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How does personal sacrifice correlate with market price for your skills? Maybe it's progress when someone with a liberal arts degree (and presumably some progr
by nohuck13 13y ago
How does personal sacrifice correlate with market price for your skills? Maybe it's progress when someone with a liberal arts degree (and presumably some programming experience) can get competing developer job offers based on his skills.
I agree with your sentiment about the most-upvoted posts but I don't see this as a counterargument.
- karlkatzke 13y agoI think you would be surprised which developers have a liberal arts degree and which don't. I know of at least five or six developers who currently have or in the past have held very lofty roles within international open-source projects who have liberal arts degrees.
- nostrademons 13y agoThe irony is that we're all posting this on a site run by Paul Graham, who majored in Philosophy.
- michaelt 13y agoHow does personal sacrifice correlate with market price for your skills? Requiring personal sacrifice (like medical training does) limits the supply of labour, and limiting supply drives up prices.