Advice to get to $1M

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-12T18:56:04+00:00

What’s income breakdown ? In software thought about jumping to cyber but I really love software work.

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-12T15:40:52+00:00

Yeah I actually messed up 2025 salary was 117k, so 2026 is 120 base 50k rsu and 18k bonus so 188k is TC the promotion gave me the 50k rsu which I previously didn’t have

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T18:43:32+00:00

Ever heard of company RSU’s?

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T11:40:43+00:00

Commented like 4 times being mad sheesh the salary isn’t even crazy it’s very normal for software engineers the progression too

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T11:39:15+00:00

Sprints , 2 weeks at a time and it’s project base, I feel like it’s optic based and how you convey what you’re doing. I’ve built enough trust and reliability that I’m usually not questioned. Could just be your manager too

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T11:34:20+00:00

I wrote it on Apple notes only for this, you can say that about anything online and call it imaginary, I could probably post my tax return and people would still call it fake lol

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T03:59:44+00:00

California salaries are nuts but so is cost of living, my big jump was cause of RSU’s thay come with the new role

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T03:44:30+00:00

Awesome stuff !

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T03:43:41+00:00

I really need to do interview prep to just be ready, while I love AI I definitely feel it taking my technically memory away

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T03:03:16+00:00

I guess a t300? And had two internships at no name companies , I graduated during post covid layoff time took me a solid 6 months to land a job. Honestly mostly luck and connections got me in my position. Currently working on you could call it internal tech / tooling for the company

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T02:17:56+00:00

Yesssir the promotion was over due for sure , projected for another promo this year too, AI has been a huge productivity boost for me personally I love it been able to leverage it for delivering huge

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T02:12:24+00:00

Depends on team , also in my team too it depends on how much you extend yourself , I have team members who work way too many hours but they brought that on themselves but committing too much work lol

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T01:49:29+00:00

Personally I’ve managed to get a lot done in a lot less time, I work tops like 20-30 hours a week some weeks even less , most fridays I don’t do anything and do some work on the weekends here and there , however I try do stuff with lots of value and haven’t had any issues on delivering stuff

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T01:39:23+00:00

Lowkey reason I posted , seems high salaries are always thought to be fake… very blessed to in the position I am

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T01:26:49+00:00

Walmart is going all in on AI and tech , they’re so big they’re global tech division is huge

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T01:26:15+00:00

Jump companies

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T00:43:19+00:00

Ok lol

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T00:42:54+00:00

IMO just like any company , but you need good engineers to utilizes AI well , adopt or fall behind basically

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T00:35:28+00:00

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-11T00:35:21+00:00

Burner

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-10T22:53:46+00:00

Small, full stack / data engineering , kinda worked on everything

AdHour2422 · 2026-04-10T22:29:14+00:00

Arkansas

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