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/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