HAH! This is so true. On entry into undergrad I think I would have predicted my wage at retirement as a bit more than my parents made (so, say, 60-80k) but not, like, 100k. By graduation I had realized I might make 100k by retirementhttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1115786704432979969 …
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Replying to @kevinriggle
I remember (Midwest in 2004) drawing out a curve which predicted $100k inflation adjusted at age 50 assuming I was in top 10% of engineers by productivity.
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Replying to @patio11 @kevinriggle
A huge portion of that exercise was “This number looks stupid high, higher than anyone in my extended family and anyone at school except the people working in or descended from finance.” The Internet is the best thing that ever happened, exhibit #58363.
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To spell out for peanut gallery the subtext to this conversation: Kevin and I were in a position of informational disadvantage early in career. I think that mechanisms like e.g. HN distribute accurate information much more widely than the silos that existed in 2004 did.
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Replying to @patio11
The Midwest was also like... if you were a programmer you wrote Foxpro for the paint company
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So help me God a college classmate got a job at Google in 2004 and the prevailing attitude at school was “Oh poor dear; we thought she was a shoe-in for management consulting, but hopefully she’ll make that crazy startup thing work for her.”
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I think my HS community would have figured management consultant meant you worked for the local agricultural extension service
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One of the probably-for-the-best and yet silliest failures of my life was being dumbfounded in college about how one would get into management consulting and not pursuing it on a campus which literally had open-invite dedicated recruiting events for them.
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Replying to @patio11
I’d have loved it but they would have made me cut my hair
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