I started with a fairly low salary of ~50k USD in my first job in 2009, mostly because I screwed up salary negotiations. I've changed jobs twice since, and roughly tripled my salary.
> I'm not the most amazing programmer ever, but I am pretty good. I also have business sense and the ability to talk convincingly to non-technical people.
If you can deliver at all, you are probably better than most programmers out there. Talking to non-technical people is an awesome skill in its own right.
Yes, my asking about how many years you've been working was just as a rough proxy.
If you want, you can shoot me an email (see profile) for some more in-depth chats. I'm interested to see how typical my trajectory is. I don't think I did anything extraordinary, but most people I talk to seem to be getting inferior results.
> I'm not the most amazing programmer ever, but I am pretty good. I also have business sense and the ability to talk convincingly to non-technical people.
If you can deliver at all, you are probably better than most programmers out there. Talking to non-technical people is an awesome skill in its own right.
Yes, my asking about how many years you've been working was just as a rough proxy.
If you want, you can shoot me an email (see profile) for some more in-depth chats. I'm interested to see how typical my trajectory is. I don't think I did anything extraordinary, but most people I talk to seem to be getting inferior results.