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A lot of popular kids and jocks end up in management in tech while the loners and kids of immigrants are the ones actually creating the software.
by babyshake 5y ago
A lot of popular kids and jocks end up in management in tech while the loners and kids of immigrants are the ones actually creating the software.
- humanrebar 5y agoMaybe true but there's a lot of survivorship bias in the population. Software shops are often hurting for clear communicators. Winsome folks tend to get bumped into leadership roles even if they start out slinging curly braces and semicolons.
- UncleMeat 5y agoEven if this were true (jocks go into management and management is useless), it would be the opposite of what the parent was saying about the people on the path to high pay rarely having romantic relationships since management tends to pay well.
- sulam 5y agosource?
- acheron 5y agoI don’t know where you went to school. I guess I know a “jock” type who was running a meth lab, I guess that is a kind of management, at least until he went to prison.