| Yes, and I did just that. I had my first house built in metro Atlanta making $70K in 2002, it was $170K and my second house built in the north metro area in the “good school system” - 3200 square feet - in 2016 for $335K. I was making $115K when I qualified for it. I bought my 3rd place - a condo in a resort area in Florida 2 years ago and this is the life we live now - thanks to being able to sell our house that doubled in value in six years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36306966 Good luck with doing any of that now. But unless you’re working for a non profit, you’re working for a company whose only motivation is profit. Why wouldn’t you work for BigTech and exchange as much money for your labor as possible? Especially when you’re young and you have the time value of money working for you? Right now, I’m only making about $30K more than an entry level dev at BigTech makes and I’m 50. But I don’t have kids to put through college or ever have to think about kids or starting a family (we are empty nesters), my own student loans, trying to buy a home in today’s real estate market etc. But I also wasn’t able to max out my 401K plan and HSA at 22 years old like a 22 year old that I mentored when they were an intern when they came back the next year. |