I'd agree it is cynical, but not myopic. My whole post is about the long term career prospects of software engineers...
I don't live in SF, I was using it as an example to point out that even in our industries hottest, most competitive market engineers are still bottom of the totem pole. I don't live in Austin or Atlanta either but an area that is supposed to be more affordable but it's the same story.
I also did start my own software company and even went through an incubator (not YC), but that's beside the point, I was speaking about the profession as a whole. Doctors don't have to go out and strike it on their own, lawyers don't have to, management doesn't have to, investment bankers don't have to so why do we? Why isn't the skill of software development good enough for a successful career? Why must we switch to the new shiny every 6 months? To be honest that mentality is the exact thing that I lament about our profession. Why aren't we demanding better for our own? I'm not sure, but the independent attitude just isn't sustainable in the current political and economic climate, IMO.
I'd agree it is cynical, but not myopic. My whole post is about the long term career prospects of software engineers...
I don't live in SF, I was using it as an example to point out that even in our industries hottest, most competitive market engineers are still bottom of the totem pole. I don't live in Austin or Atlanta either but an area that is supposed to be more affordable but it's the same story.
I also did start my own software company and even went through an incubator (not YC), but that's beside the point, I was speaking about the profession as a whole. Doctors don't have to go out and strike it on their own, lawyers don't have to, management doesn't have to, investment bankers don't have to so why do we? Why isn't the skill of software development good enough for a successful career? Why must we switch to the new shiny every 6 months? To be honest that mentality is the exact thing that I lament about our profession. Why aren't we demanding better for our own? I'm not sure, but the independent attitude just isn't sustainable in the current political and economic climate, IMO.