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1/ Regarding these tech salary posts that are promoting swift judgements of “underpaid”/“overpaid”: Choosing what you do for most of your waking hours of your adult life is a maddeningly complex decision. One that, sure, you can optimize around a dollar amount.
2/ I was pulling about 92K + 5k bonus at my own software engineer job in San Diego before I went 8 hours/week to pursue deep learning 2 years ago. Yes, I’ve been told I was underpaid by well meaning friends. But I also had a 12 minute commute, lived in a beautiful beach town,
3/ worked an actual relatively sane 40 hours a week with my wife who carpooled with me, and enjoyed a 5 week vacation policy. People in San Diego to me are on the whole quite exceptionally happy, fun, balanced and relaxed. And I’ve yet to be anywhere else that has
4/ enticed me to leave. Oh and the beer scene is so great. Scuba diving at night with the countless curious octopuses at La Jolla shores never gets old. Oh and my wife also loves all these things, so if I ever lose my mind and decide to want to go for a job in Silicon Valley,
5/ she reels me back in. And I’m so glad she does. I value her and our relationship more than any $$$ and prestige that could be found elsewhere. So I guess my point is: Let’s be a little more nuanced about these highly complex and anxiety inducing subjects!
And I'm just here in Europe wondering how you guys in the US seem to find that 92k is underpaid. I think there's so much more complexity to this, economies are vastly different in different areas / contexts. 2 people doing the same job also do not create the same value.
Exactly!!
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