Ask HN: Are you ok?

Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by goobynight on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:18PM (#20953265)

I'd wager that's the reason. People can't relate to it. Not even close.

I'm not scraping by in my early twenties with a futon trying to bust into a career with a full year's salary in student loan debt. I immediately started making what many people make at the tail end of what they'd call a good career. All while coming in just about whenever I feel like it.

My life is a joke in comparison and it's just a coincidence that I landed in it. Same with other guys I know. They happened to like something, such as making Quake mods and then stumbled into making 200k/year in 35hr per week, with maybe half of that 35 being YAML engineering.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by kitsunesoba on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:22PM (#20958237)

Yes, this is exactly it. It’s hard not to feel weird when every day I’m surrounded by hardworking individuals who aren’t making nearly as much as I do. It just doesn’t feel right. Is the difference in produced value actually that great? I mean I sure as heck wouldn’t be able to do what I do without without the collective support of all of these people.

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Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by FillardMillmore on Thursday September 12, 2019 @05:25PM (#20956639)

I know what YAML is, but what do you mean by YAML engineering? Fields of engineering with a focus on creating/editing YAML config files?

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Re:Ask HN: Are you ok? by zten on Thursday September 12, 2019 @06:04PM (#20956950)

I think it was facetious. For example, lots of ops work is producing mountains upon mountains of YAML to feed into tools like Terraform just to provision and glue things together.

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