other things like working with people I like or not working with people I dislike, the same thi…
On that note, is anyone else getting a little tired of all the pretentiousness going about in tech? Suddenly, every tech company is claiming to "change the world" and "not like the others". You know, hyping these adds, metrics, platforms, etc. up as if they're going to really change life in a noteworthy way for Average Joe. Whatever happened to just putting in a good day's effort and admitting we're doing it for the…
"Suddenly"? It's been going on for at least a decade, decade and a half, nearly two decades now, whenever Web 2.0 was getting off the ground and startups started booming again post-Dot Com bubble.
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I do something like this as a first pass, but prune based on Values. I wouldn’t ever consider Amazon… but at $1MM… that’s kinda “change your values” type money.
Out of curiosity, what turns you off about Amazon?
Not the OP. But I interviewed once got a contract to hire position. The recruiter said after about six months I could apply for full time. If I got accepted then immediately the expectation is to put in 60 hours a week or more.
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#94The proposed "blind referral" system, where people refer people they don't even know for jobs, seems like it should be a completely worthless signal on the hiring side. On the referrer side the benefit is obvious, if the person gets the job you get cash. But on the company side, what is the value of a referral that's predicated specifically on a shallow social interaction?
For now Blind might have a sufficiently high quality network to make this worthwhile even on hiring. You wouldn't find it unless you were serious "enough" about your career, even if there is a ton centered around LC grinding and TC chasing.
Probably it's less that it's high quality, so much as it's not huge enough to introduce too much noise into the referral pipelines yet.
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#95That is the saddest self-realization post I have ever read. Boils down to accepting being a tool and proceeds with optimizing ROI on said tool.
A very well-paid tool that can probably retire in a few years and never have to work again.
"We're all puppets, lokimedes. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings."
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#96I did the opposite, collected a bunch of salaries for my experience level on levels.fyi, showed them to my boss, and asked for a raise. Got a 50K bump without having to do much. I'm only in the mid 200s TC mind you, but not bad for just looking up what I could be worth.
What's the approximate size/industry of your company?
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Whenever there is a lot of money on the table, these types of individuals will definitely show up in droves. Hell, do you think CS is fast becoming one of the most popular majors because most people love computers? For 60-70% of software engineers, it is all about making money and retiring.
I'll take it one step further. Most people doing CS don't have a love for generic crud apps pipelining information over the web, but that's the far majority of safe jobs paying well as a software dev. There are plenty of people who go into CS for more passionate fields such as game development. They often end up taking one of these safe jobs anyway.
I once worked with a former nuclear engineer who became a backend engineer slinging Rails code. The money, of course, was better.
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I believe it's extremely common? I don't really have any data though. Everyone I know changes jobs whenever someone comes along offering more. I'm the odd one out having been with my current employer for >5 years. I've been getting healthy raises every year, but many of my friends have averaged a 40% pay increase every hop... I guess it depends on what you want. Do you want your job to be something you're excited abo…
My salary did the same thing, practically doubled every hop. That ends eventually and you find out there's a ceiling.
Well obviously, and then it would come down to who treats you better or lets you work on more interesting things. But the ceiling is typically way higher than what the people who don't hop around get.
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Some expenses you have no control over (alimony, child support, chronic healthcare costs, elder care come to mind from my circle of associates). Yes, don’t spend frivolously (luxury vehicles, eating out all of the time), but sometimes (at least in tech), you have far more control over the income side of the equation. If you can switch jobs and make $100k/more a year, that’s easier than trying to cut all of your expen…
Yeah the other issue is if you increase income, your imputed income for child support is now effectively permanently higher. Child support imputed incomes ratchet up with raises, generally not back down. You will never be able to 'relax' back at a slower/less lucrative job because now the judge says pay the higher rate or go to jail. Another way to view it: say you get a pay boost 90k -> 190k. The custodial parent wi…
Please don’t forget about social security, that one year would make up the largest contribution of your social security benefits, and if you worked at least 10 more years after that, the AWI-adjusted Gross Income would drastically increase your Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME). Anyway I don’t see why you wouldn’t use your savings from that first year to lawyer up a case for child support modification, there is no law that promises past earnings indicate future earnings.