I'll be turning 38 next month and the wife and I have a 4 month old baby boy.
For probably the past 8 years, I've been a "wantrapreneur" focusing on "being prepared" rather than actually doing.
I started off out of college with over $20k in debt and a liberal arts degree that couldn't even help me land a temp job. I graduated right before I turned 25, and without much prospects, moved back in with my mom. Through some family connections, I landed a data entry job that turned into a pretty well paying slowlane doing financial analysis.
I picked up programming along the way (Excel/VBA is like the gateway drug of programming, it seems). Switched to software as a career.
In between, I've taken stints on the sidewalk (2 years living in Taiwan, learning Chinese, then learning JavaScript) funded by my slowlane.
I just recently left my last slowlane position of Software Engineer at a startup in SF.
I'm much more cognizant of the fact that I prefer freedom of time over the apparent safety of a slowlane job. I have a bit of a runway saved up (all earmarked for living expenses for my family and myself).
I'll never return to salaried employment (out of need for money) ever again.
For probably the past 8 years, I've been a "wantrapreneur" focusing on "being prepared" rather than actually doing.
I started off out of college with over $20k in debt and a liberal arts degree that couldn't even help me land a temp job. I graduated right before I turned 25, and without much prospects, moved back in with my mom. Through some family connections, I landed a data entry job that turned into a pretty well paying slowlane doing financial analysis.
I picked up programming along the way (Excel/VBA is like the gateway drug of programming, it seems). Switched to software as a career.
In between, I've taken stints on the sidewalk (2 years living in Taiwan, learning Chinese, then learning JavaScript) funded by my slowlane.
I just recently left my last slowlane position of Software Engineer at a startup in SF.
I'm much more cognizant of the fact that I prefer freedom of time over the apparent safety of a slowlane job. I have a bit of a runway saved up (all earmarked for living expenses for my family and myself).
I'll never return to salaried employment (out of need for money) ever again.
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