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<blockquote data-quote="Travesty" data-source="post: 811021" data-attributes="member: 4407"><p>You have mentioned between this thread and others now CS degrees and programming is a commodity.</p><p></p><p>Please do not scare guys away from something that makes young guys millionaires everyday and a profession that has recruiters calling your phone off the hook once you have one solid thing on your resume with an easy ability to make $120k+ with as little as 3 years experience if you work hard even with an education from a middling school, without needing any post-grad education or debt.</p><p></p><p>A lot of my lawyer friends or family friends are usually one of two camps: Don't really like their job, or they love it and have no life are unhealthy and are very dull people that bring work all the time.</p><p></p><p>I would be a talented programmer rather than a talented lawyer any day of the week for reference purely for the lifestyle. One has to do with reviewing rules and arguing about made up rules. The other is going to do unbelievable shit in our lifetime.</p><p></p><p>I am not talking about Facebook or Google jobs either. There are thousands of companies.</p><p></p><p>Not to mention the unlimited upside of creating a licensed product and scaling or selling out.</p><p></p><p>Is it worth even the added bonus of stable high paying employment that is worldwide remote capable? Or no dress code most places. Or the fact once you are good at programming you can do it pretty well hung over. Not the same if you need to be on the phone or in front of people presenting, I've had a face to face customer relation sales job with a tie - it's awful for the long haul.</p><p></p><p>Or the fact if you enjoy what you work on and are good it really isn't much different than playing a musical instrument or a puzzle game while getting paid.</p><p> </p><p>Tech is invading everywhere we are the last job because we are the job killers. Save for whores.</p><p></p><p>Only advanced AI will have a chance at taking out the top 20% of programmers from having very lucrative jobs with tons of positions to choose from. At that point 50 years or more from now we won't having a working society anymore. It will be universal wage or death. For now, easy to be top 20% because at least 50% of programmers are horrible at dealing with people, clients, or managing other programmers, and they refuse to keep on top of their skills.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travesty, post: 811021, member: 4407"] You have mentioned between this thread and others now CS degrees and programming is a commodity. Please do not scare guys away from something that makes young guys millionaires everyday and a profession that has recruiters calling your phone off the hook once you have one solid thing on your resume with an easy ability to make $120k+ with as little as 3 years experience if you work hard even with an education from a middling school, without needing any post-grad education or debt. A lot of my lawyer friends or family friends are usually one of two camps: Don't really like their job, or they love it and have no life are unhealthy and are very dull people that bring work all the time. I would be a talented programmer rather than a talented lawyer any day of the week for reference purely for the lifestyle. One has to do with reviewing rules and arguing about made up rules. The other is going to do unbelievable shit in our lifetime. I am not talking about Facebook or Google jobs either. There are thousands of companies. Not to mention the unlimited upside of creating a licensed product and scaling or selling out. Is it worth even the added bonus of stable high paying employment that is worldwide remote capable? Or no dress code most places. Or the fact once you are good at programming you can do it pretty well hung over. Not the same if you need to be on the phone or in front of people presenting, I've had a face to face customer relation sales job with a tie - it's awful for the long haul. Or the fact if you enjoy what you work on and are good it really isn't much different than playing a musical instrument or a puzzle game while getting paid. Tech is invading everywhere we are the last job because we are the job killers. Save for whores. Only advanced AI will have a chance at taking out the top 20% of programmers from having very lucrative jobs with tons of positions to choose from. At that point 50 years or more from now we won't having a working society anymore. It will be universal wage or death. For now, easy to be top 20% because at least 50% of programmers are horrible at dealing with people, clients, or managing other programmers, and they refuse to keep on top of their skills. [/QUOTE]
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