But Now You Get Money For This

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5 months ago 195,449 views 1 shares

But Now You Get Money For This

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Remember pulling all-nighters to code that entire e-commerce platform from scratch for your "final project"? Fast forward to your professional life where writing a simple validation function has you like: "I've contributed enough to capitalism today." The greatest scam in tech is that we wrote entire operating systems for free as students, but now get paid six figures to update a button color and call it a sprint. Work smarter, not harder – that's what the salary is really for.

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