[silvercymbals]

thanks, this means a lot

I'm in my early 30s, but I generally find it really discouraging here when people on HN try to "be nice" by claiming $150k isn't effectively minimum wage even working at startups in the bay.

Fortunately I've had some success with consulting - the world just seems really bleak right now in terms of my employment prospects.

[platevoltage]

You're not wrong about the bleak part. My team at Akamai was routing for me, but at that time, they were worried about layoffs. Their stock dropped from 110 to around 75 dollars since then. Sucks for me, but it was a Cloud Support job. Very technical, but not really what I wanted to be doing long term. I figured it would be a good foot in the door at a good company.