> I would expect that my effort would have at least some positive effect on my starter's income. > At my work I am doing similar stuff as when I started progra

> I would expect that my effort would have at least some positive effect on my starter's income. > At my work I am doing similar stuff as when I started programming at 12 Given the second comment I'm surprised that you have that expectation and I think it's heavily influenced by your culture. In the states we don't care about effort at all. We care about outcome. I think this leads to a huge number of efficiency gains.