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0 pointsvkou6y ago0 comments

> Your earnings go up as you acquire job skills that fewer and fewer people have. Supply & Demand.

No, they don't. Very few people are able to juggle 8 pins, but my earnings will not go up if I acquire that skill.

Your earnings go up when you acquire a job skill that people are willing to pay a lot of money for.

> For more conventional skills, you'll never make much money as an engineer if you skip the math classes. I

Define 'much money'.

You can easily make 400K/year at FANG, without having the foggiest idea of how to do linear algebra, calculus, arithmetic, statistics, or really anything but interview O(N) analysis.

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WalterBright6y ago

> Very few people are able to juggle 8 pins, but my earnings will not go up if I acquire that skill.

That's because it's not a JOB skill.

vkouOP6y ago

It is if you're a juggler, but even the best jugglers in the world don't get paid well.

Juggling and mathematics are both useful skills, but 95% of SWEs don't use any for their jobs, and aren't going to get paid more if they pick either one up.

The other 5% aren't always paid more.

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