User: Musagetes

Re:I didn't know it.

On: Canada Loses North Pole

In all seriousness, he is a Canadian and I saw him at the mall once. 8^)

Re:Very happy in Canada

On: IT Salaries to Grow 0.5% in 2005

Are you a SalesBoom developer? 8^)

Re:Big $$$ in the Great White North

On: Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door?

$40k isn't great as a ceiling, that's for sure. I'm in Nova Scotia and the salaries are generally lower here to begin with, and there simply aren't a lot of places to move up in.

And again, most of the people that graduated with me don't have jobs at all or are working in call centres.

Big $$$ in the Great White North

On: Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door?

Yes, it's true - you can make as much as $40,000 Canadian dollars in programming. That's only $30,000 in American dollars but you might be able to own a house on that.

Seriously, most of my fellow Canadians where I live are happy to have jobs in IT at all, and guys working in American call centres doing dubious 'IT' work like selling photocopiers make more than the programmers I know.