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by pjmlp 36 days ago
Even that is very regional.

While tech pays well, in many countries it is seen as a regular office worker, with a similar salary level.

And if you are doing consulting is very much a gig economy job, if you're going on your own.

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Yes. I’m reminded of the “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” trope thinking of the guys I knew who anchored on the high Silicon Valley salaries as their baseline rather than recognizing that those were an extreme outlier. That doesn’t mean people weren’t paid well but it usually wasn’t even, say, successful dentist level much less actually rich.