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PurestEvil on scored.co
7 days ago0 points(+0/-0)
> yeah, menial grunt work for $10k - $200k per project on a weekend. Fucking loser money right there.
I didn't say it doesn't pay. First of all, in the US you get a lot of money thrown at you arbitrarily by corporations, even if you have no competence. There are many jobs that are outright ridiculous, yet they are paid generously. Most things are decided by incompetent committees. When I worked in Germany for 7 years, it was common knowledge that the leadership made bad decisions, but nobody spoke out because they got paid, and the leadership was extremely arrogant and fragile. They had one product which they ran from the beginning, 3 decades before, and everything else they tried failed, including trying to upgrading it from VB6 to C#. They make programs for lawyers and bureaucrats, who naturally are retarded, averse to novelty, have a lot of money to throw around and follow the status quo.
They paid me for 7 years, and the boss rejected 2 of my major projects, which were complete, without even looking at them. The first one involved ~5 other people, for 2 years, I worked on the core, and I was the one who understood the entire project. And they paid a LOT of employees, and still do, without any benefit to the company. One of my coworkers got demoted to customer support because he didn't deliver anything, even though he was big on *saying* how amazing he is. He got paid 2.5x times as much per hour as I did as freelancer (and his own brother too).
Also it is known that governments pay 10 as much for a fraction of output to contractors. It's more about accruing the credentials and portfolio to finesse these hordes of idiots than anything else.
I am just saying, good on you for successfully finessing them, but it says very little about your actual competence. I for one accrued enough savings from that job alone to last me for multiple years, so that I can work on my own project.
I didn't say it doesn't pay. First of all, in the US you get a lot of money thrown at you arbitrarily by corporations, even if you have no competence. There are many jobs that are outright ridiculous, yet they are paid generously. Most things are decided by incompetent committees. When I worked in Germany for 7 years, it was common knowledge that the leadership made bad decisions, but nobody spoke out because they got paid, and the leadership was extremely arrogant and fragile. They had one product which they ran from the beginning, 3 decades before, and everything else they tried failed, including trying to upgrading it from VB6 to C#. They make programs for lawyers and bureaucrats, who naturally are retarded, averse to novelty, have a lot of money to throw around and follow the status quo.
They paid me for 7 years, and the boss rejected 2 of my major projects, which were complete, without even looking at them. The first one involved ~5 other people, for 2 years, I worked on the core, and I was the one who understood the entire project. And they paid a LOT of employees, and still do, without any benefit to the company. One of my coworkers got demoted to customer support because he didn't deliver anything, even though he was big on *saying* how amazing he is. He got paid 2.5x times as much per hour as I did as freelancer (and his own brother too).
Also it is known that governments pay 10 as much for a fraction of output to contractors. It's more about accruing the credentials and portfolio to finesse these hordes of idiots than anything else.
I am just saying, good on you for successfully finessing them, but it says very little about your actual competence. I for one accrued enough savings from that job alone to last me for multiple years, so that I can work on my own project.