Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career?

Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by tudorconstantin on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @11:40PM (#18072582)

By far, applying to work remote for a US based company 3 years ago. I am living in Romania.

I still work for them.

Theoretically I should be able to retire in about 5-10 years, in my mid 40s, depending on how frugal I am with my expenses. This wouldn't have been possible working for a local software company, even though I was paid about 3 times the average national income.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by shRaj9fEc8Vith on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:00AM (#18072678)

it's so sad that from where i live (SEA), 3 times average gdp per capita is no where enough for retirement.

insurance and healthcare system is a joke. so whenever you got health issue, be prepare to spend butt-load of money.

i have no idea how gdp per capita is so low yet people have so much of money (unreported income, corruption probably)

I make about 25 times the national gdp per capita yet i'm just above average in my country.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by tudorconstantin on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:33AM (#18073025)

I had 3 times the average national net salary, not GDP, which I guess should be even more. But that income wouldn't have allowed me to retire either. It would allow us (me, my wife and a child) to live a comfortable life though.

As a back of the envelope calculation, if you can live with 30% from the income, one should be able to retire in about 7 years.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by momozaur on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:25PM (#18094642)

What is the formula to compute the 30%, how did you compute it? After you retired, how much (%) of your salary will you be able to spend monthly?

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by shRaj9fEc8Vith on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:16AM (#18074181)

ah i see.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by ur-whale on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:04AM (#18073772)

>it's so sad that from where i live (SEA),

Well then. Move to Romania. Problem solved.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by tasuki on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:29AM (#18074241)

Moving from EU to SEA is easy. Moving from SEA to EU is significantly more difficult.

I'm privileged to be a EU citizen, but not everyone is. Also see: https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by unnouinceput on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:31AM (#18076954)

I do the same as Tudor. 10 years since I work as freelancer, before that was basically changing jobs in Romania every year or at best every 2 years. For me the site that enabled me to have US/Canada clients is Upwork (former oDesk when i started)

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by qualsiasi on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:43AM (#18073646)

Could you please tell us how you got that job? I'm constantly on the look for a full-remote job, but I find difficult to get one.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by tudorconstantin on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:55AM (#18075418)

I found it on jobs.perl.org. I already had about 5 years of Perl programming experience. And I offered to work on US timezone, which I think also helped.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by nik1aa5 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:59AM (#18073120)

How did you find the vacancy? Isn't there some dedicated website for Europeans who want to work for an US company remotely?

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by the_new_guy_29 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:29AM (#18073557)

Im also interested in this

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by tudorconstantin on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:56AM (#18075420)

I found it on jobs.perl.org. I already had about 5 years of Perl programming experience. And I offered to work on US timezone, which I think also helped.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by nik1aa5 on Monday October 01, 2018 @03:01PM (#18115733)

Cool to see that there are people hired because of Perl! These days you only here about these new, fancy and very hip programming languages that you must learn...

All the best on your job!

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by Tehchops on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:36AM (#18076347)

Our company is currently hiring an SRE in EMEA. US(Seattle) based. Full remote.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by imhoguy on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:38PM (#18079499)

Please send me some details, timezone, spec. My email in the profile, thx.

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Re:Ask HN: What was the best decision you made in your career? by the_new_guy_29 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:47AM (#18077126)

Demn im more in software dev role currently

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