Job of the Day?

[ChimpMaster]

I was on £18.85 an hour in 1994, my first proper IT contract, previous 4 years I was contracting in an bummer sort of way, i.e. fecking no idea what I was doing....

God knows what I did with the tax money lol!!

In 1996 I was temping as an accounts assistant at Nike in the South East, working next to a couple of IT contractors (can't recall what they worked on). I was getting paid £5/hour and the IT contractors told me they were on £40/hr.

Always got me thinking, they were getting £70k+ a year in 1996. They could have bought a decent 3 bed semi every year at that rate at that time (the same kind of house is now £450k).

[original PM]

Noob question but what's a bobco?

A company who generally employ Indians on a work permit.

The 'bob' is a homage to a poster in here called bob shawadiwadi who was a caricature if an Indian software developer

[northernladuk]

Bob Shawadiwadi
http://youtu.be/L64S8sYbDmA

[PurpleGorilla]

In 1996 I was temping as an accounts assistant at Nike in the South East, working next to a couple of IT contractors (can't recall what they worked on). I was getting paid £5/hour and the IT contractors told me they were on £40/hr.

Always got me thinking, they were getting £70k+ a year in 1996. They could have bought a decent 3 bed semi every year at that rate at that time (the same kind of house is now £450k).

They were probably fixing the 'millennium bug' [emoji122]🏽[emoji122]🏽[emoji133][emoji133][emoji133][emoji7][emoji133][emoji133][emoji133][emoji122]🏽