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I paid mine off years ago. I got the same thing then. "Name me one investment I can put this 100k into that will pay 1500 a month". That is closer to 15% per year...
Your actual return is only the interest portion of the payment, so that's an odd way to calculate it
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> But I took a ~200K pay cut from my previous job to my current one I'm willing to bet that if ~90% of posters on HN would take a ~200k pay cut they'd have to pay their employer money. You're most likely living in an entirely different world to regular folks.
It's an interesting topic, I always wonder where reality is. An argument for more transparent comp info. When HN has comp discussions, everyone points out that approximately everyone with any experience is making way more than 500K with levels.fyi offered as the evidence. I've sometimes expressed some doubt about those numbers but I'm always labeled as uninformed. Ok so I guess everyone truly is making more than 500K…
Curious to find out if anyone is able to achieve strong career satisfaction working less than less than 20 hours a week. For me, I've always looked at the exchange of time for money. The problem with that is that you can't exchange money for time, only time for money. Realizing this, I set work to 0. There seems to be a step function at 40 hours - the "full time job", but I haven't heard of many people that are succe…
I was a fulltime employee for about a decade. Quit to attempt to launch some products with a friend. Wasn’t very successful and started to get stressed out about savings going down so managed to find a 6hr/day contracting job, with the rest of my time still working on my own products Have been doing that for close to a year now, and am trying to raise rates so I can move to a 3-full-day workweek instead, which I feel…
Thanks for the reply. I understand motivation can be tough. I'm also at the point where I'm wondering if I should go back to the more traditional route. Have you shipped any of your products? I feel like that's pretty key to being to able to talk about your accomplishments in the event of failure.