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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > I want all the money
 
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Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.
Pour yourself into programming and you could probably do it, assuming you have the knack for that kind of thinking. How nerdy are you, OP?

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Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

rakovsky maybe posted:

Yeah I've considered this option as well. What's the best approach: going back to school for it, taking one of those coding boot camps, or just self-teaching?
There is no 'best' approach. Any of those could potentially work. Going back to school involves the least risk at failing to learn but the most time and money (and if you do end up sucking at it or hating it then that time and money was wasted). Self-teaching takes relatively little time and money but there's a high risk that you'll suck at it without any structure or support. Boot camps are somewhere in between those two.

* # ¿ May 1, 2015 16:34
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Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

adorai posted:

The median (and the average, for that matter) salary for the highest paid profession in america is under $200k. So good luck. If you have the chops to be an executive, you might hit the $200k mark, but probably not even then.
Hitting 200k isn't that hard. Senior engineers and even mid-levels at many companies in the bay area do it (assuming you include RSUs and bonuses).

* # ¿ May 2, 2015 03:44
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Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

adorai posted:

So in the highest or second highest cost of living area in America you can easily exceed the median salary. So all he has to do is moved to new York or San Francisco.
Shockingly, high-income jobs tend to be clustered around high cost-of-living areas. It's almost like there's some connection there.

If you want to make big bucks, you have to be intentional with what field you go into, and also what geographical area you work in.

* # ¿ May 2, 2015 04:43
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Cicero
Dec 17, 2003

Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.
Already told you one way. According to glassdoor, senior engineers at Google make around 250k between salary, stock, and bonus; they're above average in pay but by no means alone in these expensive areas. A particularly skilled and ambitious new grad starting at Google could probably hit that after 4 or 5 years of experience (6 - 8 would be a more common timeframe).

Anyway, is that actually possible for you? Who knows. Right now software development is a hot job market and there aren't many real structural barriers. It really would come down to your own aptitude and drive. If you're serious, start reading the newbie jobs thread in CoC, hacker news, and /r/cscareerquestions.

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