I sometimes worry that I'm somehow becoming more and more of a jerk as my career progresses, instead of less. Maybe I'm just sick of this career.
Readit Newsthrowaway19170 commented on In-demand tech skills are the last thing to look for in IT hires netsuite.com/portal/busin... · Posted by u/ohjeez
throwaway19170 commented on Tech compensation in 2021 jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/... · Posted by u/mjgardner
I left tech at the university as soon as it started feeling like things were "getting old." And at that point I realized I should have left maybe 4 years earlier to get on with my career.
I think I will try to get back in when I am ready to retire, maybe a nice IT management position for a few years.
What sort of company/employer in what general industry did you go on to?
throwaway19170 commented on Tech compensation in 2021 jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/... · Posted by u/mjgardner
> I don't know how to get into it. Help me out?
Go to levels.fyi and apply to those companies’ job listings.
I hadn't known about levels.fyi, thanks.
When I go there.... I see a lot of data points with ~10 years of experience paying ~$140K.
Which is more like I expected honestly -- it's just that OP was blowing my mind suggesting $175K-$225k and up... saying they are using levels.fyi as data too... or discussions here on this post with someone making $175K being considered very underpaid... every time I see salaries discussed on HN I end up confused.
throwaway19170 commented on Tech compensation in 2021 jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/... · Posted by u/mjgardner
I think there are many straightforward answers.
Try to get the $500k jobs. If that doesn't work and you don't want to grind LC for 6 months, go for $150-200k jobs like startups. If you are as good as you say you are, you could probably study/talk your way into a job or at least figure out what you need after applying to 100 startups.
Stupid question, but where do you find em to apply to? The $500K jobs or otherwise, the 100 startups.
throwaway19170 commented on Tech compensation in 2021 jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/... · Posted by u/mjgardner
Stupid question but have you actually ever tried? Your tech stack seems modern enough that I'd be surprised if you couldn't get some offers from startups. New grad level at a startup generally pays 90k+ in my market so you shouldn't have a problem at least matching your current comp but I think 150-200k is probably reasonable but you might need to work remote for a company in a major city.
Based on OP, 150-200K is actually really low, no?
When i read these things, I'm never sure if it's reality or what.
throwaway19170 commented on Tech compensation in 2021 jacobian.org/2021/oct/13/... · Posted by u/mjgardner
So there are all these people in these threads who are like "I only make $175K/200K/150K, I feel like I'm grossly underpaid when I read these things."
I got you all beat.
I have 15+ experience. I am a really good coder. I can be very not humble because this is a throwaway, but everyone who has ever worked with me or gone to school with me or worked on open source with me would agree, I am very good at designing and writing and maintaining software, including understanding what software should be written, let's just accept that for the sake of discussion.
I only make around $90K.
Now, I work in the non-profit/academic sector, and have my whole career. That's what I wanted to do, and I make more than most people in my social circles even at $90K, but the work is getting old, it's not actually that "meaningful" in the end, and especially when people keep saying that I could be making literally 4-5x what I'm making.
I also these days mostly only know ruby and Rails (but that's not un-marketable right? And I certainly can learn other things, I have before. And I know ruby really well).
People here are like "Sure, but don't you want good work/life balance, maybe $175K is just fine for that." Yes, and $175K would be a fortune to me!
I literally don't understand how I get into that market. Because I have worked in academic/non-profit industry my whole career. (which I don't know if that leaves me out now. And I'm in my mid-40s, does that doom me?). I know how to get more jobs in the industries I'm in at about what I'm already getting paid, and have several times...
But I don't understand even the first step to this world where $175K is considered low-paying. I believe I have the engineering skills of anyone at that level. I don't know how to get into it. Help me out?