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I just wish finance would take off again so all the mercenaries looking for a quick buck but with no personal affinity for technology would have somewhere else
by ralph84 7y ago
I just wish finance would take off again so all the mercenaries looking for a quick buck but with no personal affinity for technology would have somewhere else to go.
- BadassFractal 7y agoWhen is this sentiment justified and when is it just gatekeeping?
- pm90 7y agoLook at the cohorts of Product Managers, Security "Specialists" (Disclosure: they're not engineers, experts, its a totally made up title), Certified Buzzy Buzzwordingtons etc. Its not very hard to see, as the OP pithely pointed out, that Tech seems to be the only place today where its possible to strike gold.
- jayd16 7y agoI thought that's why we invented Bitcoin.
- 0db532a0 7y agoRalph is still clutching onto the idea that there is any sort of objective meaning in life. The idea of mercenaries and men who pursue good money for good money’s sake greatly challenges the coping mechanisms which he has built to justify his objectively meaningless existence with his relatively underpaying startup job where he gets to play around with self-testing NoSQL-Elasticsearch-Kubernetes-Golang-Elixir-Node.FU spaceships all day.