Get a PhD in a related field like math or computer science.
And have spent the last 15 years working on the cutting edge of AI research.
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So basically after all that, you are quitting an in-office role for a remote role.
After all what? A blog post?
Your anonymous comment reduces somebody’s experience and decisions to a single sentence. I’m afraid it completely fails to successfully summarise them.
I hope I wasn't too harsh, and thanks for contextualizing your post.
> The TL;DR of my original post is "don't optimise for income over quality of life".
On this, we can 100% agree!
Not at all! You raised a valid point, I just wanted to clarify my intention. Thanks for engaging with the post.
So which peak is pictured here? I’m visiting the UK this summer. Might want to check that out…
Hey, author here. Sorry to disappoint but it's not in the UK. It's Innerdalen, Norway (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innerdalen).
It's one of the most beautiful places I've seen. If you have the opportunity to visit, I recommend it highly.
Posts like this frustrate me.
"I'm quitting! But I'm not telling you anything about how I plan to pay for life."
The message mostly resonates with me, right up until they leave out the most crucial part of the post. How do you escape the rat race, and still pay for things like health care, food, rent, etc.
Even if you're making $100k+ a year, those costs aren't insignificant. No how do you handle them making $0k a year?
Hey, author here. I understand your criticism.
Please see this comment where I've hopefully answered your questions: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=34426360&goto=item%3Fi...
They have opinions. One is nature rules. The other is the city sucks.
I think their opinion of that the city sucks is wrong, full stop, and that a change in attitude would see all the great things a city provides that nature does not so that then you can appreciate both.
To me, enjoying the good parts of both the city and nature is a better POV than shitting one one of them.
Hey, author here.
I actually don't dislike cities and I didn't generalise that they are terrible.
London is one of the busiest and largest mega cities on the planet. It's incomparable to a city of ~400k people where you can walk in 45 minutes from the city centre to the boundary where the urban environment becomes a more natural environment.
The mega city is not for me, and I regret sacrificing quality of life for income. This decision is about rebalancing those two.
What I feel is perhaps missing here is some sort of a plan, so the author can either generate enough income or control the spending well enough not to become homeless. It's nice to (hopefully) have savings for these sorts of situations, but for many out there the end result of something like that would be eventual financial peril.
I recently also submitted my own resignation, except I've figured out that my current savings could last me around 3-5 years, so my plan so far is to take one year off work for personal projects, books and other ways of upskilling myself, as well as handling various larger events, such as moving to the city from the countryside (healthcare or even getting to the store is problematic otherwise), as well as just hang out with friends occasionally and visit some museums.
Though maybe my plans are too much work and too little play.
Author here. Please see this comment I wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=34426360&goto=item%3Fi...