Agreed. After 9/11, the bottom fell out of the consulting market. I was drawing $100/hr at the time and the only gigs out there were for $35-$40 and they were not where I was living and offered to relocation. I was forced to take a non-sysprog position for awhile.
Again, folks, I was not endorsing working for IBM for cheap rates. My comments had nothing to do with companies and everything to do with someone desperate enough to accept a position that would enable him/her to subsist. Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Peplinski Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 12:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: z/OS Systems Programmer Jobs in Dubuque Iowa Robert Richards said >Ladies and Gentlemen, >How many of you would settle for $40,000 in this economy if you were already >semi-retired, willing to move to a low >cost of living area and bored to death >with that semi-retirement? Or were already out of work and have exhausted >>your unemployment benefits? >Granted, I will be the first to say that a $40,000/yr salary *is not* >appropriate for a younger man or woman with kids >still in the nest. But let's >be real, this can be just fine for some people under certain circumstances. That is all true and good for situations you mention. The problem with that is when nearby companies do "market analysis" of wages it gets to be an infection that spreads quickly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
