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.
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 was broke. I couldn't make money investing with cash. I invested my time. A lot of us ex-finance did that. I'm as surprised as anyone else that tech comp has gone up so much, but it was clearly the most in-demand skillset. Software has been "eating the world" for years.
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Andreesen published "Why software is eating the world" in 2011. Bootcamp grads right now don't even need to predict it. They're getting in later, so the road is harder, but it's 100% hard work for them.
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