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In my opinion I'm seriously mediocre as an engineer. Slightly above average at best. I'm just good at managing my time, which is more of a business/personal skill than any engineering skill.
Individual landlords like myself are small time. I'm pretty much a mom and pop restaurant and you're criticizing me like I'm the McDonalds corporation.
I personally know 80% of my tenants and they've been renting from me for years.
Thank you for your somewhat constructive criticism. I'm sorry to hear that you feel that way. Given your username, I assume you are just as worldly as I am. In that case, I hope your HODLing habits lead to success. Eventually, you will become the same "evil" that you despise... you will eventually become... me. HODL!!
Definitely not 10x and I suck at leetcode style problems. I'm probably a 2xer who acts like a 1xer. That's the real secret. Don't overachieve.
- 1.2m cash
- 300k RSUs (probably worthless or I leave before 4 year vesting cliff)
- 200k equity (only one job is at a publicly traded company)
- <150k cash bonusWill anybody come after me? Doubt it's worth it to come after an engineer making 250K and will work at your company for less than 2 years.
The main struggle is scheduling and making sure you can make all the meetings. It's also tough finding the right job which gives you autonomy to form your schedule.
The main perks are obviously money and not caring about getting laid off. In this market it's pretty hard to get laid off, we shall see how it plays out over the next few years.
1. Work remotely
2. Live in a low cost of living area
3. Work multiple remote jobs (I currently work 4 full time SWE roles)
4. Invest that money (Equities, real estate, side hustles)
5. Rinse and repeat
It took me a decade to achieve that but with remote work growing and inflation increasing it should be achievable in 5-6 now. Will 1 million be worth what it was? Probably not, but you'll never be poor.
I've been working 4 jobs SWE roles remotely (3 full time, 1 part time) for several years now. I have to admit that the most challenging aspect of working multiple jobs is finding the right balance of working hard enough at each job just to get by. Automating a lot of the busy work sounds challenging for more hands on technical roles. I may need to take some pay cuts to find easier roles that I can automate.
If anyone has any tips on how to automate parts of their engineering work I'm all ears!
1. More money, companies are throwing money at engineers
2. Companies are having trouble hiring and it's getting easier to get a job
3. Inflation concerns, need more money
4. Most jobs suck (I work at 4 companies now and have worked at 30 companies in my 10 year career)
5. Retiring early, read reason 4. Working for a company sucks.My own tactic is to move jobs often, but also take on multiple remote roles at the same time.
Do COLA adjustments in your own job/career. That's why so many people are moving jobs in this market. That's why so many high paying engineers move jobs every couple of years. COLA baby!
I tend to move jobs every 2-3 years and receive a 25-50% raise each time. COLA baby!
In all seriousness, I create a new profile whenever I get a new job and would not be sharing any details here.
I also underachieve in terms of moving up the corporate ladder. I've been asked to move into management for more money, and I always reject those types of promotions since it usually means more unavoidable meetings. Also, I don't bother working on difficult projects, I choose to work in roles where I have clear expertise and can complete work in 2-4 times the expected timeline.
I don't doubt that some contracts state you can't work another job, but I would consider rereading some of your contracts. Especially in work friendly states, it's hard to enforce those types of clauses and companies are really good at wording things like it's a restriction when it's really a legal suggestion.
> and they found out
How exactly would an employer easily find out? I also worked multiple jobs at FAANG level big tech, you would have to explicitly say something to get found out. In fact, the big tech jobs I've had were genuinely the most administratively bloated and least likely to find out.
Also, finding a new job has never been that difficult, especially in this market.
Getting the right meeting cadence down is the toughest part. I make sure to understand the company's meeting culture well before taking any offer. If the meeting schedule doesn't work I leave, it's the biggest factor in any job for me.
As for getting fired, I've never been fired but I've also never been caught. Getting kind of good at it, doing this for the past 5+ years. I would assume the nice thing about getting fired in this situation is having multiple incomes to fall back on. I've never had trouble finding new jobs.
I am someone who spent years frustrated by the performative BS at my workplaces. Actually being proactive was not as important as achieving some superficial engineering task that didn't actually solve anything.
So, I flipped the script and leveraged this silliness into a 7 figure salary by working multiple remote jobs. I work 4 SWE jobs, spend about 10-15 hours per week per job, act like I'm "working" for the rest of that time, get paid. Works for me, works for them!
I've never had a contract that explicitly stated I couldn't work multiple jobs. (I work multiple full time jobs now)
However, this is the worst advice I have ever read. Good experiences should not be translated into advice. Your employer is not your friend. You may be lucky enough to have friends who share the same employer, but at the end of the day you are employed by a business, treat it accordingly.
Here's how I handle quitting in a remote world (as a cold hearted jerk/machine, aka a business). I give my two weeks notice, and start my new job the same day I give notice. I effectively have no real work to do the last two weeks at my current job, and have a nice relaxed onboarding at my new job. At the end of the two weeks I collect two paychecks. Rinse and repeat every 1-2 years to collect a 30-40% raise.