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And sometimes we need to check our facts before we make ill informed decisions.

A world class pianist makes 25 to 75k per show. Far more than any developer lazy or not.

A concert pianist makes 50k a year. Getting a seat is the hard part.

And someone majoring in math can go as far as someone majoring in engineering. Your college doesn't teach how to code, you need to do that on your own.

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> A world class pianist makes 25 to 75k per show. Far more than any developer lazy or not.

Even if we picked such an outlier, the bookings would be sparse.

A mediocre SWE in the Bay Area has a paycheck every 2 weeks over the course of decades.

> And someone majoring in math can go as far as someone majoring in engineering

The choice in my personal story was about becoming a professional mathematician, not majoring in math and then getting a job in engineering. The latter in fact is what I did.

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