I started my programming career in Arkansas working for JB Hunt Transportation doing C++ at $30K US/year in 1994, which was a very good starting rate for programmers, and an excellent rate for Arkansas. Luckily I didn't know this so I got a job in Virginia a year later at $45K. If you're stuck in NorthWest AR (not a bad situation; it's very beautiful there) try Wal Mart, Tyson, JB,...
Now I'm working in Dallas, TX as a Java consultant making $75/hour (~$160K/year) and planning to move back to AR next year to start my own business. Life is good.
Hang in there, be willing to negotiate, and be willing to move!
We need to help these poor guys...
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We need to help these poor guys who get posted on Slashdot & don't have industrial-grade servers. I consistently am unable to follow links from/. due to server overload. We should consider putting together some sort of automated bait-and-switch mechanism for the low-end servers that get/.ed. We could try to get some developer time and web space donated to provide multiple automated backups of sites as they get posted, then have a proxy that figures out which backup is not overloaded and automatically delegates web hits to the appropriate backup. Of course, such a system would be good for a lot more than just saving the/.ers from having to hit the reload button a googleplex times. If someone cares to organize such an effort, I can donate developer time (Java/C++/Perl/whatever). Regards, Wurp bobbymartin@hotmail.com
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Are you fucking high right now?
I started my programming career in Arkansas working for JB Hunt Transportation doing C++ at $30K US/year in 1994, which was a very good starting rate for programmers, and an excellent rate for Arkansas. Luckily I didn't know this so I got a job in Virginia a year later at $45K. If you're stuck in NorthWest AR (not a bad situation; it's very beautiful there) try Wal Mart, Tyson, JB, ...
Now I'm working in Dallas, TX as a Java consultant making $75/hour (~$160K/year) and planning to move back to AR next year to start my own business. Life is good.
Hang in there, be willing to negotiate, and be willing to move!
We need to help these poor guys who get posted on Slashdot & don't have industrial-grade servers. I consistently am unable to follow links from /. due to server overload. We should consider putting together some sort of automated bait-and-switch mechanism for the low-end servers that get /.ed. We could try to get some developer time and web space donated to provide multiple automated backups of sites as they get posted, then have a proxy that figures out which backup is not overloaded and automatically delegates web hits to the appropriate backup. Of course, such a system would be good for a lot more than just saving the /.ers from having to hit the reload button a googleplex times. If someone cares to organize such an effort, I can donate developer time (Java/C++/Perl/whatever). Regards, Wurp bobbymartin@hotmail.com