Be in a field where tech is the limit

Re:Be in a field where tech is the limit by planet-and-halo on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:50PM (#27081705)

This bums me out so much. I would love to work on medical research and I love data pipelines, so something like bioinformatics R/Python seems ideal to me, but I make significantly more than that as the manager of a software team in an enterprise environment so it's never going to happen unless I somehow get to the point where I don't have to care about money.

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Re:Be in a field where tech is the limit by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday May 07, 2021 @07:49PM (#27082130)

Honestly though, that trade-off seems quite fair to me. I mean, the big ah-hah I had after I spent about half a decade in software management roles is that the management track pays more because the jobs suck more. That is, the jobs themselves are actually quite undesirable for your average person. A job that is more rewarding naturally has more competition and thus pays less.

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Re:Be in a field where tech is the limit by planet-and-halo on Friday May 07, 2021 @09:16PM (#27082710)

I think that's part of it, but I suspect it has more to do commercial enterprises being more competitive due to their greater resources.

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