In October 2022, a drunk-driving Tesla crashed into my house. This event pushed me to rage-quit San Francisco. I knew something was wrong in my life but I couldn’t quite figure it out. I decided to become a digital nomad hoping my mental peace would improve. After visiting Denver, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Portland, and Salt Lake City, I realized it wasn’t where I lived that was the problem; it was what I was doing.

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The author quit their $600k data engineering job at Airbnb and made $600k in 7 months from content creation and teaching. They were inspired by living with YouTubers and wanted to have complete ownership of their ideas. They launched a data engineering boot camp and created long-form valuable content. They also marketed their boot camp and made improvements to their product during different iterations. Despite incurring expenses, they achieved a net profit of $539,065.

How I quit my $600k data engineering job at Airbnb and made $600k in 7 months from content creation and teaching

<p>Highly doubt he was making $600k in an engineering role. Just feels like a clickbait article.</p>


<p>Smells like the type of backhanded bragging I am unwilling to engage with. Congrats you made 600k but remember, when your time comes you won’t be able to take anything more than the memories of your experiences with you so is money really that important in the grand scheme?</p>
