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> When I left my job as an engineering manager at Uber in late 2020, I had nothing lined up on purpose, and decided to spend the coming 6 months writing a book, and then found a startup related to platform engineering

All these feel-good stories should start with "this is how I managed to save enough money to not worry about anything for at least 6 months"

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Author of the article here and just came across this comment. Here's how I did it. By working at Uber in Amsterdam for 4 years where I made more than twice as much as a senior engineer as I did before when I was at Skyscanner, in London where I was a principal engineer.

Saved the difference and I had about 3-4 years of savings. Decided to "risk" 6 months of it and dip into it.

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1552615944446525442

I'm guessing "the rest of my life" is more accurate given the stock chart

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