There’s plenty of money in media – just not for you
The industry is constantly downsizing. And yet…
In the tech world, engineers make a lot of money. It’s kind of the point. Yes, we’re at some apex of building and growing and money that doesn’t necessarily need to make sense, but it’s Boom Town to be an engineer, and it has been for decades.
The thing about this boom is that it goes both ways: companies like Amazon and Facebook and Google make billions of dollars and their engineers are paid well to make that happen. Sometimes they get equity and sometimes that equity is even worth it. But engineers are also bolstered and made comfortable by the fact that their skillset is in high demand (turns out a lot of companies want to make billions of dollars) and so the negotiating weight is in their favour a lot of time.
Don’t want to pay me what I want? Turning the cold brew taps off? Not letting me work remotely 300 days of the year? Well, I’ll find some place that will meet all those requirements. It probably won’t even be all that hard. Which is a nice place to be. And they’re allowed this comfortable place because they make the thing that makes the money (I’m aware I’m skipping some steps here).
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