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But would you be OK with the fact that your boss is making millions off your passion? As an ex-academic, I know where you're coming from. In academia it's easi
by karmakurtisaani 1y ago
But would you be OK with the fact that your boss is making millions off your passion?
As an ex-academic, I know where you're coming from. In academia it's easier to justify working all thr time, since at least no one is making money. It's just for the love of pursuing knowledge. I cannot imagine breaking my back smiling just to make someone else rich.
- gruez 1y agoI think OP's point isn't that he'd accept taking a job at [insert tech company here] and have them pay him $50k, when the going rate is $300k or whatever, it's that in a hypothetical scenario where programming isn't prestigious and the pay was only $50k, he'd still take that job (as opposed to finding another line of work like finance or whatever).