What Are You Paid For?

These days, you either have clients, or you have a manager.

If you have a manager or boss, you might end up thinking something like this: 

"I guess I'd argue that this is redundant code.... but then again, I'm not paid to argue, but to code."


If you do, you're either on a sure path to retirement or you're just working through college to pay some bills dreaming you'll one day be an entrepreneur. Either way, this is not the setup for you and if you're not making plans to chage your status, you should be.

And if you're thinking about working for yourself, I applaud that! I do. Just remember that

"Working for yourself means you don't have a boss. It means you have customers, which are much less forgiving and more demanding than a boss would be."

I'm not trying to discourage anybody, but you do need to keep this in mind. Working in the real world is not like working on a college project. There are no B`s, there are no C`s. There are only A`s and F`s.

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/12/23/why-programmers-are-not-paid-in-proportion-to-their-productivity/#