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Duties
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Experience

good read, and a great reference.

--J


--- Jonathan Rickman <jrickman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 07:33:08 -0800 (PST), Jerald
> Sheets
> <jsheets at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I don't have to.  I make more.
> > 
> > "get Used to it" is a perennial problem that folks
> in
> > our industry need to remove from their vocabulary.
> 
> Seems like I mentioned something along these lines
> last week during
> the H1B debate. Artificially driving salaries up
> based on pure
> unbridled greed is exactly what leads to periods of
> unemployment and
> the flood of immigrant workers. Feel free to take
> your shots at these
> companies, but understand that one day they might
> swing back and send
> you and half your peers to the unemployment line.
> Then that 40k will
> look pretty good. I'm not speculating on any one
> person's worth. That
> obviously varies from person to person. But
> sometimes a position is
> only worth so much money to a given employer. You
> can either accept
> it, or move on to other things. Bashing the company
> in question and
> suggesting a pseudo mutiny witin the industry is not
> going to change
> things. If anything, it helps to perpetuate the
> growing feeling that
> "computer people" are over paid prima donnas. Next
> thing you know,
> you'll be calling for a damn union.
> 
> That said, $20/hr for an out of state contract is
> patently absurd. 
> 
> --
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