Is programming going to be the highest paid career in the next ten years?

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Of course not! Pretty sure CEOs, NFL players, and management consultants will always make more, assuming concussions don’t spell the end of professional football in the next 20 years.

What coding is is the new factory jobs. We’re in the middle of a new Industrial Revolution, only instead of cars and steel getting made, it’s websites. There is an insatiable need for new talent. And it won’d be going away anytime soon.

During the Industrial Revolution, when a factory came to town, it completely transformed the local area. Not everyone got a job in the factory, but there’s a lot more money flying around. If you were lucky enough to get in, and work your way up to a place of respectability, then you could go from being a nobody in your town to being someone.

So it is with programming. Almost everybody I know that is making decent money is doing it in software. There’s such a huge demand for software workers that you don’t actually need a college degree to get your foot in the door. I still recommend it though because it makes it so much easier.