Yeah it’s not great. But I don’t have a CS degree. I was brought in off the street with an Econ degree to be a super junior DBA and spent a lot of time warming a seat as a migration admin. Then moved on to EDW work but the chance to move wasn’t entirely motivated by money but by what else’s I could learn.

Then I moved to Germany to try my hand at a startup to gain more experience.

The pay could be better but that’s not my entire goal: loving what I do is important and having a good work life balance is too.