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I felt very conflicted about this topic when I was young and working for Apple. I decided the Valley commute and rat race wasn’t very family conducive so I took
by archeantus 29d ago
I felt very conflicted about this topic when I was young and working for Apple. I decided the Valley commute and rat race wasn’t very family conducive so I took a remote job and moved a few states over and it’s been great.
I’ve been fully remote for 12+ years now, and I’ve had a very successful career in engineering and engineering leadership. I also have eight kids that I get to spend a ton of time with. There’s a remote tax on career growth, but my RE side hustles have more than compensated for it.
Every now and then I wonder what might have been if I had stayed at Apple. No way to know for sure, but I probably couldn’t have afforded the family and lifestyle that I enjoy now.
- ColdStream 29d ago8 kids! Well if anyone wants to ask for parenting advice, they can go to you as you are a lone human data set.
- jdkoeck 29d agoHow is having numerous kids correlated with being a good parent? If anything, the reverse is probably true.
- tene80i 29d agoThere’s “how to be a good parent” advice and there’s also “oh boy how do we manage mealtimes and laundry and the school run” type advice. Someone with lots of kids is going to have great insights into the latter at very least.
- jdkoeck 29d agoIf he’s the father, he may have no involvement in the logistics whatsoever. Especially if he has a large family.
- archeantus 29d agoI am the father, and I have a ton of involvement in the day-to-day work of running the house. This brings me and my wife a lot of satisfaction and it undoubtedly wouldn’t be possible if I was still commuting to work in Silicon Valley.
- alansaber 29d agoProbably would have just remained as an apple lifer
- djhn 29d agoRE side hustles, as in, reverse engineering?
- benkaiser 29d agoI'm assuming real estate
- archeantus 29d agoCorrect, real estate.