Kristina Anderson wrote:
This goes back to my point about the status of the profession -- if we're being compared to cooks and service technicians, you know times are going to be rough for us. I'd rather be compared to a lawyer...and make closer to what they make...what we do is no less complex.
Then you do not know what personal chefs make. Most of them have salaries that rival that of senior developers, if not top them. There are also various kinds of personal chefs. Some have one customer and are available 24x7, others have multiple customers and do the food shopping for them as well as prepare meals that can be reheated easily or it just happens that they manage to dish dinner at one place and then handily make it to the next one in time. Besides that, I know a few lawyers that make less than I do for twice the amount of work. In regards to service technicians or supporters in general, they are absolutely undervalued. Developers make software so that QA can test it, sales can sell it, and support can support it. the group that spends the most time with customers is support. Why would you want the least paid employees be the face of your company? And the developer is dead in the water without the service tech, but not the other way around. From that perspective developers should get paid low wages and get the dirty parking spots in the back of the lot. But I guess that adds to your point that being a lawyer is preferred, especially since in a judicial system like the american one you have job security like nothing else.
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