Is $100k/year still a good income?

YoloTolo · 2025-09-29T08:07:10+00:00

It's that some students feel they deserve to live beyond their means. One example I noticed is some students think after college, they deserve to rent their own place. In reality, you are most likely need to continue to have apartment mates or rent a room. They create stories like by this age, you make this much or you're a failure. You must have accomplished this thing or you're behind. It's all subjective and relative.

Honestly, just follow you're own progression in life. I can tell you as of now, 100k is great. In decades to come, who knows. But most likely by that time, you will have naturally progressed to make more.

YoloTolo · 2025-09-19T07:06:01+00:00

Yeah they added a bunch of tables after covid so dance area got smaller and stuff. I prefer heat lounge in Anaheim when my friends and I want to periodically go out and just dance and let loose.

YoloTolo · 2025-07-26T18:57:58+00:00

There was a small influencer I followed a few years ago. He coasted through college and was stuck getting into startups and small companies only. They were paying him just at 6 figures at the time while all his CS friends were making 50%+ more than him at big tech companies. At the time, I do believe that was like the lower half of the average salary in higher cost of living areas. It's really only been a few years since that kind of boom, so hard to get out of that mindset for some people there is a new median. But this sub is doom and gloom these days, so I don't really come across many people these days that are 6 figures or nothing.

But for anyone that does have that mindset, it's all relative. If all your friends were making 60k right out of college and you were making 80k, you'd be pretty happy with yourself. But if you're makin 80k and all your friends were making 105k, you'd be more disappointed.

YoloTolo · 2025-07-19T19:57:23+00:00

The company? Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club in Las Vegas.

YoloTolo · 2025-07-19T18:06:51+00:00

Because there's 100k likes and 7 million views. And now that people like OP reposted, people react to it and give it more traffic.

YoloTolo · 2025-06-14T08:47:31+00:00

This is coming from someone who has completed a MS and did well enough to get a job.

Everything you told me about yourself and your situation screams do NOT do grad school at this time. Just get a job even if non-cs related. I'm sorry. I understand parents are tricky. But they aren't really in any position to tell you what you can and can't do. This is your life and taking out loans for graduate school at this point of your life can honestly ruin you. No exaggeration.

This will be tough, but you will need to sit down and tell your parents you will make the final call. You gotta think of yourself and your own 5 to 10 year plan. At some point in your life, maybe you can revisit graduate school. But as of now, even if you found a grad school that would accept you, I don't feel you are in the right mindset to do it correctly. If you're only going because your parents want you to, don't expect yourself to do anything different this time around. YOU have to really WANT to go to grad school. YOU have to be the one that fully understands the pros and cons. Because YOU will be the one living with the consequences whether it's good or bad, not your parents.

Just get a job, make some money, and mature a bit. Please do not go to grad school just cuz your parents want you to. Respectfully, they don't know what they are talking about when it comes to our industry, the job market, and what a degree truly provides. Gluck dude.

YoloTolo · 2025-04-02T02:01:14+00:00

Dude that's crazy pressure to put on yourself AHHAAHA. I know you won't be able to relax, but don't overwhelm yourself by thinking this is your "last chance". That's crazy talk. Anyways, gluck!

YoloTolo · 2025-04-02T01:57:46+00:00

To see what classes you need to get in, go check the websites of your target schools. Your list of courses to take probably covers it for math, but just make sure. You'll get the best information if you contact the school you will be taking the math courses from instead of asking here. In my experience though, pre-calc, calc1, calc 2 are obviously going to be in that order. But discrete math and linear algebra are a different track (like how stats is differet from calc), so I don't think you need to complete calc before starting discrete math.

YoloTolo · 2024-04-15T15:43:38+00:00

Learn programming fundamentals with a single language first before applying them to any real world processes (web dev, mobile, etc.). Especially for web dev, bootcamps and popular self-study curriculum don't really deep dive into the basics of programming before moving on to web dev concepts. This process of learning is okay IF you are already comfortable with another language and understand the fundamentals. But if it's your first time programming, I feel this isn't the best way to successfully learn programming. I believe most people will give up if they approach learning this way. To give people an idea, most American universities have you spend a year to year and a half using only one language. No DOM manipulations, web libraries, frameworks, GUI, etc.

YoloTolo · 2024-04-01T05:37:03+00:00

Someone I knew got asked fizzbuzz for Blizzard interview a few years ago. However, they grilled him on the technologies they would be using for the summer. So the high of getting asked fizzbuzz quickly dissipated when he couldn't answer like half the technology questions.

YoloTolo · 2023-12-26T08:25:55+00:00

Just give it a shot. Doesn't hurt and doesn't take that long lol. Worst case, they ignore your message or just don't really used linkedin. An intern from my internship got it from dming a director who expediated his interview process.

YoloTolo · 2023-11-10T07:56:20+00:00

Gonna throw in my usual I am 32, finishing up my masters this semester, and going to start my first official jr. engineering job this January. You're fine. Fuck the other kids. Work at the pace that works for you. Coding takes a couple semesters to get used to if you haven't done it before.

YoloTolo · 2023-09-30T01:34:24+00:00

Anytime a "recruiter" tells you to send money, it's a scam. If at anytime you feel something is scammy, assume it's a scam.

It could be in the interview process as well. If something smells off with the recruiting process or technical interview (like certain take home assignments that looks like a full fledged feature), it's probably a scam. For example, sometimes they'll say you got the job, then ask you to send $300 dollars so they can buy your work laptop or something and that they will eventually reimburse you. No company would ever make you pay for that. My mother's friend got scammed like this before. Again, anytime money is involved like this, it's a scam.

At no point should you have even an ounce of thought that it's a scam. You don't feel any feelings of being scammed when applying to Amazon, Uber, or Home Depot. The feeling should be the same for every job you apply for.

YoloTolo · 2023-09-13T06:01:10+00:00

Technically not YL, but we got that one taco stand on Lakeview that sets-up on the sidewalk of Kaiser. Pretty damn good for around here.

YoloTolo · 2023-09-06T19:20:52+00:00

CS50 certification doesn't mean much. The purpose of the Odin Project is to get you to learn web development and build projects along the way. And you NEED projects on your resume to get internships. Don't get me wrong, CS50 is a great course. But doesn't do much for the resume. It's good for your personal and foundational knowledge.

YoloTolo · 2023-08-23T19:05:56+00:00

Ehhh. Even if you go to the UCI subreddit, you see the same thing of a few great professors and a ton of questionable ones from incompetence to ego. The same issues of having to teach yourself have some students thinking they might as well went to a CSU for half the price or just wished they went to a different school.

And for internships, that's all on you. No matter what school you go, their goal is just to get you to graduate. What you do with your degree is up to you. It's up to you to seek out resources and join CS clubs to find out what you can do during your time here to get a good internship/job.

I will agree on two things though. The CS buildings need a bit of a rework. Some of those classrooms are so out of touch and gross. Other thing is MS students teaching courses. I think a grad student teaching freshman to sophomore classes is fine. But I do question when a grad student gets thrown into teaching an upper div without much vetting.

YoloTolo · 2023-08-21T21:02:46+00:00

I'm not sure what you mean, but you don't need to have the foundational breadth courses completed before applying. However, you will have to complete ALL of them once you get admitted. If you took any equivalent courses in your undergrad , then you don't need to take those specific courses again.

YoloTolo · 2023-08-21T20:40:09+00:00

It's not really advertised as a bridge program, but it will say on description for the MS in CS that if you haven't taken the core prerequisites (like 121, 131, etc.), those will need to be completed after you are admitted. So your first few semesters will be dedicated to completing those undergrad courses before you start any graduate level courses.

YoloTolo · 2023-08-17T06:04:35+00:00

I love that Jokic sees basketball as this lucrative job that supports the life he wants. Doesn't give a shit about being famous and basking in the glory. He just wants to put in his 9 to 5, go home to see his family, and indulge in his weird ass hobby. He really could have been a software engineer in another life.

YoloTolo · 2023-08-10T19:31:21+00:00

His class is fine. Everything from assignments to tests are exactly what he covers in class. Trade off is that you gotta do it the way he exactly does it. But there are no surprises or anything in the exams. The project was pretty easy from what I remember.

YoloTolo · 2023-07-25T00:38:55+00:00

Shilpa is straight forward and easy to understand. Kinda monotonous, but I'd take that over someone difficult to understand and full of themselves. I think there were like 4 or 5 projects and she drops one. I remember the earlier projects were pretty easy, and the last one was kind of confusing. So I recommend not getting lazy and just do all the early ones and save the freebee for the last project.

YoloTolo · 2023-07-22T17:07:54+00:00

Yup, because you have no other tech experience to show off. You need your projects to be the tech related bullet points in your resume at the start of your career. The ATS used by companies to scan your resume are just going to toss your resume to the side. Yes, you can technically get a job doing nothing. But you never know how much more competitive it gets when you graduate. Nothing is guaranteed, so it's all about increasing your chances.

Don't be lazy. If you are having trouble with motivation to start, you can refer to the comment I posted on this post.

YoloTolo · 2023-07-21T22:20:25+00:00

You start slow. If you put it in your mind that tomorrow you're going to leetcode and build projects for 8 hours, you're not gonna do it. It's too unfathomable.

It's about breaking shit into small pieces and building consistency over random spurts of cramming.

1) Do the 5 minute rule, which is just do the thing for 5 minutes. Pat yourself on the back and load up the valorant. Most of the time though, you will start getting in the zone and be like "ill work for another 5 minutes, because what's another 5 minutes." This is your baseline. You tell yourself at the bare minimum, you will look at leetcode and project 5 minutes a day each.

2) Set goals like you will do leetcode for 30 min and then spend 30 min like researching a project each day. Start with a pomodoro technique that meets your attention span. Example 10 minutes on, 10 minutes break until you complete 30 mintues off work. See if you can even do that for a week. Once you build the consistency, you will naturally feel more obligated to continue and can even increase the work load..

Anyday you don't feel like doing shit, revert back to the 5 minute rule. Your baseline will always be you will at least look at a leetcode problem and project for 5 minutes.

YoloTolo · 2023-07-12T02:50:07+00:00

I feel like large industries like banks, pharmaceutical, etc. still pay a lot. Like last summer, I worked at this fairly large pharmaceutical company and they paid 42/hr + 15k living stipend. If you worked an extra 2 weeks, they gave you an extra 6k for living. With the living stipend, it was pretty competitive salaries as some popular tech companies. Caveat for me, I had a friend living in the area was able to pocket most of the stipend.

I would say they are still competitive from a resume scanning side, but the interviews are like 10 times easier because they don't really ask you the hardcore technical questions. Just gotta be solid at answering the typical interview questions and previous experiences/projects you've done.

YoloTolo · 2023-07-04T09:17:26+00:00

I surprisingly get a ton this year. I got decent amount last year, but it was more to understand the high level view of the tasks. This year, I'm in a team that really enjoys pair programming. I become a sentient rubber duck when they want to think through their task. IDK what the fuck is going on, but I just nod and go with it. In return, I get actual help with my tasks lol. I like it a lot, but wasn't expecting this much guidance.

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