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This has never ever been true for any job, especially at 21 years old.
I mean maybe there's a rare trade that gives you the bick bucks from the get go, but even law practice and finance takes a lot of unpaid work to finally get properly paid.
Might not have been true, but has definitely been the narrative pedalled to young people for years.
There is always some career that kids get pushed into with a promise of “jobs in demand” and “guaranteed salary”.
Yep.. I didn't mean they weren't lied to.. But you're right, they were lied to.
It was true around the .com boom, and the advice might have been good for a few years, but like everything else: following yesterday's trends will get you lost in a crowd of the clueless and under-informed.