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Lowering salaries - it's the end of IT as we know it (and I feel fine)

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    #31
    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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      #32
      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      In terms of training you can be an IT person, a statistician or a PhD in mathematics or none of the above.
      That must be you right?

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        #33
        Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
        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.
        Why won't you write in it that you never collaborated with them and avoided paying your fair share of taxes?

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          #34
          Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
          Is 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?

          Implied by posting SAS job results.
          Never has a man been heard to say on his death bed that he wishes he'd spent more time in the office.

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            #35
            Originally posted by AtW View Post
            Why won't you write in it that you never collaborated with them and avoided paying your fair share of taxes?
            unfair

            Apart from that, that more or less sums up the Labour years for me.

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              #36
              Originally posted by Scrag Meister View Post
              Implied by posting SAS job results.
              ...on page 3 after the OP was called 'thick'.

              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 Johnson

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                #37
                Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
                Is 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?

                Sorry if that was not clear. My point was that even jobs with niche skills which used to command a very high salary are now just in the range of an average engineering job, meaning that the golden age for IT has definitely come to an end. Of course, if you are not even specialised and have just very generic IT skills then you are paid as much as an admin job nowadays.
                I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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                  #38
                  Originally posted by Francko View Post
                  the golden age for IT has definitely come to an end.
                  This has happened way before end of 90s.

                  HTH

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                    #39
                    Originally posted by AtW View Post
                    This has happened way before end of 90s.

                    HTH
                    I wasn't talking about sasguru sexual life.
                    I've seen much of the rest of the world. It is brutal and cruel and dark, Rome is the light.

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                      #40
                      Originally posted by gingerjedi View Post
                      ...on page 3 after the OP was called 'thick'.

                      If you think you can make a long-term profitable living with average code monkey skills, yes, I'd say you're 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!
                      #prayfornodeal

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