[Gllug] VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:11 +0000, william pink wrote:
>
>
>> Totally agree, Linux/UNIX is a specialist technical skill that takes
>> time to master in all areas salary's should reflect this
>
> That's true, but NOBODY in this sector is actually paid anything like
> their true worth.  The skills and knowledge we can bring to a company
> should receive adequate recompense, but most companies will not pay
> their technical staff even half as much as their "HR" idiots and
> middle-management knuckle-draggers!
>
> As an example, my daughter (MSc, 24 years old) generated in excess of
> £8m of business in a year, and was paid slightly over £31k to do it.
> The "HR" wallah who "let her go" last week earns £88k a year, and does
> NOTHING worthwhile to earn it.  He's still got his job...

You missed my post about people working remotely from cheaper
locations in  the computing world... £31k would be a king's ransom to
them.

I know in occasions, during critical moments, I saved to one of my
previous employers $10m *an hour*, but I also know that there were
people out there that could do a lot of the work I was doing (50% or
60% of it ) for far less.

It surprises me to no end the lack of knowledge about the wage war
taking place in the computing world, your daughter is being a victim
of that, not of an unsescrupulous HR minion. 3 or 4 years ago anybody
with basic Sys Admin knowledge could have almost named their salary
(trust me on this one, I helped with some of the recrutiment in
previous gigs). Those days are sadly gone.

I know nothing about the merits of HR people, the only thing I can say
is that markets are like that, we all know that a nurse is more
socially important than a footballer for example, but supply and
demand of skills puts the level of wages where they are for each
profession, irrespective of the level of skills or social importance.

The real situation in the job market should inform how you pursue a
carrier or a profession, otherwise you may be aiming for mirages...

> Chris
>
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