[Gllug] VACANCY: Site Reliability Engineering

[Peter Corlett]

On 19 Feb 2009, at 13:21, Balbir Thomas wrote:
> John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Why be depressed?
> After you consider the effort it took to develop those skills (which  
> include more than a "passing familiarity" with a say C/C++) as  
> opposed to just skills in C/C++ alone ....

My attitude to salaries is to ask myself why I should spend ten years  
and endless unpaid evenings gaining mastery in IT skills when I can  
get much the same sort of money driving Tube trains with just five  
months on-the-job training?

>> Also you should consider that a Masters degree, or a PhD for that
>> matter, is not an automatic passort to a high salary.
> Education must be worth something. If it isn't perhaps a  
> reconsideration
> of the nature of education itself is due ..

There has been research into this, although I don't have a cite to  
hand. Assuming you've not gone to the University of Bums-on-Seats and  
got a third-class degree in Tealeaf Reading, a degree will increase  
your lifetime earning potential, but a PhD will reduce it again.


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