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@Lionga how do you make $300k easy? Genuinely curious, not throwing shade. Even when I was managing a 20 person engineering team for a fast growing USA based startup I wasn't even seeing that much in salary + bonus. It was pre-IPO so the stock was illiquid. I was also interviewing 3-5 people a week and putting in employment offers every month and the market salaries (at the time, this was about two years ago) for senior react developers and even and experienced DevOps person never hit $200k.

I spent a year trying to do freelance (10ish years of experience and some major brands like NFL and Microsoft) and couldn't land anything close to that either, so I ended up getting a normal job.

I'm currently doing something similar to what you're doing (I live in Taiwan and work for a California company.) Where are you living where you have a 10% tax rate? Even Signapore's income tax isn't that low. I'm assuming when you say "take home 270k after taxes" you mean personal income taxes?

My suggestion of leetcode grinding was a bit tongue in cheek but I still think it's the least risky, most control-able way to reach that goal in three years.

Like I said though, I'm genuinely curious. I'm always down to learn about ways to make more money for less work :D