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>>In my case, I CAN do their job. Your overall point is diminished when you say things like this, because it comes across as arrogant. Without substantiating t
by dsacco 10y ago
>>In my case, I CAN do their job.
Your overall point is diminished when you say things like this, because it comes across as arrogant. Without substantiating that, you're just pandering to everyone who holds the same ideology on CEO pay.
The way you describe it, technical jobs are the hardest in the world, and everything else is comparatively easy. You make it sound as though there is only one truly difficult discipline, which happens to be yours.
Furthermore, you're lumping the job duties of all CEOs together as though they all share a homogenous skill set you could pick up.
I'm unconvinced by an ethos that boils down to, "My work is hard because it's programming, their work is not because it's soft skills."
- mpdehaan2 10y agoMissing lots of context. (A) See profile. These are a lot of skills I HAVE picked up (B) I'm pretty non-technical these days. (C) when I'm suggesting hard work is hard work, I include everyone putting in hard effort - not just developers, but I do lean heavily in endorsing those who build the product. I'm not saying I can run Goldman Sachs. I can run a few software companies a lot better than they are being run. What I'm saying here is that CEOs are mortal. The more you know the more you know this. If you're just starting out you may not realize this, but as you start to experience various executives and know the decisions they make, and what the people under them do, with the experience over time - you just see the value that people should be valued more equally and the system should be fixed. To do this, we need the support of everyone in at least knowing the system is broken, not the defense of the broken system. I am not a programmer these days. Hard work is hard work, and is mostly measured by the stress it inflicts on you. With practice, things get easier. But all people have value.
- jimbokun 10y agoI think, though, Ycombinator is premised on the idea technical people can learn a CEO's job much easier than vice versa. I'm pretty sure he says something very close to that in one of his essays. (Business being relatively easy to learn for a talented technical person.)
- sidlls 10y agoYes, and that premise is controversial at best.