[ahmaman]

Figure out a way to package your expertise in a different way than being an employee.

Often the employment model doesn’t reward for going above the acceptable minimum.

How you package and sell your expertises to the world can make a signicant difference to your income.

Consider freelancing, building own product or making courses. If you have options, go for something that is not measured hourly and tied to your time, there is only so much you can charge per hour.

[aristofun]

> Often the employment model doesn’t reward for going above the acceptable minimum

I keep finding more and more evidence to this statement, weirdly enough

[ahmaman]

I wonder why is that.

Employers would benefit a great deal from employees doing more than the acceptable minimum. Maybe it is an issue with measuring value provided by each employee?

[aristofun]

I guess it comes from the fundamental bottom-down business approach of minimizing costs of materials.

Rarely people could identify and properly estimate the radical difference between developers of the same years of experience.