Yes, but look at salaries for Sr. Programmers between 5-15 years experience. I can go off of my entire career and tell you that my hourly rate hasn't budged in 10 years. Which means I'm actually making less now considering inflation.
And if I wanted to be a manager I would have gone to business school.
Object oriented programming has been around for almost the entire history of computer science, ie prolog. But apparently, when the newest fad version of object oriented programming comes along or they upgrade to the newest version of an application server and move some buttons around, they seem to think I couldn't possibly know anything about object oriented programming or application servers and they'd just as soon pay some kid with a couple years experience less than half what they'd have to pay me to take 5 times longer to figure it out.
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Yes, but look at salaries for Sr. Programmers between 5-15 years experience. I can go off of my entire career and tell you that my hourly rate hasn't budged in 10 years. Which means I'm actually making less now considering inflation. And if I wanted to be a manager I would have gone to business school. Object oriented programming has been around for almost the entire history of computer science, ie prolog. But apparently, when the newest fad version of object oriented programming comes along or they upgrade to the newest version of an application server and move some buttons around, they seem to think I couldn't possibly know anything about object oriented programming or application servers and they'd just as soon pay some kid with a couple years experience less than half what they'd have to pay me to take 5 times longer to figure it out.
Smartass comment: That's cause the 10 guys wanted to make sure there was at least one woman in their class. :)