I was at ORCL for about 5 years. During that time, I worked my tail off. However, I also leveraged that time to buy and flip 2 homes in the bay area. I was able to take advantage of working remotely, so that I could search for homes, make offers, purchase, renovate and sell.
I'm curious if anyone else had side hustles while they were working at ORCL? I figure that most people had something going on the side since our salaries were cr-p.
Yeah, well, the biggest problem you have right now is that little miss goody two-shoes doesn't really want a job like that. You can't really do anything about that.
Oh, absolutely. I worked there for about 7 years doing pretty much nothing but a couple meetings a week. I spent my time pursuing my own interests, stocks, and even working a couple consulting jobs. Consider your salary to be just base pay, and your other jobs to be where you make the real money.
Surely Oracle isn’t the only place you can do a side hustle though?
Absolutely. Just about anything is possible.
Surely Oracle isn’t the only place you can do a side hustle though?
When I lived in silly valley, I knew a VP at Sun and a manager at IBM who were working from home. There was no real "side hustle" going on there. They just didn't do anything. It was a big laugh to them that all they had to do all day was go to a couple of meetings and then they could relax for the rest of the day. No hustle.
Personally, I didn't think much of them. I don't think much of the management at Oracle either. They may go into the office, but as far as I can tell, they don't do anything at all. Push off all responsibility to people on their teams so they can have someone to blame when things fall through. Management of blame is really all there is.
For many people a side hustle is called raising your children, running your household, dealing with aging relatives and trying to have some semblance of a life. After all, you need CUSTOMERS for all these side hustles.
Don’t let all this talk of side hustle make you feel like a failure.
The true failure is a society that tolerates how poorly people get paid requiring all these gyrations just to keep your financial head above water, or retire or fund a kid’s education. Maybe pay off medical debt, bc that’s a gigantic societal failure too.
No reason to work at orahole. None at all. If you are still there you need to get out.
Surely Oracle isn’t the only place you can do a side hustle though?
Traded and researched stocks. Worked out. Crossed my first million at 42. That was good for me since I started putting back in at 30. My last two managers were both horrible and my GBU is dead and sucked so no way I was going down with them. Products no one needed haha.
This is one of the only reasons why I stay at Oracle and am considering staying longer.
The compensation is getting really bad with how prices are going up so this may be an opportunity to break free from the corporate way of life
I spent a lot of time learning about investments, how to manage my money, and discovered the FIRE movement. I was looking for a way to become financially independent to free myself from the difficult situation I found myself in at work.
The stoic idea of using adverse circumstances as opportunities to improve one's self applies here: use your current frustrations as fuel to improve yourself. A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.