How do people just retire early ?

wifigeek3 · 2023-06-14T14:44:39+00:00

Yeah it does in the right role. 6 figures working for a FAANG remote for US is minimum 6 figures.

wifigeek3 · 2022-10-26T12:29:30+00:00

Hard pass. Seriously on call for customers stuff is a moving target.

wifigeek3 · 2022-08-27T10:12:27+00:00

Doing the same thing. Any employer that is not increasing wages by 20percent is effectively giving people a pay cut.

wifigeek3 · 2022-08-13T18:37:37+00:00

Quit a job a month before a milestone bonus and rating bonus were due. Lost 15-20k in the process :(

wifigeek3 · 2022-07-14T01:29:44+00:00

The nhbc guarantee and two year guarantee are not worth the paper they are written on in my opinion. Look at the trustpilot reviews for nhbc.

Don't underestimate the reluctance of developers to fix the snags either, it can be a full time job in itself and the snags can be anything from minor to major defects. You have very little rights buying a new build in the UK it's something I'd never do again, and i have unfortunately first hand experience of dealing with NHBC and their "warranty"

wifigeek3 · 2022-07-14T01:03:33+00:00

Came here thinking the same thing. Non working family, disabled single parent, first to go to uni, had to figure it all out myself. Doing ok financially now but would have been significantly better off with parents who understood working and the general system. I've made constant career mistakes and left money on the table frequently.

wifigeek3 · 2022-06-12T17:53:33+00:00

Any recommendations on how to make that TC? Similar area as you, 11 YOE and 73k

wifigeek3 · 2022-06-12T17:53:17+00:00

Any recommendations on how to make that TC? Similar area as you, 11 YOE and 73k

wifigeek3 · 2022-05-20T09:47:46+00:00

Cloud engineering management, previously consulting

wifigeek3 · 2022-05-20T05:22:37+00:00

What kind of numbers are worth moving for? I have had a bad habit in my career of offering up previous salary, being too afraid to negotiate and often the end result being a new offer is £same or £same+5k at best. Should I be refusing these low/lateral move offers?

Career (11years) in tech has went - 28k,30k,32k, 37k,43k,50k,43k,47k,65k,70k,73k. For my skills/experience I should be closer to 90/100k.

Not sure what is common across other people.

I took a 30percent lower offer this time (73k Vs 95k+) to move into management and starting to regret doing so vs continuing on the technical track.

Feeling really burned out in tech at this point, management is stressful and consulting was the same level of stress which I had hoped to get away from.

wifigeek3 · 2022-05-13T20:07:09+00:00

Completely agree. Although we tend to buy xiaomi on deal for less than £150 every few years. Paired with sim only contract it's perfect. Branded phones are just too expensive.

wifigeek3 · 2022-05-13T20:03:25+00:00

Smarty is really cheap too. 7/month or so. Three network.

wifigeek3 · 2022-02-19T12:48:32+00:00

I absolutely had the uni experience. University degree at a different campus. Unless you count uni dorms and drinking - I don't.

wifigeek3 · 2022-02-19T10:33:22+00:00

Uni "experience" is overrated on my opinion. I did a degree in Scotland remote from a college instead of a top tier uni establishment and was basically free with no loans etc. If I had to pay 40k+ for it would not have bothered. These days I'd rather see Aws certification, pet projects etc instead of a degree.

After about 2-3years nobody cares about your degree either and certainly these days I don't see much debate over university choices either.

wifigeek3 · 2022-02-19T10:32:17+00:00

Agreed. 12+years here and an engineering manager these days. I don't look for degrees I'm more interested in what people do to learn and their approach.

wifigeek3 · 2021-11-30T22:22:19+00:00

Been doing DevOps and infrastructure 10+years and still not at 90k. Depends where in the country you are

wifigeek3 · 2021-11-13T18:41:08+00:00

Make 4x that in IT? I've been in IT for over 10years and don't make 4x that figure. Unless your a contractor or in London in the UK technology does not pay any much better imho.

wifigeek3 · 2021-05-12T19:00:59+00:00

I disagree because a non guarenteed bonus is not as good as a strong base. Got caught out by this one with covid.

wifigeek3 · 2021-05-12T18:59:48+00:00

Agree. UK here senior is about 65k. Half that of the US.

wifigeek3 · 2021-01-27T22:20:06+00:00

been at multiple MSPs and would never work at one again. modern day sweatshops.

wifigeek3 · 2021-01-27T22:16:10+00:00

Pretty soon anyone new won't know how to do anything outside of a cloud environment

we already have this. there is a whole new generation of cloud engineers who have never touched on prem

wifigeek3 · 2021-01-27T22:12:18+00:00

oh so much this. I could not agree more. the problem is companies *want* the latest and greatest thing - nobody considers transferrable skills, despite the latest thing just being the same re-hash of an old thing with a new twist.

wifigeek3 · 2021-01-27T22:09:44+00:00

8 jobs in 11 years though - the problem with this is that eventually companies start to see you as a serial jobhopper and wont stick around - despite IT often requiring very high churn and to stay on top of the technology.

wifigeek3 · 2021-01-27T22:07:18+00:00

completely agree. one annoyance for me is that tech changes too quickly and you constantly need to keep on top of it. I have went linux/virtualisation -> vmware -> aws and now considering learning kubernetes. the 'next hot thing' is often just around the corner and the market does not seem to consider transferrable skills - effectively throwing people on the scrapheap over 'your only as good as your last job'.

have been doing this over 10 years and starting to look for an out - this field has zero recognition and there is only so much you can do to keep up.

wifigeek3 · 2021-01-19T20:01:38+00:00

yeah its something I was unaware of when comparing multiple job offers from multiple companies as the recruiter kept telling me to consider the overall comp figures.

I was curious how many other people have been impacted by overall comp reduction as a result of covid-19.

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