[optimusclimb]

The "nerds" make 120-200k a year. The 25 year olds that went to Arizona State and studied drinking, getting laid, and "business" make up to 300k a year doing enterprise sales for startups.

The current culture is, "hey thanks NERD for geeking out on that distributed systems BS, really helped me out on my last sales call/commission."

Then the "NERD" gets to wonder what the F to do with their life come their mid 30s, while said sales person is set.

But yeah, let's keep calling ourselves nerds and allowing this to happen.

[throwaway549]

We also call ourselves "geeks," which is also quite bad, and we've done little to stop the media and industry rebranding us as "coders," a job title with little prestige or connotations of authority and professionalism, over our previous titles like "software engineer/developer/architect" or even just "programmer." Collectively, we're really pretty socially inept, aren't we?