Subj : Re: Software Job Market Myths
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : gerard46
Date : Sat Jul 23 2005 07:00 pm

| Ronald Skoog wrote:
|> Terry wrote:
|> 1. Any good programmer requires $60,000 to $90,000 per year or more.
|> (Wrong. They may only require $40,000, or less, depending on the job. Entry
|> level programmers just out of college, many of whom are very capable, can be
|> hired for $30,000. It's not the 1990s anymore. There are many unemployed
|> engineers. The crazed demand for programmers is gone. Programmers require no
|> more pay than intelligent, educated, skilled workers in other professions.)

| In my area a union electrician or plummer make more than $40K (base pay)
| after a 3 to 4 year apprenticeship and a police officer makes considerably
| more with a MUCH better retirement package.
|
| Given that, why would anybody want to spend 4 in college just to earn $40K?

Some people go to college to get an education, not necessarily as a path to
earn more money.


| Add in that the industry is so unstable that you'll probably be out of a job
| is 5 years (if you don't burn out) and you have to wonder why anybody is
| taking computer science classes anymore.

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