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Most tech jobs outside the FAANGS and the startup bubble are 9-5, e.g. working as a developer for a regional bank or a local hospital. You don't get the enormous salaries, but it's a nice life overall. And re: where to live, generally anywhere outside the trendy metros. There are tons of boring jobs in boring suburbs that allow you to live your life.

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You can have an interesting, well paid job and a life outside of it. This is a false dichotomy, don't spread it.

Good point, I can see how I may have implied that it was an either/or. I wasn't arguing that that was the only path. Just one that's there if you want it.

And you can make $300k TC in a FAANG and work 35-40 hours a week. Plenty of people do it - the minority, sure, but only because FAANG jobs by definition are the minority. Google and Microsoft in particular are notorious for decent WLB, and MS's comp has come way up in the last few years to be nearly the same level as similar tech companies.

> developer for a regional bank or a local hospital.

funny enough you somewhat hit the nail on the head of the majority of my career so far. work life balance varies though. definitely not as bad as amazon or netflix, but not as chill as making crud apps all day (if those jobs even still exist, please let me know where)

There are tons of interesting jobs in varied locales as well. It’s not an either/or.

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