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Previously on "How do you constantly improve your pay / career in the tech world?"
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Originally posted by kaiser78 View PostRobotics is a growing area.
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostWill I have to get maths GCSE first?
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostGet more specialised.
Find a niche.
Budget 2K or more a year for training. And budget time for training, too (this is the hardest part).
Improve your maths to university level, if you can.
Every 10 years take a sabbatical and do a rigorous and deep course of training in something you like.
And most importantly, do what you enjoy and the money will follow. Not the other way round.
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Get more specialised.
Find a niche.
Budget 2K or more a year for training. And budget time for training, too (this is the hardest part).
Improve your maths to university level, if you can.
Every 10 years take a sabbatical and do a rigorous and deep course of training in something you like.
And most importantly, do what you enjoy and the money will follow. Not the other way round.
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Originally posted by HealthyProtein View PostA) There is ever increasing competition
Owning a Merc A160 doesn't make you the same as Lewis Hamilton.
Originally posted by HealthyProtein View PostB) The technology is changing at a faster and faster pace
Originally posted by HealthyProtein View PostC) Predictable tasks / codes are now done easily by computers
Originally posted by HealthyProtein View PostD) Specialists are valued more than people with broader skill sets
Originally posted by HealthyProtein View PostSo how do you keep up?
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As a BA I find more experience is better. I don't find myself having to keep up with technologies that come and go, I just get calls/emails/linkedin messages about gigs based on experience.
They are for all sorts of projects, being 'seasoned' and able to adapt to/pick new things that come along is working for me. Rate doesn't change that much but I'm very happy with it and have no desire to get (back) into banking for higher rates or become a PM or programme manager.
The mix of good rate with not having as much stress as a PM is my sweet spot.
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And yet there are more contractors than ever before....
Appreciate many perm jobs are now all contract.
I have experienced this, entire knowledge of servers rendered valueless virtually overnight while I sleepwalked into it.
Had to go perm, take 50% pay cut and rebuild into SM + PM work.
So - useful to keep an eye on which way the wind is blowing but very important to build up network of people who can take hiring decisions. I am seeing vast majority of jobs being passed to people they or someone on the team worked with elsewhere who can do the job ok and get on with everyone.
These people recreate the same teams over and over, you don't have to kiss-ass, but you do have to hustle a bit, get sh*t done and protect the boss from any grief.
GLA
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostTelling you would make you competition so I am afraid we will be unable to help.Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostYour accountant told me for a fiver.....
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Originally posted by SueEllen View PostRemember don't give the competition information they can use.
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