After getting kicked in the teeth by Apple, punched in the gut by Tiktok, and stock falling 60% from all time high, Zucc finally realizes that thousands of directors, senior directors, VPs, senior VPs, presidents, and C-suites don't actually do shit and all the work comes from the lowest levels of employees
Too bad all the Meta coders are wannabe capitalists themselves and look down on other working class people, including even their own
From my experience that seems to be an alarming number of IT folks., not just Meta employees. You ever take a peek over at Over Employment on :reddit-logo: ? They make the normal rabble on that site look humble.
Holy shit. When they say work two remote jobs… do they mean collect two checks while a chatbot baffles your manager and commits garbage code? And when they say financial freedom, do they mean a small chunk of change that capital will wash away at the first medical crisis?
If you're dedicated and get into the right niche (the niches are fairly sizeable) it's definitely possible to output average quality work in 20-25 hours a week.
Probably not, two tech jobs is gonna be $140k per year on the lower end which is solidly in "financial independence" territory. Not enough to retire in, but decent saving skills will keep life very comfortable as long as you can keep a job of some kind.
Yeah, doesn’t sound worth it to me.
If you're an experienced developer and you're not making six figures, you're getting robbed.
True, but I figure if you're trying to double up, you're putting mediocre effort into mediocre jobs. Decent chance some people are pulling it off and making $200k+ though
The "guy who outsourced his job to some low wage worker overseas" is a classic. I've heard more than a few of those stories.
At some point you're functionally just running a contracting firm.
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I wanted to get into "learn 2 code", and I remember a recent graduate saying the best part of his job was using his qualifications to rise though the ranks quickly and become a manager lol.
Fuck that
How depressing does one’s life have to be to strive towards being a middle manager
There's a lot of talk about grooming these days but not enough about how young people are being groomed into PMC dorks.
IT Crowd should be mandatory viewing for all incoming computer science students. The "IT goes in the basement/closet" mentality of every firm outside Silicon Valley is real.
Maybe folks at Meta or Palantir think they're the kings of the world, but seven years working in Medical IT - surrounded by doctors and administrators all carrying ten pounds of ego in a five pound bag - never left me with anything but the sense I was as proletariat as they come.