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Yea people say don't sweat the comp difference but I'm pretty frugal, living with my parents and have a savings rate of ~75%. Thus I assume my rate would go down to 40%-60% but I'd still net more and have more $$ to invest.

Unfortunately my company doesn't have jobs in the places I want to go to. Well it does have a nice location in the Valley, and I've tried to work out there but then COVID happened; recently a team I wanted to go onto disbanded, another team got let go. I'm just not happy with the direction we're going in.

I guess I should define my career goals as well. Near term, I'd either want to work at a FAANG or a startup, but as I said before I have a wide range of interests. I could see myself working on robot architecture / integration, VR headsets and application, computer vision for flying cars. One thing I think about a lot is that if I choose one of these niches, is that hindering me from exploring the other ones a year or two after that? I've enjoyed my current role a lot in that I've been able to be a generalist and play around with a lot of different technologies, which I like. This makes it difficult to even start haha.

Long term is also difficult to say, as the tech scene is moving so quickly it's hard to visualize where I'd like to find myself. I'm also not part of any tech community or club that has a lot of visioneering people; I used to be future-focused and had a group of like-minded friends but they've all either left or COVID killed the interactions.