> "and after six months of getting him up to speed on a fairly complex fintech application he resigned and went to a a random web development job that paid more

> "and after six months of getting him up to speed on a fairly complex fintech application he resigned and went to a a random web development job that paid more." Sounds like he wasn't the brightest The immediate payjump from hopping from bottom-of-the-rung where you're at to some random CRUD web dev job, I'd wager is far outweighed by the potential returns for senior experience in Fintech, specifically. That's a much harder niche to get into than building CRUD apps from what I hear.