[chickenfries]

You can’t imagine that there are people who are smart enough to code, but wouldn’t otherwise be doing so if the salaries weren’t so good? The pay is really good right now. Lots of people I know who did boot camps were doing things like research in other STEM fields. They are definitely coding now because coding offers them a more comfortable life, not because writing enterprise software is more rewarding than say, researching climate change.

[pmiller2]

I definitely would be doing it if salaries were substantially lower. In fact, I’ve told people before that the main reason I’m a developer now is because it’s the only thing I know how to do that I know I can pay my student loans with.

[pmiller2]

/s/would/would not/