1) I get a new raise when I need one, I just find a new job. 2) Move out of the big cities and flee the large companies. You can easily make 90-130k in the midwest at a smaller shop with a much lower cost of living and a straight 40 hour work day. 3) Overseas protection doesn't work if they can literally move all of you overseas, and they can.
Doctor Who? An alien with a different set of values takes along everyday humans who try to persuaded him that their human values are the 'right' way to do things, often he relents and becomes 'more human'.
One of my last jobs was a greenfield project for a new manufacturing facility. The old facility employed around 250 people making, moving, cutting and packaging, and shipping the products. This new factor was robot driven with these little robot carts that move the product from station to station where it then worked on by stationary robots. My job was to design a robust wireless network for the project and build out the the datacenter to handle the new software to run the whole thing. In the end, including front office staff the new factory employed 15 people to do the work of the previous 250 people.
How long until they close that other plant and retrofit it?
Exactly, I've looked at job offers in big cities and when I do a cost of living comparison I'm better off staying where I am. 95K a year in a town where 1k a month can get you a 3000sq foot home on a half acre of land, or 110k a year in a city where 2k a month gets you a small apartment....
Yep, it's the best *nix laptop on the market. Helps me do my job. They also last forever, we just replaced my wife's old MBP last month, it was 8 years old!
Yep, when I left a community college I got almost a 30k bump in salary for the exact same position. I lost great benefits and a fairly casual atmosphere, but it was worth it in the end.
The increasing job tenure of college-educated millennials is consistent with a decline in employer switching among all working-age adults since the 1980s," Pew researchers point out. "The reasons for the decline are not well understood,"
I think it's pretty easy to understand why job hopping is on the rise.
1) Raises not keeping pace with salary for new positions 2) Companies no longer value employees with long term benefits 3) The instant gratification me, my, mine attitude of America.
You might think it's funny but he is not wrong. When I was coming up in my career I would get 2-3% raises for promotions and maybe 1-2% (if anything) annually. Finding a new job was typically 10-15% bump in salary. Why would anyone stay at one company when they are rising up the ranks?
My last employer required all IT staff to take a full 5 continuous working days off in a row at least once a year. They could not be contacted at all during that time. This was to ensure that we had proper documentation and cross training and could function if said individual was hit by a truck.
I hate that we refer to needing to work on your OS to make it work to be a 'power-user'. I'm a power user. I build large scale server infrastructures for a living. I know the ends and outs of multiple operating systems better than I know my wife. I do not want to spend time working on my laptop! This is why I use OSX. Of the *nix operating systems, it's the one that needs the least amount of my time to actually use. I want to do work on my laptop, not work on it.
We use netflix, Amazon (we would have prime anyways), CBS all access (only when the shows we watch are on), and HBO GO (only when the shows we watch are on), and CW (free with ads).
$12 for netflix * 12 $10 for CBS * 6 for partial year HBO $15 * 6 for partial year Amazon (only a few shows that we like at $30-40 a season) Let's call this $40*4
That is $38 a month for TV service. and $125 for my 1gbps internet.
That's how I do do it. I trust my password manager to encrypt the passwords client side, but I enforce MFA on both the password manager and every site that allows it. I also rotate my passwords on a regular basis (all of them randomly generated).
Not to mention that any website that is not locking your account out after multiple failed attempts (or at least notifying you) has a major security issue. I want my account locked and a email sent to me after 3 failed password attempts.
Not only that, but you can always run as. In my day to day job I run as a standard user. I frequently launch server manager as a domain admin users for admin related tasks. I have not ran as a local or domain admin on windows 10 ever.
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1) I get a new raise when I need one, I just find a new job.
2) Move out of the big cities and flee the large companies. You can easily make 90-130k in the midwest at a smaller shop with a much lower cost of living and a straight 40 hour work day.
3) Overseas protection doesn't work if they can literally move all of you overseas, and they can.
Doctor Who? An alien with a different set of values takes along everyday humans who try to persuaded him that their human values are the 'right' way to do things, often he relents and becomes 'more human'.
Except we are human, so the whole show would become about how we can force our morals on the alien captain as they 'soften' to our views over time.
One of my last jobs was a greenfield project for a new manufacturing facility. The old facility employed around 250 people making, moving, cutting and packaging, and shipping the products. This new factor was robot driven with these little robot carts that move the product from station to station where it then worked on by stationary robots. My job was to design a robust wireless network for the project and build out the the datacenter to handle the new software to run the whole thing. In the end, including front office staff the new factory employed 15 people to do the work of the previous 250 people.
How long until they close that other plant and retrofit it?
Exactly, I've looked at job offers in big cities and when I do a cost of living comparison I'm better off staying where I am. 95K a year in a town where 1k a month can get you a 3000sq foot home on a half acre of land, or 110k a year in a city where 2k a month gets you a small apartment....
I hate how physical MAC gets with me.
Yep, it's the best *nix laptop on the market. Helps me do my job. They also last forever, we just replaced my wife's old MBP last month, it was 8 years old!
Yep, when I left a community college I got almost a 30k bump in salary for the exact same position. I lost great benefits and a fairly casual atmosphere, but it was worth it in the end.
Reading before coffee is something I need to remember not to do.
The increasing job tenure of college-educated millennials is consistent with a decline in employer switching among all working-age adults since the 1980s," Pew researchers point out. "The reasons for the decline are not well understood,"
I think it's pretty easy to understand why job hopping is on the rise.
1) Raises not keeping pace with salary for new positions
2) Companies no longer value employees with long term benefits
3) The instant gratification me, my, mine attitude of America.
You might think it's funny but he is not wrong. When I was coming up in my career I would get 2-3% raises for promotions and maybe 1-2% (if anything) annually. Finding a new job was typically 10-15% bump in salary. Why would anyone stay at one company when they are rising up the ranks?
Well I guess the best thing to do then is nothing. Just know the admin is all powerful and pay him 6 figures.
I would just get a new job and during the interview process, ask if the owner codes in production at 1am with vi. If they say yes, walk out.
Most companies have no problem auditing their accounting teams, they should do the same with their IT teams.
My last employer required all IT staff to take a full 5 continuous working days off in a row at least once a year. They could not be contacted at all during that time. This was to ensure that we had proper documentation and cross training and could function if said individual was hit by a truck.
PC box game sales are dead man. Steam and GoG killed that years ago.
I hate that we refer to needing to work on your OS to make it work to be a 'power-user'. I'm a power user. I build large scale server infrastructures for a living. I know the ends and outs of multiple operating systems better than I know my wife. I do not want to spend time working on my laptop! This is why I use OSX. Of the *nix operating systems, it's the one that needs the least amount of my time to actually use. I want to do work on my laptop, not work on it.
You don't need all of that to cut the cord.
We use netflix, Amazon (we would have prime anyways), CBS all access (only when the shows we watch are on), and HBO GO (only when the shows we watch are on), and CW (free with ads).
$12 for netflix * 12
$10 for CBS * 6 for partial year
HBO $15 * 6 for partial year
Amazon (only a few shows that we like at $30-40 a season) Let's call this $40*4
That is $38 a month for TV service. and $125 for my 1gbps internet.
Comcast bundle according to https://www.xfinity.com/learn/... is $160 a month for 75Mbps internet and 200 TV channels.
I'll stick with my cord cutting.
In my area I have 1Gbps comcast with no bundling. Just a flat $125 a month.
That's how I do do it. I trust my password manager to encrypt the passwords client side, but I enforce MFA on both the password manager and every site that allows it. I also rotate my passwords on a regular basis (all of them randomly generated).
Not to mention that any website that is not locking your account out after multiple failed attempts (or at least notifying you) has a major security issue. I want my account locked and a email sent to me after 3 failed password attempts.
So every linux distro is also insecure with sudo and su?
Not only that, but you can always run as. In my day to day job I run as a standard user. I frequently launch server manager as a domain admin users for admin related tasks. I have not ran as a local or domain admin on windows 10 ever.
It's free like getting money for giving plasma is free money.
When I worked at a college we could do 3000 computers in a week and still have time to play quake rocket arena.