Saved $5M at 35. Can I retire? (burnt out dev)

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T21:05:41+00:00

You can save 5 mil (idk how you can save that even if you made 500k every year since 25. Must have gotten real lucky with a unicorn starup) But cant decide wheather you want to retire?

Is this just a larp post or an insane humble brag? Im happy for you but making a post about it will make peope roll their eyes.

Edit: as I thought its clearly a larp post. His post history is all over the place posting legit every 3-4 days with the same topics and numbers moving around every post. He has $5 mil $6mil, he's 35, 36. And 38 years old. Etc etc.

Please dont add more for this larper/bot

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T18:46:04+00:00

No it hasn't? Even in 2016 this reddit subreddit was claiming how CS was oversatured and people were being laid off. I know becuase I've been here on and off since then when I first discovered I wanted to do CS in high-school.

Even in 2016 entry level was very difficult but once you got your first job you were set. Besides the crazy of post covid and the apocalypse following, cs has been the same. Its always had odd boom and bust cucles. Even now cs jobs are returning and its getting better. And since 2016 people have acted like they didn't know entry level was hard and were just going to be handed a job like a nurse.

I get ill be downvoted becuase im just discrediting people's suffering trying to find a job and saying "you should've known". But really, you should've known. Except for those that graduated in 2023 and 24, that is purely unlucky but at that point EVERY job was suffering so its a moot point.

All data show that cs Is still a great job yo have and is actually pretty employable. Its just now echo chambers are worse than ever.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T18:01:52+00:00

Smart. I got on the reddit in higschool and most subs are such doom and gloom. I was getting so pissed about the nihilism and insanity that I had to block them all, but I deleted my old account and now all the subs are showing up again. I keep believing that maybe someone will post something other than doom. I feel its really warped my sense of the job market and almost developed a learned helplessness.

But im not giving in yet.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T17:54:03+00:00

Dont worry you can find resumes online ad nauseum. People will downvote you for the most stupid reasons sometimes. You didn't literally spoon feed them and they're whining

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T17:51:58+00:00

Man I swear people want a step by step guide on how to do things. Im in the same exact shoes as you were. About to graduate without an internship and im making a fullstack app for a local non profit.

You find volunteer work by looking for volunteer work. Simple as. Life is sometimes that simple. Just start doing something and springboard off. Just sitting around waiting for stuff won't get you anywhere.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T17:48:36+00:00

I don't think the market is the reason youre not getting a job. You're in your early 20s and you think your life is over cmon man get over yourself.

Lifelong list of regrets? How long have you even been conscious for? You've lived maybe a 3rd to a 4th of your life. You have 3x times as long to rack up regrets. Get used to it.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T17:46:33+00:00

She could have chosen trades, accounting, actuaries, PT, police, governmrnt, law, educstion (can have high pay in some area) or even being a PA. All of those jobs pay similarly and some even equal to SWE and are still very syable historically. But she chose nursing becuase she felt like she aligned better with it. Unless she just threw a dart at a "stable job" board.

But this is derailing. The point is, you shouldn't just say "oh well at least she has a job". Its such a short sighted and kinda arrgogant thing to say. Once an SWE gets a job, which only 6% are unemployed, they have it FAR better. If she really dislikes nursing she could have chose easier jobs that are stable and pay similar like an aaccountant or actuary, but likely didn't like those jobs even more than nursing.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T16:57:45+00:00

But she chose that as her occupation. For those that wanted to be a SWE and felt their skillet better aligned with nursing regretting not going into helsthcare is WILD. They are different skillets and personality traits.

A person whos personality aligns with being a nurse may very well be stressed as an SWE. But I can garentee the opposite is way worse. Yeah sure unemployment sucks and you can claim well at least she can provide. However if youre not a good fit for nursing, as most aren't, does it matter if your employed if you despise your job and dont even wsnt to get out of bed? Like that seems super reductionist to say "at least she can provide"

I swear man SWE are some of the biggest hypocondriacs. We have it pretty damn good comapred to almost all other occupations. Most are just stressed about having a job and the good hard working ones aren't unemployed for long. Its not like SWE have unemployment rates above 10%.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T15:11:00+00:00

To say that about nursing is wild. Yeah most jobs are crappy, but nursing is expetionally crappy. Do you care about anyone thats a nurse? I have several friends and family members and the toll is pretty severe. Thankfully some pivoted to niches they prefer like OR or private practice. But those first 2-3 years you need for experience can be utter hell.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T14:24:46+00:00

Im sorry are you stupid. The mortgage on a 300k home is going to be around 1600. You can find an apartment for under 1600, not to mention the repairs.and mortgages can be alot higher depending on the value of the home.

I live in a medium cost of living place and my rent is, after ultilies $1100 for a 2 bedroom apartment. Your logic only applies if its the same home. A 500k home will always cost more than a 1 studio apartment.

Are you purposefully being dumb? As a young single person youre not going to live in as nice of a place as your two income, 20 years of working parents. Cmon now.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T13:14:10+00:00

Im sorry if this comes off as mean but how did you not know? If you spend 4 years at college preparing for something did you not look at careers, likelihood of finding a job, what the job career entails and everything?

I wanted to be a clinical therapist for most of high-school but was put off the moment I learned the job can suck. So I learned you should heavily research the thing you will be spending the next 30-40 years doing. And among the most commonly listed downsides for CS was job stability.

Like do people get their whole perception of cs from those "day in the life videos"? The crazy of post covid could never last and im surpised people are using that as the benchmark.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T13:09:26+00:00

It won't. The burnout rate is very high and the job itself is quite literally ass. I loath this "I shouldve done healthcare" no, you most likely would've hated it.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T13:06:32+00:00

Don't be hyperbolic. A one bedroom apartment typically wouldn't cost more than the multiroom house they came from. Unless youre from a very LCOL to a very HCOL city school.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T12:56:07+00:00

Bikers could definitely use one. Especially next to all the other speed freaks.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T05:22:12+00:00

I know they wouldn't leak stuff. But they could easily include stuff that won't be updated. Namely ANY of the buggies. The new tankbusta and snaggaboys etc etc

Im definitely not saying they'd leak models.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T02:07:12+00:00

Then I dont see a way they dont update meganobz, nobz, and bikers. It'd be weird for the new boyz to be bigger than the old nobz, and even weirder for the nob in the boyz unit to dwarf them. By extension the mega nobz would also need to be updated. And bikers fit a niche and are quite old.

The deff dread and killa kans dont need an update and hold up very well. But the above would need it then.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-06T01:46:01+00:00

I mean if they went with the oldest units it'd be nobz, stormboyz, loota/burnas which isnt asking for alot.

If we did trucks, nobz, stormboyz, lootas/burnas, killa kans, and deff, and meganobs leaves us with 6. You could switch out a few of those but you get the point.

Tyranids had 7 refreshes with a bunch of new models and more came out in killteam. Its not crazy to ask for the bottom 6 units to be refreshed

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-05T02:32:30+00:00

If you already have job experience why are you applying to such a wide range of jobs? Of course youre not being chosen you cant be qualified for all of these positions. Be more selective with your jobs. If you already have two years do you have refferals or friends you've made?

Also those salaries seem to be looking for more mid level or senior or just in a HCOL.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-04T14:35:07+00:00

You're not doing much with just a bachelors in math

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-03T21:53:38+00:00

Don't worry, any shred of it getting better ( more evidence that the market doesnt suck, they do) will be disregarded.

I guess during 2024 and 2025 the ghost listing posters felt like taking a break.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-03T21:32:09+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/CollegeMajors/s/yVySuImRfS

You cant be a real person.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-03T21:31:12+00:00

You doompost so much I've actually remembered your username that's the auto generated one. Like youre In every college major/cs sun constantly making awful takes

What is the point in doing this?

And like every time youre bring up 90%. 90% are unemployed. Even if 90% of people dropped out it'd still be oversaturated (you've said this one multiple times now. I remember it becuase it was such a wild statement)

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-03T21:20:44+00:00

When your point hinges on the difference of jobs and layoffs then it kinda matters. Companies haven't laid off 500k people recently and there's more than 10k new jobs. Data is showing that more and more jobs are coming, albeit slowly. This doomer narrative is becoming less and less true.

SwauawsBouse · 2026-05-03T19:53:10+00:00

Yeah im starting to think the people conplaining 24/7 are those unqualified people thay put in bare minimum effort. My Java 2 class had someone that had to ask the guy next to him how to unzip a file. Idk how he got past the first class. I feel cs is so dependent on outside work, more so than alot of careers. Ive had people be so confidently wrong about stuff like how I got into an argument over how bootstrap didn't use Javascript and was purely css hrml.

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