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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Dilbert quit? by andreyf on Thursday September 11, 2008 @09:57AM (#301386)
most people in IT are resigned to the fact that they work for money and live life outside work

For me, it was PG's essay that overwrote this idea, which I had been raised with -

http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

In defense of the amazing people who raised me with the work/pay assumption, they lived most of their lives in the Soviet Union, where there weren't many options aside from working for money handed down from a higher power.

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