Ken Snyder wrote:
Jason Jones wrote:
...
Right now, seems that "we're hiring" is posted outside every business
doorway in Utah valley. The last place I worked started me above 60K
/ yr
and was willing to give me a 30% raise to keep me there, yet that was
still
lacking compared to other offers I was getting... So... a shortage
might
not be too far off base. (I might have misconstrued your point entirely,
Cole, and if that's the case - I apologize.)
...
That's our experience as well. We've been trying to hire a developer
since the beginning of the year with no luck. We used a headhunter
service for a while who told us "Unemployment in the tech sector in
Utah County is 0.2%". I don't know if that stat is accurate, but
every one of the candidates they supplied for interview already had
jobs--most weren't even looking for jobs--and we certainly haven't had
a lot of answers to our posts.
-
Like Civil Engineering, programming is basically a commodity business.
When times are good salaries are pretty good, when times are slow,
salaries are much lower. No matter how "good" you are, if you just
have the commodity skills, you will get the commodity wage. And these
commodity businesses are made up of a lot of small scale business that
keep rates lower - run one and paying someone 45-65 will seem like a lot
of money.
Yes society values some professions more than others for not the right
reasons - it's the way it is and no complaining will change it. Warren
Buffett moved Berkshire Hathaway out of shirts and into the insurance
business and said no matter how well the shirt company was run, the
shirt business was just not a good business to be in. If you want big
bucks get a MBA, MD, or Law Degree - it's just the way it is. (ps: met
a lot of investment bankers who did drugs every weekend - so it's not
always the great career you think it is)
On the other hand, if you love what you do, then you should either
accept your profession for what it is or try to create a niche that will
always pay more. ie great Rails or Ajax programmers make more. Or data
warehouse specialists in the Casino business, yada, yada.
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