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Defense doesn’t pay better than regular tech. The people in defense are doing it because they believe in helping the govt.
by kortilla 8mo ago
Defense doesn’t pay better than regular tech. The people in defense are doing it because they believe in helping the govt.
- nyargh 8mo agoI would argue those at OpenAI or Anthropic are making considerably more than just "regular tech"
- Shank 8mo agoI used to work in defense, and this is not true either. People work in defense because it is effectively a job where you can never lose your job except for absolute gross misconduct, have a hard-cap of 40 hours a week / 80 hours a pay cycle (commonly leads to people working "9/80 schedules" and taking every other friday off), and generally speaking you have a lot of chances to move around org charts when programs change. A "cushy" job with very low chance of being fired with a stable paycheck is valuable to a lot of people. There are also missions people find valuable, like SBIRS ground, where theoretically real lives are being protected. I know a lot of people who enjoy finding meaning in their work, and there are many programs that bring that level of satisfaction (again, look at things like SBIRS ground).