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Why the pedantry? Those examples are exceedingly rare.
by mehphp 5y ago
Why the pedantry? Those examples are exceedingly rare.
- paulpauper 5y agobeing a doctor is rare?
- mehphp 5y agoYes, becoming a wealthy doctor is rare. Again, the original point isn’t that it’s impossible to get rich by selling your time but that you’ll most likely need some leverage (i.e. in the form of owning a business)
- ryan93 5y agoMost doctors retire with millions if they want. Pediatricians make more than most engineers
- lotsofpulp 5y agoBecoming a doctor in the US is the most sure fire way to become wealthy across a whole occupation class. Less so today, as they are being squeezed, but they had a goldmine from 1980 to 2010s. If you’re not becoming wealthy with these kinds of average incomes, you’re doing something wrong: https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-compensation-overview-6011286 https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-compensation-overvie...
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoOr an engineer at FAANG+M? There's literally millions of us.
- mehphp 5y agoFAANG is engineers do great but not sure I’d classify the vast majority of them as rich...
- ghaff 5y agoDo you like upper middle class better? No, they're not flying private jets but unless they're right out of school with a lot of debt they're probably pretty comfortable.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Or an engineer at FAANG+M? There's literally millions of us “Software and Web Developers, Programmers, and Testers”, total, in the US are under 2 million, and FAANG+M are a small fraction of that. FAANG+M is around 1 million total employees, but most of that is Amazon, non-software. The idea that there are millions of FAANGN+M software engineers is simply nowhere close to true.
- dragonwriter 5y agoBeing a doctor that makes 7 figures is rare, yes.
- obloid 5y agoA doctor making 7 figures is rare. Source: I am a doctor