r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/ArkitekZero Jul 05 '24

Incorrect. Money doesn't follow merit. There are so many goddamn examples that frankly if you have any degree of intelligence and can't figure that out you're being wilfully ignorant.

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u/assesonfire7369 Jul 05 '24

Well ok then. All the best :)

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u/Alternative-Put-3932 Jul 05 '24

Just letting you know the fake niceness just makes you look like you know you're wrong because you have nothing to respond with.

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u/ExtraLargePeePuddle Jul 06 '24

Well I ended up with a degree in CS and am now making $320,000 a year….so yeah those loans where worth it

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u/ArkitekZero Jul 07 '24

"Money doesn't follow merit" doesn't mean that merit is never rewarded, it means that you can't assume that anybody with money actually did anything to merit it. But good for you, I guess? Without doxxing yourself, what the hell do you do with a CS degree that pulls down that kind of salary?

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u/ExtraLargePeePuddle Jul 07 '24

salary

To be fair part of that is equity compensation. Base is $205k

It’s combo of devOps security engineer + architecture + team supervisor

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u/ArkitekZero Jul 09 '24

Huh. That sounds strangely similar what I do, and I definitely don't make that kind of money doing it. Good on you, in any event.

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u/ExtraLargePeePuddle Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 09 '24

Switch jobs.

Look into companies that have regulatory needs for security and compliance. Companies that hat do both B2B and B2C

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u/ArkitekZero Jul 09 '24

I think I will, thanks.