If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?

Re:If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hou... by Arisaka1 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:53PM (#28460677)

As an impoverished 30 year old I wish I was more focused in building and cultivating a career path. What I did instead was "a 9-5 on something I'm good at" (not coding as I'm career switching).

Guess what followed after that: Odd jobs. Yes, they pay the bills but they don't build career progression. You cannot sell yourself to someone to hire you for your 1 year experience in 8 different things. This is why considering the money alone isn't enough. And yes, you also need to be educated on personal finance because if you were born in a poor family chances are you'll be spending the money as soon as you touch them.

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Re:If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hou... by adventured on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:09PM (#28460929)

> You cannot sell yourself to someone to hire you for your 1 year experience in 8 different things.

It heavily depends on what those things are. If you have one year of legitimate experience in cyber security right now, you've got a job almost anytime you want it. The same goes for many in-demand programming languages at present. That level of experience will not initially net you a very high paying tech job, however compared to the median it'll be a good paying job and you can work your way up from there.

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Re:If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hou... by Arisaka1 on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:28PM (#28462608)

Yeah, but you can somewhat connect those. I mentioned "odd jobs" and I wouldn't call any of those you mentioned as such.

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