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I'm mostly curious because I work in a storage-adjacent field (NAS) for a BigCorp and the pay is pretty good, if not quite FAANG level. It's not a startup by any means, but I will easily become a multi-millionaire in a handful of years. I was curious about the other side of the fence.

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Huh? If you're going to "easily become a multi-millionaire in a handful of years", then your pay is more than pretty good, and certainly not worse than FAANG level.

Maybe his hands are larger than ours ;)

Only the ten digits ;-)

Even at that pedestrian level, if you pack them tightly enough I could imagine fitting a few billion years at least into the volume of an average-sized handful!

Sorry, handful of years from today. I've been working for 7 years now. FAANG comp would probably be 20%-25% higher; I'm mostly good at keeping my expenses down and saving a high proportion of my income. I've also had the good fortune of the bull market working in my favor for the entire time I've been employed.

What is a handful of years? That sounds like FAANG pay to me.

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