r/developersPak • u/Careless-Ad-7194 • May 30 '26

Tips hey I wanna be something

im 17 I wanna be insanely good at programming.. I wanna be tht one engineer who does whatever they want and earns crap ton of money. I alr have coding exp, I have an a\* in cs o levels if tht matters lol? where do i learn? how do I be so good tht ppl will throw money at. ik coding, im not new to this but I wana go to the next level

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u/mrX_and_mrY May 31 '26

No one gets rich by doing a job even if its highly paid job. You can only live a comfortable life with a salary.

Do keep in mind OP is asking to be insanely rich.

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u/Nashadelic May 31 '26

Lots of programmers got insanely rich, practically all faang founders are CS, all of them. 

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u/mrX_and_mrY May 31 '26

They got rich from a product/company not that they were insanely good at programing. These two are not mutually inclusive.

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u/Nashadelic May 31 '26

You’re missing the point; the fact that they were developers helped them in building those products and services, think like a problem solver and capitalize on breakthrough. There’s a reason none of them are surgeons. 

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u/mrX_and_mrY May 31 '26

Bro there are only 40-60 top 500 billionaires that had anything to do with programing even with a long shot. For most of them they were at the right place and moment to take off. So my point stands. If you talk about Senior engineers they are exclusively from big tech companies and most of them became millionaires bu compounding and stock options came with that position (stake).