Principal Engineers are supposed to raise solutions to problems. This (3 year old) blog post raises complaints, but does not propose a solution. People who can raise complaints are a dime a dozen.
The corporate ladder is for people that need an externally mediated goal to keep working toward. That’s why it gets harder as you approach the top: without the artificial scarcity, the titles would be perceived as less valuable.
I’ll take whatever titles they want to give me. But I’m not going to be grasping for them.
Some people are energized by that. I find it exhausting and a waste of life.
dozens of us!
You gave me some real medical vibes here. "Its rare", "like 1/10 rare or like 1/10000 rare?"
plenty? Like 1000, or like 100,000?
Mind boggling. You wonder how much value they are creating. Software scales so easily.
The corporate ladder will pay me $200k for 1M/yr(compounding) of value. I imagine I can capture more of this, and potentially have employees.
I never thought I'd do this, I thought I'd be a desk drone forever, but with every project, I stare at the numbers and realize its possible. (The last time I did this, my wife started a 6 figure company, where her non-mathy friends thought it was going to be impossible)
Wish me luck on marketing, hopefully the thought of a compounding 1M/yr for a company sells itself.
Freelancing is probably not the way. Really, I’m trying to get away from the notion of selling my time altogether and instead build things.