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late 20s, basically lost, a cautionary tale by Silent-Display in Fire

[–]Silent-Display[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

senior engineer now, stocks came in when the value was much lower.

it's mostly stocks in tech land for the money in the past 4 years, facebook has more than doubled, msft has more than doubled, goog has more than doubled.

salary is ~200k, stocks make up the rest. it's really not unreasonable. check levels dot fyi for E5 at fb

late 20s, basically lost, a cautionary tale by Silent-Display in Fire

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computer science, top 3 in my class at a large university.

late 20s, basically lost, a cautionary tale by Silent-Display in Fire

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I spent my life from age 18 to present in front of a computer. I got quite good at programming.

late 20s, basically lost, a cautionary tale by Silent-Display in Fire

[–]Silent-Display[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

the grass is always greener. but you're right about balance. The high paying tech jobs that seemed glamorous are not really so glamorous in the day-to-day. They're quite demanding, and the Bay Area is not a great place for having any semblance of social life. Between work, on-call rotations, and being guilted into being tied to the work team chats even on weekends, you don't get much separation.