>>11546618go for your most crazy goals first, you’ll be happiest just trying your best anyway. hopefully your crazy goals involve money, but for many here it does not. here we fetishize slaving away at what we call ‘higher ideals’ for mere peanuts. it’s almost frowned upon to make money here, the ideal lifestyle is like that Russian mathematician who turned down $1mil for solving a millennium problem only to live in his moms rat infested apartment.
I like to think every /sci/ anons ideal trajectory is PhD research leading to some crazy industry applications that leads one into being lead researcher at their own prestigious company.
luckily for me I have a safety net for myself consisting of a couple small (product orientated) businesses, with my first SaaS releasing probably sometime next month, hopefully followed by more. Each project is very small time stuff, I probably make less than you, but it pays the bills and allows me a ton of freetime and freedom, which I’m happy with. I just hate having a McJob. I hope to be a research mathematician here soon, but if that fails I’ll try and pivot into software development since I have doing that anyway.
