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Re:2018 UtahJS Pay, Education, Job-title Survey by nouseforaname on Thursday October 18, 2018 @08:20PM (#18253453)
FWIW I live in Utah, work remote, and am self taught (dropout from engineering program) and my base is higher than that. It's in the 240s.

I'm the first one to tell someone to go to school instead. It's not actually the fundamentals I missed out on, it was the network of peers in computer science as well as potential options in academia. It slowed my career growth down a bit. I'm not complaining though since I'm set to retire in my 30s and I wasn't forced to compromise on where I want to live (I really like snowboarding and mountain biking).

I like to think I took the scenic and unpaved route. Maybe harder overall, but it was a fun journey and I ended up in a good place.

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Re:2018 UtahJS Pay, Education, Job-title Survey by suresk on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:06PM (#18253809)
Can you share which company you're working remotely for? I figured most people in Utah who are at > $200k base are working remotely for bigger SF-based companies, but I haven't really heard of many companies doing that. (I understand if you can't, though)
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