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by htrp 527 days ago
> in everything from software engineering, finance, gardening, music making, game development or whatever.

In finance, the A tier people don't have work/life balance. It's expected for them to demand effective 24/7 availability (and they get paid accordingly)
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hello_moto 527 days ago
Likewise in Software. Those A-Tier paygrade is expected to be on-call (24/7 through weekend) no-bonus, lead big projects, review codebases, teach juniors...
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ghaff 527 days ago
Or exec salaries tend to come with a lot of baggage. Yes, some do fairly disconnected personal travel. But there tend to be pretty long hours and a lot of business travel that I've seen.
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ghaff 527 days ago
Yes, but that's different from having finance as a hobby.
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