Mentions (6)
"We need more PMCs for the Lockheed-Goldman-Bain industrial complex, so we dispirit a generation of artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and funnel them into pre-med, pre-law, pre-finance, pre-consulting, pre-FAANG, pre-whatever instead."
"the people i know who are super passionate about their work and end up going into a low paying but 'fulfilling' career like the arts, journalism, non-profit work, teaching, academia, or social work are pretty uniformly miserable (unless they have rich parents). the happiest people i know treat their"
"i tried to redeem myself to them by applying to a bunch of summer internships and did an internship at a FAANG this past summer in a business-y role. except i literally got depressed as shit during the internship because i realized my future would be staring at excel spreadsheets all day"
"literally 10s of thousands of seniored, experienced FAANG/silicon valley developers are in the job market now"
"I say 'Tech Bros' as a stand in for consumer technology, FAANG and AI/FinTech, trendy start-ups, not advancements in cancer treatments or whatever. also I say this as someone pretty ignorant of the current tech world tbh."
"Some kid in his middle school programming club after graduating in 2035 is not going to program rockets that land on mars and he certainly isn't getting a FAANG job. That era is completely over. Dead and done."