Why I left my $200k job as a Software Developer

I like golden handcuffs as long as they allow me to live the life I want tbh

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100% on the "big secret" in college. I had a Geology degree and kept waiting and waiting to learn some worthwhile skill. Never happened and in my last semester I realized I was screwed...

Hi Aaron :) I have the same idea to try live in Ukraine... i do laravel. I can work remote. :) Im interested in Ukraine... becouse of low living cost and most beatyfull girls.. 🤣 Im from Slovakia.

Once you get all that money and if your smart with it and can clearly see a comfortable retirement, its almost a no brainer to go do ur own thing after that. Unless of course it’s generational money ur after. In that case I’d sit on that 200,000 a year long as I can.

be a good salssman. you will always have a job.

I contracted for 3 years as a UX architect £90k per year....I did it to get out....this year I completed on my 5th rental property, I bring in 3k per month passive...answer to no one, do as a please and have my life to explore...I feel privileged to be free.

If you don’t build your own dream someone will hire you to help them build theirs.

I can always make more money, I’m not getting any more time.

In what country are you living right now?

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What an interesting way to word it. As someone who works in big tech, I've never considered the term "golden handcuffs". But I see your point.

It always seems like the grass will be greener on the other side but when you actually quit and realize after a year that self control and mental discipline is much harder as a lone wolf you realize you were better off.

You're already rich so you can quit your job and do something you like.

This is exactly the path I am starting and planning to end with entrepreneurship.

My journey took me find Dan pena quantum leap advantage. It's idea salesman had named it after tv show. Guy would time travel with marble. Pena said be bulldozer and rain maker in business. You warm call business or show up in person pitch idea going public splitting money leaving seen of crime. As you get better you find out pit falls of business. No money sales campaign, production sucks, workers suck, board members you have put together suck. He gets you beg with I don't care about money additude. Turns out banks just have feel comfortable loaning you 100% money you need barrowed against business building, property, equipment. 100% seller finance it's exit strategy for motivated seller of business. Idea not get suck with business owner thats playing games. Or board member that's not on board. Board members bring value to bank. He said medical business or technology so I went in on technology. He just said throw 140 week till you burn out will have boxes cash

The usual , I quit my high paying job followed by advertisement for a product or service ... not telling The story but reading it from a paper ....

Working for big tech is working for spying censoring monopolies.

You don't have a clue what your talking about.. i took finance to make money in the stock market, algos making all the money.. clown

And here we are in Brazil, earning $7k/year as engineers, architects, lawyers... Im exausted

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How is it scalable?

U don't need to explain to me, because I won't get it trust me!

the job you left is what many are striving to have even dream

I mean if you got the cash to take a risk, no problem. after 5 years earning 200k each year, i probably would have some safety net to risk some stuff. but you first need to get that safety net and get the competences to be good enough to leave and do whatever you want

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I would gladly take those 200K and quit my 40k trash job

helpful insights. thanks

i am in the same situation, but dunno how to start on my own thing

Great Video Aaron! very inspiring - for some people it's necessary to just leave security and repeat play - go walk the desert (I always think of Jesus walking the desert 40 days {for me it was 25 years!!}) and experiences such as poverty, lack, reaching rock bottom (more than once!) learning to be humble, learning to bring the ego down to Earth, trying different experiences such as volunteering or teaching English or learning how to deal with stress an anxiety - enriches our mind and allows us to come back and start again - or come back and start a new life with the added ability of being able to advise and help others as you are doing in the vlog (I enjoyed reading The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma). I decided to get into working on Mental Health, then covid came and am now heading back in the direction of the world of IT again - but even then - for me, it's not about what job I do or what computer language i'm coding - it's actually about being with the right people in person and online on life's journey :)

so cool, from time to time, I was thinking to code from Tokyo/ Paris/ whatever cities I wanna experience

go after your dreams, too many people out there just settle. In the bible theres that story of the servants the master gave money to. The first two servants took there money and put it to use and made more. The third servant wanted to play safe, and buried it. Guess who got in trouble. Its human nature to want more, and in a way its a good thing. Its what allows us as a human race to progress, otherwise we'd still be farming and running around with horses. Move forward, take risks, win some lose some, but to me its the only way to live.

Retention rate is down because of people like you

As a finance major I feel your pain

Yeah just another story of "I want to try something else"

You feel safe enough to know that you can get back to software development at any time

you look like stephen amell

Would you say it's best to have an analytical type of natural mindset if you want to consider a career change to coding? I remember years ago looking at notes from a roommate who was a programmer and thought wow, this is like reading a foreign language! How does he do this? He was definitely doing well, financially. The ironic thing is though I feel I'd be happy to work online all day. One more question - I noticed you posted this video, I think, prior to the pandemic. This is a hypothetical question - but do you think you would have made this decision to leave your position and become a full-time entrepreneur during the height of the pandemic when most employees were made to work remotely? I'm guessing you would still have made the shift but not sure if working in this at-home environment would have delayed this decision or not.

I don't really buy into the whole "Golden handcuff" speak, at the end of the day no matter where you are in life, you're wearing these handcuffs, so why are golden ones a problem? Would you prefer rusty?

This moron really said “golden handcuffs” with the basis of which he spoke being that they offer to accommodate their workers needs instead of the letting them go. They offered you multiple things dude. That’s not some term you made up or something. That’s just an amazing quality of a business. You just didn’t like it because they could never offer you to run their business. Don’t disparage them or make it seem like you were ever trapped by them or something. You admitted that you got “brainwashed” even though you were working in the space for years and they tried offering you multiple different things because they valued you, not because they have some diabolical plan to trap you. “Golden handcuffs”. You’ve been living the good life for too long man. Saying goofy shit like golden handcuffs. Smh.

@Aaron Jack, I feel you brother!! This is exactly what happened in Masters of Finance, I had been waiting for the entire 2 years just for them to tell me you can never beat the market and it's all done by the big hands in the dark pool. Lol 😂 I felt like I raked up $100k debt for nothing. The things I have learnt and the books I have read by myself on the side have improved my understanding about investing to a much better extent. I started working as a software dev and investing on the side.

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Even 6+ years ago he was making more money than me..

just to be clear:

--> working as a software engineer was the best job I've had and I recommend it to anyone. you are getting paid to learn a valuable skill, and can save a lot.

--> keep in mind, the average turnover at these companies is actually just 1-2 years

--> do I I still program? yes pretty much every day. except now I can work on whatever :)