'Serenity'
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4 Get a new job at a much higher salary.
Apparantly I've been forgetting this step.
Hmm... I wonder if I qualify to be a DBA, considering all my Access, SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle experience....
At this point, I think my work experience compensated for my lack of an CS/IS degree.
DH hasn't gotten his raise for this year, yet (7 years at the same company as of Wednesday, it's pretty amazing), but he's rarely in line with the rest of the industry, anyway. It'll be interesting to see how being in the middle of audits and investigations will affect employee compensation, though. If they're smart, they'll pay him a bunch of money so he doesn't bail and let them clean up their mess without him.
At this point, I think my work experience compensated for my lack of an CS/IS degree.
Do you have industry certifications?
Do you have industry certifications?
Fuck, no.
Yes, I realize those would help. For some reason I tend to be lazy when it comes to planning my career path.
Maybe I can talk my bosses into sending me to SQL Server class, and then I can get certified afterwards.
That sound you heard? My jaw crashing into the floor.
In Barbara and George's defense, they haven't taken to Hillary the way they've taken to Bill.
Huh. And I just got my raise, effective tomorrow.
Of course, it may only be good for 2 weeks!
Excuse me while I go depress myself for being rather overpaid given my experience and fear I'll not be able to find something starting in this bracket anytime soon.
So, like, what kind of raises are folks in the IT industry getting?
I got a long-overdue 3% cost-of-living raise. Last year.
It's a strange, strange day when I find myself missing George the Elder.
No doubt. And when I say, "FUCK! Sandra Day O'Connor's retiring!"
As an IT professional in DC last year, I got 6%. Which is about what I'd gotten the previous 3 years also. That's for softer stuff - writing JSPs and doing some interface design, with a smattering of project management. Of course, I work for a Big Evil Defense Contractor, and business has been good in that sector, this administration.
They're swearing in Antonio Villaraigosa today. As he was starting his speech by acknowledging the names in the audience, like former mayor Hahn, he spoke Vice President Al Gore's name and the audience erupted in cheer.
Then he spoke Governer Schwarzenegger's name and the crowd booed, to which Villaraigosa responded -- "Angelinos.... Angelinos.... There will be civility here today...."
Wow.