Thank you for the kind words, glad the person at Google didn’t get offended! 😂
I will still argue that tech is a better career than finance or sales if you can handle being behind a computer most of the day. Even if you’re dumb as rocks, if you can form the right questions to put into google, you can get a decent career, then work to minimize your working hours by going remote.
Specifically, the web development route is like putting legos together. Web development has immediate feedback, so you can see exactly what you’ve created after you write the code. This makes it easier to learn than FAANG algorithms or memorizing finance textbooks. Plus, the compensation is high even if you're bad–even the lowest ranking employees can get equity!
Once you get good, you can pivot to FAANG, get a second job (because the skills are the same), outsource, build SaaS, and so on. Your skills will always be in-demand in any industry, and your experience will be valued even if you work at a low-ranking company.
What would you say is a realistic time frame for someone to go from basically no coding experience, aside from a little HTML, to skilled enough to land a development role at a decent company?
Currently in SaaS sales and was thinking about picking up coding on the side as a fallback / technical skill. On the other hand, I was debating whether it's even worth it at this point or if my efforts would be better spent just focusing on the side biz.
Do you have any other income streams? Do you have a plan for scaling your career? If not, why are you worrying about how long would it take and instead of just starting? If you are making zero meaningful progress after a month, you'll have your answer of whether it's worthwhile or not. You people spend too much time in analysis paralysis instead of executing and adjusting.
Let me paint a scenario. Let's say you come back after work around 6pm. You eat, shower, gym, and it's 8pm. Now you have 3 hours to put into my web development guide. By 11:30pm, you've prepped and in bed. You get 8 hours of sleep, getting up at around 8am for your job.
With about 3 hours a day, you can do a video every 2-3 days. Let's say you spend your whole weekend working through my guide, so we estimate it down to 2 days. There are 15 videos. So 2 days * 15 videos = a month. Plus some projects you can do over the weekends. Just try it over the winter season, network while you're working through my guide, and see if you can land a job. What's the harm?
Pets are great and you are spot on with picking a temperament that will complement your personality. I'm an active person 1-2 / hr walking, exercising, working out each day with a 2 yr old Labradoodle.
Personality of a Lab and intelligence of a Poodle... plus no shedding. Needs about 60 mins of exercise and fetch a day, which is a perfect way to start the morning and end the day. Bonus - great hunting companion as well.
Can hike for 5+ hours if needed, and very friendly with kids (great for future family).
The only caveat I have for anyone considering getting a dog is to make sure you can devote enough time in the first 6 months to make sure potty training, basic commands, and etiquette with humans and other dogs is properly ingrained. Have WFH set-up right now which made that possible for me.
Problem is that most people end up getting a dog and then leaving it home alone in a crate for 10 hours straight, and then wonder why it has behavioral problems.
Get first 6 months right and you will have a great companion. Get them wrong and you will be fighting against bad habits the rest of its life.
What I can say is that before anyone decides to become a Dad or have kids, HAVE YOUR FUCKING FUN. Seriously, sleep around with a lot of different women if you haven't already to get a feel for what you like. Get with different kinds of women and have some wild sex stories to tell. If there is one trait I have noticed in passive aggressive people and people that get bitter with age is that they didn't have this fun in their lives.
Most of them married at 25 or at a young age, missed out on all of the partying, never hit their stride, never learned success with women, and just settled into a marriage fast through social circle. All of a sudden, it seems like they wake up at 30 or 35 and the years have passed them by. They see well off guys doing well, casually dating around, meeting beautiful women, and it makes them even more bitter.
One thing that has opened my eyes is just how disloyal and sleazy a lot of married dudes in the corporate world are. A lot of them will claim they are married and have kids and are a "family man" but will be pouncing on an available woman at a bar or some young coworker at a company retreat.
I seriously think that almost all elite men need to give themselves at least 5 years of fun and getting it out of their system before they commit to an LTR. Like have so much sex and get with so many different women (safely, wrap it up) that in the end you are starting say "alright that's enough" and then start going into wife hunting mode.
Not sure of age but I don't think your 40s are too late to find a wife.
Being single in your 40’s is not too late to find a wife. But when all your friends and co-workers are married you have no more social circle to meet women. That’s my situation right now.
Need to put biotech on the radar - there is currently no mechanism to guide aspiring scientists into the industry. The entire training program through PhD is designed to encourage an academic career rather than drug discovery & entrepreneurial mindset.
Would jungle members be interested in commercial aviation as another $100k+ USTT career? I just started at a major airline (think Delta, United, American) and am fairly confident one could get here in ~5 years with zero experience. Cost of entry is high the first couple of years for the necessary ratings and hours building. However, pretty easy to move up the rungs after that. Even if one doesn’t make it to big leagues, all the 2nd tier airlines (spirit, frontier, jetblue, atlas, kalitta, etc) are paying pilots over $100k after yr 1 and it’s possible to make it there in 3 years from 0. Don’t even need a college degree anymore. Have a friend interviewing at American soon without one.
The kicker? With some seniority one could be working a full schedule in only 10-15 days a month. Should leave plenty of time to chase after that wifi money.
I would count this more as a lifestyle career. If you're trying to get rich following the Bowtied model, I think there are more efficient methods than pilot. But still cool as hell
Yep, not as efficient as IB, tech, sales. I’m simply offering an alternative $100k+ career. Your info is old though. We had capt slots go unfilled in the last vacancy bid so there will be yr 2 captains. FedEx just awarded 757 capt to a guy with 4 months on property. Also, if you could come in as a widebody street capt (yr 1 on 777), my airline is paying >$270k on a min guarantee line. Not sure where you’re getting $250k cap. Plenty of capts making $300-400k+ easy.
Legally, could be as little as 2000hrs assuming the individual got a restricted ATP through a part 141 school (1000 hrs for a R-ATP). Went to a regional and then got hired on at a major (need 1000hrs part 121 time to upgrade to capt). This is not the norm though. For reference, I was hired with ~2800TT and technically qualify for left seat, but also have prior military experience.
That said, my understanding is Delta has A220 NYC capt slots going super junior (1 yr seniority). Pre-pandemic, American had guys going to left seat of the E190 less than a year on property but they have since divested those aircraft. Hard to give an average as things are moving quickly and optimizing for money is usually not the priority vs days off/domicile. Basically the majors are still top heavy from not hiring ~15 out of the last 20 years (9/11, 2008 recession), but are facing huge mandatory retirements as pilots age out at 65. If I had to guess 5-10 years to widebody capt at the junior domicile making $300k+. However, I could see senior widebody FOs making that in less time by optimizing schedule and picking up premium paid trips.
To give you an idea of the crazy the mandatory retirements, American is losing 1000 pilots a year for the next 4-5 years. That’s >1/3 of their entire pilot group. United wants to hire 10,000 pilots in the next 9 years. They only have a little over 13,000 pilots on property right now.
I have had a few clients that made it to the top of the pilot scale at American making much more than that. Even better, their schedule (long haul international) basically gave them ample down time to focus on their businesses.
Agreed 100% to the point of Flavah though, it is a great lifestyle option. Not to mention being a pilot is a hell of a tangible skill.
I straddle a few a worlds. Accounting, Contractor/Builder, Real Estate Developer. I think construction/contracting is a huge opportunity for people here that have the skills. Massive labor shortage has essentially allowed contractors to "name their price".
And once you get into FAANG, you leave as soon as you vest. The value in tech is not staying and becoming a cog in the machine; it's in treating it like a bootcamp, learning all you can and developing good engineering practices that give you the skills to build your own company.
Completely agree with your stances on on entering careers in medicine/law and investing in real estate but... some people are already pretty far down those paths so 100% pivot away at this point doesn't make sense. Looking forward to any focus on those items and tax. Thanks.
I’ll say it and I’ll say it again. Bears Deluxe is changing the NFT game due to their robust community and top shelf developers. All organic. Bees Deluxe and Honey Hives Deluxe also part of the ecosystem. Please study the tokenomics - sincerely believe you won’t be disappointed. A punk and a few BAYCs have sold and swept the bears instead. Just want to see the jungle win!
"Barring extreme circumstances we were a bit disappointed in this poll. Many are rebalancing multiple times a year which is costly and time consuming."
You can't sell 20-50% of high-performing assets for ease of mind and psychological confidence (feel like you're free-rolling) only once per year. Either you accept that a lot of paper gains may disappear by year end, or you trade more than once a year and incur the penalties for short-term cap. gains, pick your poison.
Honestly haven't a hard time understanding how "hey buddy/thanks bud" is considered Passive Aggressive behavior? That's a pretty normal way for people to greet each other its the same as hey hows it going / thanks man/bro". At least it is pretty common in the area I live (not in wallstreet or financial services), can someone explain this a bit better?
You think omicron/covid in general will matter much? In the US, really things seem back to normal. In Florida it’s like 100% normal, and even in New York it’s effectively back to normal (for vaxxed) - was just at a huge rave last weekend. Maybe the only economic impact will be from Asian supply chain issues, since they are staying tight.
Ugh, as a New Yorker that left for Florida, I do not see a good future for NYC and think many should leave. The mandates are crazy overreach, the Karens are out in full force for mask and vaccines (mask mandates now in a lot of places still), and nightlife should probably be in a mess as well compared to its past peak. I could be wrong though.
I’ve been on the ground in ny and nightlife is back to normal. You can go to bars, big raves, etc. Nobody cares much. You gotta be vaxxed though, for any official type stuff. Or just get a fake card if you’re really anti vax.
Thank you for the kind words, glad the person at Google didn’t get offended! 😂
I will still argue that tech is a better career than finance or sales if you can handle being behind a computer most of the day. Even if you’re dumb as rocks, if you can form the right questions to put into google, you can get a decent career, then work to minimize your working hours by going remote.
Specifically, the web development route is like putting legos together. Web development has immediate feedback, so you can see exactly what you’ve created after you write the code. This makes it easier to learn than FAANG algorithms or memorizing finance textbooks. Plus, the compensation is high even if you're bad–even the lowest ranking employees can get equity!
Once you get good, you can pivot to FAANG, get a second job (because the skills are the same), outsource, build SaaS, and so on. Your skills will always be in-demand in any industry, and your experience will be valued even if you work at a low-ranking company.
In conclusion, do tech!
Forgot to mention a good point by Eel: You also won't have to work for boomers! 🤢
Re: wedev- Do you have a preferred framework to get something up quickly? Or just pick what’s popular?
Literally on my Substack 🥲
http://BowTiedFox.substack.com/p/dev
Great guide. Currently going through it. At step 7right now.
Better to learn web dev than Solidity in your opinion?
Being a good web 2 developer is a prerequisite to being a good web 3 developer.
This is the inspiration I need to make a switch from engineering to tech. Thanks Fox!
What would you say is a realistic time frame for someone to go from basically no coding experience, aside from a little HTML, to skilled enough to land a development role at a decent company?
Currently in SaaS sales and was thinking about picking up coding on the side as a fallback / technical skill. On the other hand, I was debating whether it's even worth it at this point or if my efforts would be better spent just focusing on the side biz.
Do you have any other income streams? Do you have a plan for scaling your career? If not, why are you worrying about how long would it take and instead of just starting? If you are making zero meaningful progress after a month, you'll have your answer of whether it's worthwhile or not. You people spend too much time in analysis paralysis instead of executing and adjusting.
Let me paint a scenario. Let's say you come back after work around 6pm. You eat, shower, gym, and it's 8pm. Now you have 3 hours to put into my web development guide. By 11:30pm, you've prepped and in bed. You get 8 hours of sleep, getting up at around 8am for your job.
With about 3 hours a day, you can do a video every 2-3 days. Let's say you spend your whole weekend working through my guide, so we estimate it down to 2 days. There are 15 videos. So 2 days * 15 videos = a month. Plus some projects you can do over the weekends. Just try it over the winter season, network while you're working through my guide, and see if you can land a job. What's the harm?
Pets are great and you are spot on with picking a temperament that will complement your personality. I'm an active person 1-2 / hr walking, exercising, working out each day with a 2 yr old Labradoodle.
Personality of a Lab and intelligence of a Poodle... plus no shedding. Needs about 60 mins of exercise and fetch a day, which is a perfect way to start the morning and end the day. Bonus - great hunting companion as well.
Can hike for 5+ hours if needed, and very friendly with kids (great for future family).
The only caveat I have for anyone considering getting a dog is to make sure you can devote enough time in the first 6 months to make sure potty training, basic commands, and etiquette with humans and other dogs is properly ingrained. Have WFH set-up right now which made that possible for me.
Problem is that most people end up getting a dog and then leaving it home alone in a crate for 10 hours straight, and then wonder why it has behavioral problems.
Get first 6 months right and you will have a great companion. Get them wrong and you will be fighting against bad habits the rest of its life.
Good point, we assumed most of our readers are ultra intense and active. Personality fit is key
What I can say is that before anyone decides to become a Dad or have kids, HAVE YOUR FUCKING FUN. Seriously, sleep around with a lot of different women if you haven't already to get a feel for what you like. Get with different kinds of women and have some wild sex stories to tell. If there is one trait I have noticed in passive aggressive people and people that get bitter with age is that they didn't have this fun in their lives.
Most of them married at 25 or at a young age, missed out on all of the partying, never hit their stride, never learned success with women, and just settled into a marriage fast through social circle. All of a sudden, it seems like they wake up at 30 or 35 and the years have passed them by. They see well off guys doing well, casually dating around, meeting beautiful women, and it makes them even more bitter.
One thing that has opened my eyes is just how disloyal and sleazy a lot of married dudes in the corporate world are. A lot of them will claim they are married and have kids and are a "family man" but will be pouncing on an available woman at a bar or some young coworker at a company retreat.
I seriously think that almost all elite men need to give themselves at least 5 years of fun and getting it out of their system before they commit to an LTR. Like have so much sex and get with so many different women (safely, wrap it up) that in the end you are starting say "alright that's enough" and then start going into wife hunting mode.
Not sure of age but I don't think your 40s are too late to find a wife.
Being single in your 40’s is not too late to find a wife. But when all your friends and co-workers are married you have no more social circle to meet women. That’s my situation right now.
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Yes we will. We win in the end.
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Need to put biotech on the radar - there is currently no mechanism to guide aspiring scientists into the industry. The entire training program through PhD is designed to encourage an academic career rather than drug discovery & entrepreneurial mindset.
Missed this one and agree.
Would jungle members be interested in commercial aviation as another $100k+ USTT career? I just started at a major airline (think Delta, United, American) and am fairly confident one could get here in ~5 years with zero experience. Cost of entry is high the first couple of years for the necessary ratings and hours building. However, pretty easy to move up the rungs after that. Even if one doesn’t make it to big leagues, all the 2nd tier airlines (spirit, frontier, jetblue, atlas, kalitta, etc) are paying pilots over $100k after yr 1 and it’s possible to make it there in 3 years from 0. Don’t even need a college degree anymore. Have a friend interviewing at American soon without one.
The kicker? With some seniority one could be working a full schedule in only 10-15 days a month. Should leave plenty of time to chase after that wifi money.
I would count this more as a lifestyle career. If you're trying to get rich following the Bowtied model, I think there are more efficient methods than pilot. But still cool as hell
Thanks for the feedback. Definitely agree on both fronts. If you’re only doing it for the money, you’re not going to have a good time.
Yep, not as efficient as IB, tech, sales. I’m simply offering an alternative $100k+ career. Your info is old though. We had capt slots go unfilled in the last vacancy bid so there will be yr 2 captains. FedEx just awarded 757 capt to a guy with 4 months on property. Also, if you could come in as a widebody street capt (yr 1 on 777), my airline is paying >$270k on a min guarantee line. Not sure where you’re getting $250k cap. Plenty of capts making $300-400k+ easy.
Legally, could be as little as 2000hrs assuming the individual got a restricted ATP through a part 141 school (1000 hrs for a R-ATP). Went to a regional and then got hired on at a major (need 1000hrs part 121 time to upgrade to capt). This is not the norm though. For reference, I was hired with ~2800TT and technically qualify for left seat, but also have prior military experience.
That said, my understanding is Delta has A220 NYC capt slots going super junior (1 yr seniority). Pre-pandemic, American had guys going to left seat of the E190 less than a year on property but they have since divested those aircraft. Hard to give an average as things are moving quickly and optimizing for money is usually not the priority vs days off/domicile. Basically the majors are still top heavy from not hiring ~15 out of the last 20 years (9/11, 2008 recession), but are facing huge mandatory retirements as pilots age out at 65. If I had to guess 5-10 years to widebody capt at the junior domicile making $300k+. However, I could see senior widebody FOs making that in less time by optimizing schedule and picking up premium paid trips.
To give you an idea of the crazy the mandatory retirements, American is losing 1000 pilots a year for the next 4-5 years. That’s >1/3 of their entire pilot group. United wants to hire 10,000 pilots in the next 9 years. They only have a little over 13,000 pilots on property right now.
I have had a few clients that made it to the top of the pilot scale at American making much more than that. Even better, their schedule (long haul international) basically gave them ample down time to focus on their businesses.
Yep, those guys doing $300k+ and only working 9-12 days a month (3x long haul trips).
Agreed 100% to the point of Flavah though, it is a great lifestyle option. Not to mention being a pilot is a hell of a tangible skill.
I straddle a few a worlds. Accounting, Contractor/Builder, Real Estate Developer. I think construction/contracting is a huge opportunity for people here that have the skills. Massive labor shortage has essentially allowed contractors to "name their price".
And once you get into FAANG, you leave as soon as you vest. The value in tech is not staying and becoming a cog in the machine; it's in treating it like a bootcamp, learning all you can and developing good engineering practices that give you the skills to build your own company.
Hard because you'll get stuck with golden handcuffs.
Year 1: Vesting period
Year 2: Vesting period, more equity that vests for another 2 years (year 4)
Year 3: Year 1 equity unlocks, more equity that vests for another 2 years (year 5)
Year 4: Year 2 equity unlocks, more equity that vests for another 2 years (year 6)
...and so on
For sure. Depends on if you're aiming at 7 figures or 8... a good problem to have
Completely agree with your stances on on entering careers in medicine/law and investing in real estate but... some people are already pretty far down those paths so 100% pivot away at this point doesn't make sense. Looking forward to any focus on those items and tax. Thanks.
I’ll say it and I’ll say it again. Bears Deluxe is changing the NFT game due to their robust community and top shelf developers. All organic. Bees Deluxe and Honey Hives Deluxe also part of the ecosystem. Please study the tokenomics - sincerely believe you won’t be disappointed. A punk and a few BAYCs have sold and swept the bears instead. Just want to see the jungle win!
"Barring extreme circumstances we were a bit disappointed in this poll. Many are rebalancing multiple times a year which is costly and time consuming."
You can't sell 20-50% of high-performing assets for ease of mind and psychological confidence (feel like you're free-rolling) only once per year. Either you accept that a lot of paper gains may disappear by year end, or you trade more than once a year and incur the penalties for short-term cap. gains, pick your poison.
Honestly haven't a hard time understanding how "hey buddy/thanks bud" is considered Passive Aggressive behavior? That's a pretty normal way for people to greet each other its the same as hey hows it going / thanks man/bro". At least it is pretty common in the area I live (not in wallstreet or financial services), can someone explain this a bit better?
Spoken like a true ecomm pet store.
Wonder if you could ever explain about the disappearing path when time comes. Always think about it. Thanks
Will more info be forthcoming on how to help Bull and Opossum with the news aggregator?
Yes shortly.
You think omicron/covid in general will matter much? In the US, really things seem back to normal. In Florida it’s like 100% normal, and even in New York it’s effectively back to normal (for vaxxed) - was just at a huge rave last weekend. Maybe the only economic impact will be from Asian supply chain issues, since they are staying tight.
Ugh, as a New Yorker that left for Florida, I do not see a good future for NYC and think many should leave. The mandates are crazy overreach, the Karens are out in full force for mask and vaccines (mask mandates now in a lot of places still), and nightlife should probably be in a mess as well compared to its past peak. I could be wrong though.
I’ve been on the ground in ny and nightlife is back to normal. You can go to bars, big raves, etc. Nobody cares much. You gotta be vaxxed though, for any official type stuff. Or just get a fake card if you’re really anti vax.
Yeah but the city was going to shit with the rising crime and all. Plus now with harsher mandates, I wonder for how long it can keep going well.
I’m thinking things are on track to go endemic (accepted as a bad flu) in the next few months.
Surprised to see you guys are pro-kids instead doing the Felix Dennis deal of donating the wealth to a charity org/trust.
Read his book, he regrets not having kids.