[totalconstipat]

Three ways I know.

1. Grind leetcode and prep interviews and get into a large tech co as senior engineer. This is my path (need an uplevel now). Can be done outside the US.

2. Consult. This is my backup path. I get $100/h so I can bump up to 200k TC short term ... but more importantly connect and network to get higher rates.

3. Finally: finance/trading. You like C++ or OCaml?

Bonus option: indie hacker build the next levels.fyi

[paulcole]

Are you saying that you’re using consulting to supplement your main job so that your total yearly earnings are $200,000+? Or are you saying that when you consult for $100/hour you’re technically at 200k TC “short term” because if you did it full time then you’d make $200,000 a year?

[muffa]

Not OP, but if you charge $100 per hour: $100 * 40h/week * 52 weeks/year = $208k

[paulcole]

Yeah the math checks out lol.

My follow up point was going to be that to do that you're likely going to be either a) working more than 40 hours a week in order to book that much work or b) paying someone to do that work for you which would reduce your take-home as the business owner.

I don't know anybody who books 2000 hours of consulting work a year with just a tiny bit of overhead time.

[gaws]

> Consult

> I get $100/h

Doing what exactly?