[MrB]

All well and good if you want to be an employee...

You have to seek your own passive income if you want to REALLY do what you want and still support your life.

[rbg81]

Oracle Database Administrator? Lead QA Engineer? What a BS list.

PS - I never met a Software QA person who was taken seriously. That is not a good thing, just an observation.

[wbill]

The commonality that I see with three jobs I'm familiar with.... CTO, Sr. HW engineer and Lead QA Engineer .... is that they take 15-20 years to get there. Probably lots of job satisfaction once you've arrived, but it's a long, long haul.

Others, like "Executive Chef" and "Construction Manager" would need a good bit of time in the business to reach as well, I'd think.

Articles like this make me wonder if somewhere out there, some soon-to-be college grad will read this and say "Hmmm. Maybe I'll be a CTO when I graduate. Wonder who's hiring for that position?"

Reality is a harsh mistress. :-)