Re:Pushing People into IT
by muzani on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:59AM
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Median salaries are actually quite bad. It's not worth joining most careers unless you can reasonably hit top 1% or be around top 10% within a few years.
But being a mediocre IT person is far better than being a mediocre welder. So if your kid has no passion for anything, let them at least get a job they hate that pays better. But if they aspire to be a top 1% novelist, let them.
Does that mean they'll be happy? Hell no. The HN community consists of people who are great at their jobs but hate them. We complain about too many JS frameworks but the mediocre programmer out there hasn't figured out how to not store passwords in plaintext.
Someone out there who can be a best selling novelist will probably still hate her job, but again, she's getting paid well, and probably happier than being a starving mediocre programmer.
But being a mediocre IT person is far better than being a mediocre welder. So if your kid has no passion for anything, let them at least get a job they hate that pays better. But if they aspire to be a top 1% novelist, let them.
Does that mean they'll be happy? Hell no. The HN community consists of people who are great at their jobs but hate them. We complain about too many JS frameworks but the mediocre programmer out there hasn't figured out how to not store passwords in plaintext.
Someone out there who can be a best selling novelist will probably still hate her job, but again, she's getting paid well, and probably happier than being a starving mediocre programmer.