Probably of the Mr. Money Moustache flavour, r/financialindependence. Basically say 750k in index funds so that even a 3% return would net you enough to cover your basic expenses, perpetually.
High frequency trading. Built enough of a nest egg (probably < 5MM) at age of 30 and will go off to pursue his own goals. Before you think that "talent was wasted on a zero-sum game", keep in mind that the rest of my peers in the same age group are likely to be working even more inconsequential desk jobs while paying off mortgages for the rest of their lives.
My money is on DBeaver (free). The killer feature is that you can have all the queries you're doing laid out on the same place and execute the one you want as pleased, and also selecting rows of results and generating an `INSERT` statement off them.
How did you end up getting properly diagnosed for Bipolar disorder? I'm currently taking antidepressants after battling SOME kind of mental illness for most of my adult life. I'm really inside my head, and often have very existential, self-doubting moods, to the point where I have burned a lot of bridges (jobs, friends, relationships) with antisocial behaviour (that I would never logically think is the right thing to do), but in the right mood, having also tried MDMA, I act completely normal, can hold conversations, etc. (but that's once in a blue moon normally).
Same here. At some point I was disillusioned with the idea of working in a corporate because I thought I was just "selling my soul out for golden handcuffs" (doesn't help to watch some Mr. Robot, Fight Club, etc.), but in reality I was just a junior dev who didn't fit much into social hierarchies. I tossed away a good 2.5 years at two startup jobs, one that I co-founded and died slowly (even though I had already read Lean Startup et al...), before slowly realizing I just wasn't making any meaningful amount of money nor progressing in my career because I didn't have a senior/mentor/best practices guiding me. Now I'm back at the cubicle but realizing there was so much I missed out on that wasn't obvious to my younger naive self before.
Excellent comment. I have been struggling with some form of pseudo-depression (never got diagnosed) due to some odd mixture of social anxiety, too much narcissism, lack of motivation, poor biochemistry (probably porn addiction and too much "releasing"), malfunctioning relationships with parents/friends/coworkers. Its hard to actually wake up on any particular day and feel that "things are fine", so all my mind's resources are spent justifying how I might or might not be fine, reading too much internets about alleviating problems for which I might not even have, etc.
I also wonder how much of depression is attributed by improper biochemistry in the brain, low serotonin etc. even though your environment/situation is actually fine.
Could you explain what you mean, particularly the last part? So you're saying having that independent high paying job, in your experience, really helped things? For me, that's almost my only "hope" of a better future - I'm involuntarily living with my parents due to renting in my city not making financial sense, and I think that causes me a bit of depression because I feel totally out of control of my situation (I feel monitored and treated like a idiotic teenager still, despite turning 29 this year) UNLESS I move to work in the States (paid more, have excuse to rent my own place). If it sounds entitled that I am complaining about free rent, it probably is, but from my point of view I've barely grown up as an adult because the environment at home has never changed.
Your skills section says you know everything, but your resume basically contradicts / trolls itself. Get rid of these red flags first. Work experience should be at the top. Heck, I'm sure you've done some software development work even as a solopreneur; others here have made similar points. Job hunting is essentially marketing yourself (in this case your relevant skills and experience) for a specific audience (engineering manager that wants to see what things you've built, HR that wants to look for tech buzzwords).
+1 for DBeaver, tried most of the alternative clients already, love how you can easily copy and paste a generated INSERT statement based on a selected row, makes easy for "debug cycles".
I'm relatively new to the workforce so take this with a grain of salt, but I think this is a false dichotomy. People who are less agreeable, more assertive will make more money because they negotiate more on their own behalf. The poster child for these people, especially from the dev's point of view, is that of a brogrammer/scumbag/dick stereotype, and by definition they make more noise than the kind and also competent engineer.
You could also say that humankind is still stuck in an evolutionary stage where in most places, being dominant is the best signal of "value". In a Tim Ferriss podcast, Ray Dalio actually mentions that disagreements at Bridgewater can take on different forms, because some people are less suitable for verbal, thinking-on-their-feet sort of debates, and might be better suited for long form (like Hacker News threads) debates.
I was surprised to read this post because it echoes my sentiments down to the T. Another one is when I learn or read anything, I almost reflexively think about how I might dispense that information in front of an audience (friends, a crowd) and "sound smart". That impending validation feels good. The only saddening conclusions I've come to are that "all I want is attention" and "I'm narcissistic".
This feeling of behindness for me comes in the form of thinking that I have squandered my potential compared to someone my age who didn't mess up. I should have graduated in 2011, and could've been saving up significantly as a senior/staff/etc engineer at a BigCorp in Seattle/SF making a nice low 6 figure comp and be on my way to buying property with my SO. But instead I graduated 3 years late, worked at a string of failed startups and only began my career now making 50k USD in Canada. Yes, maybe those experiences met something, but I felt that I've been too much of a drifter, and am paying for that lack of focus and career climbing now.
Relevant.
Watch Jordan Peterson's talk on "The Necessity of Virtue", goes deep into psychology, philosophy, history, to deliver the point that: life is suffering, not in a pessimistic way, but by recognizing your "being" has limitations. This gives meaning to this adversity, because its far too easy to sink into a state of resentment and "why me". I'm currently dealing with adversity in terms of losing a job right now and this really shone a light forward for me, resonating much deeper than any self-help material I've come across.
Currently attempting to do this. Marketing and getting to those first few customers is the hardest part, even though I already built a functional full stack web application.