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Comment by dreamdu5t | Hacker News Reader

How long have you been doing this?

So far one week in Silicon Valley, but I honestly feel it's sustainable. Park your car and sleep in it wherever there are other cars (no one notices you), work in the Hacker Dojo, shower at the Gold's Gym down the street in Mountain View. Total burn rate per month? $200-ish. http://www.austenallred.com/voluntarily-homeless-in-silicon-...

keep that up for 5 years with a good engineer salary and you will be in really good shape!

The cat kittles speaks the truth. Minimum living and investing 50% of your income into a 401k for 5-7 years in your twenties. Invest the other 35% or so into diverse CDs with ranging lock periods (or flipping things on craigslist, both have a decent ROI). Five or so years of pain for a solid path afterwards.

That doesn't include the cost of wrecking your back from sleeping in the back of a honda civic.

With a decent air mattress you should be OK.

More back harm from failing to left. Squats and deads, my man.

I also highly recommend Wealthfront.com for super easy diversified investing. (Once you've maxed your HSA and IRA)

I'd recommend vanguard.com . From what I can tell, wealthfront is largely repurchasing vanguard funds and selling them downstream.

And then when you are older and your body less resilient and your obligations much higher, you cash in and do all the fun, adventurous stuff you missed out on in your 20s, right?

Concentrating on savings is betting against your own future earning potential. Generally this advice comes from people who always hate their jobs. Better advice: get a job you enjoy. You'll never work a day in your life

There's a Dojo nomad community, we hooked Kurt up with them when he arrived, you may want to find them. They're good folks and offer each other great tips.

But, for the love of christ, please don't sleep in the Dojo ever, it endangers our zoning. We've had enough trouble with that can of worms already, and I don't ever want to see the zoning board again except maybe at a nice party.

Awesome; I'd love to get hooked up with them. Also, I promise I will never sleep in the Dojo :)

  | please don't sleep in the Dojo ever, it
  | endangers our zoning

That seems odd. I've heard of people sleeping in the office before, does that endanger the zoning of that particular company, or does the Hacker Dojo have specific circumstances?

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