[mixmastamyk]

The job market is not great right now, but sounds like you could have moved up last year.

> Glad to work for WAY less

That might be the issue, that kind of work is worth more.

> instead of going to college

It's fine if you just want to have work. But won't cut it if you'd like a coveted job, as your resume is filed to /dev/null within minutes. Ask me how I know.

[darigo]

>The job market is not great right now, but sounds like you could have moved up last year.

What do you mean by moved up?

I have more work than I can even do - but I may have a different idea of what a coveted job is.

>That might be the issue, that kind of work is worth more.

ikr <3

[mixmastamyk]

Moved up to a higher position/salary/rate.

"More work than I can do" ---> raise your rates; econ 101.

I recommend the patio11 piece about charging more, should be easy to find at the search box at the bottom of the page.

But as mentioned, at times of slowdown expect a lower upside.

[darigo]

Oh yeah, I understand, last year I was indeed making boatloads of money.

Right now I'm focused on something other than making tons of money tbh. There's a job I covet, so I've been just focusing on maxxing relevant skills so I can join this elite club of extremely cool people working on this very cool thing.

But after that I'm gonna go back to money, for sure.

Btw I love your blog. That same essay "How to be a hacker" is the one I consulted as a teenager, which led me to switch from QBASIC (my first lang, on the recommendation of an IRC channel that was probably trolling me) to Python.