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Maybe the best advice this article could have given would be to look for those careers. Taking the job with the most money is reasonable, taking the job job you
by Bartweiss 9y ago
Maybe the best advice this article could have given would be to look for those careers. Taking the job with the most money is reasonable, taking the job job you love most is reasonable, but if we're talking economics then the comparative advantage is in finding the job you like most relative to everyone else.
On which note, I don't think it's an accident that some subdomains of programming have really happy people making good money. Sure, it's work they love, but optimizing compilers or whatever else appeals to few enough people that it's a great fit for anyone who does like it.
- ghaff 9y agoIn general, in engineering, getting very good at some obscure specialty (which is highly valued and you like well enough) is pretty good advice in general. Of course, pick wrong--or don't be flexible enough--and you're the world's performance expert in some computer architecture that's now obsolete or the Y2K expert in 2001.