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0 pointssalaryburner7y ago0 comments

Burner account. Software engineer, C, C++, Assembler, Java, LUA, python, perl, bash, objc, swift, COBOL, Pascal, EJB, Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD.

1996: 28k

1998: 40k

2000: 65k

2003: 70k

2004: 72k

2009: Startup founder in San Francisco, 40k

2011: Startup founter same company: 85k

2014: Startup founder same company, 115k

2016: Freelancer, effectively 50k due to lack of contracts

2018: bbigco, 90k

Dunno what I'm doing wrong... I've got a few github/sf projects I started with 1000+ stars and over 10mb of open source code. I guess I suck at negotiation?

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phendrenad27y ago

Baseless speculatiin on my part, but maybe your work history doesn't have a clearly-defined specialization? COBOL and assembler are at opposite ends of the software world, for instance.

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