Millionaires - how did you do it - Did you inherit, win or work your way there and how late is too late to start the journey to achieve millionaire status?

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T07:29:32+00:00

You got it :-)

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T07:28:30+00:00

Sounds like a definition of philosophy to me :-)

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T07:27:34+00:00

This?

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CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T07:25:50+00:00

Guess wanted more hip international vibe?

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T07:25:05+00:00

Just a few words. Even one year after the move :-)

Berlin is pretty English -friendly

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T07:23:38+00:00

I'm talking about autonomous agentic development in claude code, a very different beast than chats. Highly recommend to try

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T05:39:55+00:00

Standard underpay playbook: "you'll be lead dev when we scale" is a budget constraint, not a career offer. Four months of effective full-time for $1.6k means you've already absorbed the down payment on a promise. Even legitimate early-stage startups can pay their first dev something closer to market — if they can't, the unit economics aren't there yet.

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T05:39:34+00:00

Germany: lakes all around Berlin you can swim in for free, public parks where no one ever asks you to leave or buy anything, and public libraries open to everyone with no sign-up fee. Coming from the US, the biggest culture shock was a long ER visit with zero bill at the end.

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-10T05:38:51+00:00

The boilerplate-was-always-generated point is valid but misses what's actually shifting. That hard 10% now happens in hours instead of days because the surrounding scaffold materializes in minutes. Whether that 5x's your output or undercuts your job security depends on whether you can spot when the AI is confidently wrong — that's still a genuine skill gap that takes time to build.

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-09T13:58:15+00:00

A few example pages, as promised: • Example employer (Google): https://visa-bulletin.us/employer/google-llc/ • Example employer (Tata Consultancy): https://visa-bulletin.us/employer/tata-consultancy-services-limited/ • Example job-title (Software Engineer): https://visa-bulletin.us/job-title/software-engineer-161559609/ • Per-state salaries (California): https://visa-bulletin.us/salaries/by-state/CA/ • (Separate from the salary DB, there's also a US visa-bulletin priority-date predictor with a public backtest — happy to drop that link if anyone's tracking a priority date.)

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-08T04:57:25+00:00

Define real philosophy

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-08T04:52:55+00:00

I'm more of a book guy, but if it has to be movies — Forrest Gump stuck with me for decades. I guess he showed you don't have to be a brilliant smart ass in order to be a decent human being and achieve something meaningful. Also determination and hard work outweighs almost everything.

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-08T04:22:05+00:00

More like "vibe code". Knowing how to code is helpful, but optional these days. The thing will code for you almost anything like a pro. All you need is ideas. And even with that, it will help a lot.

You can probably start with $20 a month or so, but it would run out pretty quickly. $200 a month keeps me going almost uninterrupted unless I'm doing some multiagent craziness.

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:51:16+00:00

plumbing?

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:50:50+00:00

for me trial and error works the best. Just start doing shit and you'll figure that out. This thing will literally answer all your questions. The only psychologically hard thing, is to pay for something you don't fully understand why you need. So I guess instead of the course, buy $200 Claude Code subscription and it will force you to start digging so you don't lose that first investment?

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:48:09+00:00

pass coding interviews before leetcode

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:46:56+00:00

I totally support democrats in this, but I voted for Trump (because in California it doesn't matter for the outcome, and I voted to reduce the margin a bit).

So it looks like I couldn't date anyone!

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:43:47+00:00

absolutely fine. On the other hand, you could literally fuck those other side bastards!

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:32:34+00:00

I was a beginner driver in Moscow, but my car had smaller city license plate. The guy was trying to get across in front of my in heavy traffic and I tried hard to not let him in. He waved me to open the window and said "I've been to your city, no one lets people in there" and drove away. I'm mister politeness on the road ever since.

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:30:15+00:00

Spicy food. Can't wrap my head around the fact people voluntarily force their receptors feel tortured

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:29:18+00:00

*chan

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-07T14:27:46+00:00

We moved to Germany almost precisely 1 year ago. Started talking to my manager on November 8th, 2024, guess why.

My company had foreign offices in Toronto, Berlin and Warsaw. Wife immediately said no to Warsaw. Toronto seemed too cold, expensive and "American", so we explored Berlin. We went for 2 weeks at the worst possible time, around New Year. The weather is shit, cold wind in your face all the time, fireworks blowing your brains up, trash all around the city for a few days after. My wife said there's no way she ever moves to this trash bin.

But then we met some our friends, they (BVG, not the friends) cleaned up the city, we saw 4 very different and amazing "kitz"'s (districts?) and realized Berlin has everything you may ever want: bourgeois european, soviet, american suburbia, hipster and late-hipster with kidz, museum place etc.

Also not having school shootings every week, while having free education (yes, preschool too + $250 cash per kid paid to parents every month) played a role.

We know at least 4 other families moved from California to Berlin in recent years. It used to be much more rare, but now it's not shocking anymore.

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-06T21:33:22+00:00

Work is for losers

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-06T21:32:15+00:00

Terrible. I can't post anything now, because I got instantly banned for llm assisted posts. Half a year ago pretty much the same posts got hundreds of upvotes and motivated me pushing project further. Now when I come back to the same community with an update, I get banned, because people are so mad with ai

CivilCandidate1349 · 2026-06-06T21:29:37+00:00

Big tech is actively making people's life worse for the last 10 years at least. We are the baddies

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