I'm going to have a good go at looking for a contract when I'm back from holiday and now that Labour are gone. Hmm, what areas should I "enhance" my CV? I think every place I've contracted is bobified now.
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Lowering salaries - it's the end of IT as we know it (and I feel fine)
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIn terms of training you can be an IT person, a statistician or a PhD in mathematics or none of the above.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostI'm going to have a good go at looking for a contract when I'm back from holiday and now that Labour are gone. Hmm, what areas should I "enhance" my CV? I think every place I've contracted is bobified now.Comment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostIs this thread about lower IT salaries in general or specific niche skills?
Someone seems to think it's the later but I don't see where the OP made that distinction?
Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.Comment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostWhy won't you write in it that you never collaborated with them and avoided paying your fair share of taxes?
Apart from that, that more or less sums up the Labour years for me.Comment
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Originally posted by Scrag Meister View PostImplied by posting SAS job results.
Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View PostIs this thread about lower IT salaries in general or specific niche skills?
Someone seems to think it's the later but I don't see where the OP made that distinction?
I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.Comment
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Originally posted by Francko View Postthe golden age for IT has definitely come to an end.
HTHComment
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Originally posted by AtW View PostThis has happened way before end of 90s.
HTHI've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.Comment
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Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post...on page 3 after the OP was called 'thick'.
Thick because you're ignoring globalisation, the government's policy of allowing cheap labour through ICT, the fact that any job that requires you sitting at a desk and not interacting with live people can be done by a cleverer person on the other side of the world and the fact that major corps don't see IT development as a strategic policy, rightly or wrongly.
If given the above you don't adapt and moan about falling rates and disappearance of jobs you are by definition, thick, and hence deserve your fate.
HTH, but IDI.Hard Brexit now!
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