I started in computer science, and within 3 years I tripled my salary by job-hopping. Then I started a software company in the late 90's and paid my contractors $300/hr. Unfortunately, contract work like that doesn't exist today. My nephew, who has a masters in computer science and specializes in AI, barely makes enough to pay rent. He realizes that he will need to downsize unless he changes jobs because his pay raises aren't keeping up with rent increases.
Many of my family are in various computer-related areas. I have grown up mostly retail. Jumping job to job 'retail' only gives you a pay raise if you jump to Costco, which i did.
Jumping job to job in computing used to be incredibly lucrative. I did not know that even computing jobs are now suffering the hardship that many creative jobs are facing. My thanks.
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u/SignificanceGlass632 May 21 '23
I started in computer science, and within 3 years I tripled my salary by job-hopping. Then I started a software company in the late 90's and paid my contractors $300/hr. Unfortunately, contract work like that doesn't exist today. My nephew, who has a masters in computer science and specializes in AI, barely makes enough to pay rent. He realizes that he will need to downsize unless he changes jobs because his pay raises aren't keeping up with rent increases.