There's many types. I sold Audi/Porsche and every now and then I'd sell a fancy car to a FedEx driver type that does long haul runs to other states (with a team driver next to him), and he'd be making $150k a year+. Not bad for 4 days a week work, and ability to live in a slightly lower cost area.
Truck drivers making $80k a year and home most nights is pretty common.
Well California automatically pays more than most of the country. And I believe FedEx has some Union drivers. And yes, just like the average software engineer salary isn't all that dang high, when we discuss the industry we tend to look at the most successful group we aspire to be in, not the burnouts that aren't that good at their job.
I have the opposite experience. Goes to show the difference between people.
I've always had trouble internalizing the "physics" of physics or chemistry, as if it were all super arbitrary and there was no order to it.
Computation and maths on the other hand just click with me. Philosophy as well btw.
I guess I deal better with handling completely abstract information and processes and when they clash with the real world I have a harder time reconciling.
Chemistry in particular is just taught very poorly in USA middle/high school. If anything, it perfectly hinders building that internal understanding.
"Chemical bonds fill the electron shells, which is why we have CO2. But don't worry about why carbon monoxide exists."
"Here's a formula to figure out the angle between atoms in a molecule. But it doesn't apply to H2O, because handwavy reasons. Just memorize this number instead."
Students don't gain an understanding of the subject, because the curriculum doesn't even try to teach it.
This was kind of infuriating about high school chemistry. We were taught so much simply is and that's that. Gold and Mercury differ by one proton, so why is one a dense, yellowish metal and the other one liquid at room temperature? Carbon and Nitrogen sit right next to each other on the periodic table, so why are their chemical properties so different? Why are there so few elements that are ferromagnetic? We dove relatively deep into chemical bonds and isotopes, but glossed over fundamental things like why compounds with similar structures had seemingly random, unrelated properties.
But if the alternative becomes more real estate investment than we already have won't that be even worse?
Investing in the stock market at least in principle is investing in businesses that use that money to increase productivity. We should discourage investment in vehicles that do not optimize for productivity (real estate, bitcoin, metals and similar).
Selling your investment to pay taxes for unrealized gains forces more liquidity and movement in the market and might have a huge impact on preventing bubbles forming.
Most local produce initatives fail because they're not actually better than the global/international variants, especially considered from a price/quality pov.
This is it, pretty much. If you do your own thing and it works, then you'll come out well. If you do your own thing and it fails, you'll look bad, while if you do what yiu're asked you're going to be much safer. So if you go off-piste you should have some confidence it'll work.
> if you go off-piste you should have some confidence it’ll work
Just remember that the definition of “working” is in the eyes of your manager. Assuming they’re competent and not pointy haired boss, then they might have different goals and priorities to you. I’d you end up diverging from them, even if what you did is technically good and a good fit for the project, you’ll probably have a bad time.
Yes, you do still need to solve a problem that is considered a problem and at least around the same level of importance of whatever you were supposed to be working on, preferably greater.
Huh, well that sounds like it would have been useful. It's been at least 10 years since I did any php dev work, but maybe I'll find an excuse to use it again for something.
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