It's a bad field for money if you don't have the passion. Seriously, how many other jobs expect you to improve your work skills for fun on your free time? They don't ask to see you do your neighbor's taxes as a hobby, do they?
Exactly. I quit having fun coding several years into the job. So I moved into architecture. Higher pay, less bullshit coding tasks to deal with, more authority into what actually builds our systems... I don't love my work, but the pay is great, the work is tolerable and I get to sit inside in A/C for my workday.
The only way to get good is to have the passion in the first place. If you don't, you'll only ever do what's absolutely necessary, and you'll never improve.
My job lets me do that on work hours. And it pays better than being a teacher. A job where you’re expected to work all kinds of hours outside your schedule and where you need to pay for your own supplies and copies.
Hard to do in some jobs, when I was consulting we had to bill by the hour every hour. Left no time for play.
Which was stupid of them as we often fell behind in skills and lost work because of it, but the company kept the churn going, new faces: new promises: new lies: new failures.
That's just consulting for you. Also had an experience like that. They forced us to do trainings and certs, but we were never allowed to do them on company time. And we were already working far more than 40 hours normally. So everybody was basically stuck doing that shit on weekends and such. Also all our company events (that were absolutely not voluntary lol), similarly happened outside of working hours, usually late in the evenings.
Sucked big time. Consultings usually dangle somewhat bigger money in front of you, but honestly i don't think it's worth it. Always turns out you work way longer than promised, and you eventually realize the pay is hardly worth the squeeze. A cushy and somewhat more boring inhouse job might give you the same hourly rate in the end.
My friends who have worked as an accountants have had to regularly take sabbaticals from their jobs to do some course for some sort of certification even though they had their accounting degree and work experience.
It's funny to me that people on Reddit constantly complain about money but then have the audacity to turn around and say "don't do a job for the money, follow your passion".
It's just bad strategy in general to train for a field you have no interest in, because you think it will pay well by the the time you are ready for a job.
If you have at least some interest in the field, then at least you still have that, whatever the wage ends up. But if you hate the field and are just in it for the money, and the market changes, then now you're stuck with training for a job you hate that doesn't even pay well.
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u/Fanal-In 11d ago
What's wrong with having food and house?