And it seems like one very distinct selection pool of SWEs from a very specific place We all know who
Average Indian dude in tech after moving to US
Average Indian dude here. I vouch for this. I am this person.
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The more you get, the more you want to keep.
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The more I get, the more I want spend making others happy. If Iām not staying flat wealth wise, I need to speed up giving it away. NW: ~5M TC: ~430k
Probably they worship the saying, āif your money isnāt generating any interest, itās gonna lose its valueā to max. Also like āaccounting this way is more easierā. Software engineers are mostly OCD optimizers, with penny pinching attitude where they gotta optimize every part of their life from credit cards to health supplements. They wanna invest every cents into their index funds and ETFs after they max out their Roth/traditional IRA, 401k and maybe even put the remaining money in HYSA. They do it so they can retire early. I wouldnāt care that much for few bucks when I enjoy time with my friends but it really matters on your upbringing. They probably donāt realize how stressfully they are living in the hope of saying they retired early. And I donāt even have a six figure salaryš
You need to learn to make money while you sleep or you will work until you die.
Maybe some background? - software engineer who studied 8 years, traveled to a foreign country with visa, growing up stressed about financial security - barista who studied humanities and partied during college, got family money, has no clue of what is financial struggle and sure "it's all going to be ok bro"
Whatever lets you sleep, Abdool
If you think that most baristas are secretly rich then you need to get out of the tech bubble more
I hate such cheap friends. I mean cheap ex-friends š š š
looks like you always like ex.. Even your company is ex-Linkedin ..
If someone has to remind me of paying them $3 then it is not that person who is greedy. It is the other person who is cheap. Offering to cover is different than not paying for your share.
I am not greedy. You are
First, you have to learn the difference between cheap and greedy. Greed is good. Cheapness, on the other hand, is not. I buy lunch to my coworkers all the time, with no expectations of them reciprocating.
Why the heck one has to buy the lunch for coworker ? Why donāt you donate to needy ones? Any motive?
Sometimes when your out with coworkers you appreciate, one of the few ways of showing gratitude is by buying them lunch. I mean I'm sure there are lots of people you can do this with, but very few times you can do it. They will remember it because you were selfless and show your approation they will help you. Also if people help me out in a pinch or a fire... again many reasons
Some people have bad spending habits that I donāt wish to partake in. If they expect I join them and scoff and call me cheap when I donāt it has the opposite effect. I feel like theyāre not good friends. Everything should be fair it doesnāt matter if someone makes more than you. Itās like the same type of person who thinks your salary is all luck when they decided to do communications in college and you did software engineering
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Itās the attitude and upbringing nothing to do if you are a software engineer or not