Let's break down my March income as a 22 year old software engineer in New York City.

Let's break down my March income as a 22 year old software engineer in New York City. Guys, this month was actually kind of crazy. Since I exceeded expectations last year, I got a raise, but barely. For my base pay, I made $10,972.54. My 2025 bonus came in, which is $10,226. On TikTok views, I made a grand total of $10.88. They really need to up that. Like Instagram and Facebook are literally upping their game. I don't know what's wrong with TikTok. And a big one is from affiliate links, which I made $2,644 from. This is the first time that social media has almost paid my rent for the month, which brings this month's grand total to $23,853.42. I just want to say I mostly post these for transparency, both into the software engineering industry and to tell people how much money is really online. Like if you post for a year consistently, you can also be making money online. And I also don't believe in the fact you need to quit your 9 to 5 to do social media because social media is basically my part-time job now. I have no agent, I handle emails myself, and it's been great. I have an upcoming partnership with one of my favourite brokerage firms, so just stay tuned. Like if you told me a year ago, which is when I started this account, that I'd be partnering with this firm, I would be like, what the actual