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Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by ivanche on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @11:43AM (#23770993)
Better financial situation * many, many years = freedom. You have to live like no one else until, one day, you'll live like no one else.
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Re:How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner... by war1025 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @12:37PM (#23771534)
Sounds like the whole Mexican fisherman story.

I make good money. I work 10am-5pm every day. I don't make as much money as people who are more career oriented.

But I also save 50% of my paycheck even factoring in that I have a wife and three kids, and my wife stays home with them. What's the point of chasing more money? If anything, I'd like to scale back, but that's not the easiest thing to do.

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