You're forgetting the fact that the company is also building it's "career" off your's too.
Don't believe me? Any invention that you have created at your workplace (patents etc.) is always held by your company, not you.
Don't believe me? Any invention that you have created at your workplace (patents etc.) is always held by your company, not you.
They pay me real money - I do real work for them.
It's a poor deal if you're in a competitive market where there's another schmuck willing to do your job for just as cheap as you do it. But if you have pricing power, you'd be a complete fool not to either charge substantially more, or demand some ownership.
That seems like a really raw deal to me. You might argue that you are "paid" to do this; not really, you can just coast on 9-5 and draw the same (or in the same ballpark) paycheck as someone who is busting his behind to invent something. Also when there is downsizing you might think that contributions is the only thing that matters, but it is demonstrably not (I'm speaking about regular companies not a small startup).