You’re selling your life, focusing on chasing ever more money is a poor trade IMO.
Not saying you have to join a non profit, just consider what you want to work on, who you want to work with, and the kind of hours you want to put in.
Not saying you have to join a non profit, just consider what you want to work on, who you want to work with, and the kind of hours you want to put in.
Even if they're at the "elite grand master SRE" level. Still a fraction of some MBA.
however there is nuance to everything. some people find 200k a year and living with flatmates in an expensive city rewarding. to each their own. i know i did. until it hit me.
Surgeon? Just spackling the same old organs day in day out, with the additional downside of potentially killing someone if you have an off day and place a brick upside down.
Professional football player? It's repetitive manual labor! Often performed outdoors in inclement weather. High likelihood of involuntary retirement due to workplace injury.
Executive? Staring at endless spreadsheets all day... With rows and rows of those brick-like rectangular cells...
All fun aside, I don't think many bricklayers could find it within themselves to complain about making 200k a year to work in jeans and a hoodie in an air-conditioned building with foosball tables and free snacks.
every MBA factory bases its metrics on the average compensation of alumni, and they're pretty pathetic in comparison
anyway, to the person above you, Google isn't top of the pack in initial comp package or upside, within tech
Most MBAs didn’t graduate from Harvard or Wharton or equivalent schools. They’re people who believed that there were high returns to the valuable skills they were going to learn instead of realising it’s a finishing school where you network. Graduates of the University of Northeastern Illinois’s business school are not going to do much better than FAANG software engineers. This holds more, not less for the members of the professions. The super rich people with JDs aren’t practicing lawyers.
However, if you only focus on pay you drastically diminish your search space. No SV company is actually pushing the bounds of AGI research for example.