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by solardev 814 days ago
Lol, I hope I get to feel that way in hindsight! Right now it's just the struggle and the grind... math feels like a bad Asian MMO where you just run around crunching numbers to make other numbers go up slowly. And if you die/miss an assignment, you have to go back a few levels and do it all over again. Sigh.

> that 6-figure salary and maybe not feel too bad about calling our self’s engineers

Hah! I've only ever briefly made a 6-figure salary, and I quit that job because of its bureaucracy. I'm just some rando dev and I would NEVER call myself an engineer (even though my job title sometimes says that). It's an insult to all the REAL ones who actually survived the math, lol.

(Frontend) web dev has always been more similar to me to graphic design than anything I would call "engineering": It's pretty-looking shiny stuff backed by spaghetti code, not anything I'd ever trust to life-and-death scenarios like dams or bridges.

Anyway, that's not the point :)

> well hell go for it my friend!!!

Hah. This is the upside of a minimal DINK life. We don't have much money (at all), but we have fun!