r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • Aug 13 '21

What do you do that you earn six figures?

It seems like a lot of people make a lot of money and it seems like I’m missing out on something. So those of you that do, whats your occupation that pays so well?

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u/FatFiredProgrammer Aug 13 '21

Software development. We're all software developers here. True story.

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u/codextreme07 Aug 13 '21

Infrastructure & Security portion of DevSecOps ultimately supporting Software Developers.

So yes we are all software developers.

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u/dicey Aug 13 '21

If I mostly write HCL and YAML is it really software development though?

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u/codextreme07 Aug 13 '21

As long as you are using dark mode, and it looks like hacking then yes.

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u/Flipnkraut Aug 13 '21

We hired a new developer a few years back. I’d stand up and see him in pycharm full screen, in light mode. Pretty sure he lied about being a developer on his resume.

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u/zeValkyrie Aug 13 '21

Close enough. It’s part of building modern software; who cares it it’s truly “development”

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u/TakeThreeFourFive Aug 13 '21

Sounds like you’re an infrastructure architect, which is software dev adjacent

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u/adiabatic Aug 13 '21

I know what YAML is, but what’s HCL? if I were to search for it on the internet I’d expect a bunch of pages about acid (not the fun kind).

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u/atomicjuicebox 20d ago

Hashicorp configuration language... generally speaking it just means Terraform, although Vault uses it as well

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u/RaptorF22 Aug 13 '21

Woah. I found another me out in the wild!

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u/NewfNerd Aug 13 '21

This is exactly what I do! 🤜🤛

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u/Joegeneric Aug 13 '21

Did this for a while. Now I do nothing.

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u/Lego_Professor Aug 13 '21

Infrastructure eng here. Can confirm. Most of my day is filled with python, yaml, and groovy. Locked into the same sprints as the devs we support.

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u/zSprawl Aug 13 '21

Heading to standup as we speak…

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u/zSprawl Aug 13 '21

Hehe same. Pivot to the cloud my operation friends. I realize it’s mostly buzzwords but adding “AWS” and “DevOps” were the two biggest recent bumps to my resume.

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u/codextreme07 Aug 13 '21

Same. I just got a dream offer. Silicon Valley pay but I can stay in my low cost of living Midwestern city. doubled my salary and I was already paid very well. I will have less headaches and responsibilities as well.

Only because I took the DevSecOps transition role because I knew a little AWS, and Ansible at my current company and updated my linkedin.

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u/BrokenKage Aug 13 '21

I’m wrapping up a DevOps internship this week and moving on to work part time through the school year. I am more of a back end dev by nature, but would you recommend this field?

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u/codextreme07 Aug 13 '21

So what's odd about DevOps isn't it really shouldn't even be a job. It's more a philosophy of breaking down silo's between developers and operations. For Infrastructure IT types this meant treating servers, networks, etc like a software engineering problem. For the Developers it meant owning the software all the way through deployment.

Now it means using automation, and pipelines do to everything above, and working in a cross functional team.

I absolutely love it, and would highly recommend it. It's nice seeing the big picture, and being empowered to make improvements that help everyone