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>It’s better to get paid $0 being in the right field for a bit than actually being paid in the wrong path.

I am going to make the guess that you either have a lot of money right now or have an amazing support system to help you because such options aren't available to everyone who is making sure their food budget is correct down to the penny.

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Your guess is wrong then. I’m more of a person that has been at the upside and downside of things. I know what it’s like to just need the paycheck. But I never looked at it like that, it was mostly a paycheck to create the opportunity via stability to evolve another path. In that case, holistically, that dead-end job had a purpose for creating financial groundwork (once upon a time for me it was literally to buy some server hosting or a domain name - yeah, that’s how broke).

Nah being broke isn't being able to afford a domain. It's eating fast food 3 days in a row because your paycheck isn't coming for another three days and the gas bill was $50 higher this month and your kid needed to see the dentist.

You not being able to pay for hosting is a bit difference in scope then not bring able to feed yourself the correct number of calories for multiple days at a time.

A VPS is $5 bucks. I described $5 like an investment. If $5 is as my investment into my future, what was the price of my food? Not exactly Doordash or Extra Value Meals at McDonald’s every night.

Inference.

> because such options aren't available to everyone

So ? If it’s aplicable to you take it if not seek better advice

I love the universal advice police - everything has to be available to everyone or else it’s useless

Serious question, why didn't you apply that reasoning to what you posted? A lot, probably the vast majority, of users on this site that actively post have had little if any direct experience with what it is like to actually be extremely poor in the United States.

I would urge you to reconsider the group you are talking to. Many many tech people come from immigrants families that were not born into any kind of wealth at all.

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