The problem with your article is that you claim that you spent 2 years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do... and then you don't actually explain what it was that it wasn't meant to do.
It sounds like from clues later in the article that perhaps you tried to shoehorn Rails ontop of your preexisting database which meant that all your table names, were not the correct format/naming scheme.
You will notice that it says competitive pay, but what does that really mean?
At least in the Bay area, I've seen that pay rates have significantly lowered and you can see jobs that want 11 years of experience wanting to pay $45K a year. Junior jobs, they call it an internship and offer no pay. Now if lots of companies are doing this (and I'm not saying all, because some people do realize this will bite them at some point), then the competitive pay is $45K. You can't survive in the Bay area on nothing, so companies aren't going to be able to fill the junior positions. You can barely survive on $45K. That will give you enough money to pay the crazy rent, your groceries, and the commute costs, but nothing else. You get the same problems in other places.
So the guy can't get anyone to move out there. Is he paying relocation costs? Is the pay enough to more than survive (you know like buy a house, put away money to retire on, have a vacation every year)?
Someone mentioned above about there being a group of jobs that don't have enough people here willing to work them, the helpdesk variety. First, there are plenty of people just out of school looking for even a stepping stone into the field. They are willing to go for 20K a year _in the Bay area_ just to be able to use those skills they learned They can not find the jobs.
Also, the guy in this article, he needs a skilled person so it's not that he's even looking for an unskilled tech person.
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The problem with your article is that you claim that you spent 2 years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do... and then you don't actually explain what it was that it wasn't meant to do. It sounds like from clues later in the article that perhaps you tried to shoehorn Rails ontop of your preexisting database which meant that all your table names, were not the correct format/naming scheme.
You will notice that it says competitive pay, but what does that really mean?
At least in the Bay area, I've seen that pay rates have significantly lowered and you can see jobs that want 11 years of experience wanting to pay $45K a year. Junior jobs, they call it an internship and offer no pay. Now if lots of companies are doing this (and I'm not saying all, because some people do realize this will bite them at some point), then the competitive pay is $45K. You can't survive in the Bay area on nothing, so companies aren't going to be able to fill the junior positions. You can barely survive on $45K. That will give you enough money to pay the crazy rent, your groceries, and the commute costs, but nothing else. You get the same problems in other places.
So the guy can't get anyone to move out there. Is he paying relocation costs? Is the pay enough to more than survive (you know like buy a house, put away money to retire on, have a vacation every year)?
Someone mentioned above about there being a group of jobs that don't have enough people here willing to work them, the helpdesk variety. First, there are plenty of people just out of school looking for even a stepping stone into the field. They are willing to go for 20K a year _in the Bay area_ just to be able to use those skills they learned They can not find the jobs.
Also, the guy in this article, he needs a skilled person so it's not that he's even looking for an unskilled tech person.