Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the Boondocks

Re:Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the ... by mistersquid on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @09:44PM (#11349963)

I moved from Ohio to SF and got a raise. After 2 years, I've doubled what I was earning in Ohio. I also switched careers, from tenure-track university professor to web development.

My point is that code is the lingua franca of well-compensated digital laborers, which is the point the article hints in its closing sentence:

"Another customer service worker I’d talked to from a big software company decided that if she wanted to stick around the Bay Area, it was time to teach herself to code."

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Re:Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the ... by knieveltech on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @09:50PM (#11349989)

You could probably have gone from tenure track university professor to delivering pizza and still doubled your salary provided you didn't end up delivering in a crappy part of town.

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Re:Entry-Level Startup Jobs Are Now Mostly Dead Ends in the ... by knieveltech on Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:57PM (#11356361)

For folks that think I'm being sarcastic, a quick google check returned an average salary for untenured professors at around $45,000 annually. I worked with a guy that banked ~$80k a year delivering pizza to a swanky neighborhood that included a bunch of corporate offices.

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