Readit Newslbacaj commented on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer software.rajivprab.com/20... · Posted by u/ingve
Your flip comment seems to belie the fact that he's only earned at least a half a million dollars for one year. Most of his years he earned substantially less than that.
The majority of his NW comes from investment and savings, not income.
The point of the article is that cutting expenses, saving, investing wisely, and aggressively pursuing pay raises can yield a few million well before retirement age.
These sort of casual dismissals negate the educational value of the post.
Not to mention, he was also living in expensive areas. It’s amazing he saved and invested that much.
1) “How to win friends and influence people”
2) “Never split the difference”
The first one will teach you how to work with people. The second will teach you how to negotiate salaries, raises, and promotions among other things.
I don’t recommend many technical books because engineers can find all of that on the internet and are much more at risk of being bad at people stuff.