Wow! is there a moderator comment: 'Head in the sand'?
I have to admit that I have no idea what is going to happen next year, but for some of us it might not be pretty. You may be bored with Y2K, but it will be shown to be fact that we have immersed ourselves in shoddy technology. Out love afair with the 'New' and 'advanced' has created a world of computer dependcies that should scare you, because when you do not have food supplies (becasue you can't roll trucks), when you don't have heat (because the meters can't meter) and when you don't have water (becasue a chemical spill has detroyed your local water supply, you have a big problem.
Now you are saying, hey we have tornadoes,earthquakes, hurricanes and sure a couple people die but we always seem have the resources. Well, spread that kind of disaster to a global situation and there are no resources except your neighbors (I hope y'all get along) and you might get a glimmer of what this problem could be.
RANT We have no one to blame except the technologists and business opportunists. It is apparent that our love of technology is taking us down a road that could be morally and spritually baren leaving us in a stirile, poluted, empty world..
The issue to me is not salery vs. hourly wage, but total compensation for contribution to the organization and risk taken.. For many of us in the wired world compensation can be a little strange. You can work away at a stable $50,000 job and buy a house have benefits etc, but you aren't going be rich that way! (If that is a goal). Very little risk, and reasonable compensation as long as you are not working 95h a week.
Or you can take a chance on a startup and you might be the one-in-a-thousand that makes some money. So you are employee number 5 making $40,000 for a while, the company goes public and you are in golden handcuffs for the next 3 years waiting for your stocks to vest. High risk, you might not have a job or stock in the next three years..
But to be more specific about hourly vs. salery. There are lots of full time jobs that pay hourly, and pay well. For example my Brother has worked as a pipe fitter for the last 20 years at a large steel company. He makes $55-74k a year gets paid time and half for regular overtime plus double to double-time and a half for weekend and holidays. (This is not a union shop). He owns a big house in the country and has 13 weeks a year vacation (Nice eh?)
To do that kind of hourly work, you need to be not management (management wants to 'own' you), and work in an established business where your skill-sets will be shared with people around you. They can do your job when you are not there.
I may be building a NOC in the next year, and I am very interested in paying the employees hourly, so when they do extra shifts, it is easy to keep track and costs can be understood.
Hourly pay does not mean part-time. Salery doesn't mean you arn't going to be screwed on having a life..
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Wow! is there a moderator comment: 'Head in the sand'?
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I have to admit that I have no idea what is going to happen next year, but for some of us it might not be pretty. You may be bored with Y2K, but it will be shown to be fact that we have immersed ourselves in shoddy technology. Out love afair with the 'New' and 'advanced' has created a world of computer dependcies that should scare you, because when you do not have food supplies (becasue you can't roll trucks), when you don't have heat (because the meters can't meter) and when you don't have water (becasue a chemical spill has detroyed your local water supply, you have a big problem.
Now you are saying, hey we have tornadoes,earthquakes, hurricanes and sure a couple people die but we always seem have the resources. Well, spread that kind of disaster to a global situation and there are no resources except your neighbors (I hope y'all get along) and you might get a glimmer of what this problem could be.
RANT
We have no one to blame except the technologists and business opportunists. It is apparent that our love of technology is taking us down a road that could be morally and spritually baren leaving us in a stirile, poluted, empty world
/RANT
The issue to me is not salery vs. hourly wage, but total compensation for contribution to the organization and risk taken.. For many of us in the wired world compensation can be a little strange. You can work away at a stable $50,000 job and buy a house have benefits etc, but you aren't going be rich that way! (If that is a goal). Very little risk, and reasonable compensation as long as you are not working 95h a week.
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Or you can take a chance on a startup and you might be the one-in-a-thousand that makes some money. So you are employee number 5 making $40,000 for a while, the company goes public and you are in golden handcuffs for the next 3 years waiting for your stocks to vest. High risk, you might not have a job or stock in the next three years..
But to be more specific about hourly vs. salery. There are lots of full time jobs that pay hourly, and pay well. For example my Brother has worked as a pipe fitter for the last 20 years at a large steel company. He makes $55-74k a year gets paid time and half for regular overtime plus double to double-time and a half for weekend and holidays. (This is not a union shop). He owns a big house in the country and has 13 weeks a year vacation (Nice eh?)
To do that kind of hourly work, you need to be not management (management wants to 'own' you), and work in an established business where your skill-sets will be shared with people around you. They can do your job when you are not there.
I may be building a NOC in the next year, and I am very interested in paying the employees hourly, so when they do extra shifts, it is easy to keep track and costs can be understood.
Hourly pay does not mean part-time. Salery doesn't mean you arn't going to be screwed on having a life
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