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People like easy money. Anyone with ambition, opportunity, talent and foresight would likely have left We after a month and never looked back.

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Or they used their cushy job, high salary, and low expected work output as a nice way to fund and work their side projects. If you leave work energized from not doing much, you have plenty of energy to burn off building something.

I know plenty of ambitious and talented developers who work at menial jobs to cash a paycheck and pay for their side projects.

Huh? What do your acquaintances do then for 8 hours, sleep?

Get to work at 9-10am. Work slowly doing trivial things. Eat long lunches. Go to the gym. Leave by 5pm. Get home by 6pm, and have the energy to get back on the computer.

Where as I have absolutely no desire to look at a computer when I GET to work, let alone after work.

Sounds like a FAANG.

This is exactly my position. I have job where I can get most of my daily work done in 2 hours. I spend the rest of my time on my side projects.

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