I've been in tech for 19 years and I have been laid off twice. Yes I finally quit. It's not all about the money. It was not an easy decision, life is too short to dread working everyday. No amount of money can buy real happiness! But friends I'm not asking you to resign from your job or abandon your business but be wise!!
Right now I run my own business and While I was still working I planned towards early retirement making extra 5-10k weekly from my retirement portfolio trying so much to build more side hustles extra side incomes
@@stevestone8740 wow impressive you're making quite a fortune speaking of investing I have heard about this but I don't really know how to start can you explain?
There's a lot of investing options real estate, cr ypto, ETFS, stocks but my best advice get a professional lead you into profitable one that's exactly what I did
Ok.. no one will pay you $450k per year if you were not reliable. What people do not realize is when you are a reliable employee, companies will throw money at you but the burn out rate is intense. When we leave a high paying job, they already got someone lined up to replace us.. and they'll probably pay them more. Someone gains but at the end of the day, most companies really don't care how much they pay as long as it is reliable. Thanks for sharing.
What people don't realize is that only a few percentage makes $400k. If you suck at programming, no matter how many years of experience you have, companies will not pay you $400k. Also if you a company is paying $400k, likely you are also doing 60+hrs per week. It is no different with Portfolio Manager. They get paid millions but they also work 60-80 hrs/week.
@@wafercrackerjack880 I have some very big doubts that you will make 200k just like that, that's a very high wage. I would assume, and this is only based on my experience, if you suck at programming you will not join the highest paying and demanding companies in the world (FANG for example), not a chance, not when you have so many smart, hardworking people trying to join. Also you will probably working on a small company making 60k-80k, which is probably a great wage considering that you SUCK at your job
Many- almost all jobs can become repetitive & boring overtime. That’s why you need a balance in your life. Do a little traveling & stay engaged in hobbies, etc.
No way you'd get 450K for a copy/paste job. A lot of skills are required for such a payroll check. The salary is proportional to the difficulty of the work to be performed, its relevance for the company goals and the pain that it implies to execute it constantly, with consistent results and without complains. There're a lot of good developers, but few with strong mindset + work ethics + good attitude. For example, I know of cases where Indian programmers thought that any software development job in the USA was way better than a great (quality life) job in India. They managed to get a job in the USA, however, paradoxically, they soon preferred to return to their country due to the rigor demanded by the work ethics and yelling bosses in the USA.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science, I took my first junior web developer position at a small web agency in Germany, earning €30k per year. Despite this, I took the opportunity to improve my coding skills for 3 years as a software developer. I concluded that gaining experience and enhancing my skills was very helpful in finding a better-paying job, and the effort was definitely worth it:)
Expectation, people think that life is like college, where you're having an easy/engaging time learning all day.. It's not. Life is a grind, constantly requiring you to do boring tasks that nobody really enjoys. THAT is why you get a great salary for the task... Period.
Time is more precious than money in this life If you spend your all day just wanting it to end, so you’re wasting your time and no amount of money can compensate for it
You are right. Its all about perspective. I would love half a million a year but I have the perspective of different life challenges to make me more appreciative. Life is about gratitude and living in the moment. Hopefully this guy is living the life he wants now.
DO NOT QUIT UNTIL YOU HAVE A SKILL OTHERS VALUE. Then if shit hits the fan real bad, or if you have a kid and the dream job doesn't work enough and you want to help out, you can fall back on the skill you mastered. I'm currently getting a cert to become a network engineer. I don't necessarily like being in IT but it is a skill that nearly everyone in IT values because it is basically the internet plumber of IT jobs. I don't plan to stay in it forever, and eventually plan to work in education. But skill, and financial foundation comes first.
Fixing bugs is one of most demanding tasks. You need real skill if it comes to nasty bugs and how to find and fix them. What is a Hashtag Algorithm? Creating Hashing Algos is more or less Math and most Software Engineers will hate to do (if they are even able to do).
450k mean around 250 in hand, of which if you are dumb you will invest in cars and houses but if you are smart you will invest in good companies in stocks
@@R53Holeif I have a collection of cars I will be driving each one as much as I can. As long as majority of my wealth isn’t tied to them I’ll beat on them until I can’t anymore. I don’t understand how wealthy people don’t drive their cars more often. It’s not like most of their wealth is tied to them. I understand they are investments and a vehicle for to park their money in, pun intended. But I would drive them regardless, if someone wants to buy it at a higher price later on that’s fine but before they do I want them to know that Jeffrey drove them and enjoyed them. The value might go down more because of that but at least I died happy knowing that I enjoyed what I worked hard for.
Im wondering if i made the right choice i went back to construction because i was planning on being a apprentice in plumbing. I wasn't really conviced i always felt that i could make the same money with I.T especially web dev and software dev which are both my interest my college has certifcate programs in those fields and i would be getting them for free so now im wondering if i made the right choice to walk away from plumbing i believe i did but im still stuck on that.
This really depends on the need of trades in your area, but ultimately both are really good options, and really depends if you'd rather be more hands-on with your work, or allowed more time to think at your own pace (and enjoy the possibility of remote work).
@@catherinelijs well im near the capitol and both seem to be in demand plumbers here make 90k-100k and web devs and software devs make anywhere from 85k-200k but the ones that make 200k are kinda rare i feel like and it takes longer
Its true. Lets say its possible to find that hut from a private Spanish household room can rent that place and pay cash monthly. You can save quite a lot of money
Tbh I agree with this. I’ve spent the first three years of my career working pretty hard at one the FAANG companies. I’m totally over it - but, this experience has made it much easier to get interviews at companies that align more with my career goals, even in this tough market. Though, once you’re in the comfortable, high-paying role, it’s easy to get complacent and spend your career climbing the corporate ladder. Not saying that’s the wrong way to do it, but risk tolerance probably goes down the longer you wait.
ha i don't know anyone making $450k at faang! yeah maybe top managers but programmers? yeah no. Maybe the top top top guy whose NOT replaceable. No one is doing react for 450k
I mean you work for like 3 years and have close to or more than $1,000,000 saved up, go travel and explore the world! And if you live with a budget of $60,000 you’re good for a decade.
in the world where IRS does not exist sure but sorry he will not have $1M saved up in 3 years with IRS taking their lion share...broaden your analysis a bit more next time
Grossly over paid kids that do hardly any work and spend their time in a break room while the person working their ass off and keeping the company alive likely doesn't even make 6 figures. Pathetic!
People will complain about anything. Don't get me wrong, i understand how soul sucking corporate can be but you really got to stop and realize how lucky you are to make half a million in a year doing anything. Imagine if that weren't even possible
Working 20 hour days while under weekly stress of being fired as a constant threat. It frazzles you. End of the day your banging out lines of corporate code. Ok.. So your life your purpose was to produce a slick corporate slogan that pops on a web page? If that's why you were put on this earth you have issues. The job sucks that's why people quit. It's miserable.
BTW... 29 years in this industry. 400k is more then double what 98 percent of most devs make. This is an outrageous exaggeration. Try 150K MAYBE 200K at the top levels. But 400K? that's bullshit.
After working for 32+ years as Software Engineer, I retired happily because during this time I used my modest income ($80,000 a year) to invest in the stock market and become a millionaire. The millennial are spoiled and lazy. They want to get rich fast and retire early. They all want to become CEO.
In your day there was something called "job security" which doesn't exist anymore. Therefore, why should one be loyal to companies that are not loyal to you? $450K means nothing when the threat of being laid off without warning is looming over your head. Boomer principles no longer applies in 2024 and beyond.
I'll take $100,000 to $500,000 any day. I'm a supervisor at a hospital in EVS housekeeping and i get no respect. The hospitals could not last without EVS. I'm despondent and irritated and depressed with my job. Quit bitching about your effing tech job. You could be in my situation!
I feel so bad about them, leaving their half a million dollar salary, that must be so depressing. Average CEOs doesn't make that amount of salary, they should quit too.
Except most of these jobs are not simply boring, they are also increbibly stressful, expect you to work 60-80 hours a week and spend 6+ hours a day in meetings while working with systems and org structure that are so complex and regulated it takes 10 meeting with 100 different people over the course of multiple months just to deliver a simple feature.
I've been in tech for 19 years and I have been laid off twice. Yes I finally quit. It's not all about the money. It was not an easy decision, life is too short to dread working everyday. No amount of money can buy real happiness! But friends I'm not asking you to resign from your job or abandon your business but be wise!!
You're right! I definitely agree with you on this. If I may ask how did you plan yourself before quitting and put your self in place?
Right now I run my own business and While I was still working I planned towards early retirement making extra 5-10k weekly from my retirement portfolio trying so much to build more side hustles extra side incomes
@@stevestone8740 wow impressive you're making quite a fortune speaking of investing I have heard about this but I don't really know how to start can you explain?
There's a lot of investing options real estate, cr ypto, ETFS, stocks but my best advice get a professional lead you into profitable one that's exactly what I did
I definitely agree with you on this a professional FA will help you make the best decisions about inv esting :)
Ok.. no one will pay you $450k per year if you were not reliable. What people do not realize is when you are a reliable employee, companies will throw money at you but the burn out rate is intense. When we leave a high paying job, they already got someone lined up to replace us.. and they'll probably pay them more. Someone gains but at the end of the day, most companies really don't care how much they pay as long as it is reliable. Thanks for sharing.
What people don't realize is that only a few percentage makes $400k. If you suck at programming, no matter how many years of experience you have, companies will not pay you $400k. Also if you a company is paying $400k, likely you are also doing 60+hrs per week. It is no different with Portfolio Manager. They get paid millions but they also work 60-80 hrs/week.
But if you suck at programming and you're pain 200k, that's still a win.
@@wafercrackerjack880not anymore
@@wafercrackerjack880 I have some very big doubts that you will make 200k just like that, that's a very high wage. I would assume, and this is only based on my experience, if you suck at programming you will not join the highest paying and demanding companies in the world (FANG for example), not a chance, not when you have so many smart, hardworking people trying to join. Also you will probably working on a small company making 60k-80k, which is probably a great wage considering that you SUCK at your job
Not in this market @@wafercrackerjack880
Many- almost all jobs can become repetitive & boring overtime. That’s why you need a balance in your life. Do a little traveling & stay engaged in hobbies, etc.
You’re right. Never lose track of yourself and the hobbies that you enjoy and to take a bit of a break from work
No way you'd get 450K for a copy/paste job. A lot of skills are required for such a payroll check. The salary is proportional to the difficulty of the work to be performed, its relevance for the company goals and the pain that it implies to execute it constantly, with consistent results and without complains. There're a lot of good developers, but few with strong mindset + work ethics + good attitude.
For example, I know of cases where Indian programmers thought that any software development job in the USA was way better than a great (quality life) job in India. They managed to get a job in the USA, however, paradoxically, they soon preferred to return to their country due to the rigor demanded by the work ethics and yelling bosses in the USA.
Absolutely! Culture is vital as well, chasing money isn’t the only solution
You can make more money, but you can't make more time.
You're just spitting out facts👌🏽
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Money isn't worth selling your soul despite what American culture says/thinks.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in computer science, I took my first junior web developer position at a small web agency in Germany, earning €30k per year. Despite this, I took the opportunity to improve my coding skills for 3 years as a software developer. I concluded that gaining experience and enhancing my skills was very helpful in finding a better-paying job, and the effort was definitely worth it:)
Expectation, people think that life is like college, where you're having an easy/engaging time learning all day.. It's not. Life is a grind, constantly requiring you to do boring tasks that nobody really enjoys. THAT is why you get a great salary for the task... Period.
Time is more precious than money in this life
If you spend your all day just wanting it to end, so you’re wasting your time and no amount of money can compensate for it
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Everybody always talks about the "Golden handcuffs" completely ignoring the fact you will only wear silver, bronze or copper
It’s only not about the money, when you have financial security.
This is why all the rest of us think you are crazy.
You are right. Its all about perspective. I would love half a million a year but I have the perspective of different life challenges to make me more appreciative. Life is about gratitude and living in the moment. Hopefully this guy is living the life he wants now.
I wholeheartedly agree. Living in the moment and making your time & efforts worth it.
Fixing bugs is not boring. It is frustrating.
wtf I would die for copying ad pasting for 400k!!
Really? Ok then nothing should stop you from getting that job
And 5h of meetings and another 6h of leetcode lol
DO NOT QUIT UNTIL YOU HAVE A SKILL OTHERS VALUE. Then if shit hits the fan real bad, or if you have a kid and the dream job doesn't work enough and you want to help out, you can fall back on the skill you mastered.
I'm currently getting a cert to become a network engineer. I don't necessarily like being in IT but it is a skill that nearly everyone in IT values because it is basically the internet plumber of IT jobs. I don't plan to stay in it forever, and eventually plan to work in education. But skill, and financial foundation comes first.
This is great advice!
I will work 100 hours a week to earn half that salary. I'm a software engineer from Canada
Canadian salaries definitely haven't kept up with US salaries or the cost of living in Canada
Fixing bugs is one of most demanding tasks. You need real skill if it comes to nasty bugs and how to find and fix them.
What is a Hashtag Algorithm? Creating Hashing Algos is more or less Math and most Software Engineers will hate to do (if they are even able to do).
450k mean around 250 in hand, of which if you are dumb you will invest in cars and houses but if you are smart you will invest in good companies in stocks
Collectable cars can go up in value.
@@R53Holeif I have a collection of cars I will be driving each one as much as I can. As long as majority of my wealth isn’t tied to them I’ll beat on them until I can’t anymore. I don’t understand how wealthy people don’t drive their cars more often. It’s not like most of their wealth is tied to them. I understand they are investments and a vehicle for to park their money in, pun intended. But I would drive them regardless, if someone wants to buy it at a higher price later on that’s fine but before they do I want them to know that Jeffrey drove them and enjoyed them. The value might go down more because of that but at least I died happy knowing that I enjoyed what I worked hard for.
You cannot do that money being dumb lol
Im wondering if i made the right choice i went back to construction because i was planning on being a apprentice in plumbing. I wasn't really conviced i always felt that i could make the same money with I.T especially web dev and software dev which are both my interest my college has certifcate programs in those fields and i would be getting them for free so now im wondering if i made the right choice to walk away from plumbing i believe i did but im still stuck on that.
This really depends on the need of trades in your area, but ultimately both are really good options, and really depends if you'd rather be more hands-on with your work, or allowed more time to think at your own pace (and enjoy the possibility of remote work).
@@catherinelijs i like both i want to do both
@@catherinelijs well im near the capitol and both seem to be in demand plumbers here make 90k-100k and web devs and software devs make anywhere from 85k-200k but the ones that make 200k are kinda rare i feel like and it takes longer
You can't retire after 5 years working at Netflix in the US. Unless you don't have a family and live in a shack.
Its true. Lets say its possible to find that hut from a private Spanish household room can rent that place and pay cash monthly. You can save quite a lot of money
Make a video on how to find remote jobs and how to apply from another country, Thank you!
There is a saying "The grass is not always greener on the other side".
100%
Get the Money First then start fulfilling your dreams... nothing as bad as been old and broke... trust me. sacrifice first 2-3yrs..
Tbh I agree with this. I’ve spent the first three years of my career working pretty hard at one the FAANG companies. I’m totally over it - but, this experience has made it much easier to get interviews at companies that align more with my career goals, even in this tough market.
Though, once you’re in the comfortable, high-paying role, it’s easy to get complacent and spend your career climbing the corporate ladder. Not saying that’s the wrong way to do it, but risk tolerance probably goes down the longer you wait.
I'll be more than happy to take their job...
same here. 450k is like winning the lottery.
The video is wrong. These jobs don't exist. It's all been automated.
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ha i don't know anyone making $450k at faang! yeah maybe top managers but programmers? yeah no. Maybe the top top top guy whose NOT replaceable. No one is doing react for 450k
You're right, nobody's doing react for $450k, they could be doing AI/ML probably
I mean you work for like 3 years and have close to or more than $1,000,000 saved up, go travel and explore the world!
And if you live with a budget of $60,000 you’re good for a decade.
in the world where IRS does not exist sure but sorry he will not have $1M saved up in 3 years with IRS taking their lion share...broaden your analysis a bit more next time
@@youtubegarbage4u I said “close to…” Read carefully next time.
And then what you do after that decade?
@@cannotwest well if you were smart you would have someone investing your money, Edward Jones, or start a business.
Won’t be nothing close to that, taxes will take like 400k in 3 years
Grossly over paid kids that do hardly any work and spend their time in a break room while the person working their ass off and keeping the company alive likely doesn't even make 6 figures. Pathetic!
Because they can apply for $500 000 jobs
If you make $450k…you could just invest half into investments until you have enough to quit with passive income…seems like a better avenue
They are depressed but they have a lifestyle of rockstar billionaire though. They don't know what is Ross, Burlington or even Walmart.
It's good that they leave, I need their 300k job so I can buy a house in the Bay Area
At this rate it may have to be a $400k+ job to afford those homes
People will complain about anything. Don't get me wrong, i understand how soul sucking corporate can be but you really got to stop and realize how lucky you are to make half a million in a year doing anything. Imagine if that weren't even possible
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Working 20 hour days while under weekly stress of being fired as a constant threat. It frazzles you. End of the day your banging out lines of corporate code. Ok.. So your life your purpose was to produce a slick corporate slogan that pops on a web page? If that's why you were put on this earth you have issues.
The job sucks that's why people quit. It's miserable.
BTW... 29 years in this industry. 400k is more then double what 98 percent of most devs make. This is an outrageous exaggeration. Try 150K MAYBE 200K at the top levels. But 400K? that's bullshit.
Tech layoffs video when? 😅
You read my mind! I’ll have something up soon
@@catherinelijs share your twitter?
After working for 32+ years as Software Engineer, I retired happily because during this time I used my modest income ($80,000 a year) to invest in the stock market and become a millionaire. The millennial are spoiled and lazy. They want to get rich fast and retire early. They all want to become CEO.
In your day there was something called "job security" which doesn't exist anymore. Therefore, why should one be loyal to companies that are not loyal to you? $450K means nothing when the threat of being laid off without warning is looming over your head. Boomer principles no longer applies in 2024 and beyond.
I'll take $100,000 to $500,000 any day. I'm a supervisor at a hospital in EVS housekeeping and i get no respect. The hospitals could not last without EVS. I'm despondent and irritated and depressed with my job. Quit bitching about your effing tech job. You could be in my situation!
I feel so bad about them, leaving their half a million dollar salary, that must be so depressing. Average CEOs doesn't make that amount of salary, they should quit too.
I will take boring for 450,000
Except most of these jobs are not simply boring, they are also increbibly stressful, expect you to work 60-80 hours a week and spend 6+ hours a day in meetings while working with systems and org structure that are so complex and regulated it takes 10 meeting with 100 different people over the course of multiple months just to deliver a simple feature.
Welp. The salaries are being drastically reduced now. $450k? Now it’s like 175k per year lol
They are, but not as much as you think. I’d say a senior eng role that paid 450k during the pandemic is probably closer to 350k today.
Okay thanks give
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Great video, but you lost me at Elon Musk working 100 hour weeks
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