Does anyone else feel that they basically lucked into a high paying career because their interests randomly aligned with scarcity and a rapidly growing field, and that it's nowhere near as hard, or as societally valuable as what teachers, medical professionals and care-givers do?
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This is BS. I left a career in finance in 2011 to teach myself web dev. It wasn't luck. I could make 1.5x my finance salary as an entry level dev, so I changed careers.
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If your hard work is what caused tech compensation to increase by 1.5x from 2011 to now, then I owe you a beer. If you're saying that you correctly predicted this would happen, you could've made a lot more money with less effort by taking on a ton of debt and buying tech stocks.
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I made it through the dot com bomb, and I've watched a lot of people leave tech. There are a lot of things about it normal people would not be able to deal with. Constant change and constant learning being one of them. Teachers are so very underpaid :(
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It was a result of my work.
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