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With all due respect...I think that the factor we are trying to maximize is not money...It is overall life satisfaction and happiness as a hacker. Personally I
by freemarketteddy 15y ago
With all due respect...I think that the factor we are trying to maximize is not money...It is overall life satisfaction and happiness as a hacker.
Personally I would choose 80K a year building my own awesome apps ,making a name for myself,travelling the world ,meeting awesome people than making 200K at xyz corp where I spend my day exchanging bullshit emails with upper management.
- patio11 15y agoI'm very, very sympathetic about those goals. :) Please do more research about the app market. Most people will not achieve $80k or anything close to it as independent app developers. I wish you every success.
- xiaoma 15y agoI deal with app developers every day. I read a feed of iTunes store rankings regularly in the course of what I do. 80K is not an extremely rare level of success. In fact, even one of my old college buddies with a total MS-stack background has eclipsed it. I'm not really in a position to share details, but for A-level geeks, there is much, much more than 100-200k to be made. It's true that most people won't achieve that. Much like 90% of sales-people's income are at sub-median levels, it's closer to a power distribution than a gaussian one.