Did he spend a decade uni with a PhD 🤨. I doubt it and I doubt his skills are any more exceptional than most.
Going rate for a first class SWE In most first world countries is ~30k USD. It’s an absolutely amazing salary.
I don’t know about the US, maybe the QOL there is much better than the media portrays, but I think that’s more than enough money.
Isn’t that every salaried position though? Last year I was on 30k USD for 7 days a week all day. Always on call.
That’s pretty common in my area for people with postgraduate in STEM.
What do you do for work? Because I think I need a career change.
I’m not just being snarky, but 6 figures USD would change my life.
It’s also just been a tough period to grow up. Depends on region but housing, did and cost of living in many have been significantly harder than in the past.
Every year is harder to get by than the last, despite unprecedented advances in science and tech.
Yeah but it’s just an extra layer. Why not, it’s automated and almost no-cost.
Yeah Lemmy has an unfriendly community. UI is really hard and I know exactly what you mean when you say everything has a reason behind it.
FWIW, Ima migrate my personal private Lemmy to photon because I think it looks great.
Wife and I have been unemployed for nearly a year. We’re in a white collar recession so it’s gonna be brutal for a little while. Not much you can do really, it’s really hard right now.
Labouring / trades seem like the ticket tbh.
Oh that’s interesting.
In my region salary comes with no protections, we have no fault termination. So quite often contractors are salaried for the three months they’re on then cut.
You’ll find a job and you might be there for 2 weeks or 4 months, who knows. Turnover everywhere is high as companies simply pay for GPT rather than hire developers, engineers, hr etc.