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> If you're really just after high payouts and nothing else, was going into IT even the best choice to begin with? I don't know many other professions where hi
by TomVDB 6y ago
> If you're really just after high payouts and nothing else, was going into IT even the best choice to begin with?
I don't know many other professions where high salaries are pretty much a given, without cutthroat competition among your peers?
You can get high payouts building a company, becoming a top lawyer or medical professional, but the investment in time, effort, and money is much higher, and the chances of success are lower.
- unishark 6y agoAre you comparing average doctors or lawyers to the highest-paid and most career-motivated and personal-life-sacrificing programmers? Because other professions can be strategic too. E.g. the median income for patent lawyers or many medical specialties blows IT away. And those professional credentials are still valuable when you're 50 or 60, while your hot programming skills from your school days will have become an outsourced commodity that hiring managers deem worthless.