Programming is a Terrible Job

Re:Programming is a Terrible Job by jafaku on Monday September 30, 2013 @02:57PM (#6471510)

> As for the couple hundred guys making multiple millions a year who you hear about all the time? Well, there’s even more engineers who have struck it rich with a startup, and no baseball player will ever come close to Zuckerberg-level wealth.

You are comparing employees to a CEO and business owner (which doesn't have anything to do with technology, other than for the initial lines of code). Of course he has more wealth.

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Re:Programming is a Terrible Job by Tsagadai on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @02:45AM (#6474554)

So there are billionaire baseball coaches?

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Re:Programming is a Terrible Job by stephencanon on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @10:18AM (#6476297)

In fairness, there are billionaire team owners, but they didn’t become billionaires by founding baseball teams.

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Re:Programming is a Terrible Job by kyllo on Monday September 30, 2013 @03:21PM (#6471680)

CEO of a company with a single product, which is a web app that he wrote the first several versions of by himself, in his dorm room. Yeah, he did it in PHP, but that doesn't mean he wasn't an "engineer" working on "technology."

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Re:Programming is a Terrible Job by jafaku on Monday September 30, 2013 @10:50PM (#6473734)

Still not an employee. If I inherited a big fortune would you put me too as an example of how lucrative this career is?

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