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Three ways I know.

1. Grind leetcode and prep interviews and get into a large tech co as senior engineer. This is my path (need an uplevel now). Can be done outside the US.

2. Consult. This is my backup path. I get $100/h so I can bump up to 200k TC short term ... but more importantly connect and network to get higher rates.

3. Finally: finance/trading. You like C++ or OCaml?

Bonus option: indie hacker build the next levels.fyi

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Are you saying that you’re using consulting to supplement your main job so that your total yearly earnings are $200,000+? Or are you saying that when you consult for $100/hour you’re technically at 200k TC “short term” because if you did it full time then you’d make $200,000 a year?

Not OP, but if you charge $100 per hour: $100 * 40h/week * 52 weeks/year = $208k

Yeah the math checks out lol.

My follow up point was going to be that to do that you're likely going to be either a) working more than 40 hours a week in order to book that much work or b) paying someone to do that work for you which would reduce your take-home as the business owner.

I don't know anybody who books 2000 hours of consulting work a year with just a tiny bit of overhead time.

> Consult

> I get $100/h

Doing what exactly?

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