Reply to: Normal Salaries - Wow!

[sasguru]

I'll wager that none come from your direction.

You'd be wrong, as usual.

[Churchill]

Pay attention. Some nuggets of common sense may penetrate even your exceptionally thick noggin.

I'll wager that none come from your direction.

[alreadypacked]

Some of us enjoy the creativety of IT and have no interest in pushing paperwork and moving further up the food chain and managing a load of Bobs(no offence Bob like). In fact, I feel sorry for anyone doing that kind of work, it may pay but you cannot derive much satisfaction from it surely?

If I am unable to use my creativety I'd rather do something completely different. I don't want to go to my grave and think the last 30 years paid well but bored me to death.
Each to their own. Although I enjoy the financial rewards of contracting, I'd rather take a less well paid career change than do stuff related to IT I have no interest in (managing offshore projects to save pennies when it quite often doesn't work out like that).

I know I will never get to a position where I will make real decisions. I have done the "use my creativety" thing only the see the project cancelled. I have accepted what IT has become, now I put my creativety to other uses. You really don't know what is involved getting my presents required in India for Jan. Feb. and March, twice.

[SuperZ]

But you can design what they do, manage them, or sign-off what they do. It not about competing with them, it's about moving further up the food chain.

Some of us enjoy the creativety of IT and have no interest in pushing paperwork and moving further up the food chain and managing a load of Bobs(no offence Bob like). In fact, I feel sorry for anyone doing that kind of work, it may pay but you cannot derive much satisfaction from it surely?

If I am unable to use my creativety I'd rather do something completely different. I don't want to go to my grave and think the last 30 years paid well but bored me to death.
Each to their own. Although I enjoy the financial rewards of contracting, I'd rather take a less well paid career change than do stuff related to IT I have no interest in (managing offshore projects to save pennies when it quite often doesn't work out like that).

[alreadypacked]

But that is annoying work, as they are mostly ******* useless...

But it pays well, and you get to spend the winters in India, and work from home on the beach.

It works for me

[Moscow Mule]

But you can design what they do, manage them, or sign-off what they do.

But that is annoying work, as they are mostly ******* useless...

[sasguru]

It not about competing with them, it's about moving further up the food chain.

Quite.

[sasguru]

Nurse!!!

Pay attention. Some nuggets of common sense may penetrate even your exceptionally thick noggin.

[alreadypacked]

Earning more now than the lucrative contracting years of the 90s.
It's all about adapting to changing circumstances and moving out of commoditised "IT". You can't really compete with Bob or Pavel, so don't try.

But you can design what they do, manage them, or sign-off what they do. It not about competing with them, it's about moving further up the food chain.

[Churchill]

Earning more now than the lucrative contracting years of the 90s.
It's all about adapting to changing circumstances and moving out of commoditised "IT". You can't really compete with Bob or Pavel, so don't try.

Nurse!!!

[sasguru]

Earning more now than the lucrative contracting years of the 90s.
It's all about adapting to changing circumstances and moving out of commoditised "IT". You can't really compete with Bob or Pavel, so don't try.

[Scary]

I wonder when we will see another 80's level increase in salaries, what I mean is, from mid 80's to mid 90's there was large salary inflation, wonder if that will ever happen again ?

Salaries, maybe in nominal terms. In real terms, no way, not without some game changing technology. Think increasing world demand for resources and peak just about everything.

[Gonzo]

What shocks me the the most is that, in my opinion, general salaries have not improved since the mid 90's.

Yet during the same period the cost of living has risen dramatically and the value of the currency has fallen in parallel

I think you will find that thanks to Gordon's superb financial management then inflation has been low all through this period so salaries have not needed to rise.

Now the tories are in, watch it take off.

[milanbenes]

have read the thread, thank you it is very informative.

What shocks me the the most is that, in my opinion, general salaries have not improved since the mid 90's.

Yet during the same period the cost of living has risen dramatically and the value of the currency has fallen in parallel


I wonder when we will see another 80's level increase in salaries, what I mean is, from mid 80's to mid 90's there was large salary inflation, wonder if that will ever happen again ?

seems salaries in general have a lot fo catching up to do

what does the jury think ?

Sas, take a tablet before replying please.

Ta,

Milan.

[Churchill]

No, not been on the bench for years, I am heading there in July.
I would like a 6 month contract, to keep me bussy until I head off for the winter. But the war chest can take me having 9 months off.

<sniff><sniff>Yeah right...