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$50K A Year For Sys Admin With 7 Years Experience, LOL
Devops Networking Security Microsoft Azure
3 days ago 78.9K views 0 shares
$50K A Year For Sys Admin With 7 Years Experience, LOL
Ah, the classic tech industry paradox! A grocery store wants a sysadmin with Cisco certifications, Azure experience, VMware skills, on-call hours, AND the ability to lift 50 pounds... all for the princely sum of $23.80/hour ($49,504/year). That's like asking someone who can build a nuclear reactor to also flip the burgers at the cafeteria for minimum wage. The real cherry on top? "Occasional lifting" and "on-call weekends" - because nothing says "we value your 7+ years of specialized technical expertise" like making you haul servers around and fix the CEO's printer at 2am on a Sunday for less than what some entry-level developers make. This is the tech equivalent of "we're looking for a brain surgeon with 10 years experience who also does plumbing, for the competitive salary of whatever we found in the couch cushions."

They Call Me Senior Dev
Agile Devops Programming
10 days ago 70.9K views 0 shares
They Call Me Senior Dev
The true mark of seniority isn't writing complex algorithms or architecting scalable systems—it's the art of staying silent during meetings that could've been emails. That awkward monkey face perfectly captures the existential crisis of realizing you're paid a small fortune to occasionally unmute and say "sounds good to me" or "I'll circle back offline." The real six-figure skill? Knowing when your input adds zero value but still collecting that direct deposit. Silent wisdom is apparently worth its weight in gold.

It Compiles Into Money
Programming
10 days ago 59.9K views 0 shares
It Compiles Into Money
The bell curve of programming wisdom strikes again! The folks on the far left and right (with their 55 and 145 IQs) have transcended language wars and realized what truly matters: getting that sweet paycheck. Meanwhile, the 100 IQ crowd in the middle is still screaming about why their favorite language is superior, as if their GitHub stars will pay the mortgage. After a decade in this industry, I've watched countless languages rise and fall while my bank account only cares about one thing: which syntax is currently funding my coffee addiction. The true galaxy brain move isn't mastering Rust or TypeScript—it's mastering whatever abomination your company is willing to pay premium rates for.

I Love My Country's Job Market
Programming
11 days ago 77.4K views 0 shares
I Love My Country's Job Market
The global tech economy in one Spongebob meme. American devs living in cardboard boxes after their jobs got shipped overseas, while developers in India/Eastern Europe are living like royalty earning $15/hour. Meanwhile, the C-suite congratulates themselves on "optimizing workforce costs" while their app crashes in production because nobody documented the legacy codebase. The circle of tech life continues...

Sunday: The Developer's Day Of Rest And Regret
Programming Webdev Devops
23 days ago 55.8K views 0 shares
Sunday: The Developer's Day Of Rest And Regret
Parents: "Study hard or you'll be a failure!" Meanwhile, software developers on Sunday: *sprawled on the ground with a beer* living their best life while making six figures. The kid's comeback is pure genius. Why stress about homework when you can stress about production deployments instead? At least the latter pays for your alcohol therapy.

Average High-Salaried Programmer
Programming Hardware
1 month ago 72.2K views 0 shares
Average High-Salaried Programmer
Ah yes, the duality of tech compensation. Six-figure salary, sleeps on cardboard. The fancy ergonomic chair and RGB gaming PC suggest this dev can afford nice things... just not silly luxuries like "beds" or "plastered walls." Priorities straight as a binary digit. All money goes to the battlestation while living in what appears to be an abandoned storage closet. The true programmer lifestyle - where your computer has better living conditions than you do.

Queue The Crickets
Agile Programming
1 month ago 94.2K views 0 shares
Queue The Crickets
The modern developer's immunity to recruiter spam has reached legendary status. After years of "Hi {first_name}" messages and "exciting opportunities" that pay in exposure and free snacks, we've evolved strict filtering criteria. Six figures? Remote work? No agile ceremonies where I pretend to care about story points? Suddenly the recruiter has our attention. It's not that we're difficult—we've just been burned enough times to know exactly what we want. That awkward silence when the recruiter realizes they can't offer any of those things? Priceless. Almost as valuable as the 4 hours of my life I'll never get back from that "quick technical chat" that turned into implementing a binary tree from scratch.

Most Humble CS Student
Programming Csharp
2 months ago 76.5K views 0 shares
Most Humble CS Student
The CS student who's discovered that mentioning "MONEY" 12 times in one post is somehow a personality trait. Classic case of someone who picked Computer Science solely for the salary but hasn't yet realized they'll need to actually write code for 40 years to earn it. The real flex will be when they discover their first debugging session lasts longer than their entire college career. Nothing says "future tech lead material" like someone who thinks they'll waltz into a $200k job without caring about the actual work. Spoiler alert: the people making that kind of money actually enjoy solving problems beyond "how to get more money."

Where Is Your Love For The Game
Programming
2 months ago 87.9K views 0 shares
Where Is Your Love For The Game
Let's be honest—we're all one bad sprint from quitting and opening a food truck. The golden handcuffs of tech salaries keep us debugging other people's spaghetti code at 2 AM instead of pursuing our actual dreams. Sure, I could make artisanal cupcakes for a living, but how would I afford my collection of unused Udemy courses and mechanical keyboards? The real programmer dream isn't building the next unicorn—it's finding any other job that pays six figures for turning caffeine into semicolons.

Atleast It Pays More
Backend Webdev Javascript Programming Debugging
3 months ago 113.6K views 0 shares
Atleast It Pays More
Front-end development: peaceful meadows, sunshine, and playing with cute dinosaurs. Meanwhile, back-end developers are literally fighting for their lives in a post-apocalyptic hellscape where everything is on fire and mutant babies are trying to eat your face. But hey, the crushing existential dread comes with a higher salary, so there's that! The perfect visualization of why back-end devs always look like they've seen things no human should witness. "It's fine, everything's fine" they whisper, as another server crashes at 3am.