Are only kids of wealthy parents in elite professions majoring in arts/going to elite colleges?

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Well, if you all even bothered to click on the link, it's actually $67,000 not $150,000 starting salary.

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Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

[Anonymous]

None of you rubes understand what the liberal arts are.

[Anonymous]

The stark dichotomy which you are all describing between liberal arts and technology doesn’t in fact exist, at least at most decent liberal arts colleges now.

If for example you were to major in sociology or political science, you would take a course called research methods and then you would probably take two courses in which you learn how to deal with data in the social sciences. This would include performing queries in SQL as well as programming in R. You would also learn data visualization in a program like tableau. You could get cool internships and make a portfolio of your projects, put some stuff on GitHub or jagged and do a senior thesis that shows off your skills in working with data sources like census data, voting data, etc.

It’s possible to graduate with a degree in a soft social science and still have the sorts of skills that you can put on your résumé to be employable as a data analyst or data scientist. It’s not all Just people in libraries reading dusty old books from the 1800s .
There is even something called digital humanities, which I don’t know a lot about, but which again might involve some thing like writing a program to analyze all of Shakespeare’s plays, looking at how language is used and once again making cool data visualization‘s. A lot of you people who think that all humanities majors sit around writing poetry really don’t know what you’re talking about.

And it’s even possible to teach an artificial intelligence to write poetry, to combine humanities with something like linguistics which might again be interesting to an employer Since translation programs etc. rest on lots of linguistic principles as does speech recognition

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

It's not starting. It's the max salary possible.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

Starting salary at most consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and Accenture is above $100k plus joining bonus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

Starting salary at most consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and Accenture is above $100k plus joining bonus.

One of these things is not like the other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

Starting salary at most consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and Accenture is above $100k plus joining bonus.

Not at “most” consulting firms, only for MBB and only from elite schools (for entry level at least). And it’s not $150k.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Yup. Way better than having to do 8-10 years of med school, residency etc to get $150k in primary care or pediatrics.

You have no idea what you're saying. My DC1 is in med school. First, a pediatrician in DC area makes around 300k base salary to start. 180K is base pay first year in Podank, Nebraska and those positions are filled by foreign residents with med school outside US. People get into pediatrics because the schedule is wonderful and they don't work 40 hours/week, so it's very family friendly if you are a parent. In addition, pediatric centers are not owned by private equity but by the doctors. So you make good money as a business owner too. The work is meaningful- instead of staying in a room full of wire and people coding aimlessly for mostly useless purposes, you nurture life. If you no longer want to practice, you have a miriade of other job opportunities- research, insurance, biotech companies, FDA etc. If you get satisfaction from this, virtually all people respect doctors and are happy to have one in the neighborhood. As a doctor, you get special financing for a lot of things, including real estate. If you are a business owner, you get to structure your own profit sharing. If you work in the hospital, even PT, the hospital will pay your student loans and professional insurance. Being a doctor is way way above 99.9% of any CS jobs, in terms of intellect, prestige, and income - MIT grad here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

Starting salary at most consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and Accenture is above $100k plus joining bonus.

One of these things is not like the other.

This is hilarious with Accenture on the list. My H started at Bain after Ivy and his salary was 180k. I was at Lehman (I know, I'm old) and my first year salary with bonus was 220k. This was decades ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

Starting salary at most consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and Accenture is above $100k plus joining bonus.

Not at “most” consulting firms, only for MBB and only from elite schools (for entry level at least). And it’s not $150k.

This is what Accenture offered undergrads at Princeton and Duke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Yup. Way better than having to do 8-10 years of med school, residency etc to get $150k in primary care or pediatrics.

You have no idea what you're saying. My DC1 is in med school. First, a pediatrician in DC area makes around 300k base salary to start. 180K is base pay first year in Podank, Nebraska and those positions are filled by foreign residents with med school outside US. People get into pediatrics because the schedule is wonderful and they don't work 40 hours/week, so it's very family friendly if you are a parent. In addition, pediatric centers are not owned by private equity but by the doctors. So you make good money as a business owner too. The work is meaningful- instead of staying in a room full of wire and people coding aimlessly for mostly useless purposes, you nurture life. If you no longer want to practice, you have a miriade of other job opportunities- research, insurance, biotech companies, FDA etc. If you get satisfaction from this, virtually all people respect doctors and are happy to have one in the neighborhood. As a doctor, you get special financing for a lot of things, including real estate. If you are a business owner, you get to structure your own profit sharing. If you work in the hospital, even PT, the hospital will pay your student loans and professional insurance. Being a doctor is way way above 99.9% of any CS jobs, in terms of intellect, prestige, and income - MIT grad here.

Yes if you want to but not everyone does and not every pediatrician is happy nor every consultant is unhappy.

[Anonymous]

Our society is going to be f’d over if the only thing people strove for is the highest possible salary.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

Starting salary at most consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and Accenture is above $100k plus joining bonus.

Not at “most” consulting firms, only for MBB and only from elite schools (for entry level at least). And it’s not $150k.

This is what Accenture offered undergrads at Princeton and Duke.

Yes, at Princeton and Duke.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We will have an oversupply of CS people, like we had librarians, pharmacists, and nurses in the past. The top ones, with keen business sense and strong interpersonal relationships, will make top $ and know which startup to join. The rest will end up at Accenture, writing code and building databases for some tired federal agency, and getting paid $150K/year.

Getting a $150k starting salary with only a bachelors is a huge deal.

Whose getting that!?!

Starting salary at most consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey and Accenture is above $100k plus joining bonus.

Not at “most” consulting firms, only for MBB and only from elite schools (for entry level at least). And it’s not $150k.

not $150k salary but up to $150k including signing bonus and annual bonus.
This is what Accenture offered undergrads at Princeton and Duke.