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> I'd imagine for most of his peers from high school he's considered a disappointment for working at "only" AWS I went to school at about the same time at the
by bb611 6y ago
> I'd imagine for most of his peers from high school he's considered a disappointment for working at "only" AWS
I went to school at about the same time at the other high school in town (technically 2 towns, 1 combined school district), my family mostly still lives there. A job across the country in a well known tech company is reasonably top 25% of the class or so. Not standout, but nothing to be embarrassed about, and that's where plenty of us ended up.
- lowiqengineer 6y agoIf your parents don't talk about it (as mine don't, presumably because they're ashamed?) I don't know if it's "nothing to be embarrassed about". What did the top 1% do? What did your valedictorian(s) do?
- bb611 6y agoHilariously enough, my class' Valedictorian is now an ML Engineer on Amazon Echo. I wasn't answering the question of "what will their parents think", I was just pointing out the reaction of our peers because I grew up in the same community. Parental reaction is typically much more about them as people than any other particular factor.