You know that it's pretty easy for senior engineers take make >$500k at FAANG atm, right?
Can you share some things in the past that were easy money that netted you $1.5M in a year? I'm genuinely curious.
I used to have a ton of ideas that I thought if I did everything right I could've maybe made $300-600k. But then you can just get that as a paycheck at FAANG.
None of my ideas ever were easy and could realistically generate more than that. Plus there was always a risk they would generate $0.
Yes, I am talking about $500k annual vs making at least $1.5 million in a couple of months and doing something else
Hm, worst case, people on HN debate an irrelevant understanding of what I say is possible
Best case, they copy it en masse and dilute the opportunities faster
No thanks
I would take $500k doing the same stuff for a tech employer but nobody is offering that right now. Some contracting firms do, kind of, don’t really want hourly though and also want the benefits. I want to focus on someone else's visions, get paid on days off, no risk. Also want a ton of equity I wouldn’t go and purchase myself. Or private equity that I wouldn't have the opportunity of purchasing in addition to an attractive cash compensation. (These are all things I could do in just frontend/fullstack work.)
Some smaller companies are going above the 125-150k range, to double that. But not quite and they’re still few and far between.
> You can launch DAOs that automate anything these days and take a small percentage from the users of it. Just automate any small aspect of what people do and auto-liquidate proceeds for USD* so that you aren't accidentally speculating on anything, your users can pay for the liquidation too.
> *Your oracle server/cron job can incorporate a broker's API to get actual USD, your DAO can only get surrogates such as USDC which is redeemable 1:1 for USD at certain brokerages.
> It's a boom town. Anybody can make 3x more than what a FAANG would pay annually, and that's being generous.
One of many things you can do, Just didn’t want to people working on ads for a living to derail a conversation because they think crypto anything is a waste of time and mindshare
which obviously applies more to the person asking about what I've done because their ideas and execution made them nothing. good luck ya'll.
this is a thread about the conundrum of leveraging this experience without losing freedom or opportunity costs, not about being miffed that someone won't share how to make money, its like you all want to be scammed into purchasing an some youtuber's outdated amazon dropshipping masterclass.
Can you share some things in the past that were easy money that netted you $1.5M in a year? I'm genuinely curious.
I used to have a ton of ideas that I thought if I did everything right I could've maybe made $300-600k. But then you can just get that as a paycheck at FAANG.
None of my ideas ever were easy and could realistically generate more than that. Plus there was always a risk they would generate $0.