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This article was a really interesting read, because I've been thinking lately that companies tend to succeed off the back of people caring a lot and putting in
by ZephyrBlu 4y ago
This article was a really interesting read, because I've been thinking lately that companies tend to succeed off the back of people caring a lot and putting in extra hours but I haven't seen this verbalized before.
I think the young guy they interviewed whose dad makes barely more than he will summed it up perfectly. You realize that if you put in all that extra work you get paid fuck all extra. It doesn't make any sense to work so hard for so little reward in most fields.
I feel like tech, finance and maybe law are the only corporate careers where it makes sense to work really hard because there are outsized rewards for high competence, but even then it doesn't always make sense.
Millenials kind of realized this Zoomers have fully realized this. Probably related to most fields stagnating heavily career-wise and having relatively poor pay.
It's interesting to see a lot of Millenials and Zoomers cottoning onto the fact that tech pays well. It's surprisingly common on social media and IRL to see something along the lines of "someone is making a lot of money = most likely works in tech", and vice versa.
- jiveturkey 4y ago> I think the young guy they interviewed whose dad makes barely more than he will summed it up perfectly. actually i found that to be the most flawed part. they didn’t describe the industry the dad was in, nor the dad’s wage when he had the son’s YOE. it’s fair to report the feelings of the son to the revelation, but intellectually dishonest to leave out some basic objective analysis around it. that said, flaws or not, yes it seems that is the crux of it. people are done with working to improve the lot of the masters. something i think would help is to reduce CEO to median worker compensation multiple.
- coliveira 4y agoMillennials are the first generation to see the full impact of the brainless and soulless policies enacted by the US government in 40 years. They understand that what the government says are complete lies that are making people poor and destroying their livelihood.
- WalterBright 4y agoWhen I was young, people dismissed engineers as "nerds". Then those nerds starting making lots of money, and attitudes changed.
- icelancer 4y agoYeah, now we're hated as much as financebros.
- rightbyte 4y ago> feel like tech, finance and maybe law are the only corporate careers where it makes sense to work really hard Cut tech from the list. Job hoping is the way to get wage increases, not working more than you are payed to. In law and finance there often are kickbacks from sales. Learning really hard might pay of in tech.
- bongoman37 4y ago[dead]
- tw98521358 4y agoAny field where you can own/buy the means of production it makes sense to grind out skill early career and go off on your own. Otherwise just optimize for lowest effort