its commonly known that years of experience is more valuable than productivity or skill in the technical business. Who hasnt had a call from a recruiter when 9i came out about how much 9i experience you have. They dont ask you about any of the new features. They just want to know how long you used it.
Its just something you have to live with. We dont make the rules. > > From: "Tanel Poder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/08/27 Wed AM 04:14:30 EDT > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Nature of Oracle-l has changed > > > The other problem is the HR departments magic wand yardstick of salary and > > compensation which dictates, often incorrectly, how much a particular > job's > > adequate compensation is. Never mind the fact that a regular HR joe > doesn't > > understand DBAs from Developers - so the highly paid "specialist" boils it > > dall own to a simple yardstick - number of years of experience! > > Tell me about it! I've had exaclty the same experience about several years > ago. Even though I was leading tech part of every critical project and was > the contact whenever a serious problem occurred, the employer paid higher > salary to all other team members because they were over 10 years older than > me, they had 15 years of experience instead of my 3, but they couldn't do > much more than standard database administration like adding datafiles and > such with their "experience". > That was quite frustrating... but no problem anymore, now I'm on my own and > pay my own salary ;) > > Tanel. > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Tanel Poder > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
