You should eat your hat. The majority of people who work in restaurants do not stay there their entire life. Most move on to different careers, and for some of

You should eat your hat. The majority of people who work in restaurants do not stay there their entire life. Most move on to different careers, and for some of them it's coding. I'm one of them. And even if the person doesn't move from waiting tables to coding, they are probably switching jobs because a position opened in a better field, and that position opened because somebody else switched to a better job - maybe coding? It's a waterfall effect when salaries increase and employers have to compete for talent. It is the ideal state of things, and the entire purpose of having a free market economy.