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you don't know what you're talking about. you are naive, and uninformed. worse than that, you depress earnings for an entire industry of people because you ar

you don't know what you're talking about. you are naive, and uninformed. worse than that, you depress earnings for an entire industry of people because you are willing to work for shit money. an oracle DBA/engineer with 10 years of experience can easily clear a quarter million a year. same with SAP or anyone who has done large Microsoft installations / integrations. your ego is not allowing you to believe that people make this much money because it means you have somehow been unable to achieve that level of financial success despise your (probably pretty good) tech skills. it pins the blame on you, and your ego can't accept that. it just can't. it would rather deny reality than hurt itself. just because you don't believe it doesn't mean it's not true. the main difference between people like that, and people like you, is they know what they're worth, and have the balls to tell someone insulting them with low paying work to fuck off in exactly as many words.

pessimizer 13y ago
>an oracle DBA/engineer with 10 years of experience can easily clear a quarter million a year. I don't buy "easily" for a second. "Often" - yes.
- beachstartup 13y ago
  for some people, often = easy
_pmf_ 13y ago
> you are naive, and uninformed. worse than that, you depress earnings for an entire industry of people because you are willing to work for shit money. Just remember how the fallout from the last bubble (which included inflated salaries) affected real industries with hard working real people having real families that did not have anything to do with the ridiculous entitlement and greediness of the entrepreneurial culture. They are the ones that ultimately pay for folks like you. If you are not creating sustainable revenue with your line of work but rely on bean counter tricks you are dead weight in terms of economic value, regardless of your nominal salary.

pessimizer 13y ago

>an oracle DBA/engineer with 10 years of experience can easily clear a quarter million a year. I don't buy "easily" for a second. "Often" - yes.

beachstartup 13y ago
for some people, often = easy

_pmf_ 13y ago

> you are naive, and uninformed. worse than that, you depress earnings for an entire industry of people because you are willing to work for shit money. Just remember how the fallout from the last bubble (which included inflated salaries) affected real industries with hard working real people having real families that did not have anything to do with the ridiculous entitlement and greediness of the entrepreneurial culture. They are the ones that ultimately pay for folks like you. If you are not creating sustainable revenue with your line of work but rely on bean counter tricks you are dead weight in terms of economic value, regardless of your nominal salary.