- Management Consultants get paid handsomely to clean spreadsheets and make nice charts
- Software Engineers get paid handsomely to copypaste a couple of lines of code here and there.
Lots of these people sacrificed their youth to get into the right school and work.
But still a lot of them are stuck with menial task for years and years.
In the end, you don't get paid because you're so damn smart - you get paid for your time, and the assurance that you won't fk up things.
A lot of the interesting work sadly doesn't come before years down the road, after you've proven yourself, and made it through the promotions.
- Management Consultants get paid handsomely to clean spreadsheets and make nice charts
- Software Engineers get paid handsomely to copypaste a couple of lines of code here and there.
Lots of these people sacrificed their youth to get into the right school and work.
But still a lot of them are stuck with menial task for years and years.
In the end, you don't get paid because you're so damn smart - you get paid for your time, and the assurance that you won't fk up things.
A lot of the interesting work sadly doesn't come before years down the road, after you've proven yourself, and made it through the promotions.