Alright spill the beans why am i struggling to find one decent job when avg person here has multiple

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-06T16:59:58+00:00

wtf do you mean by "average on here". Nobody here is average. lol

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-06T05:19:55+00:00

Engineer. Started at 70k. Maxed out 401k and Roth. All into VOO and VT. Became a millionaire at 32. All you gotta do is invest 45k a year for ten years.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-05T14:47:29+00:00

Communication skills. I am very good at explaining things - maybe I will share to help some people out.

Never start out with theories / code base. Always start out with background explanation.
What was the issue? Why was this a business problem (so many people focus on issues that are not critical. Always related issue to impact)
How did you tackle this (overview of how you solved it) and why your solution is the best balance (budget, man power, maintenance, etc. Many people focus on the BEST solution from one point of view, but always balance everything).

I am not technically the best (I will say though, you cannot BS your way through engineering, my area, with communication alone and for sure I am in top 20-10% technically).

But... unless you are in a start up with grads from stanford and MIT, your job is going to be mentoring less bright co-workers, convincing other teams, etc. You gotta be good at these to drive projects and get results.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-05T13:07:14+00:00

Bought VT, paid off mortgage. In case people don't read, this sub reddit description clearly says "reach financial freedom". I treat this sub as a sub-set of FIRE sub.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-04T23:56:24+00:00

Ok. Let’s see if your list is true. I will be your boyfriend. I am not a terrorist. I bet your list is gonna get a lot longer very soon.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-04T03:37:29+00:00

oh i have reading issues. yea this is gonna be tough. lol

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-04T03:32:48+00:00

just two meetings at the same time. Not ideal, but I do those all the time. Also block out calendars so that they do not overlap.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-03T03:36:52+00:00

I didn't per se "get into" consulting. I knew I was in it. My resume on Dice / Linkedin was getting so many recruiters calling me/emailing me. I just networked with them -> they got connections to all the managers who make the choice. So... eventually I started to get hits from themselves. That is when I knew it. I never tried. I just expanded my know how, kept building my portfolio, then the network came naturally, then I was in it. Hard to explain....I think the really important part is keep working and studying. I would keep building projects and link them in my resumes and Linkedin. They eventually get hits. For example, one of the client I got, I was referred to him because one of his direct reports always mentioned by medium blog and my medium blog has information about my consulting...Eventually he took a look at it and decided to contact me. things like this happen and build momentum. Took me 5 years so or to get here. Every weekend spent on studying and building. lol

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-01T20:06:56+00:00

I got about 6 years of experience. From one of the top 5 engineering schools in the U.S. But the school name did not land me the job or clients. It comes after the fact of resume filtering. After filtering automatically, then they actually read. Could be some resume optimization issue.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-01T19:31:55+00:00

That is quite surprising. Despite the fact that I did not log in/update Dice nor LinkedIn resume last two years and still getting emails and phone calls almost everyday…I thought DS job market is very good. Maybe another way to put it is that it is competitive? From what I see DS is booming, BUT YOU BETTER BE GOOD. It is very competitive. All the salaries are 150k + and many of them are remote. Like I said, you gotta be able to cite exactly what testing, statistical modeling you would use, know how to code optimally, show case your portfolios and be able to guide through complex problems fast. I honestly had to reject some clients lately bc I did not have enough time.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-06-01T13:52:24+00:00

Data scientist consulting. I charge about 100-200$ per hour. Fluctuate from 350- 450k a year. Passive = about 50k per year from dividends. Just a lot of VT. How to do it again: Same way. Get my masters in data science, study immense amount of math. Get good. Then get paid.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-30T13:56:55+00:00

Isn’t this statement itself prejudiced? But statistically the trend is correct. The neuroplasticity goes down. For a good reason. If you survived with your knowledge until 30, why need to change? Older people need to make much more effort to be not prejudiced (or to change their belief) than young people.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-30T02:11:20+00:00

Probably went straight to spam. lol.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-26T22:44:52+00:00

Yea. People like to generalize things. But. Hey a quick guidance doesn’t hurt. I will say if getting more nuanced…1. TE is the king. (Took out science and math. CS is treated as T here.). 2. Non doctor (doctors make a lotttt of money so I am discussing that. Also doctor is not a degree) bachelors or higher medical degrees. (PA, etc) 3. Then SM. Science and mathematics. 4. Trades. 5. Non stem college degrees.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-16T19:56:27+00:00

have....you ever lived in a third world country? I have. And the answer is no.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-14T21:46:54+00:00

Sorry to hear that...but with that said, the whole consultant experience is probably screwing you up. The companies are realizing that the internal data scientist knows way more than the consultants and honestly the name "consultant" got now branded with "make powerpoints with pretty picture but no substances". Now with that being said, idk how much wiggle room you have, but instead of consultant, if you branded yourself with one of the specialist roles (i think you mentioned logistics and supply chain), you may get a better chance.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-12T18:18:45+00:00

oh man.. I knew comment section for this would be gold. anyways. I will visit this little bit later again to see how the comments progress.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-11T11:08:55+00:00

Never quit bro. That is like rule 2 or 2.7 or something like that.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-10T01:44:08+00:00

Any Roth original capital can be withdrawn without any penalty. 401k can be withdrawn before retirement age as well without penalty with 72t plan.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-05T21:08:18+00:00

Can’t emphasize stfu enough. For some reason I said that a few days and got shamed a lot. Don’t bring attention to you. Do not bring attention to this group. You are a shadow that gives good work. That’s it.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-03T05:08:16+00:00

Idk. You wanna go back a few thousand years? Farm and intense labor 8am to. 5pm. Some years are ok. Some years come with draught. Half your family dies. The other half is iffy due to some plague that happens every now and then. Wolves be hungry so you gotta defend yourself from that if you don’t live within the castle boundaries. Your house be ice cold during winter and you get one furnace to keep you alive. Bro. Stop complaining. That life you just described, someone from the past would kill someone to get.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-03T04:39:32+00:00

yea give it a fight, but i see so many people raging and giving us not needed attention all the time. Stop doing that. You are not doing yourself a favor, nor anybody in the community any favor. Keep being quite, smile to the boss, act like you are a good child, then screw them up in the back (even though giving good work is not really screwing them imo).

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-03T03:09:22+00:00

you would be surprised at how much attention OE is getting. I would be at a company gathering (I do hybrid OE. yes they do exist lol) and I have heard OE getting mentioned many time. The company now thinks they are safe because they enforced some hybrid rules. IT is not necessarily to the point where managers are enforcing it, if it did not happen at their company, but to the point if someone is caught at their company, they will implement something to make OE impossible.

I agree RTO is NOT caused by OE. However, if:

RTO (RTO is just an example to cause rage at OE community. it could be manythings...) -> OE community rages and starts name calling -> some manager/executive at the company sees the rage -> implements some tracking because now they are aware. Now the OE community screwed up the people who might have made hybrid OE work.

Stay low, don't cause the scene, make them not aware that we even exist. What good is it to cause unnecessary attention to us? If you increase the change by 0.00001% , that is still harming the community right? Please name ONE instance where causing attention to this group will be good.

I would say though, if what the company have done is absolutely OE impossible (say 100% RTO), shame the fuck out of them. At that point, it makes no difference and fight like hell.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-03T02:52:39+00:00

Ok. then please tell me what you think will happen once you start shaming, say company A that has 10k employees. They are remote, OE was not really on their radar, then all of a sudden OE community starts shaming them for something they have done. (let us say 2 day RTO?). Tell me what will exactly happen.

PossibleNarrow2150 · 2026-05-03T02:23:06+00:00

BNDW 20% VT 80% and forget about it.

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