Terry Collins wrote:
O Plameras wrote:
For $25,000 stipend (or salary) per year one could continue University
and earn a Ph.D.
Hmm, haven't looked at PHd student jobs in decades, but it isn't the
issue. Schools have been pushing masses of students into IT for at least
a decade. As a result, companies have so many more to choose from, they
can afford to offer lower starting salaries.
And, if you expect "grads" to spend a year finding their feet, what you
save on the initial intake, can be quickly offered to the ones who you
want to keep.
Some companies still follow the practise whereby you take a mass of
peeps on as trainees and gradually weed them out, keeping and grooming
the "most desireable[1]" for a career in the company.
[1] the criteria of "desireable" varies. Sometimes being too good isn't
desireable.
My 2c is that if you are offering yourself as a grad, sure it is handy
to have an idea of what you might get offered (doesn't uni tell you
anyway?), but until you get out there, you really don't find out what
you are going to be offered.
Personally, if you are worried about a career, it is equally important
to research the company/workplace as well as worry about the $$$.
Nothing worse that take a higher paying job at a dying concern (been
there, done that).
The point here is $25,000 for graduates as initial salary offer is low.
A year-12 high school graduate begins at that salary level.
Certainly, a Uni graduate is worth more than that.
O Plameras
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