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/jetf [30% to 5MM] 30yo Aug 13 '21

some of us are product managers, ok

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u/pn_dubya Aug 13 '21

Hey PM don’t you have 200 emails to answer? Get off Reddit sheesh

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u/jetf [30% to 5MM] 30yo Aug 13 '21

While you were pair programming, I was mastering the art of touching base. While you were designing an api, I was knee deep in user feedback. We are not the same

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u/b1ack1323 Aug 13 '21

My PM is a little YouTube watching procrastinator who asks for help in Visual Studio every 2 days because he demand he must be able to compile code all the time. On top of that when the build break on Jenkins he immediately downloads the code and proceeds to ask why it doesn’t build on his machine sending screenshots of the build errors that were previous reported on Jenkins.

He has a psychology degree and no development experience. Biggest PITA.

Don’t be like him.

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u/danielleiellle Aug 13 '21

wtf

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u/b1ack1323 Aug 13 '21

He’s the only thing that sucks about this company

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u/jelly-sandwich Aug 13 '21

What a nightmare of a guy

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u/ninja4151 Aug 13 '21

Jesus man how did he get hired? I just broke into product management after years of trying and years of experience as a developer. No one would give me the time of day. I had to spend time in a quasi sales client-facing role before people started to look at me for a pm. I was even a lawyer before this so I thought they give me credit on the client facing already you know? That's insane

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u/b1ack1323 Aug 13 '21

He was tester and hardware assembler and no one else wanted the job…

He works with customers all day.

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u/FatFiredProgrammer Aug 13 '21

Pair programming is evil. My $.02