Re: [Staffslug] Jobs
Sadly it is true, I spent quite a long time looking for work in Newcastle
and Stoke, most positions were for mid to high teens locally, with the
bigger salaries being offered in the big cities. Several of the positions
I applied for they wanted a serious amount of skills, incidentally I found
that a lot of companies weren't willing to take on a person and then
up-skill them to their need. In the end I left the Midlands and headed
down to London. Got a job paying at the time 26k that was 9 years ago.
Having recently looked outside of the cities once again for work it
saddens me how they expect so much for so little reward. Needless to say
things haven't moved on that much pay wise. Most companies still seem to
be offering high teens to mid twenties depending on experience.
Mark
2009/5/6 Tom Hill <tom(a)ninjabadger.net>:
> I was going to say something similar, but I bit my tongue.
>
> They always want everything for relatively nothing, but there.
>
It's always been the same in IT. You hear of these fantastic salaries
but nobody is actually getting them. Well, not where I've worked.
The universities are the worst though. I ran an IT lab at W'ton. 126
PCs, recruited staff, had budgetry responsibility, did maintenance and
upgrades etc and all for what? £14,000 a year back in 2000 when I
left. In the private sector my salary would have been around £30,000
'allegedly' for what I did...
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Kevan Farmer
Linux user #373362
Staffordshire
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