8 ms·

If it helps: The salaries paid to early career engineers are mostly option value for mid-career engineers rather than being a direct attempt to compensate for y

If it helps: The salaries paid to early career engineers are mostly option value for mid-career engineers rather than being a direct attempt to compensate for your year 1 productivity. You might have a good bead on what your year 1 productivity is likely to be; you may be surprised how quickly you climb the skill curve and how valuable your labor becomes, at which point your employer will be saying "Phew! Good thing we don't have to get this geek from the market; that would cost [a substantial premium to the largest number you can think of being paid as of today]." Not sure I have anything to offer regarding the disparity between your income and that of anyone else in the economy, other than to say decreasing your income does not make any of them better off. Tip much more generously than society expects you to. If you have the opportunity to, join a company which broadly impacts economic opportunity.

avgeek23 7y ago
Yes,i have been tipping more lately.Now this was my first time in europe,i was shocked to see people were doing stuff outside of tech,young people having arts stuff(dancing etc) as a career,folks were working in bars and cafes. There's just so much more outside of tech. Eastern europe made me feel as if i had way more money.
- itcrowd 7y ago
  > Now this was my first time in europe,i was shocked to see people were doing stuff outside of tech I don't know where you're from but regardless, there are young folks working jobs outside of tech literally everywhere. Unless you work, sleep and spend your spare time in Google's HQ or something. How is this shocking?
  - avgeek23 7y ago
    All the people I know friends,family members, acquaintances all work in tech or have worked in tech at some point (my mom) . I literally didn't interact with people outside of tech that are of my age up until last month or so as I simple did not know them. I think the culture shock also hit me, coming form a Developing nation I expected people in Europe or developed countries to be more oriented towards stem not just as a career but also as a general thing,being more scientific. Prioratizing education etc. I interacted with young folks and a lot of them thought all this computers and stem was a thing smart people do. Most had not even heard of certain stuff and were short sighted interma of career choices. The housekeeping chick I talked to told me she had no idea about many stem based things and was studying art history and political science.
    - deleted 7y ago
      [deleted]

avgeek23 7y ago

Yes,i have been tipping more lately.Now this was my first time in europe,i was shocked to see people were doing stuff outside of tech,young people having arts stuff(dancing etc) as a career,folks were working in bars and cafes. There's just so much more outside of tech. Eastern europe made me feel as if i had way more money.

itcrowd 7y ago
> Now this was my first time in europe,i was shocked to see people were doing stuff outside of tech I don't know where you're from but regardless, there are young folks working jobs outside of tech literally everywhere. Unless you work, sleep and spend your spare time in Google's HQ or something. How is this shocking?
- avgeek23 7y ago
  All the people I know friends,family members, acquaintances all work in tech or have worked in tech at some point (my mom) . I literally didn't interact with people outside of tech that are of my age up until last month or so as I simple did not know them. I think the culture shock also hit me, coming form a Developing nation I expected people in Europe or developed countries to be more oriented towards stem not just as a career but also as a general thing,being more scientific. Prioratizing education etc. I interacted with young folks and a lot of them thought all this computers and stem was a thing smart people do. Most had not even heard of certain stuff and were short sighted interma of career choices. The housekeeping chick I talked to told me she had no idea about many stem based things and was studying art history and political science.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]