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Post by Game_Ender »

laputan_machine wrote: post #306
lugged wrote: post #257

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You know Devs can relatively easily get around 250k in NY / SF right? Trades are solid career choices but it's hard work and you expire at about the same rate as a software dev.

So sick of seeing these wildly inflated numbers, they increase after every post I'm sure. Most of us here who are software devs are not earning close to 150k, stop using a few SF salaries as the baseline for the rest of us. It is really annoying.

They are not inflated numbers they are what you can get working for a set of top companies with deep pockets competing over the same talent. It varies but 150k is entry level comp pretty much anywhere they hire in the United States [0].

It’s not “fair” but it’s worth your time to look into getting into the US tech sector. Your skills have the most market value their.

0 - http://levels.fyi

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Post by pelasaco »

lugged wrote: post #257
pelasaco wrote: post #246

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In Germany, all Craftsmen are just laughing. Tiler, Carpenter, electrician, etc.. all of them have enough to do, can choose their clients and their wages. I understand that HN always will tend to talk about CS, but Craftsmen are doing their 40k/year, easily. The Salary potential is just increasing.

You know Devs can relatively easily get around 250k in NY / SF right? Trades are solid career choices but it's hard work and you expire at about the same rate as a software dev.

Ok, but I'm not from NY/SF but I'm assuming based on the small amount of time that I spent there, that every thing is more expensive there, including housing and medical care... In Germany (Europe?) I would say that a Software Developer salary floats between 30k/y - 100k/y.

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Post by dlp211 »

throwaway0a5e wrote: post #192
whymauri wrote: post #51

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it's pretty huge COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. There's huge groups that are/were unemployed and then there's huge groups who are sexually repressed due to quarantine. Across the whole world, too*. Many can easily make more than min wage, and in certain niches you probably don't even have to be 'conventionally beautiful' (sorry to use this term, but it's important I think) to make a living or sol…

>For $$ per hour worked, why would they field low wage, menial jobs with a risk of COVID? Because after shit pay being the desk girl at Walmart Tire Center for 2yr you can easily convert that into a service writer job and then retire from your job as regional support manager for Compare with thotting around on the internet where you can make a ton of money up front but you're basically racing the clock because your b…

Yes, because it's impossible to ever change careers or apply your work ethic to gaining new skills. The idea that you don't have marketable skills having been in the military is also the biggest piece of bunk I've ever heard and you really have no idea what you are talking about.

-former infantryman

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Post by saxonww »

lelanthran wrote: post #343
gambiting wrote: post #213

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I have a friend who worked for 5 years at a big consultancy company and he got stonewalled for getting promoted to a team lead role because he didn't have a masters degree. Like, he was getting top marks every year at performance review, clearly knew how to do the job, but some internal policy somewhere said that you can't be a lead without a masters degree, sorry. He did manage to arrange with them that they would p…

> I have a friend who worked for 5 years at a big consultancy company and he got stonewalled for getting promoted to a team lead role because he didn't have a masters degree. Like, he was getting top marks every year at performance review, clearly knew how to do the job, but some internal policy somewhere said that you can't be a lead without a masters degree, sorry. Well, that's part of the job - are you able to fig…

This is the common refrain, but I think it's equally likely that it boils down to "I did this, so you should have to do this, too."

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Post by xkqd »

sandworm101 wrote: post #288
fridif wrote: post #256

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Your friend was working for a bureaucratic company. Source: I know plenty of engineers without any formal degrees working for big money at real companies.

If they dont have formal degrees, then "engineer" is a loose term. They would not be professional engineers (PE/PEng).

Saying that here will be unpopular.

But it’s important to keep in mind that in many countries “engineer” is a protected term with qualification requirements and not simply a job title.

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Post by boublepop »

In reality they always knew it made no sense, but the amount of free PR they got from every major news outlet across the world posting essentially: “Popular pornographic app only available for a short while!” Is absolutely insane, and made the full circus with it all.

It’s like Red Bull leaning into the “dangerous drink” coverage.

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Post by marc_io »

josh_p wrote: post #282
moksly wrote: post #251

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Platforms like onlyfans sell two products. They sell safe/clean sex work to a variety of people who would never get into regular sex work. And they sell the feeling of mattering and a sense of human connection to people who suffer from loneliness. The only weird part is why the popular OnlyFans sex workers stay on the platform instead of moving to their own where they wouldn’t have to pay 20% to the platform. I’m sur…

Are you suggesting content creators should run their own website? If they have the time & skills, sure. But running your own website is expensive in both time and money.

It's not expensive, difficult or very time consuming to have a static website connected to a email marketing or newsletter service in order to communicate directly to people and improve the services offered. Basic marketing strategy. There's no need to run the entire business on their own.

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Post by dylan604 »

duxup wrote: post #263
knicholes wrote: post #187

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Why not use crypto? Porncoin2.

Is there a way to do that where customers / content creators don't eventually hit traditional payment processor / bank?

not until you can reliably buy groceries, pay rent, pay utilities, etc with that crypto, it has to get exchanged for local currency somehow.

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Post by Veen »

bArray wrote: post #320

> The company has struggled to attract outside investors and the move was done at the request of at the request of its banking and payout partners, it said. Reads a little weird. It was a request of a request, from a friend of a friend?

It's just bad proofreading. The writer probably duplicated "at the request of" and the editor didn't catch it.

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Post by dkarl »

whymauri wrote: post #106
CabSauce wrote: post #100

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Getting a degree in a field that has jobs helps too.

It helps, but for many it was/is not enough. Trust me, the job search was brutal even as a computer science graduate from MIT. I had an offer and it was revoked (and companies that I had offers from pre-pandemic would not engage anymore). I'm almost certain that I have classmates who had OF at one point during the last year and I know for certain from Twitter there's Ivy League, Cal, and Stanford students on there. E…

I think this is a sign of companies not knowing how to get useful work out of junior developers with only a few years of experience, much less fresh college graduates. This is an extremely challenging problem at small scales, and one that most companies simply aren't up to. In my experience, listening to engineering management discuss these matters, the few people who entertain the idea of hiring junior developers do so for fairly abstract reasons: a sense of moral obligation, a sense of contributing to the health of the industry, a desire to challenge the software engineering team to mature in its practices, etc. I'm sure there are companies out there that know how to employ a junior developer at the going rate and actually get their money's worth, but it isn't common knowledge, and I haven't seen anybody succeed at it firsthand. If my experience is typical, we're just overall shitty as an industry at using young talent.

That creates a problem of incentives, where purely self-serving organizations will let other companies bear the expense of employing junior developers and helping them learn the ropes, and then hire them when they're worth it.

As an aside, professional soccer solves this by granting a team certain rights to the players it develops, so if a player is trained in Team A's youth academy, and Team B wants to sign them at age 18, Team B pays a fee to Team A. Team A may agree to reduce the fee in exchange for a share of any subsequent sale, so if the player develops into a top professional and is sold to Team C at age 22, both Team A and Team B benefit financially.

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