I've been rejected at Google and Facebook and most of HN doesn't think my total compensation is all that impressive, so, I probably don't have many options to be real with you.
Money is a tool. Once basic material needs are met, tying personal self-worth to a numeric value is not a recipe for happiness, and chasing other people's expectations of what you should be earning is even worse.
I would say you probably do have options, if you choose to go for them.
And certainly not a recipe for morality
Just because someone is willing to pay for it, doesn’t mean it’s good for society or the world.
Some people will pay for all kinds of things that are extremely harmful. Your comment seems rather disingenuous. Why are you trying to twist my words to reflect badly on me? Guilt about the products you buy? (See what I did there? Same thing you were doing :D)
I am not ignorant. Of course i see, that with my buying decisions, i kind of maintain all these side effects, that come from working off this planet. I want the best product that can be created with as little resources as possible. That would be of big value for me.
But who am i to judge someone else's decision to buy something, that they value. I might not like it. It might not a good decision in the long term. I would prefer that certain decisions were not made. Personally i can only try to make things better. I will not become a dealer, who has to provide a good product to my clients.
In any way, i was just curious. No bad intentions.
(and to the other commenter, i dont know what to answer.)
Cheers!
My apologies, then!
have you looked at how most of the smartphones, clothes or even food are made ?
I can't even say if your comment is supposed to be satire
Opioid manufacturers bribing doctors to prescribe more opioids so people get addicted and will buy more opioids.
To see my point all you need to do is imagine either a bad person or an ignorant person having money. If you think either of those situations is plausible, then you can surely imagine such a person paying for something which has a bad effect on the world. For most ideas of morality, doing things which can reasonably be expected to have bad effects on the world is considered immoral (this is very loosely stated, but hopefully you can see my point).
Hi,
I don't want to dunk on you, but I would truly encourage you to gain some perspective on just how myopic a view this is.
(I couldn't reply to your comment below where you said this)
There's any number of reasons why that number might not be myopic.
I enjoy what I work on..I just wish I was treated more like all of my friends and former coworkers.
Hell, you don’t even need to be rich to go to nice places. My uncle is a great example of someone who optimises for happiness: he earns very little but does a job he loves, he brutally cuts out expenses from his life for things he doesn’t care about and loves quite cheap, but instead he spends the money he does have to go on an island holiday once a year and to visit his family (especially his grandchildren) multiple times a year. It’s all about perspective on what’s important to you. Money shouldn’t be it outside of enabling you. (Obviously you need enough to pay your bills, take care of your health etc)
You're not myopic but you just follow a niche group of people.
> I've been rejected at Google and Facebook
These two statements are not contradicting each other...
I had a co-op who used to be chill, laid back, and wasn't strong from engineering perspective (a wee bit lack of passion too). All he did was leetcode and he got MSFT -> Google.
Bit scary to know that yet say it. There's many ways to scale the same mountain, perhaps going the packed out tourist route isn't the best for most? Might take a bit longer.
build a startup and pray to get acquired
join a startup and pray to get acquired (there's still a post acquisition interview though)
contribute to OSS and pray G/F noticed and maybe ask to hire you (still have to go through some interview)
This ain't the old Silicon Valley anymore. Majority of the companies in SF applies Leetcode as filters.