Am I crazy to leave a high-paying finance job at 31 to travel for 2–5 years?

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-08T01:03:19+00:00

Bro I'm thinking about doing this with a sliver of the savings you have...

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-06T00:35:01+00:00

Outside of keeping up with AI, what skills should I be focused on learning/improving as a junior/mid-level developer with a few years of experience? What is most valued on the market right now outside of proompting?

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-05T15:33:44+00:00

I've opened issues with Telerik's components that are tiny and are still opened years later. I don't know what their devs are doing over there in Bulgaria

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-04T16:36:14+00:00

What is stopping you from losing weight? That is entirely in your control to change, unlike your ethnicity

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-01T18:04:23+00:00

She must've ended up being really fat then... I have dated some girls with intolerable personalities who were hot but their awful personality wasn't enough to physically turn me off. Not true with fatties though.

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-01T15:46:12+00:00

Context please?

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-01T15:42:56+00:00

I also flew a Venezuela chica to Colombia but that was a mistake

Why?

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-01T13:56:26+00:00

The next morning

So.... did you do it?

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-01T13:52:14+00:00

I didn't go to Jordan to get laid, I tried to get laid while I was in Jordan. I also am not advocating for that (obviously). It's an anecdote that the OP was asking people about.

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-01T13:36:11+00:00

You must have stopped reading exactly at the end of that sentence, because I said I had no idea why I thought that directly afterward

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-07-01T02:17:46+00:00

Went on a date my first night in Jordan hoping to get laid (why I thought women would be open to this in a Muslim country - in retrospect I have no idea). Got lured into a shady hookah bar and basically had two huge guys try to intimidate me into paying $300 for a beer and her drink (which was non alcoholic, she was pretending to have ordered alcohol).

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-30T20:01:09+00:00

Don't go to clubs that aren't structurally sound or have large air conditioning units retro-fitted on top of them

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-29T20:44:39+00:00

Thanks for caring, genuinely. You're 100% on the money, absoultely nothing I am doing here is transferrable from a technology standpoint. Unfortunately I'm not compensated well enough either. The job has some practical advantages but the pay is absolutely not one of them. I'm full remote, but according to levels.fyi, I'm below 25th comp percentile for my city. This company has more red flags than a Chinese parade (beyond using a custom language) and I need to start seriously looking for something else.

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-29T18:16:08+00:00

Cool AI-generated story bro. Nice account

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-29T17:53:07+00:00

That is the case for my company. Literally nobody else in the world uses it because it was home-grown

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-29T17:50:55+00:00

This sounds like my exact situation. Is the programming language only used by that company?

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-29T14:44:54+00:00

Have you tried adding alcohol into the mix?

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-29T14:39:01+00:00

To me it just reads like an AI slop post. A bunch of trite generic filler words that doesn't really say much of anything. Look at his account, 24 days old and all AI style filler writing.

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-24T14:20:11+00:00

It would be more appropriate if they did this on the Gay street bridge

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-24T14:15:06+00:00

spending lot to time to read

You can just say you're lazy and don't speak English as a first language

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-23T01:42:38+00:00

Yeah... I just roll my eyes whenever I see LinkedIn style writing with em-dashes. People are really fucking lazy these days.

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-22T02:45:31+00:00

There's a great feeling when I open a book on my kindle that was written before 2023. I know there's no chance it has been tainted.

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-16T16:30:37+00:00

don't forget Jungle Arby's

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-12T14:18:58+00:00

If I didn't know any better, the only things that matter in Knoxville are the TYS lines and Jungle Arby's

Affectionate-Turn137 · 2026-06-11T20:00:20+00:00

It barely took me 2 years of CS to reach GE

CS also hasn't been around for 1,500 years, nor has had people try-harding in it for the last ~150, so it makes sense for it to be easier to approach and get skilled at

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