We are all professionals. Just like a doctor, lawyer, or accountant etc. Try getting your boss, your lawyer, or company accountant to configure your servers and write some code so the clients can login to their accounts and access their latest records. I have a hard enough time having them use their email. There is a limited number of programmers out there; fewer than doctors, lawyers or accountants. So use this to your advantage and ask what your skills are worth in a free market, which is more than your getting now.
The market might be a bit slow now but it will turn around. You don't see other professionals looking to take less because of a slow job market. It's a good time to look around and send out your resume. Never hurts to have open options.
If your not being paid a professional salary then that's a problem, not just for you, but all the other programming professionals out here. If you'll accept $30k a year to code than that brings my salary potential down. I want more not less. It's OK if you're a beginner and just starting out but if you have more than 2 years experience, then you should be paid more. I think $60k - $100k would be appropriate depending on location and skills. Don't sell yourself short because then everyone losses.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred T. Sanders" <fred@netric.com> To: "Fusebox" <Fusebox@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:35 AM Subject: Re: How much???
> Sold! 25 an hour it is. Now which project should I dump on you first :) > > Fred > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hal Helms" <hal.helms@TeamAllaire.com> > To: "Fusebox" <Fusebox@houseoffusion.com> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 3:46 PM > Subject: RE: How much??? > > > > I wouldn't work for a penny under $25/hr! > > > > Hal Helms > > Team Allaire > > [ See www.halhelms.com <http://www.halhelms.com> for info on training > > classes ] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:amccollough@anmc.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 1:44 PM > > To: Fusebox > > Subject: RE: How much??? > > > > > > Yeah, well, that's YOU, hah! > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Hal Helms [SMTP:hal.helms@TeamAllaire.com] > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 9:04 AM > > > To: Fusebox > > > Subject: RE: How much??? > > > > > > IMHO, that's grossly underpaid. > > > > > > Hal Helms > > > Team Allaire > > > [ See www.halhelms.com <http://www.halhelms.com> for info on training > > > classes ] > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:amccollough@anmc.org] > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:14 PM > > > To: Fusebox > > > Subject: RE: How much??? > > > > > > > > > I'd say they are paid right up the middle. Its enuff to live on, you > could > > > make more, you could make less. Perhaps its the bennies or intangibles > > > that > > > would make it desirable; there seems to be a basic amount of $ on the > > > table... In this economy. > > > -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Regan [SMTP:ShawnR@pts1.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 7:56 AM To: Fusebox Subject: OT: How much??? > > > > Someone working for a company, writing CF, ASP,HTML, Javascript, > > > VBSCRIPT, Visual Basic, some VC++, SQL in access and SQL Server making 23 an > hour. Would you say they are under paid or over paid. > > > > Shawn Regan Applications Developer Pacific Technology Solutions > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
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