[ta988]

And yet 17y later salaries are still sky high. Someone that believed that advisor could have had a job paying a lot and time on the side or enough of a safety net to learn new skills if salaries ever tank (which we still don't really see a sign of)...

[mjr00]

Yeah exactly. The impending apocalypse that will make software developers redundant has been just around the corner for 20 years, during which time the number of people employed in software has increased exponentially and software developer salaries are some of the highest you can get for non-managerial work.

[coffee_beqn]

Not “still”, wages have risen like crazy in the last decades