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Millennial devs at least have it better than any other generation. At no other point in history has a 20-something year old been able to make a 1%er income writ
by esoterica 7y ago
Millennial devs at least have it better than any other generation. At no other point in history has a 20-something year old been able to make a 1%er income writing code. But you can in the enchanted playground that is the modern Bay Area.
There’s no telling how long this was last though; maybe at some point in the future there’ll be a reversion to the mean and programmers will go back to making 80k/year like all the other mid-skilled white collar office drones. Which is another reason to drink from the firehose and squeeze every last venture capital penny out of the system while you still can instead of worrying about work-life balance.
- zackmorris 7y agoLocation really is everything. I have a Bay Area idealism but I live in Boise, Idaho. Which for the last 20 years was more like the scenery of Napoleon Dynamite than say, Austin or Boulder. But it's been gentrifying extremely rapidly for the last 5 years or so. There's talk of it being the next Silicon Valley. But good news feels like bad news for me, and I'm in mourning about the loss of heritage.
- boring_twenties 7y agoI wouldn't get too excited. There are many tech companies here in Salt Lake City, but they all pay shit. The last ad I looked at was offering $40-60 an hour... for an "expert" in both C++ and Rust. LOL