Not quite. More like per 40 hour week with no overtime, but my father insists on having up to 20 hours a week of overtime he's allowed to burn, so it's kinda like $7,500 a week. He generally gets paid byweekly or monthly. Subcontractor and all that BS

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

subcontractor

that's why it's $7500.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

COBOL. That's why he's a subcontractor. Not like they taught COBOL in my CS courses in university in 1998-2002.

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What? I make that kind of money by dabbling in Ansible, Python and Kubernetes. $5000 sounds pretty lowball for fairly niche knowledge like COBOL.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

*sigh* why the fuck didn't I major in CS!?

[–] Aganim@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know, but for me it was undiagnosed ADHD. 😋 Fortunately IT is one of the areas where lack of a degree isn't a showstopper.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

i mean i recently did a contract gig updating a 6 year old legacy codebase in a language I've never used

oh also I've barely coded anything in my life

you guessed it, i used an LLM (as the contracter requested, but still...) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so i keep waffling between "my (then) undiagnosed ADHD would have stunted my CS learning hard enough that I'd barely be any more knowledgeable than I am now anyway" and "despite it being a terrible fucking idea companies are going to try their damnedest to replace all software engineering with vibe coding"

so i end up back at "at least i have a degree in pipetting and can go get a $20/hr job moving small volumes of liquid back and forth until pipetting robots become cheaper than me"