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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Fortunately, I only live a tiny bit above what is needed at the minimum. I always live as if I have no money. Therefore, I once in a while have the ability to excessively splurge on stuff I want, but I can also live with a salary cut when switching to another employer, if need be.
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More IT folks should have that mindset. I had a conversation at a party a while back about the pace of change in the industry, and the nature of supply and demand. "You guess right in what area you dive into, and become a top expert in huge demand. You can write your own ticket...for a while. But it's not long before others say 'Hey! There's money to be made over there!', and jump in the pool with you. They aren't as good as you are, but they're good
enough, and will charge half of what you ask. Sock it away while you're making it, and be prepared to pivot and go in another direction all too soon." One of the folks I was talking to agreed that the window was
maybe five years before you weren't special and able to command an enormous salary because you had too much competition.
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LOL yeah. Don't get me started on that one. They often want people who are able to write software starting at (almost) the bare metal in C (think programming microcontrollers), up to and including a web-based user interface to control said microcontroller (HTML5/CSS, Javascript/JQuery, PHP....) and everything in between. Oh, and of course, some Linux knowledge regarding building custom Debian Stable distro's and Windows Server knowledge to get everything hooked up and online is required as well.
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I see lots of DevOps positions, which translate as "We want you to be the SysAdmin, the database administrator,
and code the website and be one of the developers writing our custom software." My response tends to be "These are properly four separate full time jobs, but you don't want to pay four full time salaries and fringes, so you're trying to overload your people instead. Then you wonder why the results you get are unsatisfactory and you can't get people. You get what you're willing to pay for."
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And then you get the complaints: "We can't find anyone to fill our vacancies." No, of course not. A software engineer working on firmware/driver level, one working on user interface level, a network engineer and a Linux expert can NOT the same person and have all work done at the same quality level.
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I suspect the hiring managers are aware of that, but corporate HR and senior management aren't.
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Dennis