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[quote=deadzone]”Everything else was self taught, and whatever work I could pick up in software. And then being given an software engineering job opportunity at a bay area startup.”

You just corroborated my post right there. That’s all you had to say in your response. Instead you go off with 1000 word diatribe trying to make it personal about me. You and SDR need to stop drinking wine together.

“Great, how did that work out for you”

It’s worked out great! been living within 5min of the beach for over 25 years now F you very much.[/quote]

Again arguing with yourself.
College doesn’t guarantee success. It increases the odds. Great colleges also doesn’t guarantee success, it increases the odds further.

Yes, you don’t need a CS degree to do software. But it helps, the training and rigor helps to an extent. but a little self discipline, and you can learn it or anything else.

BUT..You are dillusional if you think everyone can self teach and learn. Generally, people who are disciplined and capable of self learning are more the exception than the rule. it’s like the argument that many people who don’t want to go to college or don’t want to do a STEM degree like to say “bill gates didn’t go to college and neither did mark Zuckerberg” …

Well true, but those 2 examples are exceptionally bright people that didn’t need college. Most people who bring up bill gates and mark are NOT in the same league as them, and they are kidding themselves with an excuse for not needing college. And by not obtaining higher education, and not going through the rigor and discipline of a good 4 year program, that often causes people to fall short on their work ethics and determination…and they end up in a career that only requires them to say “you want fries with that”. So there’s a high probability you wouldn’t get very far without some higher level learning if you wanted to do tech.
BUT, it seems like you were in tech before and it seems like no longer, so it’s a moot point..Tech isn’t for anyone and not everyone is going to be good at it. There are people that aren’t able to do it, regardless of whether they take classes or try to self learn. It isnt the end all of things, since there’s other things that person can do. But those tech doors do exist for others whether you want to acknowledge it or not. I think more important though is ones attitude. Seems like pessisism at a great demotivator for a lot of things.

GOOOAL

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Screw these over priced and overrated Universities. If you can make 200-300K as a programmer nowadays, working from home, without a Degree from an elite University (or without any degree perhaps), why waste the time and money?

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Great idea dz….How did that work out for you in tech as an engineer back in 2000 ish?

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That time could be better spent taking focused training courses.

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Great idea dz. Again, how did that work out for you while you were briefly in tech in 2000?

I went to an pedigree Ivy league, graduated close to top of my class with an EE degree. I didn’t take more than 2 computer science class in college, and almost flunked one of it wasn’t for last minute office hours (ok, the senior TA was hot and was a good reason for going to office hours, but it got me to study). My interest in software didnt really start until after I started working and all based on 2 UCSD Extension classes. Everything else was self taught, and whatever work I could pick up in software. And then being given an software engineering job opportunity at a bay area startup.

So, do you need a fancy CS degree from a fancy school in order to do reasonably well in software ? No. Does it help? Maybe. I think it helps to the extent that if you are reasonably capable of surviving 4 years of a tough engineering school at a decent university , there’s a high probability you have the work ethics and mental capabilities to learn whatever you want on your own, whatever that may be. Whether it’s software you never knew about or learning how to invest. People underestimate the importance of work ethics and determination that 4 years dedicated to a demanding degree and/or school is. Character and work ethics building more so than the degree itself.

I would say what matters the most
is how determined versus lazy you are and how positive versus pessimistic you are. That’s the killer of opportunity more often than the degree one has or the school one is from. Some people are so baselessly arrogant that they talk themselves into doing nothing for themselves , which over the long period of times is very self destructive and defeating imho, especially if major career and financial decisions are made based off of this

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In my day you could justify the 4-5 years of partying at a University because public schools used to be cheap and relatively easy to get into.
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Great, how did that work out for you

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I only bashed UCSD because if you are the type that it is important to have a degree from an “elite” University, UCSD will simply never look as good on your resume as UCLA, Cal or other traditional power schools.[/quote]

Your reasons for bashing UCSD is just so far flung, it’s further flung than the lizards from bearishgurl’s hood. What would you know about hiring for tech and medical? Have you even hired anyone or been in a role to hire anyone throughout your career? What is your career BTW, and what are your qualifications to be justifying your really off and baseless sweeping statements.

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[quote=limkotir]I think most of your are much more a seasoned traveler than I am, both domestically and internationally, but for some of the places I have visited, in the back of my mind, I would be like, nope, this area would never produce or attract the level of talent, companies or technologies, vs. pockets of the U.S. such as Silicon Valley, SF, Boston, and etc.

I mean, even for big college towns, say, Texas A&M at College Station, outside of those are tied down because they work on-site at the school, why would anybody stay after graduation…?[/quote]

Dallas and Austin are also magnets for tech workers. I had a tenant that moved there after living here for 5 years.

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[quote=scaredyclassic]My 4.2 99th percentile sat 3d kid did not get into SDSU, where my older lesser grades kid did. Standards definitely rising. I love SDSU for at least giving one of my kids a quality cheap engineering degree. I think the 3d kid would’ve got into my ivy league alma mater, but not fucking SDSU. Bummer.

Going to be very happy to be done paying college tuition. Extremely proud that I was able to get 3 through with no debt. Would not have believed it would happen 20 years ago when I was broke with 150k in student loan debt myself.

(Pats self on back)

I always thought it was cheesy at graduations when the speaker would ask grads to turn around and give their folks a hand for all their support

But goshdarnit, now that I’m old, I feel like I deserve a round of applause.

(Claps for self).[/quote]

It’s not easy to get into SDSU these days for STEM related studies.

In my past 20+ years, I have seen very successful people from all sorts of solid state schools more so
than pedigree private schools.

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[quote=deadzone][quote=sdrealtor][quote=Coronita]The difference between UCLA and UCSD for engineering and biosciences is a marginal difference and within the error of the students ability. Anything more is just a who has a bigger penis useless exercise[/quote]

Well a certain legendary UCSD graduate has an enlargement plan[/quote]

Who…FLU? Or Evelyn Lyn?[/quote]

Lol. I didn’t go to UCSD. I went to a pedigree Ivy League. Not that it mattered much.

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The difference between UCLA and UCSD for engineering and biosciences is a marginal difference and within the error of the students ability. Anything more is just a who has a bigger penis useless exercise

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[quote=deadzone]I curious why everyone is cheerleading so much growth in San Diego. Is more traffic and congestion really so desirable? Sounds like many on here (definitely sdr) want San Diego to be LA and Bay Area. The reason San Diego is (or was) so desirable is it is NOT LA or Bay Area.

Is it just so your real estate holdings go up in value? I can’t think of any other benefit to all the growth.

And in the end, San Diego will ALWAYS be second or third fiddle to those cities, from a prestige point of view. You really want to compare UCSD and USD to UCLA and USC? And Sports and entertainment of LA compared to what little San Diego has?[/quote]

What is wrong with having better jobs , better pay, better schools, and seeing having home prices increase?

You’re wrong about UCSD at least in terms of engineering. Pretty high up there now. Irwin Jacobs helped transform that early on. Also the medical capabilities at UCSD is very good.

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[quote=The-Shoveler]Real easy to have sellers remorse these days but if there is one thing I have learned, if you sell a house in SoCal you will eventually regret it.

The tech industry growth in SD (especially NC) the last 10 years has been miraculous (almost anyway).[/quote]

Well to be fair, I did a 1031 exchange from college area to Mira Mesa. I didn’t think about keeping both and felt with the exchange instead of spending an additional $300k on a new property I could keep $300k invested elsewhere..that $300k is still sitting in the bank account doing very little 🙁

$125k> $415k would have been a lot nicer than $125K> $305K, plus rent would have been very cash flow positive now.

I listened too much to the sky is falling negative pundits here… Lesson learned.

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I shouldn’t have sold my condo my SDSU..lol…

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Speaking of comps. Today was my old bosses last day.

Awe….

Got my bonus too. Decent for FL based company.

Now I can continue looking for another job lol.

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Yes, I was being sarcastic limkotir 🙂

I’m telling you folks. San Diego 20 years ago might have been a hidden gem low cost beach city with a small airport.

It’s grown up. Beach + high tech/life sciences… I don’t see how the cost of living here is going to go back down.

What does a place like Irvine offer that San Diego North County does not? I can’t think of many.

People say Irvine has UCI , good K-12, and tech companies…

San diego has UCSD, good K-12, and tech/life sciences + beach + golf.

Doing a comparo
https://www.bestplaces.net/compare-cities/san_diego_ca/irvine_ca/costofliving

Irvine is 17% more expensive overall, and housing cost is 34% more.

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[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=limkotir]
A lot words in those two articles (opinionated with data), but San Diego was called out as “raising star” tech hub.[/quote]

Can anyone give me one good reason why San Diego won’t be as hot a tech hub as Silicon Valley (or any other place) ten years from now?[/quote]

Lack of decent STEM school in tech and biotech/life sciences. San Diego doesn’t have any noteworthy, high ranked universities…

Oh, wait… I’m not talking about 20 years ago…. nevermind…lol.

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[quote=an][quote=Coronita]https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/24/business/blackrock-globalization/index.html

End of globalization… Good news for engineers.

Chip fab coming back to the U.S. Yeah!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-nvidia-ceo-says-interested-160433287.html

National Security Concerns
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/intel-micron-ceos-testify-congress-154254102.html

Pretty healthy demand still reported from TSM
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tsmc-sees-demand-spike-auto-171542825.html%5B/quote%5D
Fake news…[/quote]

LOL…

GOOOOALLLL!!!!

The thing is inflation and higher wages can now justify high tech manufacturing in the US. This is the first time the US can get back to it.

What’s interesting will be companies like Global Foundaries which many thought would be dead….

I totally missed the boat on this one

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GFS

Global Foundaries was spun off from AMD decades ago….

9% gain alone today…

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Ok, let’s dissect this…

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So rates are not going up? Okay keep living in your fantasy land. Only a matter of time before it matters. San Diego RE is not immune to interest rates.
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Part 1
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So rates are not going up?
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Who on this thread is arguing that rates aren’t going up? Name one person on this thread….

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Okay keep living in your fantasy land. Only a matter of time before it matters. San Diego RE is not immune to interest rates.
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No one, except you, is making any predictions on when rates will start affecting purchases. You, however, are hell bent on “proving” it’s soon.

Let’s hypothetically say that it’s 10 years (length of a 10/1 arm) before rates really matter. Did you win? Yes, from an argument perspective. From a financial/home purchase perspective, you probably lost. If you’re going to be waiting 10 years before your first home purchase, ouch. Again, the only person you are arguing with is yourself.

Hope it’s worth it for you.

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[quote=sdrealtor]House in Encinitas just closed for $6M which is $300K above asking so a bidding war on it. It closed in 7 days! Wow those lenders are fast these days and congrats for locking in while rates are still low![/quote]

lol

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