Re:Ask HN: Engineers over 40: What is your career path?
by fastbeef on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @06:36AM
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Congratulation on turning your fortune around.
Side note: I always find it super-weird when people use cars as a proxy for success and happiness. A cultural thing I guess.
Re:Ask HN: Engineers over 40: What is your career path?
by Trias11 on Saturday June 01, 2019 @09:11PM
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Not a proxy but rather a reflection or quick "before and after" analogy.
Re:Ask HN: Engineers over 40: What is your career path?
by tronko on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:57AM
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Congratulations! I was getting depressed reading your story but you made a nice comeback!
Re:Ask HN: Engineers over 40: What is your career path?
by softwarefounder on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @05:58PM
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they had us in the first half, not gonna lie
Re:Ask HN: Engineers over 40: What is your career path?
by highhedgehog on Monday May 20, 2019 @06:05AM
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Nice story of going through a shitstorm and keeping up with it.
Glad to hear you're good now ;)
By the time I hit 50 I also hit the highest debt owed due to bad past financial decisions.
Got laid off at 50. Got offered the job at lowest salary ever. That was the lowest point in my life. No future. Huge dept. Age. Miserable pay (Canada). Driving miserable dying, rusty Ford escort.
Got hired as a consultant for bank. While working as a consultant I built some prototypes for data analytics company that I liked.
In a year offered the management job at that same data analytics company + relocation to Bay area.
Accepted.
Paid all debts. Got green card. Accumulated savings. Working in a great place. Mostly from home. Travel at my leisure. Visiting and training customers. Doing lots of things i love now. Driving BMW 5xx.
Super happy now!