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BarbarianElephant posted:You can certainly start a business in your 20's and 30's. It's probably easier for some fields as you can eat ramen and work 18 hour days much easier when you are young, plus you probably don't have kids in your 20's which makes taking risks easier. Waiting until your 40's to start being an entrepreneur is probably starting a bit late. Better to lose your life savings of $1,000 failing at 23 than your home, wife, and kids failing at 45. Unless you can convince someone to invest in you, it takes substantial savings to start a business - you won't be cash flow positive for a while. And believe it or not, there is value in experience. Popular notions aside, most people starting businesses, even tech startups, are in their 40s or older.
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LogisticEarth posted:To be fair though, having and raising children is an end goal in life that is way, way more important for most people than dog ownership or hobbies. It's not really comparable. Just a question of priorities.
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LogisticEarth posted:Not really, unless you put the goal of "owning a dog" on the same level of complexity and life importance as something like home ownership, early retirement, long term career goals, etc. Dog ownership and starting a family are apples and oranges. A more appropriate comparison would be, like, opening a dog rescue operation or something. Just different definitions of important that's causing us to talk past each other, I think. Sure, deciding to rear children is going to be more impactful on your life and should get more thought and planning than buying an animal. But whether having a kid or a pet in your household is more important to you personally is entirely a matter of priorities. And some people may find other things more important than either one, and choose to do neither.
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There are software engineers (aside from H1Bs) getting paid less than six figures?  fake edit: Google sez $100k is almost exactly the median salary, so yeah, I guess about half of them are. But that group has to be overrepresented by aforementioned H1Bs and kids right out of college. It's an arbitrary line, but shouldn't be a tough barrier to crack with a few years experience.
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