He said FAANG would easily increase his salary 2-3x, which probably is the case if he is making sub $150k. He never said getting into FAANG would be easy.
If you have a team of 6 and everyone leaves every 12 months, it doesn't matter what candidate you bring on, job hopper or not, your organization is the one at fault.
Sometimes there are no more life hacks to try and you might just have to accept that you work best in the afternoons/evenings as opposed to the mornings.
Perhaps optimizing for this is better than changing your habits and working against your natural tendency?
Yes, but the optimistic mindset would probably have a better outcome than the latter regardless if they failed to meet their original expectations or not.
That's what an optimistic person would say. A pessimistic person might believe they have a better outcome because of hedging against the pessimistic possibilities.
It seems we should need objective data to filter through the bias.
There's research supporting the optimist strategy but I'll be lame in that I can't link you to it without searching for it longer than I can dedicate time for. I think Codex Alpha talked about it fwiw. Personally, I'm in the "shoot for the stars, hope for the moon" camp. Pragmatic optimism or realistic optimism? Some such.
> I learnt that even an average engineer with a five-figure salary can become a millionaire by her late 30s, through financial discipline and investment planning.
I can collect enough pennies to have a million dollars too. What do you trade for that and how likely is it that you will have the resources to live it out? His living expenses are put at 0 with a network of whatever his salary was. No rent, no car, default employer health insurance, 600/mo to eat ramen and cover utils, no kids, etc.
> There's research supporting the optimist strategy
The statistical evidence supports the pessimist strategy. In theory, theory and practice they are the same...
These blogposts feel like clickbait to troll. It inevitably leads to people arguing past each other with the predictable outcome of neither being wholly right, but the optimists blowing sunshine like it's a useful fairy dust and the premise remains laughably unrealistic, regardless. I know plenty of dirt poor optimists.
"It's simply not possible for an average person like me to make that kind of money."
Putting these sort of limitations on yourself, from my experience, will dampen the effort that you put in to achieve new levels, if you even try at all. That reduced effort will result in exactly what you predicted for yourself.
So, begs the question, what sort of effort have you put in to increase your pay past the median dev salary.
Masters, extra hours, working above my level, taking on extra responsibility, volunteering for initiatives at work, working on personal projects in my own time, multiple certs, business acumen certs, etc.
The number of opportunities to make significantly more money are exceedingly rare. Especially with family constraints like not being allowed to move or no longer able to work extensive unplanned extra hours due to childcare responsibilities.
I interview well. I'm slow at the code screen since I don't get to specialize in any language/stack (working 8 or so apps in multiple languages/stacks). It seems they just pick random languages too.. like my last code screen was in JS, which I haven't used in 5 years (other than to brush up 2 days before the interview). My soft skills are generally good.
There aren't a lot of opportunities in my area (Philly region). Even many remote jobs are not worth applying to (only going to switch if it pays at least $100k).
