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Coding? Your art is one of the most directly financially valuable skills on the planet and you're comparing yourself to starving musicians?
by alpark3 3y ago
Coding? Your art is one of the most directly financially valuable skills on the planet and you're comparing yourself to starving musicians?
- vorpalhex 3y agoMy coding wasn't valuable when I started, anymore than the beginner guitarist is Bon Jovi.
- platyp 3y agoThe distinction is that working on your "art" is a direct pathway to thousands of salaried jobs with benefits. If you are a reasonably strong programmer and software engineer, you have to actively choose not to accept one of those jobs to struggle. It is not comparable at all to the struggles of someone in the fine arts.
- sonicshadow 3y agoThe difference is that a bottom 20% developer can make 6 figures after a few years of experience, while even a top 10% musician can barely make rent in a major city
- dragonwriter 3y agoThere are a lot more jobs for programmers than musicians, at higher median pay (but a lower mean, because the pay for musicians is much more concentrated in a small cadre of very high earners.) Very different markets. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes272042.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes272042.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151251.htm https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes151251.htm
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoI'm pretty surprised that software doesn't run into the mean skew. I guess you stop calling yourself a programmer when you're a CTO/CEO of your tech company you founded.