On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Andrew Brosnan wrote:
On 7/5/04 at 6:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perl Jobs) wrote:
Online URL for this job: http://jobs.perl.org/job/1625
Posted: July 5, 2004
Job title: very entry level (VISTA) cgi mod_perl and system scripter
Location: United States, MA, Lowell
Pay rate: $10,000 per year
Terms of employment: Salaried employee
Hours: Full time
Minimum wage allowed by law in Massachusetts - $6.75 per hour
Annual salary based on a 40 hour week at minimum wage - $14,040
Seeing a $10k per year job posting on the perl jobs list - priceless
Yes, but they more or less explicitly state that it's charity work:
Description:
Spend a year as VISTA, (this is something like joining the peace
corps) and write perl scripts for non profit organizations.Am I being naive, or isn't the whole point of non-profit / charity work to be willing to accept a pay cut in return for doing Good Things?
My assumption is that people working for organizations like Greenpeace, Medecins Sans Frontiers [sp?], etc aren't in it for the money.
I know absolutely nothing about this Vista program, but I wasn't surprised to see a non-profit being up-front about a low salary.
-- Chris Devers
