>>>It's interesting that later works of the members have gone in quite different directions. I thought I'd like Miroslav Vitouš, being Slavic etc, but what I could find of him was exactly what I despise. OTOH, Joe Zawinul is the right kind of crazy. Haven't run into anything by Wayne Shorter or Jaco Pastorius yet, so I wouldn't know.
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>>They have both done some stuff on their own. Shorter was actually the guy who got Weather Report most of their early attention, having been a member of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers and then replacing John Coltrane in Miles Davis's group. Miles didn't hire any fools. (Although he did reportedly pay them peanuts, apparently in faith that just being in his band was a career-making move).
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>He may have been right - just look at the list of the musicians who've been through Bluesbreakers, and how many of them had decent careers, at least.
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>It's not even funny, though, when a programmer is underpaid under the same pretext, "the knowledge of this trade that you'll gain here is worth much more... and here's the NDA for you to sign so you can't use that knowledge".
A bad experience, I take it? Get it off your chest if you want to.
I suppose any of us who knows the difference between a function call and a bodily function, and takes some pride in the work, has been taken advantage of at one time or another. My early career was spent working for a software company where I wrote some stuff that literally earned the company millions. My salary had a nice trajectory but most of those millions did not land in my bank account. I'm not upset about it. I did just fine and got other good jobs based on that one. Besides, good work is to an extent its own reward.
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