Let us keep the sacred arts secret, brothers.
EDIT: Just being sarcastic. You are clearly incompetent, coasting along in your job, and afraid of someone with 6 months of experience being better than you.
EDIT: Just being sarcastic. You are clearly incompetent, coasting along in your job, and afraid of someone with 6 months of experience being better than you.
The AMA (and AAMC, and the licensing boards) should be dealt with the same way, ideally even more harshly.
All your post did was underline just how effective these professions are relative to programmers at securing higher incomes and greater prestige and shaping their public perception.
ABA and AMA are professional associations, like ACM, that happen to have effective lobbying arms, and their members are often independent business owners rather than employees.
I'm okay with giving respect to someone who spends 7 years in school - 4 + 3 for law school, or more in the case of doctors, to learn to be professionals in their field. And I have no qualms with what they make either.
I do, mind you, think it is a good idea to encourage programmers to improve their negotiating skills and understand a little about business and politics.