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Is it really? FAANG jobs are outliers. Some professional fields seem to do OK (medical), but others are atrocious on average (law). Most people see science/eng

by creato 6y ago

Is it really? FAANG jobs are outliers. Some professional fields seem to do OK (medical), but others are atrocious on average (law). Most people see science/engineering jobs as a path to a cubicle for a while with an OK salary before being laid off at 40. And for the most part, they're right.

softwaredoug 6y ago
“Most people” - pretty sure children of educated parents are focused heavily on education and being steered to jobs that require that education. That’s 40-60% of the US population. They weren’t teaching coding to grade schoolers at scale 10 years ago.