(Sigh). I wish I was making 150K starting salary. Unfortunately, I'm not and I live in BosWash which makes me part of the below-welfare-wage numbers. I wish folks could have more attitudes like NinjaTime so that they can become the enlightened masses.
Nothing is more discouraging than watching Joe and Jane from high school and college getting promotions at their consulting, law and medical careers knowing that I was way smarter than they were. Cue Kurt Vonneghan, "The real horror is waking up one day and realizing your high school class is running the country"; well, I'm just slightly disgusted that just the undeserving plebes, not the popular high school kids are buying McMansions and starter luxury cars!
Well, at least I'm part of the enlightened. I got my security clearance (no H1B competition), my personal contracting sole proprietorship (line-by-line deduction), Cisco/Oracle/MCSE certificates (certified scrum-master), and I intend to stick it all the way to the Man!
You're not smarter than them. If you were, you would have thought about your career, instead of sloppily stumbling into the first thing that appealed to the teenage version of you.
Nothing is more discouraging than watching Joe and Jane from high school and college getting promotions at their consulting, law and medical careers knowing that I was way smarter than they were. Cue Kurt Vonneghan, "The real horror is waking up one day and realizing your high school class is running the country"; well, I'm just slightly disgusted that just the undeserving plebes, not the popular high school kids are buying McMansions and starter luxury cars!
Well, at least I'm part of the enlightened. I got my security clearance (no H1B competition), my personal contracting sole proprietorship (line-by-line deduction), Cisco/Oracle/MCSE certificates (certified scrum-master), and I intend to stick it all the way to the Man!