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For me, it was about expectations. I.e. I never expected a career to be a great, grand thing. So, when I was bored and tired of my CS studies (not to mention actual jobs that came after it), I just took it as a natural state of things, and plodded on regardless. 20 years later, I'm 41, financially independent and basically retired.

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That looks like a good path honestly, any advice for my future career ?

I used geographic arbitrage - i.e. living in Poland and living modestly (no family), while mostly earning Western world wages ($100k-$170k a year). That's what made it possible while taking plenty of breaks between jobs for the sake of sanity. If you're in the US, probably try landing into a FAANG? You need to make a lot of post-tax money relative to your spending for this to be feasible. Ideally, you'd be saving 80%+ of your post-tax income.

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