> Was your friend bamboozled into thinking that he could earn $250k/yr as a dancer? Its more the old meritocracy adage. "Work hard and you'll be comfortable".

> Was your friend bamboozled into thinking that he could earn $250k/yr as a dancer? Its more the old meritocracy adage. "Work hard and you'll be comfortable". Its more than that. Sure he could have made it dancing but not JUST dancing, if he'd gone for more a PR and choreography route, if he'd considered effectively wasting his training on doing something easy like being a backing dancer to a pop star. However all of this is very much "create a successful startup" level than "be a code monkey level". To succeed as a dancer as much as a programmer you really have to go above and beyond. I have worked sanitation before too. Honest work though.