[Courses] [C Programming] Anyone still here?

[jennyw]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:09:52PM -0400, Raven, corporate courtesan wrote:
> 	Now, I design backbones and do network and Unix troubleshooting
> and security.  I have lots of pieces of paper from Cisco and a few
> others.  (No MCSE, though, and no intentions of getting one since I
> don't want to be a Microsoft sysadmin.)  And I do not make $75,000 a
> year.  I'm one of the best people I know at what I do.  The average Jane
> or Joe with certifications is even less likely to make $75,000.

A lot of inflated salaries might still be in place because companies tend
to not downgrade someone's salary after they've been hired.  Here in S.F.,
it wasn't unusual for someone to make $85k to $100k or more as a Microsoft
specialist a couple years ago.  If they haven't been laid off, chances are
they didn't take a 50% pay cut or anything like that, which would mean the
average would still be high.  And chances are also that not a lot of 
people have been hired at lower rates because there just haven't been that 
many new jobs of late.

Jen