Re:Nobody wants to teach anymore
by prepend on Sunday August 21, 2022 @01:35PM
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> Why would someone choose to be a teacher making around the median [1] when you could be a software engineer and make 3x as much?
Isn’t the answer to this quite obvious? It’s harder to be a software engineer. And there’s more risk to the profession.
Programming is interesting as you can be self-taught and be great. And it doesn’t require any formal training. I started as a college dropout (from a different major nothing to do with programming) and there’s lots of boot camps.
Anyone with the inclination can do what you suggest. But I think programming is hard so many are incapable.
Isn’t the answer to this quite obvious? It’s harder to be a software engineer. And there’s more risk to the profession.
Programming is interesting as you can be self-taught and be great. And it doesn’t require any formal training. I started as a college dropout (from a different major nothing to do with programming) and there’s lots of boot camps.
Anyone with the inclination can do what you suggest. But I think programming is hard so many are incapable.