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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by dvt on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:25PM (#16190888)
Wish I could upvote this 1000 times. After ~ 10 years working as a developer, I don't think I want to do it ever again. Don't get me wrong, I love writing code (and I'm pretty good at it, too), but doing it professionally is beyond broken.

Working in product or in project management is literally 10% of the stress with the same pay. How does that make any sense?

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Re:Union Is Formed at Los Angeles Times and Publisher Put on... by maxaf on Friday January 19, 2018 @06:34PM (#16190942)
It's far from the same pay, not even close. Going into PM, for any value of P, would require me to cut back dramatically on the lifestyle that software engineering work has afforded my family. Have a look at Glassdoor data for any company. Pay disparity between the two professions is obvious.
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