Yet Another Reason to Start Your Own Business: Programming jobs suck

Re:Yet Another Reason to Start Your Own Business: Programmin... by sszhou on Monday March 12, 2007 @12:20PM (#3729)

I don't necessarily agree with the "low prestige" argument. I think that as the internet becomes a greater part of young people's lives (i.e. myspace), the industry becomes more hip and being a programmer for lets say Yahoo! or Google carries a "cooler" image

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Re:Yet Another Reason to Start Your Own Business: Programmin... by notabel on Monday March 12, 2007 @12:56PM (#3732)

A programmer for google or yahoo, sure. A programmer for Microsoft or Adobe, not so much. Moreover, outside the big names, software companies are largely unknown; to most of us, hearing that someone works for, e.g, Fog Creek, is pretty nifty, but to the average person, it's meaningless.

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Re:Yet Another Reason to Start Your Own Business: Programmin... by sszhou on Monday March 12, 2007 @04:26PM (#3773)

Very true, but maybe our overall image is gradually improving, esp. as the tech/internet generation matures.

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