It's a good question. The qualifications I have are not in the area I'm working in, and anyway aren't worth the paper they're printed on in a lot of ways, and to be honest I don't feel like I'm very *good* at my job. Plus it's a *lot* more than the office jobs which are the only other work I've done - admittedly only as summer work and to tide me over before getting a "real" job post university.
The amount you're paid in the job you're in probably has more to do with the amount of experience you have relevant to that job. So your PhD and postdoc skills would probably add more to your worth as an academic than they do to your worth in IT. Even in academia it seems easier to be paid lots for computing than for being an academic though :-)
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Date: 2006-03-09 10:08 am (UTC)The amount you're paid in the job you're in probably has more to do with the amount of experience you have relevant to that job. So your PhD and postdoc skills would probably add more to your worth as an academic than they do to your worth in IT. Even in academia it seems easier to be paid lots for computing than for being an academic though :-)