On 3/31/06, A Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Funny, I live in the West Coast US. Oregon to be specific. > Indeed, I am not qualified, so 50$/hr is quite out of the question. I > thought 10$/hr seemed reasonable given that I'm not sweeping the floors > or mowing his lawn, I'm managing his disorganized mess of a network. > And that job is like a sweatshop, because my employer, a small business > owner with franchisees, asks me to set up services that are still far > beyond my abilities: e.g a VPN that allows him to log into his workgroup > (I told him he needs domain) and access files on the file server (a > windows computer). > I tired to convince him that an OpenBSD box as the domain controller > with Samba would fix the problems he's been having. (he's trying to get > roaming profiles on a workgroup. AFAIK you need a domain to get the > natively, he's got some kind of hack going right now) > > anyways, I've gotten off topic. > > > Karsten McMinn wrote: > > On 3/30/06, Greg Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Huh? I'm not talking about any of the above and I'm not really > >> talking talking about official sysadmins, either. I'm talking about > >> security-ignorant non-computer engineers that have root and no one's > >> going to take root away from them. > >> > > > > > > why don't you do it? > > > > > >> But boy, will he be shocked to find out how much a professional will > >> charge him per hour! He only paid me 7.50 USD/hour. Where I live, the > >> statistics for network administrators show that the average pay is 30 > >> USD/hour. > >> > > > > 7.50 an hour? 30 an hour? yuck. 50/hr starting (approx) for qualified > > network/systems professionals on the west coast working at a company > > with benefits and the like. 7.50/hr? sounds like a sweatshop. > >
I'm not qualified just OJT making $95.00/hr USD weekdays $125.00/hr USD weekends Of course I am self-employed. : ) rogern John 3:16
