I have only one but very strong response/opinion based on this survey. It just proves that this line of work has increased in the amount of knowledge required to do the job but the pay has been significantly descreased as the overall cost of living has increased dramtically.
It no longer possible to contribute to 401k plans or save any of your salary unless you have a inexpensive mortgage and don't live near NYC, New England or California. It's abundantly clear to me that unless you want to live pay check to paycheck, you need to come up with a business idea that utlizes your skill sets and grow a business of your own. You could do Web consulting, but the survey doesn't show great results in that area. I'm talking about creating a unique product or service that people want and charge a small price and work on volume or if you idea is extremely hard to compete against, charge a premium for your product/service. There's more tax agvantages being in your own business. As an employee you spend your money after it's already been taxed. When you're in your own business, you spend your money related to your business, take the deductions and then pay taxes. You can write off your car payment, make it a company car, and expense meals, travel etc. This survey just solidifies the truth that no one get's rich enough to have an easy life while working for someone else unless you're an executive or are lucky and likeable to survive a pre-ipo and post ipo company and all the politics that goes along with a company's maturing process. I recently thought that there should be a union created for all Web related professionals or someone needs to unite the web workers of the world in the form of a franchise that utilizes a large cummunity of developers to complete projects in half the time a small shop would or an individual employee. It would become so cost effective for the customers, the international volume would seep back into this country and would benefit US based Web professionals. So go ahead, disagree, call me a bonehead, it's just one opinion. I think developers work very hard for their earnings and have high expectations. We're the gate keepers to the Web site world and I see us moving towards becoming a commoditity and it makes me sad. I hope you share some similar views and that I'm not just on my own osolated little planet. 8-) >Discuss amongst yourselves. > >http://alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults/ > >____________________________________ > >Andy Matthews >Senior ColdFusion Developer > >Office: 877.707.5467 x747 >Direct: 615.627.9747 >Fax: 615.467.6249 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >www.dealerskins.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291430 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
