Curiosity

[lnr]

A friend of mine recently wondered why they weren't earning 30K in programming, when it seemed like most of their friends were. So I'm curious as to what various people on my friends-list do. If you're not currently working but have done in the past feel free to fill this in with your most recent job in mind. If you don't want to reveal who you are, or if you don't have a livejournal, I'd still be interested in answers as comments instead.

NB Salary in UK pounds please, sorry for not making that clear in the question.

[Poll #256200]

Comments

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

2nd level Geek, prestige class Other, £10/hour working part-time from home, far too few hours per year. (Was being paid a rather higher rate than that by the same company at one point, but that was the point where the company went bankrupt; a little money that I actually do receive is better than a lot of theoretical money that I don't.)

I do pretty elementary webmonkeying and minor tech support but have a relatively long history with the company and my limited knowledge of the company's field turns out to be extremely good relative to almost all others. 4 years, 8¾ months. Not very happy, though I like and respect the other people involved in the comapny. Being paid... probably about the right rate (*), but just far less employed than I would like to be.

(*) The sort of webmonkeying that I do is nothing that I couldn't have done at about the age of 14 and so is probably really a minimum wage job these days, but being knowledgeable and informed in the field, moderately able to get along with people and having a reasonably good reputation can justifiably command a premium.

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