John_Maxwell_IV comments on Optimal Employment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 01 February 2011 01:10:51AM 9 points [-]

Police or fire fighter in the San Francisco Bay Area is a low barrier to entry high salary high status job and not very dangerous.

I think small retail is an even better deal than that. Terribly run stores in SF stay in business and well run ones prosper ridiculously.

Many LW readers are coders who could be Google quality if they worked at it a bit, though the outback might be a good place to get practice without distractions.

PUA enthusiasts can obviously make money selling instruction in Game, and should be able to make money in sales in general.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 01 February 2011 04:53:26AM *  7 points [-]

Many LW readers are coders who could be Google quality if they worked at it a bit, though the outback might be a good place to get practice without distractions.

Given that being a good software developer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet, whenever possible one should make programming a social activity so one has a social obligation to code.

But traveling to a different part of the world to work on something specific sounds like an experiment worth trying. I'm adding it to my list.

Comment author: MBlume 02 February 2011 10:11:24PM 5 points [-]

Given that being a good software developer is 3% talent and 97% not being distracted by the internet, whenever possible one should make programming a social activity so one has a social obligation to code.

Thanks for that. Getting back to work now.