[decafninja]

1. Maintain fitness better.

2. Do everything possible to get into FAANG or other top tier tech company. Made the ignorant mistake of thinking that working in the tech departments of Wall Street investment banks and hedge funds were the pinnacle of a SWE career (I'm not referring to places like Citadel/TwoSigma/JaneStreet/etc.etc.). Ignorance is bliss. Note that this was many, many years ago when a SWE career wasn't considered as hot as it is today; plus I was surrounded by Wall Street finance types in my social circle, as opposed to fellow SWEs/technologists.

3. Related to #2, but probably move out of NYC to the SFBA.

[fiftyacorn]

I think the banking salaries exceeded tech 20 years ago so banking was a good decision?