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>Software development isn't high status field. Even if you are mediocre (or not even that) you can get a job that pays more than most jobs do. That counts a lo
by forinti 3y ago
>Software development isn't high status field.
Even if you are mediocre (or not even that) you can get a job that pays more than most jobs do. That counts a lot.
- emmelaich 3y agoIt's still not high status.
- nojvek 3y agoIf you make money, work anywhere you want, do whatever you want with your money, you are high status.
- kazinator 3y agoIf morticians and embalmers made $200K, would anything change?
- Volrath89 3y agoYou are objectively correct, and it should be high status. But it isn’t. For the normies we are just a bunch of nerds. Real high status is law, medicine, etc.
- philsnow 3y ago> Real high status is law, medicine, etc. Is that still true? For what group are those professions high status? I feel like it's a thing the previous generation brags about to their peers, but I have a pretty cynical view on the state of justice (in the States, anyway) and thus on lawyers for participating in it. Yes, it's a difficult profession to get into, but that's not enough at least for me to perceive it as high status. If by "medicine" you mean doctors in particular, and not clinical researchers or nurses, I have to similarly disagree; similarly to getting a J.D., it requires a ton of work to earn an M.D., but in my mind the highest-status subgroup in medicine (not to downplay the amount of education that's required, because it is almost equal to what's required to be a doctor) is nursing.