• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    A German three letter agency had a similar ad. They were looking for someone who was proficient in encryption, hacking, protocols on Windows, Mac and Linux, and a few other things in that area. Experienced both in programming and leadership. And as a cherry on the top, this person would have to have knowledge about all the legal aspects of all of this, too.

    All for a midrange bureaucrat salary. A security expert commented on this something like “if i had someone with that kind of skill set and experience, I would hire him out for a daily fee about as high as their offered monthly salary.”

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      Many years ago I got offered 20% over minimum wage to manage, among other things, all email servers of a large banking association representing >90% of a national market.

      It was less than what a Tesco cashier was making in the area.

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        When I was a student, I already had my Novell admin certificate, so it got some jobs on the side. Someone pointed me to a law firm where the owner wanted their PCs networked. We met, he showed me the list of hardware he wanted to buy - everything top notch, big server, new PCs with all bells, whistles and gongs back then, 19in rack for all the necessities, etc. That list was an offer from an expensive office outfitter he knew.

        He “just” needed someone to install the stuff. I could easily have done that, but all he offered was a kind of internship. Oh what I could learn from working with top of the pop equipment! I told him I was here because it already knew everything that was needed. He then offered me that I could take the old PCs as “compensation”.

        I left, and warned others not to waste time with that idiot.

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          And people still get mad when we give honest feedback about compensation.

          Shout-out to the recruiter who tried to convince me to take a 60k paycut because nobody will pay my current rate ( the one I was already being paid ). I strive to reach your level of audacity one day.

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      “You’re good with computers, right?”

      I swear these people probably ask their Uber drivers to fix their transmission because they’re “good with cars”.

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    You won’t get away with 100k if printer issues are included… your soul and those of the other employees would be a start.

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      Well you must have excellent communication skills.

      For the actual IT stuff, they don’t really care.

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        That one’s the dealbreaker. If you do all that stuff, you only have time for a grunt or two from behind your 17 inch TFT monitor.

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    Honestly, this is what we currently have at our mid sized company. We get paid dogshit, nobody has a dedicated position we’re just all “IT” and we do everything to keep shit running

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    This is basically my current job. Almost the same pay (120k) in the Seattle area.

    I work 50-70 hours a week

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    I worked a short stint as a network administrator for a company I did not like at all. I figured it’d be a foot in the door, but boy was I wrong. I didn’t last 6 months, I was doing work of a network tech, network admin, security tech for door locks and cameras, a custodian, and general computer tech in all that. It was a VASTLY underpaid position for the work.

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    Would be an OK salary for most of Europe. Most countries here have relatively solid health care insurance, affordable education and a pension fund included, so that some of the biggest costs of living in the US don’t even make a dent in the salary.

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    That looks closer to a 220~260k salary job posting.

    100~110k in LA area is entry level IT.

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      TBF I am offering 40k to hire someone who should do frontend, backend, GPU shader optimization, database design optimization and API design.

      I have been told this requires a full team of experts. I am not a software engineer, I took the time to study and this is what I’ve been doing the past 4 years. This person will earn more than I do.

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    As a system administrator, I’ve done all of these to some extent. But at that pay range, it better be part-time.