So I just locked down a six-figure job as a tech consultant at a very prestigious company. I accepted the formal job offer yesterday, and I start training next month.
I've been broke my whole life. Before now I only worked shitty minimum wage jobs and I have a shit-tier liberal arts degree. It's honestly even a miracle that a recruiter called me in the first place, but I did really well in the interviews. I don't really know how life will change once I start making thousands every week, so I was hoping to ask you guys for advice. Do I just ramp up my investments proportional to my income? Save fiat? Make new friends with my wealthy overachieving scumbag peers?
Any advice is welcome on the transition from being a poorfag to a high-powered white collar job.
If they drug test keep your nose clean. Socialize and grab ideas. Get fit.
Jackson Hernandez
don't burn yourself out too quick consultant is a very hard job, you'll get slinged into companies who chew up 10s of you every year and don't give a shit about yuh feelings.
don't yell but be firm, if they give you shit report to *your* higherups so that they know stuff is going down before you end up looking at fault, be careful where you end up.
some 45s+ are very bitter about up & coming youngins especially in the tech industry where everything changes every 3 months.
t. ex tech consultant for very prestigious companies.
Charles Hill
who is this cutie
Juan Ortiz
how were you in the interviews user?
WERE you pleasent?
were you lauighing and smiling the whole time
were you quiet and serious?
were you trying to dominate the interviewer?
Parker Russell
I've been trying to get fit before my training starts since I'm worried my whole life will be work after this point and I wont have time to gym. Technically I start training in 3 weeks, so I'm hoping I can be in respectable shape by then (Got about 10 pounds to lose to be lean)
Thanks man. I honestly have no idea what my day-to-day job will feel like. I'm doing my best to prepare myself mentally for what's about to come. As a consultant, do you find you still have to be an avid developer? I've been coding for years, but they basically told me at the interview that my day-to-day job would not involve programming at all (it would be entirely client interaction/team leading or whatever). I'm thinking of hanging up my IDE and instead focusing on Agile bullshit so I'm prepared for my job duties..
Parker Butler
if you showed up limpdicked at the interview prepare to be everyone's bitch.
Henry King
Pretend to be a shitlib, don't talk to the women regarding anything but work. Don't "make friends" and hang outside of work especially with the women.
William Roberts
I am by default a really friendly guy, I don't have a mean/serious streak to me at all. I went into the interviews being as communicative and happy as I could be, thrilled to have the opportunity and talking about my favorite projects/frameworks with all the passion I could muster. The interviews felt way more like conversations - we were going back and forth talking about our histories getting into programming (I started off building shitty mods for morrowind and quake and things like that). I had 3 interviews in a 2 hour block, one after the other, each with different people at the company
The last guy who interviewed me was also an english major in college, so we hit it off talking about British poetry and college experiences. I would say I got very lucky with the interviewers having immense common ground with me, and finding me likable.
tech interview was very easy, some super simple algorithm questions on a whiteboard, database tables, etc.
Jace Richardson
Stay up to date with tech then and make sure to be talking to everyone (seriously everyone) on progress so you don't get fucked over with a client asking lower level questions. Get to know everyone if you are the mouth piece.
