Do you ever feel like you’ve gotten nothing for your effort?
I think I’m having a quarter life crisis because everyone is making a bunch more than me (or is worth a bunch more than me). I thought I worked really hard and strived for the best but hat didn’t get me anywhere except for Amazon AI. What did y’all do to get through this? So far I’ve been trying to drown myself in personal projects to get my mind off of things but it isn’t terribly helpful when your friends start messaging you from their free FB phones about how they just nailed their google interviews.
If $$$ and perks are the motivation for you, then You are at wrong place... We are working for a frugal CEO/company that will never pay more than required.
All you can do is your best my friend. My advice, stay on the straight and narrow. If you want to move up, develop your own methodology to do so. If you feel like you're overqualified and underpaid, apply elsewhere and see what offers you get. If you have strict expectations on what you should receive from effort expended, you're bound to be disappointed. And this shouldn't be a source of dismay for you. You need to appreciate what you've been through to get to where you are now. Friedrich Nietzsche coined a term "Amor Fati", or "Love of Fate". Essentially the idea is to acknowledge and appreciate your effort and suffering up to this point in your life, not because it has propelled you into a better state of living (based on arbitrary metrics), but because it has both reinforced your character and made your life more profound
It should be engraved somewhere
Just remember that someone saying they nailed the interview doesn't mean there's an offer coming. Amazon isn't the place to go to have a better total comp. You have to really love the work, or see Amazon as a stepping stone to someone who will pay you more. It can be great for that, I get a lot more recruiter attention here than I have working at other companies. I think you need to just look at what your actual priorities are. Do you just care about the money? If so, do what you need to do to leave. Do you want to actually enjoy life? You make enough money to travel. At the end of the day, try to have some gratitude for where you're at. The median income in the US is like 56k, and if you're any kind of engineer here, you're at least at 3x that number.
No offense but it sounds like you have a pretty boring life and social circle if all you care about is TC and the prestige of where you work.
Lol my life is normal
Grass is always greener on the other side. Facebook and other social media are worst in making other people look dumb fucks...People rarely post rejections on social media but trust me you get 10 rejections for every success...So enjoy you Amazon ride in AI ..Trust me you are better off than average person in US or even tech..
I got gud at interviewing and got lucky, after lots of bad luck. It really helps having a lot of non-tech friends to tell you how poor they are to put things in perspective, and I hope they'd slap the shit out of me for whining in the context of my privilege of a strongly positive bank account and ennui about my self-worth.
The trick is gratitude. Be grateful what you have and you won’t be in a constant state of hunger. There is always someone smarter than you, wealthier, married to someone more attractive, etc. When I started appreciating what I had, I enjoyed life more. My TC is well under what most people on blind make, but that doesn’t bother me. I make more than enough for what my family needs and enough for what we want.
@flCL14 is that you? Again?
Nope. I haven’t changed my handle.
Please understand that you are still making more than most people. Try to get ahead but don’t get caught up in it, there are so many other things to do in life. I would advise you to even spend some of that money on new experiences. It’s all about striking a balance between ambition and contentment.
Well yeah but I also have to spend a shit ton on rent (if I can even get the apartment I want! I’m barely in 40x rule!)