So, life of a humanities major like my wife. Actually, most majors that weren't STEM.

If it helps anyone in this situation, you can try to bank on other skills. My wife is doing great now but got her start because of her bilingualism, and even that was only 35k a year. My sister did a little better with her music degree by pivoting to community manager, although in her case she had experience modding for a well known streamer. That was pretty good money right out the gate.

Point is, programming isn't your everything, even if you're leveraging something from your personal life.

Parasites. Are those the ones that bring in a bunch of resources and give them to the host?

I suppose it depends on th discipline.

No. I wish that were the case though, then I wouldn’t have any reason to dislike them. But being that It isn’t the case, I’ll continue my campaign of hostility against gringos.

Technically a good burrito though.

I don't make quite that after 8 years of doing this stuff. That being said, I dropped out of college twice. Maybe $100k of debt is what I need to close that $25k difference lol

it’s really not. technically or otherwise.

My first tech job out of college was $55k.

Average in my area for new grads at best is like $85k.

My highest paying was $195k as a Senior and my average is probably $150k as a Senior / Lead.

None of this was big tech though.

Hard disagree. Every company across the spectrum I've worked for couldn't care less about a portfolio.

I'm guessing companies aren't hiring fully remote new grads. And to be honest, I think that would be really tough as an employee, because it can be so hard to learn from coworkers while remote. Getting started on a new remote team is rough enough as it is

On top of this, the AI jobs are paying some flat-out ridiculous rates.

Like, millions of dollars up-front in signing bonuses kind of ridiculous