Job Posting

[Paul Taylor]

I didn't say script monkeys make $80,000 a year, at least I don't
personally know any. I do know the job postings are for $40,000 [low
end] to $60,000 [high end] for the sysadmin or script monkeys. I'm not a
unix / coding guru so I've never applied.

Some guy in my peer group was making $80,000 a year, quit his job and
moved to Atlanta (home town) to work for Scientific Atlanta. They paid
him a large bonus up front and gave him a nice raise. 5 weeks later they
fired him because "he didn't sell aggressively". They failed to mention
his job entailed sales in the beginning and he offered to "adapt" but
the manager didn't want to give him another chance. That's his side of
the story, who knows. Meanwhile, he tried to get his old job back but
they already hired someone in his spot.

I guess the moral of the story is grass is NOT greener on the other
side.

He's the only person I personally know who went to another company and
it didn't work out for the better (at least yet).

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Brian Densmore
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 3:55 PM
To: kclug
Subject: RE: Job Posting

Well if your company is paying $80,000 a year
for script monkeys, we'd all appreciate you letting us
know when and where to apply. God knows my job is secure,
but I'm not making anything like that. Heck, I'd even drive 
down to OP for that kind of money. ;)

Of course I haven't been looking for quite sometime, so
maybe I'm just ignorant of how badly they pay me here.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Taylor
> 
> 
> If you need more examples (recent <12 months) I can give
> them. What good
> would it do? Will it make anyone feel better?
> 
> My example was meant to counter a generalization. You never know why 
> someone is posting an ad until you talk to them. They might lie to you

> but at least you talked to them.
> 
> I check our internal postings about once a month and there
> ARE ALWAYS jobs
> open for Unix admins or script monkeys to name a few. In over 
> 3 years (and
> counting) there hasn't been one time one of those job openings wasn't
> available. I have no clue why those jobs are not filled or 
> vacant (people
> get burned out and quit). Probably the lack of a formal 
> education on top
> of the skills [no flame war!!!], I don't really know.
>