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/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