{"id":208,"date":"2024-02-07T01:21:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T06:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2024-02-07T01:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T06:21:58","slug":"i-wrote-this-on-reddit-on-a-post-called-those-making-100000-dollars-a-year-what-do-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"I wrote this on reddit on a post called: &#8220;Those making 100,000+ dollars a year, what do you do?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"I hate that I make more than a cancer scientist I guess?  (The cancer scientist made 140k)  I write software and have a 20-year long resume.  But honestly I spend a lot of time discussing strategy, planning, offering suggestions, adjusting alerting, troubleshooting things, setting up infrastructure, etc. much more than actually coding. I make 179k and it doesn&#8217;t actually feel like the huge amount of money you&#8217;d imagine.  I bought my disabled mom a house and pay the majority of her bills and my girlfriend has mental and physical health issues and has been unemployed for 8 months because of the entertainment strikes. We have a fairly expensive apartment in the midwest, three pets, and a BMW.  I have everything I need but I don&#8217;t feel like my future is secure.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate that I make more than a cancer scientist I guess? (The cancer scientist made 140k) I write software and have a 20-year long resume. But honestly I spend a lot of time discussing strategy, planning, offering suggestions, adjusting alerting, troubleshooting things, setting up infrastructure, etc. much more than actually coding. I make 179k [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-log"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/log.danieltalsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}