Hacker News Reader

Don't take that description too literally. I really doubt you get to be a trader at GS without having a good brain in your head. Sales is more about working and building relationships than sheer intelligence, but to do it well still requires a lot of work and talent in that direction.

View on HN

Heh it was written by somebody with a PHD in Physics or so.. but my point was that a lot of highly intelligent people are loosely paid (for example think about a lot of post-doc positions in academia) while some other less educated people get a lot of money it seems..

Oh absolutely. My father had a PhD in chemistry, was very intelligent, but never made more than a modest middle-class income. He worked in academia. If a high income means a lot to you, academia is a hard place to find it unless you are one of the few superstars that bring in a lot of grant money. At if you are, you are mostly a salesman anyway.

EQ vs IQ.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com