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What's Zig Forums's current lifestyle? Talk about how you cheated your way into your first job and share tips on getting away with being lazy.
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27/accountant/51500usd

I really should have done finance or CS.

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Why would any intelligent person want a job?

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27/software engineer/160k remote

Started out at more like 70k in summer of 2016, which I got by applying to a startup on linkedin and solving a quick take home coding question.

Can you literally think of any intelligent people that don't work outside of trust fund kids or people born into wealth?

I shove 80% of my salary into index funds and crypto. I should be set in a few years but I'll do ten just to get over it.

23/unemployed/nothing
Fuck I just want to end it all right now, but also want to keep living to see things improve. the only thing keeping me going is the stock/ crypto chase

>a quick take home coding question.
Damn. I should try this.

25/“data engineer”/90k USD
I was interviewed by a fortune 100, told them I had another job offer waiting, didn’t even do an in person interview, was hired in two days. They reached out to me. Just graduated with my bachelors at that moment. Midwest USA.

Same job and pay but I'm 23. Do you find the work incredibly simple as well? Part of me wants to get into real swe but collecting decent pay while doing easy work is hard to leave.

I'm you 3 years ago and want to be you now. How'd you finesse the higher paid remote gig, just apply everywhere? I'm a landlord on the side and having a remote senior role is the dream, could move around to wherever I need to in my area.

Just depends on the tech stack. Some projects are real easy. My only difficulty is the amount of work. I am managing about 100 separate reports, utilizing about 400 upstream DB tables from about 60 different sources... I am utilizing lots of SQL, PySpark, lots of AWS services and of course BI visualizations. Learning azure now.
Good for you user, this is a great line of work. Learn cloud services and you’re future proof for 10 years.

29 / Hardware Eng / 95k USD

My buddy worked on a formula car at uni, I told him I wanted to help him "work on the hardware" and brought his setup to a job interview at a big 3 auto company interview.

I got the job on the spot just by showing it to them, and they added 5k to their initial offer lel

Nice, you definitely work with more volume than I do. I'm with a fairly new BI team so we're just getting started out on the push from on-prem to the cloud. Hopefully I'll get there eventually. I am thankfully working 100% in the cloud (AWS) which is cool. Thanks for the reassurance, I wish you well in your work.

>Can you literally think of any intelligent people that don't work outside of trust fund kids or people born into wealth?

NEETs who hold link

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>I'm you 3 years ago and want to be you now. How'd you finesse the higher paid remote gig, just apply everywhere? I'm a landlord on the side and having a remote senior role is the dream, could move around to wherever I need to in my area.

Switched gigs twice since then. Startup wouldn't budge on my comp even though I drew the owl for us, which is when I got my first 2x by switching.

Then I networked with other young, like-minded teammates at the 2nd place and we followed the most senior one when he decided to upgrade. Full remote, even pre-virus!

So, I would say: be willing to move, be willing to switch and move *again*, network.

I am making it seem worse than it is. I don’t have users for more than half these reports, and I have a team that supports me. Always glad to talk to another person that is in this industry. Best of luck to you too user. You have an amazing start to your career. I work maybe 30 hours a week, and leave whenever I want. It’s barely wage slaving

Oh I'll also say that companies that already have a product built are kush. Compensation is not based on how hard you work in software, at all. That's how FAANG companies survive the "women in tech" hype. For every person actually driving development, there's probably 3-5 people resting and vesting, tweaking shit, maintaining ok optics.

I did more in 1 year at a startup than 3 years at big companies. The startup was good for some resume bullet points and getting an understanding of end-to-end software engineering though. Now I'm just leveraging that.

At this point, I'm hoping crypto can get me away from low level coding. I just want to make strategic decisions, help with hiring, manage outage communications, run presentations, and so on.

23/middle office/70k

debt free and stacking up the tendies baby please

>debt free and stacking up the tendies baby please
stack em, bb!

29/operator/135k

i plan to go to a data center in 3-5 years

oh just act competent

good luck

24 Callcenter earn about 20K euro a year

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How am I supposed to buy more LINK if I don't have any money because I don't have a job?

I'm not swinging.

31/DevOps/Cloud Architect/FullStack Dev/160K euro

>44
>Coder
>160K base
cant believe I am still doing this shit

31
accountant
70k

if i made $100-120k/yr and worked remotely i would be happy.

Redpill me on finance. I'm majoring in it but I heard the hours are long for most jobs

make maybe 10% more than accounting. work is more predictable, endless fire drills becaues retard boomer directors want some niggerbrained analysis/projection NOW.

10% more than a CPA? I'm really more concerned about the hours

27/quant/110k

I outsource almost all of my shit to our interns and work around 30 mins to 1 hour a day remotely from home. Boss thinks I am doing overtime and going the extra mile. It is a small company and I work here since 3 years (started during my finance masters).

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>not getting on disability
>not trading options
ngmi

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OP you can make a lateral move to financial analysis, at least if you get a MFin. If you got a alumni network you can see if anyone is hiring for it.

Don‘t go into accounting, it‘s soul crushing and as boring as it gets. If you are not a complete aspie try to move into asset management or trading. Research what skills you need to develop (e.g. python) and start applying like a maniac. These positions are usually very popular but once you are in you are set.

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>it's barely wage slaving
t. wage slave

27/project manager/80kaud

I made more money when I was 22 and had less responsibility

25/Software dev/£54k
meh

35/software dev/110k
This is my second career after I took a meme bootcamp course. I was formerly an oil and gas business analyst, which I got through nepotism.

31/NEET/36000
Life is too ez for me so ill prolly rope soon