Comment by rwallace

Everything I've heard about the lives of doctors and lawyers says that by and large (discounting the handful of percent of outliers) those professions make living on welfare or working at McDonald's for minimum wage look like brilliant career moves. I wouldn't look to them for models of how to do things.

I do, mind you, think it is a good idea to encourage programmers to improve their negotiating skills and understand a little about business and politics.