Your earnings go up as you acquire job skills that fewer and fewer people have. Supply & Demand.
I know skilled C++ programmers that pull in compensation packages of a million dollars a year. It's not because of signalling or certification. It's because a very competent programmer can save or make the employer a great deal of money.
For more conventional skills, you'll never make much money as an engineer if you skip the math classes. It's obvious which ones can't do the math on the job, and they're not going to get the kind of assignments that lead to promotions.
> Your earnings go up as you acquire job skills that fewer and fewer people have. Supply & Demand.
No, they don't. Very few people are able to juggle 8 pins, but my earnings will not go up if I acquire that skill.
Your earnings go up when you acquire a job skill that people are willing to pay a lot of money for.
> For more conventional skills, you'll never make much money as an engineer if you skip the math classes. I
Define 'much money'.
You can easily make 400K/year at FANG, without having the foggiest idea of how to do linear algebra, calculus, arithmetic, statistics, or really anything but interview O(N) analysis.
It is if you're a juggler, but even the best jugglers in the world don't get paid well.
Juggling and mathematics are both useful skills, but 95% of SWEs don't use any for their jobs, and aren't going to get paid more if they pick either one up.
I know skilled C++ programmers that pull in compensation packages of a million dollars a year. It's not because of signalling or certification. It's because a very competent programmer can save or make the employer a great deal of money.
For more conventional skills, you'll never make much money as an engineer if you skip the math classes. It's obvious which ones can't do the math on the job, and they're not going to get the kind of assignments that lead to promotions.