The salaries they offer for the IT positions on craislist are laughable

[nick1985]

Minimum 2 years experience? $10/hour?

lol

that is all

 

[daweeze02]

Tell me about it. I applied for a job and I have MCSA and VCP 4 and they replied back to me saying I am a good candidate for 13-16 hr lol

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

position and location?
link?

 

[her209]

I guess it depends on the position.

 

[Kaido]

It's just not as valuable anymore. Nerd is the new jock. I see middle-school kids posting insanely complicated computer video tutorials on Youtube. It's just reached the point where everybody's doing it, so our IT salaries are taking a huge hit

 

[Vette73]

I guess it depends on the position.

 

[KlokWyze]

There are way more IT workers then there are positions.

 

[nick1985]

position and location?
link?

I was just browsing chicagoland jobs. Really not hard though, go to your local CL postings for IT positions and laugh at the salaries offered.

I'm thankful for my government IT job, I'll probably be holding onto this job for about 50 years...

 

[her209]

There are way more IT workers then there are positions.

Yes, and I've ran into ones that knew their shit and ones that don't know how to install Windows from scratch.

/facepalm

 

[daweeze02]

I was just browsing chicagoland jobs. Really not hard though, go to your local CL postings for IT positions and laugh at the salaries offered.

I'm thankful for my government IT job, I'll probably be holding onto this job for about 50 years...

I feel yea I am trying to get a county job right now, luckily this time I have some in the inside lol

 

[Fingolfin269]

Sucks but the reality is people will probably line up for that pay right now.

 

[Mike]

For a help desk position

 

[child of wonder]

Tell me about it. I applied for a job and I have MCSA and VCP 4 and they replied back to me saying I am a good candidate for 13-16 hr lol

LMAO

Hey, at least you'd get to use your VCP. I'm sitting here doing bank app support because people who have less experience in VMware "like it" and they have seniority over me.

 

[minendo]

IT professionals are a dime a dozen.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

It's just not as valuable anymore. Nerd is the new jock. I see middle-school kids posting insanely complicated computer video tutorials on Youtube. It's just reached the point where everybody's doing it, so our IT salaries are taking a huge hit

fail.:awe:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/jobgrowth/

 

[her209]

IT professionals are a dime a dozen.

Yup. Add to that, outsourcing of the jobs to India and what not.

 

[PingSpike]

There are way more IT workers then there are positions.

Aren't there way more everything workers now then there are positions?

 

[spidey07]

I don't know where you guys are coming from. Quality IT people are very hard to find and are paid very well. But they are experts at certain areas and demand a high price. People that can walk into an environment, plot the direction of a specific technology for them and tell them how to realize efficiencies or business integration through technology.

There is a big shortage of good IT talent these days and that's why the good ones are paid so well, there's too many positions for the people that can do it. Couple that with business have been putting off capital projects the last 18 months and yet the work still needs to be done I'm seeing the market getting ready to explode here soon so be prepared and get those resumes ready because it's coming fast.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

I don't know where you guys are coming from. Quality IT people are very hard to find and are paid very well. But they are experts at certain areas and demand a high price. People that can walk into an environment, plot the direction of a specific technology for them and tell them how to realize efficiencies or business integration through technology.

There is a big shortage of good IT talent these days and that's why the good ones are paid so well, there's too many positions for the people that can do it. Couple that with business have been putting off capital projects the last 18 months and yet the work still needs to be done I'm seeing the market getting ready to explode here soon so be prepared and get those resumes ready because it's coming fast.

a rare moment but I do agree with you.

 

[Pepsei]

well, for high school kids, that can be 2 years of playing on AOL.

 

[FoBoT]

IT professionals are a dime a dozen.

i would like to go back to school and become a rocket surgeon

 

[gophins72]

IT is not rocket surgery

 

[Regs]

I agree with spidy on this one. My brother in law worked for a company for more than 6 or 7 years until they gave him a respectable salary.

 

[tasmanian]

Who needs experience when you have google.

 

[spidey07]

Who needs experience when you have google.

I really hope you're kidding. You can't google good decision making or good design.