>>7587334>What do you do for a living?Support Engineer at a financially focused cybersecurity SaaS startup.
>How much do you make? And what's your quality of life$50K/year. I started this job 2 weeks ago and it's the best I've ever made by far. Before this I worked at a fucking Arby's, and went through periods of quasihomelessness and chronic unemployment and underemployment without a solid network or a degree. I got lucky where I am, it took me a few years of applying to places in all sorts of different programming and security roles to land this one. In fact, last year I took a gamble on an old friend, left almost everything I had behind and moved to a new state for a job he lied to me about. I lost everything and came back to my home state on a greyhound in January, with only 3 bags of stuff left to my name, and a couch to crash on. I am at most 3 months away from moving into my own apartment, in my hometown which is a few hours out from where I am now, for the first time in my adult life (I am 29). QoL has been negative for a bit lately, but it's rapidly improving.
>Are you happy?Yeah, I'd say so. You have to learn to be in high vibration even when life is shit, if you want to change anything. Do good and be good, for good to be done unto you.
>What would you change, career or other, if you could?I love where I am in my career, it's opening a lot of doors for my next move, be it offensive cybersecurity, programming/development, or something different altogether in the financial world.
I already know what I'm changing next in my life, I'm getting my own place in my hometown, I'm getting a car, then finding a lady to get pregnant. And probably a dog at some point. I'm gonna get my debts paid off and fix my credit. Everything I want is now within my control.
