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I have an employee right now with Bachelor of Art in Music whose career in music fizzled out making $190k today in software outside of SV. That's it. That's his
by evilduck 3y ago
I have an employee right now with Bachelor of Art in Music whose career in music fizzled out making $190k today in software outside of SV. That's it. That's his software credentials. A physician lost far more money in life getting their degree and spends about that gap in pay in malpractice insurance and professional attire required to work in a hospital, and generally works more hours at a higher stress level.
Your bitterness is completely blinding you.
- aio2 3y agoYall need to calm your asses. It's just a comparison to other job
- giantg2 3y agoIt's more than that. It's the continuation of a distorted view of reality in which the world is a meritocracy and everyone can be rich if they just try hard enough. That's there's nothing stopping anyone from taking a job that doesn't require years of training and making 2x+ the median for that role and using just an anecdote to back it up. This type of stuff is detrimental to the choices and mental health of the next generation - expecting things that don't exist and then being crushed by reality.
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- aio2 3y agoIt's up to you to percieve this the way you wish, but please don't not force these assumptions onto other people. Thanks!
- giantg2 3y agoNot an assumption. You can look up median wages on the BLS and see they are vastly different.
- imtringued 3y agoAh yes, the good old other people's life's are "forced assumptions".
- giantg2 3y agoThat's one example. Look at the medians. I mean, this is HN not Reddit. We should be looking at the data.
- evilduck 3y agoLook at the data then, because your cherry picking nonsense to support your sob story is tiring. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm Sorting by annual income, software developers are surrounded by more highly credentialed career options that are much harder to get into or are surrounded by similar paying roles that much more sparsely available per capita.
- giantg2 3y agoWhat sob story? Are those immediately adjacent roles physicians - no, they're making almost double nased on median hourly wage. There are many near that level that do not require extensive training, including ones that have sizable representation (look at all those manager positions, and FYI magistrates are near there and require no law degree, etc). Had that person used nurses, PAs, etc, then they would have been correct. Those do have training requirements and make similar money. FYI, that's the mean annual income. I'm talking about median (use the median hourly wage column).