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I'm a software engineer with two years of experience. I have three certs in my possession, CompTIA Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, and AZ-900. I recently jumped jobs to a new company that is paying me significantly more. This happened way faster than I expected, and while I was prepping for...

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Wow, you’re living every tech person’s dream. Fully remote, a $170K total compensation, and a chill job? It sounds like you’ve already made it tbh

Absolutely. If you’re going to be a man who uses money to attract/seduce, then ideally you should use cash or pay off your credit cards at the end of every cycle. That’s the main point I want to make, so the companies don’t make a killing in interest lol.

This is very true. I just wanted to interject the point that in my opinion, trying to do this using only credit is destined to fail long-term. I will bash them at any chance I get lol. I think the credit card companies know this and prey on it with their marketing.

I finally found the quote I was looking for when I was rereading the Millionaire Fastlane. While imo the author pushes too hard as building a business being the only solution(I don’t think it is because the majority of businesses fail) he makes some very good points. Here is a quote about debt...

What do you drive if you don’t mind me asking? She definitely sounds materialistic.

@BackInTheGame78 what was that really old programming language you mentioned? COBOL, iirc? I actually saw a few jobs requesting that when I was applying. They paid pretty well. I may have to learn that and get that on my resume one of these days lol.

Future Career Goals Since I’m officially onboarded at my new job, I wanted to post a list of my goals for my career going forward. Was thinking about this, and I wanted to get it on paper. Get a raise at the new six figure job. The recruiter hinted very strongly over the phone that there were...

I actually decided against this. Makes things too messy. I am officially onboarded now, and I am off boarding at my old company.

Really, I just need to ensure money is coming in consistently with no gaps. My two weeks will be in before my end of year review, thank goodness. I can absolutely overlap jobs for a bit. I can pull that off due to my remote status. But I couldn’t do that long term because of secret clearance...

I just realized, I forgot to ask a really important question. When should I submit my two weeks for my previous job, to keep myself the most protected? I need to get my last paycheck from my previous employer so I don’t blow my budget. Also, something is telling me that I shouldn’t quit the...

Can definitely agree on that meeting women dead zone. I’ve been out before during Christmas and it’s been completely dead. And yes, I’m very grateful. I got quite lucky!

Thanks brotha. Although it doesn’t really matter anymore with this specific job lol, I’ll still ask him and report back.

4 Hour Workweek is definitely on my to-read list. It says in the company contract that I must notify the company any time I leave the United States, for business or personal reasons, I MUST notify the company. That being said, I would be down to travel more overseas once I am able to...

Thanks man! I appreciate you putting me on game lol. And definitely, for pointing you in the right direction, or even writing READMEs, it’s just fantastic. I don’t think I’ll be writing a README or a cover letter ever again lol.

Thanks man. It is very lucky that I was able to secure this over the holidays. I’ve heard that the best time to look for a new job is typically in January. Would that be true? My dream salary would be anything $200K and above. But, we have plenty of time to achieve that. As for the bigger...

Thank you fam! I’m really excited for the opportunity!

I’d say the next steps are to complete the onboarding, complete my AWS Solutions Architect Associate to get it out of the way, and I’m going to take some courses on Angular, GraphQL, and TypeScript before I start this job. That will really let me hit the ground running.

Big Update: I Landed a New Tech Job After I got that stern talking-to at my current job, I took @SW15 ’s advice, and started working on my resume plus applying to other jobs. I sent out 70 applications, which got me a couple of interviews. One of the jobs offered me a position as a mid-level...