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Re:On Marketing Haskell by carapace on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:29PM (#23366932)
It's an open secret in the IT industry that if you are smart enough to be a good programmer and you want to be well-paid you should become a lawyer.
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Re:On Marketing Haskell by yakshaving_jgt on Sunday May 31, 2020 @12:04AM (#23367089)
Surely lawyers don’t make that much that they can have a better quality of life compared with a programmer earning good money from a wealthy market and living in a country with a relatively low cost of living? I mean, programmers can live and work anywhere. Lawyers can’t.
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Re:On Marketing Haskell by carapace on Sunday May 31, 2020 @11:53AM (#23370321)
When I was looking into it back in the day the salary spreads for programmers and lawyers didn't overlap very much. A good programmer could get ~$250k max while a good lawyer starts at around ~$300k. This was also before remote work was so much a thing, eh?

> I mean, programmers can live and work anywhere.

Yes and no. YMMV

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