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by Joel_Mckay 124 days ago
Hardware is artificially underpaid work, good positions are sparse in the US, and generally most engineers end up in niche coding environments.

Most people that land a successful long career, also refuse to solve some clown firms ephemeral problems at a loss. The trend of externalizing costs onto perspective employees starts to fail in difficult fields requiring actual domain talent with $3.7m per seat equipment. Regulatory capture also fails in advanced areas, as large firms regress into state sponsored thievery instead.

Advice to students that is funny and accurate =3

"Mike Monteiro: F*ck You, Pay Me"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U