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Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago (9 children)

“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.

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.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 7 points 1 month ago

In the late 1990s our MSCE graduates were starting at $70K which is easily in six figure territory today when adjusted for inflation.

Six figures is far from what it used to be.

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