[Gllug] VACANCY: MySQL Database Architect (Reading, Berkshire, UK)

[Joel Bernstein]

2009/2/13 jt at camalyn.org <jt at camalyn.org>:
> On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:59 +0000, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
>
>> > My entire point, of which I suspect everybody else is getting pretty
>> > bored, is that Reading ain't London, it doesn't quack like London, and
>> > offering Reading jobs as if they're London ones is a crock of shit.
>>
>> Fair point.
>
> what's the general guide as to what towns cover Greater London?
>
> are we including places such as Ealing, Hounslow, Richmond, Kingston
> upon Thames etc. Might these places be better to commute to via car or
> motorbike than jumping on a train and enduring a commute further into
> London?

Now that you put me on the spot I really can't say. They're all a LOT
closer than Reading for London residents and many people would be able
to reach them without the kind of crippling commute where you travel
into the centre along one spoke and out again along a different one.
Unlike Reading which involves the previously discussed hassle of
getting to Paddington etc.

Of those places you mention, several are London boroughs, yet none
except perhaps Ealing is really "London". On the other hand they're
all plausible work locations for people in Greater London. Reading
definitely seems to be pushing it too far for GLLUG. IMO.

>  From Ealing Broadway by train you could be in Reading within 50
> minutes and some people might be going the other way in to Paddington
> but still having to endure a further commute by tube.  As I've said the
> company in Reading are offering flexible working hours - i.e. start
> early, leave early for example - they don't run fixed core hours (i.e.
> 9-5).
>
> the Reading location may not work for some people but for others it
> might work. also the working environment, client and general experience
> they can gain might outweigh the general concern of having to travel to
> Reading.

Maybe I'm wearing rose-tinted specs but I don't think anybody's cast
any particular aspersions on the job itself or the salary it offers.
Although it has been argued that the salary will be considered as
lower in real terms given the cost to *get* to Reading for most of the
list denizens.



/joel
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