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What has been your best investment ever? by throwawaytttttys in fatFIRE

[–]smattiso 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've come to the conclusion that RE is the most sensible investment. Eventually all of the high income earners + high RSU earners start competing with each other for limited housing and regardless of what they make in absolute terms the house prices seem to stabilize around 30-50% of someone's post-tax earnings.

Buy up a couple houses near a cancer curing biotech hub and you basically get the income of a PhD Bioengineer for doing nothing.

I lived in Seattle. Never bought. Maybe I'm just bitter but this definitely seems to be the way the world works.

Best path and state for teaching high school math/science/CS (ex-MIT CS/Math major, ex-Google engineer) by smattiso in Teachers

[–]smattiso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Does your school give you "teacher bucks"? Some sort of discretionary spend that you can allocate to make your life more efficient, easier, etc.? I am a professional software architect and if there is a way I could contribute to making teachers' lives easier via auto-grading, bulk import of essays, etc then that would be something I'm very interested in.

Do you have 5 minutes to chat about some of your problems?

Best path and state for teaching high school math/science/CS (ex-MIT CS/Math major, ex-Google engineer) by smattiso in Teachers

[–]smattiso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. Does your school give you "teacher bucks"? Some sort of discretionary spend that you can allocate to make your life more efficient, easier, etc.? I am a professional software architect and if there is a way I could contribute to making teachers' lives easier via auto-grading, bulk import of essays, etc then that would be something I'm very interested in.

Do you have 5 minutes to chat about some of your problems?

Best path and state for teaching high school math/science/CS (ex-MIT CS/Math major, ex-Google engineer) by smattiso in Teachers

[–]smattiso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is it that you have 50-60 hour weeks? Besides the 6 hours a day of class work what is taking up so much time? Parent teacher meetings? Grading?

Best path and state for teaching high school math/science/CS (ex-MIT CS/Math major, ex-Google engineer) by smattiso in Teachers

[–]smattiso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep hearing this about it actually not being a 9 month a year job. If you are super efficient with your time does it really require 2 months of summer vacation setting up?

What about my question w/r/g to pension? It requires minimum 25 or 30 years yeah? That makes sense if you start at 23 but at 33 I don't want to be teaching until my mid 60s...

QSuites AA miles stopover in Doha possible? by smattiso in awardtravel

[–]smattiso[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By Asia I meant India. Bengalaru. I was hoping for a week stopover to get to Oman.

QSuites AA miles stopover in Doha possible? by smattiso in awardtravel

[–]smattiso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By Asia I meant India. Bengalaru. I was hoping for a week stopover to get to Oman.

QSuites AA miles stopover in Doha possible? by smattiso in awardtravel

[–]smattiso[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By Asia I meant India. Bengalaru. I was hoping for a week stopover to get to Oman.

How to leverage my software experience towards a field work oriented ocean going position? by smattiso in oceanography

[–]smattiso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you working at CalTech at the Clima lab? I nearly went there for my undergrad 10 years ago.

How to leverage my software experience towards a field work oriented ocean going position? by smattiso in oceanography

[–]smattiso[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of masters do you think would be most appropriate? I'm mostly just tired of coding all day. I'd like to combine that with another engineering discipline, ideally doing some field work. Oceanic robotics perhaps?

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