I’m new to the tech industry so as an outsider I can tell you how rediculous most of you sound. Many of you are making six figures to work less than 60 hours a week. And then you still complain all the time. I’m not sure you realize how impossible it is to get this kind of comp in other industries. Sure everyone in tech worked hard at some point to develop a rare skillset, but it’s not as if the work requires a level of intelligence or competence higher than any other top-paying professional field. What am I missing? Why is everyone in tech so delusional? TC $225ish
the question should be why are we allowing other industries to overwork themselves to only benefit the employers? I don’t think tech people are overvalued, i think other professions are undervalued. You are only doing yourself a disservice if you keep this mindset. I have a valuable skill, why wouldn’t i ask for more money? Why wouldn’t I ask for better WLB?
Freemarket! Plus not all industries can pay so much. Money isnt just there. Thought they can pay better than what they currently pay.
Lol no there's always money but CEOs and shareholders don't want to let go of their ridiculous cut
Lol who do you know at Amazon that works less than 60h/week? Please share your team so we can all transfer there.
Manu are not. Blind has a written proof if you search. It is so bad that I cannot figure if they are trolling or being entitled.
When your circle is full of other tech professionals, or non-tech professionals working for big tech companies, that’s what starts to be your barometer. There is a proclivity to become disconnected from the rest of the world, and more connected with your circle. This is why travel is so damn important to remain grounded. Especially with the pandemic, people’s bubbles have gotten so consuming that it’s almost all they’re exposed to. Unless you make a concerted effort, it’s all you see.
I agree. And I think your experience is reflected by all of elite america right now. But I also think that it is sad we need to “travel” because we are so cut off with members of other communities that live right in the same places we do.
And since nobody does things like go to church anymore, I have a hard time figuring out a solution to connecting with the local community
Tech is hard af. Majority of population can’t understand the concept of initializing a variable. Having said that, it’s better for everyone if we are all entitled. You shouldn’t discourage someone from wanting more compensation because it increases budgets for all of us.
There are other jobs that are way more hard and risky. That itself isnt a reason for higher pay.
Tech isn't that hard, neither is pay tied to difficulty. If that was true how does some javascript monkey make more money than a theoretical physics prof?
go to a bootcamp and career switch then lol. There are tons of people like you who realize their field is ass compared to tech
Reading Blind has drastically lowered my respect for people in this industry. I sincerely hope the entitlement is limited to a small subset of my peers and not representative of the industry as a whole.
Doubt it
This is just how things are. Someone in Afghanistan or Somalia would tell you the same thing about any complaints you make. This is how humans function, we always want more. The only people you won’t see exhibiting such behaviour are Buddhist monks etc lol.
Maybe but idk I think well-educated people who are earning in the top 1% of people in their age bracket owe it to society to be self-aware and humble. Because they easily could have not been in that bracket and others could easily be if they had been dealt different circumstances. I don’t think that makes me a Buddhist monk just somebody trying to be a good human.
What I’m trying to tell you is that this is always going to be relative and also informed by individual choices, background, aspirations and current circumstances. I grew up with my parents collectively making less that $5k a year throughout their life. That was enough for me to grow up comfortably and get a good education (socialistic Indian ‘premier’ colleges ftw). I now make nearly 35x that. This is more money than I ever dreamt of making and frankly don’t know what to do with it. But do I consider myself rich *in my context*? In my peer group and where I live? I’m not. I hve aspirations on what I want to be making in the next 3 years, 5 years and 10 years that would make no sense to my parents but which absolutely seem necessary for me to live comfortably, to raise a family if I want etc. It’s relative.
If we were happy/complacent with 100k salaries, we wouldn't have the salaries we have today.
then why are you still doing what you are doing today? if its any other reason that is not tc then why are you complaining? 🤡 We are humans we will always complain no matter what, look at some many trophy wifes and rich born kids complaining about their life. A mean look at you TC 215k complaining, omg what do people in US complain about they make tons of money compared to basically any other country 😂
I’m not complaining at all. I think it’s absurd that so many people are complaining
OP is complaining about other people complaining 🤣