This, in a world where the job description didn’t exist as such forty years ago and probably won’t exist as such forty years from now? I mean, I guess if we’re talking “base rate, pretending the world is a static snapshot of 2014 conditions.”
I’ll take scant evidence over no evidence. Even if we only have anecdotes from finance people that is better than nothing. What we’re really interested in is the washout rate for a person with the characteristics of an average EA, which will of course be even harder to judge. I still want some idea of the chances.
No, not really. The original question is “Where can I make lots of money?” A purely empirical search will point you towards a few occupations. There will be creatives, there will be athletes in certain sports, there will be startup founders, and there will be finance, too.
The list of activities where you stand a chance of being paid more than, say, $1m/year, is not long.
This, in a world where the job description didn’t exist as such forty years ago and probably won’t exist as such forty years from now? I mean, I guess if we’re talking “base rate, pretending the world is a static snapshot of 2014 conditions.”
I’ll take scant evidence over no evidence. Even if we only have anecdotes from finance people that is better than nothing. What we’re really interested in is the washout rate for a person with the characteristics of an average EA, which will of course be even harder to judge. I still want some idea of the chances.
You will need to make sure your evidence is unbiased or it might well turn out to be worse than no evidence at all.
The original premise is subject to the exact same caveat. Finance looks interesting because we notice successful people in finance.
No, not really. The original question is “Where can I make lots of money?” A purely empirical search will point you towards a few occupations. There will be creatives, there will be athletes in certain sports, there will be startup founders, and there will be finance, too.
The list of activities where you stand a chance of being paid more than, say, $1m/year, is not long.