I found the article to be very good news, actually. I particularily got a kick out of the one guy who changed majors from CS to communications with a focus on advertising. That was a close call - one more marketing guru in IT and I think I would have considered a career change.
My boss and I got on the general subject of IT "resources" with regards to the current down-turn, and he more-or-less asked me if I was worried about the downward pressure on salaries. I replied that the surveys I've most recently seen actually show avg. salaries increasing over last year because the people still in the business are the one's who like it enough to make sure they are valuable to their employers, and are compensated by the smart employers accordingly (He didn't particularly care for that answer, but it's the truth:).
Anyhow, from a purely selfish POV, this may be a good thing for just about anyone who cares enough to visit slashdot - bound to bring "upward pressure" on those salaries, especially when the economy bounces back. And I believe that good IT people certainly deserve it.. This stuff is hard even if you love it, because it takes so much on-going time and effort, and the benefits that a good IT staff can bring to a company are huge.
BTW - The best developers I've ever worked with have just happened to be non-CS majors who eat this stuff up, and therefore are good at it because they put so much time and energy into it.
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I found the article to be very good news, actually. I particularily got a kick out of the one guy who changed majors from CS to communications with a focus on advertising. That was a close call - one more marketing guru in IT and I think I would have considered a career change.
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My boss and I got on the general subject of IT "resources" with regards to the current down-turn, and he more-or-less asked me if I was worried about the downward pressure on salaries. I replied that the surveys I've most recently seen actually show avg. salaries increasing over last year because the people still in the business are the one's who like it enough to make sure they are valuable to their employers, and are compensated by the smart employers accordingly (He didn't particularly care for that answer, but it's the truth
Anyhow, from a purely selfish POV, this may be a good thing for just about anyone who cares enough to visit slashdot - bound to bring "upward pressure" on those salaries, especially when the economy bounces back. And I believe that good IT people certainly deserve it.. This stuff is hard even if you love it, because it takes so much on-going time and effort, and the benefits that a good IT staff can bring to a company are huge.
BTW - The best developers I've ever worked with have just happened to be non-CS majors who eat this stuff up, and therefore are good at it because they put so much time and energy into it.