Reply to: Is it worth working?

[seanraaron]

Many a contract has been to take a monster spreadsheet that has become unmanageable and create a bespoke system (multi user web app usually) that they should have done in the first place.

I'm talking basic stuff like a runbook for software deployment. You've got a cell with an entire list of instructions - the damn thing isn't made for that: stick a table in a word doc if you must have tables, at least I can scroll through that or print it!

[WTFH]

Is it worth working?

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[unemployed]

So, according to the Mirror, if you earned 30k in 2001, you should be on around 40k now, not 45.

sounds fair enough try getting it though .

2001 i was on that and about 20k of call out and overtime payments also not bad at 23

[LondonManc]

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If I wasn't working I'd have missed out on that schoolboy delight a moment or two ago that comes with realising that instead of filling a few cells in a spreadsheet with TEST1, TEST2...TEST9 my fingers had overshot the E and S keys, landing instead on W and A.

File this under "You had to be there".

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[Hobosapien]

I am so tired of spreadsheets being used for things have nothing to do with calculations...

Many a contract has been to take a monster spreadsheet that has become unmanageable and create a bespoke system (multi user web app usually) that they should have done in the first place.

[WTFH]

So, according to the Mirror, if you earned 30k in 2001, you should be on around 40k now, not 45.

[seanraaron]

I am so tired of spreadsheets being used for things have nothing to do with calculations...

[I just need to test it]

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If I wasn't working I'd have missed out on that schoolboy delight a moment or two ago that comes with realising that instead of filling a few cells in a spreadsheet with TEST1, TEST2...TEST9 my fingers had overshot the E and S keys, landing instead on W and A.

File this under "You had to be there".

[seanraaron]

Not as a developer, he should be on 50-60k by now, and that's not even in London.

I meant given he stayed with the same firm. If he'd change jobs absolutely he should be getting more.

[LondonManc]

Not as a developer, he should be on 50-60k by now, and that's not even in London.

Where is that then? Certainly not in Manchester.

Salary should climb by the highest percentage from 20-30 years of age imo as you gain skills and experience at a higher rate, partly due to sheer enthusiasm.

[unemployed]

Not as a developer, he should be on 50-60k by now, and that's not even in London.

should of drove a train for a living

[NibblyPig]

That's a pretty impressive increase actually!

Not as a developer, he should be on 50-60k by now, and that's not even in London.

[seanraaron]

I did the same, my career is something like 6 mo, 5mo 1yr, 1yr, 6mo, 2yr, contracting. Each job was a healthy salary increase. I still have a mate working at the first gig, his salary over the past 6 years went from something like 16k to 25k.

That's a pretty impressive increase actually!

[unemployed]

It's hardly affluent but food on the table and a roof over your head is nice... maybe move away from London?

great we found the answer

[d000hg]

its not much though is it , minimum wage in london really needs to be around this figure

i don`t claim benefits never have

It's hardly affluent but food on the table and a roof over your head is nice... maybe move away from London?