Re: How much is enough for you to coast and not worry about job
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2025 11:41 pm
Everyone is threatened at least in US. I joined a company where people in 50s were working there for decade+. Even these people started getting laid off and forced retired in last 2 years. And reason given is AI. I feel this is the last hurrah for me. Got to scramble to 3M to give myself options. Picking up side hustles now that I have a gc to accelerate the process.wd40 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:46 amI am surprised you feel the constant threat of layoff and AI, given that you have been always upskilling/leetcoding etc.r2somewhere wrote: ↑Wed Dec 11, 2024 3:53 pm $3M for us. We are at about $2M and probably would be coasting already if it were not for the constant layoff threat and AI threat to career. We want to hustle to $3M and then coast.
People define coast differently. For us, it means not constantly interviewing and only focusing on job. And the kind of job too. Had enough of startups and FTE with perf reviews and that nonsense. Coasting will mean only contract jobs.
I have been totally opposite, the last time I learnt something was SQL some 18 years ago and now it has been ages since I did any coding.
Yet, I have survived in banking, with just 4 jobs in the last 16 years. Current job is 9 years already and all I do is restart the server, when someone complains of performance issue, lol.