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This is always the same logic, where a plumber makes a ton of money. The reality is that your trusted plumber is actually a business owner. If you start out as
by mawadev 4y ago
This is always the same logic, where a plumber makes a ton of money. The reality is that your trusted plumber is actually a business owner. If you start out as a plumber, you need a ton of work to get to this spot by working for someone else for a bad wage. Meanwhile as a dev, I can comfortably work for someone else and don't have all the risk.
- bumby 4y agoYou might need to define a “bad” wage. According to BLS, the median wage for a plumber is slightly above the median wage in the US as a whole. I do think some of the inflated values of some jobs is they are somewhat opaque, while the stuff of jobs like plumbing is easier to at least conceptualize, even if the work itself still requires skill and care. It’s easier for a BS job to inflate its importance if people don’t know exactly how it works.