IF you get a job at Microsoft, you will make more money. But that's IF you can get it, which is not a guarantee, and how many years will you be working shit jobs in San Francisco before you can get it? It's a high-risk, high-reward deal, not unlike every single person who moves to LA to get into Entertainment.
More than likely, the career of this person is working in a highly competitive environment, dreaming of working at Google for most of their career, but mostly doing odds-and-ends programming in and environment where coders are dime-a-dozen, and then maybe you get into Google, and they can you after a few years. In the end, you've probably been burned by both the industry and every employer you have. You did work at Google once, and you did get paid $120,000 a year in a state where gas is $7 a gallon. Most of that time you lived in California, you spent vying with other denizens to be a wage-slave to a tech oligarch, and it's burned you out on everything and everyone until you quit and leave the state for good. Some people will lose everything due to circumstances, and leave the industry and state altogether, going back to some shit like retail or sales because that was the job they needed to pay the bills.
But on the other hand, what if you recognized, you probably couldn't out-perform people at Google the moment you walked out of your certification class or college. What if, instead, you worked in Harrisburg, PA for a tool & die firm that needed someone to program some of their machines? Most of your work could be spend in a lesser known industry. The skills you develop would be niche and marketable skills within that industry with less labor competition. You'd probably end up having employers compete for you. You'll end up getting those higher wages over time due to a useful skillset, you'll develop professional and social connections that will get you better opportunities to exploit, and likely in places with a lower cost of living.
The first coder made $120,000 a year in a place that broke his soul, and he probably came out of the whole experience still in debt and mad at the world.
The second coder is upper-middle class and has a family, and doesn't care that he'll never work at Google, but never made over $100,000 a year by the time he's 45.
Coder #2 is the one who's better off. And the thing is, all these smaller businesses, they'd be desperate to pay someone to help streamline their shit and help them & their customers. Google is a technofascist mega-corp that wants to rule the world and doesn't know what gender it is.
More money as in income? Probably not. More money as in: you will have ascended the socio-economic ladder faster and with less stress so that you have a good life while having positively contributed to your community? Yes.
Not exactly.
IF you get a job at Microsoft, you will make more money. But that's IF you can get it, which is not a guarantee, and how many years will you be working shit jobs in San Francisco before you can get it? It's a high-risk, high-reward deal, not unlike every single person who moves to LA to get into Entertainment.
More than likely, the career of this person is working in a highly competitive environment, dreaming of working at Google for most of their career, but mostly doing odds-and-ends programming in and environment where coders are dime-a-dozen, and then maybe you get into Google, and they can you after a few years. In the end, you've probably been burned by both the industry and every employer you have. You did work at Google once, and you did get paid $120,000 a year in a state where gas is $7 a gallon. Most of that time you lived in California, you spent vying with other denizens to be a wage-slave to a tech oligarch, and it's burned you out on everything and everyone until you quit and leave the state for good. Some people will lose everything due to circumstances, and leave the industry and state altogether, going back to some shit like retail or sales because that was the job they needed to pay the bills.
But on the other hand, what if you recognized, you probably couldn't out-perform people at Google the moment you walked out of your certification class or college. What if, instead, you worked in Harrisburg, PA for a tool & die firm that needed someone to program some of their machines? Most of your work could be spend in a lesser known industry. The skills you develop would be niche and marketable skills within that industry with less labor competition. You'd probably end up having employers compete for you. You'll end up getting those higher wages over time due to a useful skillset, you'll develop professional and social connections that will get you better opportunities to exploit, and likely in places with a lower cost of living.
The first coder made $120,000 a year in a place that broke his soul, and he probably came out of the whole experience still in debt and mad at the world.
The second coder is upper-middle class and has a family, and doesn't care that he'll never work at Google, but never made over $100,000 a year by the time he's 45.
Coder #2 is the one who's better off. And the thing is, all these smaller businesses, they'd be desperate to pay someone to help streamline their shit and help them & their customers. Google is a technofascist mega-corp that wants to rule the world and doesn't know what gender it is.
More money as in income? Probably not. More money as in: you will have ascended the socio-economic ladder faster and with less stress so that you have a good life while having positively contributed to your community? Yes.