Hi Kai/Eliseo, I agree with you guys... it seems decent CF developers are few and far between... yet we seem to struggle to find 1) positions with a chance to be creative 2) positions where you will be groomed professionally 3) pay more than helpdesk support 3
Personally some of the apps I write, probably save us literally a fair bit of money and add alot of value to my organisation as well (I doubt any other school in AU/NZ has a blogging platform that comes close to ours at the moment. Or how our integration stuff save us paying the vendors their exorbant rates for "customizing" their <<Insert expletive here>> databases) Yet i am paid less than helpdesk support lvl 2 (though I am only coming up to my 2 years working full time here and total. In the long run I might consider doing DB admin (as they easily earn 50% more of what I am doing but alot less interesting work), nah just kidding probably go crazy looking after DB as a FT job... sick of looking after the few I have to babysit atm. /end rant I have been seeing this ad on seek.com.au that wanted a 9+ year commercial experience CF developer and only offering around 90k package as far as I can remember, they also had a fairly hard to come by wishlist... Its been there a few months and I expect it to be there for another few at least... > I once read an article written by a well-known business consultant here > in NZ and he was saying it wasn't worth it to pay people higher than average > salaries, it wasn't worth it to give them an annual salary increase exceeding > CPI etc and that his recommendation would be to always get juniors in, > train them up and then - even if they leave after one year - just get > another junior in to replace the person. Seriously - I think it's > absolutely the wrong approach - but that's me. Yes, a company with a certain > size would need a certain percentage of junior developers to work more > efficiently and to ensure there are new people coming up. > > Any opinions - really interested in hearing other people's thoughts!\ I hope this guy is well known for spewing rubbish... most business owners/managers should know, the cost of hiring someone new and bring them up to speed far exceeds the cost of losing someone who already knows your system and processes and is a good employee... losing good staff because you only want to pay peanuts is how to lose your talent pool and your competitive edge. Just my 2 cents. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
